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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/bluepal.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Do elves stop to age??
Hmmmmm. While I'm not the scholar lindl is, let me take a crack at it, too.
Elves can be made to "age" somewhat, by long torture, etc.
They certainly age from childhood to maturity.
It seems to me that their countenances take on the attributes of the spirit within.
We do that too, a little. Look at the pictures of actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Let's take Joan Crawford as an example. (Gah!)
As a young engenue in the silent films, she was a fresh-faced doll. In only a few years, though still beautiful, her face began to take a hard ruthless edge.
By the time she was old, her face became a caricature of itself, and seemed quite hard and brutal.
Bette Davis, too.
Lillian Gish, on the other hand, became a beautiful little old lady whose smile was like springtime.
Elves, while not aging in quite the same way, perhaps do the same. Their countenances and postures become "fixed" with their spirits over the long centuries.
Take Eol the Dark Elf as one example of this.
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