[ SECRET POST #2583 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2583 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I really don't understand why so many people say he had little reason to take the dwarves captive. They riled up the spiders, crashed their party (multiple times) and wouldn't tell him why they were rampaging though his territory in the first place.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

And you don't think crushing a party and getting caught by the spiders (which I have a impression was at least partly his fault after doing another one of those vanishing acts) was not petty?

I read the book (admittedly a while ago) but failed to find the Elvenking to be anything likable.

[(Anonymous)]

I read the book lots when I was younger, and don't remember him being particularly likeable or reasonable. I mean, sovereign rights and all that, but he was still kinda narrow-minded/prejudiced iirc.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I had the extra trouble in that I read it long after I read LotR and the Silm. At least part of my problem with him and the Elves in general in The Hobbit is that they are far closer to classical fae than they are to latter LotR Elves and manage to be far more petty than even the worst Silm Elves (including Eöl, who I consider ten times worse that Fëanor, even if I try to divorce that judgement from my favouritism for Fëanor).

But then I have a little bit of a problem with the whole book for the whole genre difference between it and LotR/Silm. The fact that Tolkien ended up writing a far more mature story in LotR is very evident.