[ 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:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 040 secrets from Secret Submission Post #323.
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[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.