[ SECRET POST #2209 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2208 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 121 secrets from Secret Submission Post #316.
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

See, the thing about the elves in LOTR is that these are the elves who managed to

(a) Not kill each other off, get themselves killed off, or otherwise get killed off over the brief but frankly rather awful First Age.
(b) Escape the entire subcontinent sinking during a war at the end of the First Age.
(c) Not get killed in the bloody collapse of Eregion in the Second Age.
(d) Not get killed in the war at the end of the Second Age.
(e) Not given up on Middle-Earth after the collapse of Lindon after Gil-Galad's death.
(f) Still not have decided to chuck it all and hop on a ship to (relative) paradise in the intervening almost-four-thousand-years.

Since the elven birthrate is appallingly low, the majority of the elves probably date back to the Second Age or earlier. I believe it's canon that Thranduil was born in the First Age, though Legolas may be Third-Age-born.

So, the remaining elves are a non-random sample of elves. They really are that good, because all the ones who weren't that good died. So did a lot of the ones who were that good.

They also really are that stubborn, and arguably really are that arrogant, in thinking they can make a difference when the Valar wanted them all to come and be safe.