10-20-2001, 10:49 AM | #1 |
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I hope this wasn't done before!
I've always loved elves, and i want to be one. BUt they talk about the "sorrow" of the elves,and they sometimes act like it's not such a great thing. Would anyone else share the fate of the evles, and live forever, in a place that never changes?
Personally, i would, but apparently some elves didn't mind the "gift of men" Isn't it kind of ironic that the men wanted immortality like the elves, but the elves considered death to be a gift from Eru?
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10-21-2001, 05:11 PM | #2 |
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No, It's not ironic. Eru himself said that elves (yea, even the valar) would envy men in time.
And It's not terribly unexpected that men would envy the immortal folk. The grass is always greener on the other side, right? |
10-22-2001, 12:18 AM | #3 | |
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Well that might depend on your belief. If you are a religous type then the idea of the "GIFT of Man" may be attractive.
If you are not of that mode then "guaranteed" immortality may seem a wiser choice. Quote:
One idea of theology is that Heaven is unchanging also. So I guess it would come down to a matter of faith. I'd prefer eternity with Elves than mortals (or former mortals) I do find the Professor's theological beliefs that are worked into his works "interesting". But then he also said that Middle Earth was OUR world 7,000 thousand years ago. ( I believe that is what he said. someelse will have to verify that) and that just doesn't hold water. So I gloss over things like that and read it as a good fantasy and nothing more.
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10-22-2001, 12:38 AM | #4 |
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The Elves are bored with immortality!
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10-22-2001, 03:35 AM | #5 |
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I've only read the Hobbit and LOTR. Where is it explicitly stated that Elves are bored with immortality? Thanks
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10-22-2001, 10:17 AM | #6 |
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i think it's more implicit. I know that while i'd love to be an elf, i would get bored after a while. That's why middle earth might have been an attractive place for them. well, i don't know. ^^;
Do ya think Eru made the right choice regarding the Elves and Men?
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10-22-2001, 09:30 PM | #7 | |
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10-23-2001, 05:41 PM | #8 |
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wouldn't we all get bored eventually? after a thousand or so years i'd be like "ooh, the sunrise. AGAIN" blah blah...The elves in lodoss war had it better, i think. but that's got nothing to do with tolkien i s'pose
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10-23-2001, 05:55 PM | #9 |
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perhaps there is a psychological difference between the races.
maybe the immortal psyche is geared in such a way that it doesn't get "bored" they may get world weary in middle earth but perhaps in the west the intrinsic "Magic" would be ever refreshing it also seems world weariness over came those elves who had suffered much and as such was not boredom but sorrow that sent them west you guys thoughts...
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10-23-2001, 09:04 PM | #10 |
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I'm 36 years old and I already get bored! I can't imagine finding something to do for all eternity! talk about watching some boring re-runs! And on a more serious note, the Elves power is fading, soon they travel across the sea never to return. They truly can't go home again, and that's a scary place to be.
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10-23-2001, 09:18 PM | #11 |
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Look at it this way:
The valar are content to HAVE thier cake. They're perfectly happy cloistered away in valinor. Men get to EAT the cake. I would say that they, having unlimited choices in this world, reap the greater rewards in thier brief sojurn through. Elves (tolkien said) wanted both. The wanted to be respected and treated like the valar (which ouldn't have happened in valinor), but they still wanted unchanging beauty (which they could only have gotten in valinor) |
12-05-2001, 06:35 PM | #12 |
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it is said that the elves would live eternally in middle earth untile the world ended. humans like elves were able to die, but also lived forever. they left middle earth when they died though. so its not necessarily a choice of living forever, but a choice of where you will live.
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12-17-2001, 05:02 AM | #13 |
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Just do what Arwen & Luthien did - be and elf for awhile, and then marry a mortal!
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12-17-2001, 10:08 AM | #14 |
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I was really given the impression in the Athrabeth, that Man was really the immortal ones in the end. They go beyond after death. The Elves die when the world dies. So, their inmortality is not eternal.
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12-17-2001, 04:25 PM | #15 |
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But not even the Valar know what Tol...um, Eru had in store for the elves after tyhe world's end.
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12-20-2001, 12:29 AM | #17 |
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i thought that it said that the elves remain with middle earth till its end and that they would then journey to the same place as men, with eru
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I want to read it!
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12-20-2001, 09:34 PM | #19 |
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Athrabeth Finrod Ah Andreth (Sindarin: 'the Debate of Finrod and Andreth') in Vol. X, Morgoth's Ring.
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I want to be an elf!
I love nature, I love poetry and music, what is more? But I am not an elf!
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