Elvish Mortality

[Cúdae]

Saucepan Man, good point on evolution. That doesn't seem to work in Middle-Earth, which messes up my entire thought process. However I have to say that I feel that the Elves are less natural then the Men of Middle-Earth. At the base of the life cycle is death. Death creates life and life creates death, so to speak. What I mean by death creating life is that whole circle of life thing described in the Disney movie the Lion King: The antelope eats the grass, the lion eats the antelope, the lion eventually dies, the death of the lion fertilizes the grass and so on. (Or something like that, haven't watched the movie in a while.)

It seems to me that the Elves aren't contributing to the life cycle. They seem to be reaping the benefits without putting in their share. Thus bringing themselves in tune with nature, but not being a "working" part of it either. Men, however less in tune with nature they may be, are a working part of it. If one does nothing else in life, one will die. But an elf will not die, will not continue that fertilizing the grass idea but will continue the eating the antelope idea.

**blinks** I have had way too much coffee. Hopefully that made some sense.