The oldest people of ME?

[HerenIstarion]

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Originally Posted by Durelen (now Orald)

But The first elves, the "unbegotten" or whatever where as old as Ea itself, as were the fathers of men that first awoke in hildorean. All of them are technically older than Ents and Dwarves. They just weren't consious.

literally, the same may be said about dwarves, for 7 fathers were made to sleep till the awakening of children, and of ents too, for they were to awake to guard the forests after the coming of children, so both existed technically as well.
what for the question of preservation of not inhabited (=not awakenad) bodies, it is quite a hard one. Easier a bit with dwarves and ents, for Dwarves were commonly beleived in ME to come out of the stone, ents may have been trees as trees at first, things in themselves, and only after incarnation of children inhabited by the spirits from afar;, but the things is much more coplex with elves and men, In fact, I know of no evidence on the subject, but all is in the power of Eru, so if the design of the awakaning was to have 'sleeping' bodies in existence from the before the actual awakening, I don't think that any turmoils and ruins of pillars etc could harm them or make any problem for their preservation.