[ SECRET POST #2191 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2191 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it was that they didn't get involved in LotR, but that they were busy trying to defend their own lands, just as much as everyone else. I don't dispute your comments on the Mirkwood elves during The Hobbit though, even I, an unashamed elf fan of old, found them smarmy bastards.

[velvet_mace]

But they rather pointedly didn't get involved. Remember Gildor, who happened to be wandering through the Shire (notice how elves can freely fuck about in other people's lands without permission but are super touchy when other's happen to wander into theirs) when Frodo and company where fleeing the black riders? Gildor rather grudgingly decides to let Frodo and co. walk with them for a bit, because he knows the black riders are serious bad news. Frodo flatters the fuck out of him, even talking in his own language, to which Gildor warns his people ("jokingly") to watch what they are saying because Frodo might understand them (one has to wonder what kind of shit they'd been saying to each other up to that point).

So Gildor knows that Frodo is in deep shit with the big bad enemy, but when Frodo asks who the fuck are these people who are chasing him, Gildor tells him nothing! That's right. Because he up and decides that Frodo isn't strong enough to know just how deep a trouble he is into -- as though ignorance is any protection.

Then they bug the hell out as soon as the Hobbits go to sleep leaving Frodo and his companions to fend for themselves for the rest of the journey -- basically in exactly the same situation they were in when they found them! Now could they have changed their route and escorted them to Crickhollow, using their super secret elven paths that the Dark Riders can't follow? Probably.

But they didn't, and they even explained why. Matters of the Middle Earth didn't matter to them any more which is a polite way of saying they didn't really give a fuck about anyone but themselves. They were getting the hell out of dodge they were taking all their magic cookies with them.

So here's the image I have in my mind -- Elves singing and feasting their merry way through the Shire knowing full well that soon it would be overrun by a terrible enemy that would enslave and destroy it all. Yeah.