[ SECRET POST #4029 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4029 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Point, though really I've never bought into that whole idea that an entire race of people were, to the last, flawlessly beautiful. I think the famed grace of the Eldar was just... comparative, as in comparative to the other races living in grimy, war-ridden Middle Earth. Many of the the more notable elven characters in the stories were famed for their beauty, so that might have contributed to the overall impression.

[(Anonymous)]

Long long long history of mythology of fairy folk being beautiful and bewitching mortal men. Clearly the inspiration for Tolkein's elves.

[tabaqui]

But - *are* they actually more beautiful than mere mortals, or is it all a glamour?

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe she's born with it... maybe it's Maybelline. ;)

[tabaqui]

*snerk*

[(Anonymous)]

The question that launched a thousand fairy stories. ;)

[(Anonymous)]

I disagree, because I think those things - unearthly beauty and grace and aesthetic perfection - are strongly associated with the basic concept of the elves, and what they're doing in the stories, and what they represent.

[(Anonymous)]

Personally, I think those ideas are better represented in-story by the philosophies and achievements of elven culture. Their ethereal cities, their transcendent music and writing, their famed and unique crafts, etc. And of course, their fate, undying but utterly tied to the world that is doomed to fade. I love all of that but I don't love the idea that they were all of them physically superior beyond what genetics, hygiene, immortality, and immunity to disease could grant. But yeah, it's a personal thing.

[(Anonymous)]

Fair enough