Arcane Topic Warning: Part the Second

[Raynor]

Originally Posted by Formendacil

unless we accept Tolkien's late early-sun theory

The text Quendi and Eldar, HoME XI is in accordance with the solar system of the Myths Transformed, HoME X; in one of its texts, Quenya, it is stated:

But already before the final separation mori-kwendi may have referred to the glooms and the clouds dimming the sun and the stars during the War of the Valar and Melkor, so that the term from the beginning had a tinge of scorn, implying that such folk were not averse to the shadows of Melkor upon Middle-earth.

In his comments, Chris too acknowledges the connection.

So elves did hunt for sport, and even though some of us here (me included) don't approve that, the Valar (esp. Orome, and Yavanna at least tolerated it) seemed to.

Orome is a hunter of "monsters and fell beasts"; he is not doing for the fun of it - he trained "his folk and his beasts for the pursuit of the evil creatures of Melkor" (Of the valar, Silmarillion).