Well, I think that the elves are shown quite different in every book.
In The Hobbit they are more like fairies.
n The Lord of the Rings they seem to be much wiser and more sad and weary of life.
In The Silmarillion they feel more like humans, yes. And it's said that the elves and men were more like each other in the First Age than in the Third Age.
But The Silmarillion shows only the great deeds, like battles and speechs. Is there any part in that book that shows elves in their daily works? In The Hobbit the elves of Rivendell and Mirkwood were doing their daily works, or at least it seems so(well, I think that they sing more than battle against orcs).
So, they seem to be more like humans in The Silmarillion, but that doesn't show their daily life like the other books(well, the others actually don't show it much more, but they are more like books, whereas The Silmarillion could as well be a history book).
Oh no, a terrible post..
[ October 28, 2002: Message edited by: Afrodal Fenyar ]
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