The Silmarillion makes the elves seem more human - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Helkasir · 10-27-2002, 08:00 PM

Elve sto me were always Immortal Humans, eternally youthful and always happy. Sincemy first introduction to tolkien was that Hobbit, I got my first impression of elves by that song in rivendell th Bilbo heard as they entered. You know, "Oh where are you goin', with beards all a waggin'," and I saw them more as a Cherubic race. The Sil changed that view, obviously, but when I look at it I get this feeling that elves don't have a large amount of children, So in the 1st age they were perhaps filled with more fire, that burns away eventually to a cold ember. I always thought of elves as more powerful in the first age; which I still believe they were. The sil made me seem them as super humans, where as LOTR made me see them as elderly wise ones.

10-27-2002, 08:00 PM	#7
Helkasir Haunting Spirit Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: North of the Iron Hills Posts: 89	Elve sto me were always Immortal Humans, eternally youthful and always happy. Sincemy first introduction to tolkien was that Hobbit, I got my first impression of elves by that song in rivendell th Bilbo heard as they entered. You know, "Oh where are you goin', with beards all a waggin'," and I saw them more as a Cherubic race. The Sil changed that view, obviously, but when I look at it I get this feeling that elves don't have a large amount of children, So in the 1st age they were perhaps filled with more fire, that burns away eventually to a cold ember. I always thought of elves as more powerful in the first age; which I still believe they were. The sil made me seem them as super humans, where as LOTR made me see them as elderly wise ones. __________________ "Onen i-Estal Edain, u-chebin estel anim."