[ SECRET POST #2209 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2208 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Nonononono! I think the elves themselves believe they're better than everyone else. And I think Tolkien might have thought so too, but I'm less sure of that.

The text also says over and over that humans want power so badly, and the dwarves are heavily implied to be pretty greedy (in the last chapter, about the Third Age and the Rings of Power, it's said that the Dwarf rulers were better able to withstand the corrupting power of their rings than the human kings, so it didn't turn them into tyrants (or ringwraiths), it just made them greedier. (I suppose this is what happened in the backstory sequence in the Hobbit movie?) But virtually nothing negative is ever said about Elves, which suggests we're meant to think they aren't greedy or power-hungry.

And, you know, in a way I could almost agree. As a race, Elves don't have all that much in the way of power games (court intrigues, for instance), and they don't tend to collect riches as a goal in itself. It's just that they're so hung up on BEAUTY, the end result is pretty much the same. Once you've read even a couple of chapters of the Quenta Silmarillion, the idea of Elves being all flawless and perfect seems pretty laughable.

Don't even get me started on the immortality thing. It's supposed to be this ~gift from Eru Ilúvatar~, but it entails disease, aging, only getting to stay in Middle-earth for a comparatively short time, and having absolutely no clue what happens next. It also sets them apart from the Elves and the Ainur, and keeps them from going where they'd be protected from Morgoth and Sauron - the land that's also the home of the Ainur. The Elves (and the text) seem to think the humans should basically STFU and stop worrying and whining, but it also says outright that the Elves were creeped out by humans catching diseases and growing old in less than a century. I imagine the haughtiest Elves would see humans as something along the lines of, say, sickly talking chimpanzees with the lifespans of hamsters.