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No elves are portrayed during their actual childhood, but elvish geneaologies are clearly stated. For example, Celebrian, the wife of Elrond and mother of Ellad
by pdonis 3y ago
No elves are portrayed during their actual childhood, but elvish geneaologies are clearly stated. For example, Celebrian, the wife of Elrond and mother of Elladan, Elrohir, and Arwen, is the daughter of Celeborn and Galadriel.
- jltsiren 3y agoIncidentally, Tolkien portrayed many half-elves during their childhood. Elwing, Elured, and Elurin were young children when the sons of Fëanor destroyed Doriath. Eärendil fled the destruction of Gondolin as a young child. And Elrond and Elros were young children when the remaining sons of Fëanor destroyed the Havens of Sirion. Bad luck runs in the family, or something.
- pdonis 3y ago> Tolkien portrayed many half-elves during their childhood. Yes, unfortunately we don't have more detailed portrayals since those passages in The Silmarillion are very brief.
- johngossman 3y agoI had the same thought: iirc, all the “elf children” Tolkien wrote about (albeit briefly) were half- elves. I can retcon explanations but have to wonder if Tolkien was intentional about that.
- Andrex 3y agoThinking from a purely authorial standpoint, half-elves give a connection to the human audience, while full-elves are meant to be out of reach and ethereal. The reason you would not write a scene with your ultimate villain on the toilet is the same impulse Tolkien may have felt here.
- gpderetta 3y agoI think just not many elves where born in Middle-Earth, at least among the Noldor, which are the focus of a lot of JRRT stories.