Elven children

[VanimaEdhel]

Originally Posted by Raefindel

Elves lived such long lives, Well They are immortal, that if they had children throughout their "childbearing years" like we do they would likely have scores of children and the world would be dominated by Elves.

That is a curious question - obviously by the Third Age, the Elves began to leave off having children, but you would have thought that, even given that Elves only had a few children each, it would have gotten more crowded than it did. The average Elf seemed to have two or three children. Since most parents did not die, that leaves the children and the adults. After just a few generations - even giving, say, a few hundred years of a gap between birth and eventual procreation of the children themselves - it starts to get a bit crowded.