[ SECRET POST #2262 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2262 ⌋

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

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Notes:

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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Could be they used to serve some other entities, and humans have filled that niche. Maybe there were some manner of high elves who decided the world was going to pot and took off without their underlings, and the underlings latched onto the humans.

[scherrymouse]

That's interesting, but it makes me wonder where the high elves would have gone, and then my mind just conjures up some aliens in the sky taking them away, which I can't really take seriously. =) Do you have any theories?

[(Anonymous)]

Under the Hill! Fairyland, briefly.

[scherrymouse]

Fairyland?

Now that just makes me jealous of them. Though, I do like the idea of there being a Fairyland the wizarding world at large don't know anything about...

[(Anonymous)]

I am very fond of the idea that while the wizards think they're the apex predators of the magical ecosystem, they're really, really not.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Valinor.

[(Anonymous)]

Valinor.

[(Anonymous)]

So were the house elves originally ... Silvan elves or something?

*has only shaky grasp of the organization of Tolkien's eldar societies*

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

The early History of Middle-earth books detail some of the early writings that reveal that originally LotR was meant to be a mythology for Britain (Tolkien felt that Britain had lost most of it's native mythology).

One of the things included plots that distinctly resemble parts of the backstory of the elves, namely the migration to Valinor (namely, a deity picking up and pulling an island across the ocean to plant it off the coastline of the Undying Lands).

Somewhere in the mess of all of this early stuff is the point that those elves who stayed in Middle-earth and never sailed to Valinor eventually shrank in size and became a lot shorter, basically becoming the sort of elves that figure in folk tales.

That could include Silvan (Nandor) elves, not mention High (Noldor, Sindar, etc) elves who for one reason or other never sailed, plus the unremembered Avari elves (in the original pre-historic migration to Valinor, some refused to even start out on the journey - those were the Avari, or "Unwilling"). (Oh, and on random technicalities, "Eldar" really only applies to those who did set out on the migration - mainly those who made it to Valinor, though I think the Sindar elves (Teleri who made it to Beleriand, but not across the sea) may come under the "Eldar" umbrella too.)

I have been brushing up a lot on my Tolkien geekery since The Hobbit came out.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

LOL, I said the same thing.