[Galorme]

To be honest, and at the risk of suffering the wrath of the entire forum, I feel that the Elves of the Hobbit are very much the elves of rest of the mythology. There are only two real times where elves are shown in peacetime in a narrative piece. The first is the Hobbit, and the second (or really the first since it is much older) is the Book of Lost Tales. The book of lost tales shows happy, singing elves (acid elves?), as does the hobbit. What I think of the elves is that they feel extremes of all emotions. They feel terrible sorrow in the LoTRs because of the inevitability of their fading, they feel terrible anger and pain in the Silmirilion as they fight with Morgoth. But in the Hobbit they are happy. They sing and dance and are silly and merry and this is the extreme of happiness they feel, with no urge for treasure of power just rejoicing in the glory of Rivendel. I think that when people think of elves they think so much of their power and sorrow that they refuse to except the happiness that they show in the Hobbit and the BoLT, but this is very much part of the elves as well. There is happiness and singing in Valinor too, where the elves have no care, but there is no Narative of this, since the True West was kept deliberately remote and all that is said is that there was great joy. I believe that Tirion would be filled with the silly, carefree singing of the elves that are happy. Cant you people just be happy for them? [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[ July 29, 2002: Message edited by: Galorme ]