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Originally Posted by Alfirin
...since it is hard to imagine the elves doing something so cruel as pulling teeth out of living animals, perhaps the "ivory" in this case is vegetable ivory i.e. the kernel of some sort of palm. This would probably not be even close to anything Tolkein would imagine (I'm not 100% sure vegetable ivory was even well known in the west in Tolkein's day. but if native animals are immortal in Valinor (and again I say, I do not know) then it would seem to be the only option (if Valinor containes all the fauna of ME+ is presumably also contaions all the flora+.)
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I'm not sure about the flora. Haldir, later echoed by Galadriel (or ws it Celeborn?) speak as if they doubt that mallorns grow in Aman. Haldir is understandable, but Galadriel should know for sure, since she grew up there.