Belly buttons?

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I can't help but wonder...did the elves that awoke at Cuivienen have belly buttons? <img src=biggrin.gif ALT=":D">

-réd

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"With that they parted, and it was then the time of sunset; and when after a while they turned and looked back, they saw the King of the West sitting upon his horse with his knights about him; and the falling Sun shone upon them and made all their harness to gleam like red gold, and the white mantle of Aragorn was turned to a flame. Then Aragorn took the green stone and held it up, and there came a green fire from his hand."</p>

-Many Partings, The Return of the King</p></blockquote></p>

[Mithadan]

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Re: Belly buttons?

No, but they did have wings. <img src=tongue.gif ALT=":b">

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[Saulotus]

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Re: Belly buttons?

Warning; Bad Joke Alert.

Yes. Why else do you think it was called Cuiv-innie-en?

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Re: Belly buttons?

Thanks for the warning, Saulotus. I might have groaned aloud if not for it. <img src=wink.gif ALT=";)">

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Re: Belly buttons?

Saulotus, I really think....

oh, never mind.

:P

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walks away mumbling

geez that was bad.


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[Mithadan]

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Re: Belly buttons?

Saulotus.....as Dr. Smith would say, &quot;Oh, the pain.&quot;

Anyway, now that the...errrr...&quot;jokes&quot; have died down, HoME 11 relates that......I should leave everyone hanging, wondering just how much detail JRRT put into his work......Hee, hee.

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Re: Belly buttons?

<blockquote>Quote:<hr> &quot;While their first bodies were being made from the 'flesh of Arda' the Quendi slept 'in the womb of the Earth', beneath the green sward, and awoke when they were full-grown.&quot; <hr></blockquote>

Make of it what you will. &quot;Womb of the Earth&quot;. Belly buttons could be possible. (resists posting incredibly bad pun concerning the Teleri and their &quot;naval mentality&quot;)

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shone like stars that in the North
above the reek of earth leap forth." </p>Edited by: <A HREF=http://www.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile&u=00000004>Mithadan</A> at: 1/5/01 3:28:21 pm

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Re: Belly buttons?

Well,elves and men are supposed to be very alike physically, so it could be assumed elves have belly buttons. And avoidance of &quot;naval&quot; jokes is greatly appreciated. <img src=rolleyes.gif ALT=":rolleyes">

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/onering.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Belly buttons?

And what of the Fathers of Men? Did they have belly buttons when they awakened in the East? I can't say for either case.


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[Jessica Jade]

haha, interesting question. If firstborn elves did not, then did the first humans who awoke have belly buttons?

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OT: Whats with the thing at the top?

[Birdland]

Which begs the question: did Ents have belly-buttons, or just little knot holes?

[Ithaeliel]

Har har, that's corny. If they were born from the wombs of ent-wives, I suppose they would have bellybuttons, now wouldn't they smilies/biggrin.gif?

Now how came it that the elves born in Cuivienen had wings but no other elf afterward did? Or did they?

[ June 21, 2002: Message edited by: Ithaeliel ]

[Daniel Telcontar]

Did any of the orcs have belly buttons? Or maybe they weren't born?

[Gayahithwen]

I think it says somewhere something like "They guessed the orcs had to be derived from the elves, for they had life spirit and bred in the same way as the children of Ilúvatar.." I am not sure on the quote, but I think it says something like that.. smilies/tongue.gif

[The Silver-shod Muse]

How can you be so sure that Ents come from the wombs of Entwives? Why not seeds?

[Daniel Telcontar]

What about dwarves? the first seven faterhs can't have belly butons, but did their descendants have? And how did they reproduce, when all the first dwarves where male?

[Galadriel55]

I don't think that the first people of either nation (except for orcs) had belly buttons (considering that you get one only after you are born - ie when the umbilical cord is cut and made into a knot). The Elves at Cuivienen weren't born - they just awoke. Same goes for Dwarves and men. Orcs are different, since they are "made" from pre-existing Elves, that might have had belly buttons.