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Incidentally, Tolkien portrayed many half-elves during their childhood. Elwing, Elured, and Elurin were young children when the sons of Fëanor destroyed Doriath
by jltsiren 3y ago
Incidentally, 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.