The scene of Gandalf’s first death. I think this painting is pretty epic. Was the lightning sword thing in the books?

I’m fine with the wings. It requires a lot of digging to come to the conclusion that balrogs probably don’t have wings unless the argument that it fell is sufficient (it is for some). Nothing wrong with artistic license anyway. Can’t argue that they don’t look cool.

Personally, the way that a flying Nazgul reminded Gimli (I think) of the Balrog kind of muddies the waters a lot though. And the reference elsewhere about the Balrog flying from someplace was also confusing, although Gandalf tells the fellowship to fly as well, so that’s just a turn of phrase.

Really, it’s hard for it to be more confusing. Anyway, this one was by Matt Ferguson.