Elves and the Elements

[Andsigil]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

You give a forced choice there. I think it’s more reasonable to assume they have greater resistance to cold, but not total immunity– i.e. what I said originally.

True, I did. Given the elves' greater resistance, then, Helcaraxë must have been worse than anything we have in either of the poles right now?

I suppose that the crossing is another one of those parts of The Silmarillion that I wish Tolkien would have written more about.