Population Explosion in Valinor?

[Galadriel]

[QUOTE]

Originally Posted by Mumriken

I read your post a bit too fast, overpopulation I don't think is an issue among elves. Humans want to breed because we will die and to carry on our genes is important. For a being that is immortal I think there would be no inner urge to have sex at all. Actually I doubt elves got any pleasure out of sex at all. If sex was as nice as it is for us humans to the fictional elves there would be MANY more elves.

Actually, Tolkien mentions in HoME that sex and parenthood are things that Elves greatly enjoy, even if they have fewer sexual urges than humans.

Elves do look very feminine so maybe the males haven't got as much testorone in them as humans do. Male elves tend to have long girly hair and actually look very female. So maybe they are like not sexually active or something....maybe bisexual or asexual?

Where did you read that? I know they are depicted as being rather feminine in the movies and in fanart, but I don't think Tolkien ever talked about this.