A few questions

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

To Elfstone: maybe the Mirkwood Elves go for baseball tactics? Three strikes and you're out? They probably just got sick of being barged in on and took whoever showed up. Chances are they didn't want to interrupt the merry-making with legalities so they sent Thorin off for someone else to deal with.

And it seems odd that everyone else gets their love of Elves from the Trilogy itself. I loved them in The Hobbit. I figure any race with enough sense of humor to sing the words "tra-la-la-lally here down in the valley" and that have enough mischief-making capabilities to tease Dwarfs incessantly are a great group of people. A little goofy at times, but it's balanced out by the ages upon ages that they are forced to be deathly serious.