those keen-eyed geeks

[yavanna II]

I just went to see my eye doctor, gotten a new pair of glasses.... anyway, I just thought, those Middle-Earthlings must be really amazing if they don't have eye defieciencies.... those Elves, they live forever.... they must have developed eye deficiencies.... but wait.... they couldn't be assailed by illnesses. How about those Men? Wizards? They must be really that great if they don't....
They've got no electricity there... So how could they not have eye sickness? If they do, how do they treat this?


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Just thinking how comical it would be to see Gandalf with glasses.....



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I'm a crazy pandha... what can I do bout it?

[Morsul the Dark]

WEll I can imagine Frodo walking to mountain doom wearing glasses every time he falls his glasses break eventually its two lenses with about a pound of tape

[ohtatyaro]

Repare - the spell Hermione uses to repair Harry Potter's glasses. Frodo was around wizards, right? I mean, he might have learned spell or 2

[Saraphim]

What's all this? A horrid rumor? I must squash it!

Of course elves cannot be afflicted by illnesses, but nearsightedness, however unpleasant, is not technically an illness. Therefore, there must be some unfortunate elves who go about bespectacled.

And there are, myself among them.

We have formed the Nearsighted Elves Society, an organization devoted to helping elves to live with thier disability. My good friend Eowyn Skywalker has courtiously extended her site to give us all a home there, and we hope to bring in new members as our Society is rather small.

So, I do some shameless advertising, but the rumor has been divested of!

[Elennar Starfire]

Not sure if this is really true, but I heard that your eyes actually adjust to looking at whatever distance you look at most. Babies are born farsighted, then their eyes adjust and about elementary school age they go a little nearsighted. Then they have a bit of trouble reading the board and before ye know it they've got glasses. Which actually can make things worse as they make everything seem closer, so your eyes have to adjust more. It's especially bad if you get a prescription that's a bit too strong. I think that's what happened to me...I got a lot of too-strong prescriptions in elementary school, and now I can't see clearly further than six inches from my nose.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

There are rumours that Túrin wore glasses. He lost them at Nargothrond, and ended up not knowing that Níniel and Nienor look waaay too alike.

Don't take my word for it, though.