06-18-2007, 04:51 AM | #1 |
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Visible differences between Elf and Human?
I always though Elves were supposed to look like tall humans or something - tall humans with long hair and little androgenic hair.
However, there's something about them that still makes them look special; do you know of anything? |
06-18-2007, 05:25 AM | #2 | |
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Their beauty is given as one of the Elven characteristics. And if I recall correctly, the light in their eyes.
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06-18-2007, 07:58 AM | #3 | |
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Oh, thanks for your info. I always loved the Elven style. Also, I don't like thinking of Elves as having pointy ears, because they aren't really supposed to be *Elves*, but rather a kind of human race with different characteristics. Last edited by Peter_20 : 06-18-2007 at 07:59 AM. |
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06-19-2007, 05:15 PM | #5 |
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Tolkien never said 'pointy' though, so it's a moot point.
There is a definite implication - at least, I perceive there to be one, but I'm not being as scholarly about it nowadays as I would have in the past - that Elves and Humans aren't really physically or biologically different. This is indicated in, frex, that the two can crossbreed without difficult, and in that human and elven children look alike. So Elves and Humans undergo a divergence as they age, and their spirits adapt their respective bodies in preparation for different fates - I think that's in Laws and Customs, but I can't recall offhand. It does seem like Elves are more distinguished by their superficial features - eyes, voice, and hair, complexion, et cetera. None of the races in Middle Earth fall outside the range of physical possibilities for normal humans, so Elves are pretty much what you'd expect from immortal humans with idealized physical forms.
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06-20-2007, 12:32 AM | #7 | |
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Giant .................................................. .....
And they're "immortal" in more than one way.
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06-20-2007, 03:05 AM | #8 |
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The Elves were pretty slender as well, weren't they?
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I'm not convinced on what you suggest though... or why would these Elven princesses be drawn to all these Men? What was written on the women's bathroom walls at Doriath, Gondolin, Nargothrond and Imladris?
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Ugh!
One thing I KNOW is that they wouldn't have those annoying hot-air-blowing hand dryers in the public restrooms! *pictures Idril walking out of a public restroom wiping her hands dry on her elven jeans, a piece of toilet paper trailing from one dainty elven foot... *
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While he does not elaberate much on this differences, it is easy to visually the difference that comes for crtrolling the aging of the Elvish body, and thier strong immunity to disease. We also have the racial and family characteristics. The Noldor tended to be very tall ectomorphs, with dark hair. With also have tallness in Elwe's family, and the silver hair, we have the golden hair of the Vanyar, or posiibly that was only their royal house.
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07-10-2007, 04:10 PM | #18 |
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here is the best annotated essay on 'do elves have pointy ears'
http://tolkien.slimy.com/essays/Ears.html
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The word "elvish" is in quotation marks because Tolkien was referring to popular images of Elves as tiny fairy-type creatures; an image he strongly rejected.
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