Thread:Count of Howard/@comment-28083312-20170429182047/@comment-28083312-20170429185402

Ye, any elf. Straight out of Valinor the high elves were practically godlike, & the moment Fëanor’s vanguard caught up to him they completely routed the balrogs like it was nothing. Sure, Fëanor was awesome for an elf, able to take on multiple balrogs, but he still fell for their obvious trap & then tipped like a cow. Ungoliant probably ran away because they tore up her shroud, & because Morgoth+Balrogs ain’t a fight she’d ever win. Better to run. Ye but not by that much. Not only was he considered inferior to Fëanor, but it had been several hundred years since he was in Valinor; the elves became exponentially weaker after they left, so there’s no way that Fingolfin should’ve been able to take on Morgoth in his twilight years if Fëanor couldn’t even best a few balrogs in his prime.