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Originally Posted by Nilpaurion Felagund
Hey, don't get worked up, Form! You just came back! (Welcome back, vy ze vay.  )
It was just a suggestion, for, despite the truth of your statement, Hares had a part in the History of Middle-earth. The Council of Elrond, for example, was brought about by some concubine of Elmerf.
I mean, if we drop the Hare references to the Legendarium, then we are no worse than those who continuously defame the Wargs.
Your Harey Advocate of the Correct and Complete History of Arda,
Louis Ortal. |
Thank you for the welcome, it is good to be back among those enlightened enough to speak of Wargs.
But I must disagree with your interpretation that Elmerf's concubine convened the Council of Elrond. That is simply one interpretation of the facts, and a tenuous one, at that. One might as well accept the suggestion of the Red Book's author, that it practically happened by coincidence. Or one could look at the event and see in it, perhaps, the paws of a Warg.
Although Elrond is renowned for his anti-Warg stance, and although there are no documents proving any Warg connections to the Council named after him, the fact remains that the Council was a most blessed occurrence for the peoples of Middle-Earth, and a turning point in the quest to destroy the Ring. And although the gathering of all those delegates at one time appears to be mere coincidence, one can perhaps see the paw of a Warg at work.
Consider Boromir and Faramir's vision. It is never shown from whence it came. But who, other than the Wargs, had the power to project such a vision? Only the Valar, and they had a strict hands-off policy with regards to Middle-Earth. What about the arrival of the Dwarves? We are told of some vague worries of the Dwarf kingdom, but why should they go to Elrond with their questions? Perhaps the Dwarves, who have always had better relationships with Wargs than the Elves have, had the suggestion placed in their ear? As for Legolas and the other Elves? Well, who do you think could have managed to get them all to Rivendell at the same time, other than those most cunning of beasts?
In any event, although I share your quest for a "Correct and Complete History of Arda", though I dispute with you on some of the details, I must admit that a truly "complete" work is impossible, although we may strive for "correct". To be complete, a work must, of its nature, include EVERYTHING. And no one written work, or even many, can encompass EVERYTHING. For that reason, we are not given Frodo's Famous Mushroom Soup recipe in the Red Book, delicious though it was, it was not relevant. In the same way, while Elmerf and his brood were certainly connected to the Council and its proceedings, they were not RELEVANT. In this matter, at least, I agree with the biased, anti-Warg author of the Red Book: there was no reason to include the hares.
~Warg Scholar-
Michael A. Joosten~