[Cúdae]

Here's what I can add to the subject. All I know from Unfinished Tales is that Oropher came from Doriath with a handful of other Sindarin Elves. If my memory serves then they came to basically get out of the lifestyle of the Sindar which seemed (to me anyway) to mean they wanted out of politics and to be able to live a simple life in the woods. They ended up merging with the Silvan Elves in Mirkwood, Oropher ended up king of them, and tragically for those Sindar, they ended up back in the political ring by the late Second Age and again in the late Third Age.

Also, I think I might have read somewhere that the Elves from Mirkwood and Lorien look somewhat similar because once they did live in much closer proximity to each other (southern Mirkwood and Lothlorien aren't very far apart at all), but then Oropher's Elves moved north with new threats on the forest.

I could be very wrong in most (if not all) of this, but it's a basic understanding. I think. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]