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It's not only a question about copyright laws, money, etc. Popularization of JRR works sometimes disgusting. The most disgusting thing(for me, and I think I'm

by Ingaz 14y ago

It's not only a question about copyright laws, money, etc. Popularization of JRR works sometimes disgusting. The most disgusting thing(for me, and I think I'm not lonely): LONG ELVEN EARS. JRR almost reinvented elves. He transcend them from butterfly-like insects into unearthly beautiful beings almost like humans, but in every aspect better. This effort is ruined: now everybody knows that elves are "guys/gals with long ears". Of cause: it's a lot easier to make long ears, than to make ... unearthly beauty. (Excuse me my Runglish )

braveheart1723 14y ago
best comic book guy answer ever
Evbn 14y ago
I thought the Dwarves were the ones that were like humans but better.
- qznc 14y ago
  "The Dwarves have a peculiar history. The first Seven Fathers of the Dwarves were actually created before the Elves by Aulë, beneath the mountains and against the will of Eru Ilúvatar. Eru was displeased with Aulë's rogue action, and ordered them destroyed. As Aulë rose his great hammer to smite his creations and children forever, he wept, and the Dwarves begged for mercy in fear. Seeing this, Eru decided that their life was valuable and that they should live, but the Dwarves must sleep until it is their time to walk Middle-Earth, so they were granted long life so they could hibernate as time elapsed." Source: http://lotr.neoseeker.com/wiki/Of_the_Dwarves http://lotr.neoseeker.com/wiki/Of_the_Dwarves So the dwarves were kind of a first draft done by an angel instead of the actual creato/god.
stargazer-3 14y ago
A quick note about elves: it's a misconception that before Tolkien's work an elf was pictured as a fey. Nordic elves were very Tolkien-ish, for example.
- jff 14y ago
  I've read explanations that elves as winged 5" fairies were a Victorian invention, and it kind of fits. European myths from before then generally much more serious.
- tellarin 14y ago
  Even though elves were mostly not fey, many descriptions of an elf are/were quite non Tolkien-ish.
saraid216 14y ago
Elves are totally mentioned in Genesis 6. JRR Tolkien merely gender flipped it. Elrond is not pleased.
- eli_gottlieb 14y ago
  Elves are totally mentioned in Genesis 6. As in, Genesis, chapter 6, in the Tanakh? I've never heard of that one before. Ancient Hebrew culture had no notion of elves whatsoever, to my knowledge. Is this a joke, or can you cite chapter+verse?
  - saraid216 14y ago
    Yes, it's a joke. 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. 4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. 5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
    - eli_gottlieb 14y ago
      Ah, thanks. The last time I checked any details of the story of Noah was when I read them in a Madeleine l'Engle novel, ie: years ago.
eli_gottlieb 14y ago
I would not say, "in every aspect better". One of the major themes of Lord of the Rings was that the elves are tied to nature but not really to history. They can't evolve as Men and such can, and so as history drags on they just sort of decay with entropy until eventually becoming nothing more than ghost-wraiths, voices on the wind... unless they pass into the Uttermost West, the only place protected from entropy such that elves can exist eternally there.

by Ingaz 14y ago

braveheart1723 14y ago

best comic book guy answer ever

Evbn 14y ago

I thought the Dwarves were the ones that were like humans but better.

qznc 14y ago
"The Dwarves have a peculiar history. The first Seven Fathers of the Dwarves were actually created before the Elves by Aulë, beneath the mountains and against the will of Eru Ilúvatar. Eru was displeased with Aulë's rogue action, and ordered them destroyed. As Aulë rose his great hammer to smite his creations and children forever, he wept, and the Dwarves begged for mercy in fear. Seeing this, Eru decided that their life was valuable and that they should live, but the Dwarves must sleep until it is their time to walk Middle-Earth, so they were granted long life so they could hibernate as time elapsed." Source: http://lotr.neoseeker.com/wiki/Of_the_Dwarves http://lotr.neoseeker.com/wiki/Of_the_Dwarves So the dwarves were kind of a first draft done by an angel instead of the actual creato/god.

stargazer-3 14y ago

A quick note about elves: it's a misconception that before Tolkien's work an elf was pictured as a fey. Nordic elves were very Tolkien-ish, for example.

jff 14y ago
I've read explanations that elves as winged 5" fairies were a Victorian invention, and it kind of fits. European myths from before then generally much more serious.
tellarin 14y ago
Even though elves were mostly not fey, many descriptions of an elf are/were quite non Tolkien-ish.

saraid216 14y ago

Elves are totally mentioned in Genesis 6. JRR Tolkien merely gender flipped it. Elrond is not pleased.

eli_gottlieb 14y ago
Elves are totally mentioned in Genesis 6. As in, Genesis, chapter 6, in the Tanakh? I've never heard of that one before. Ancient Hebrew culture had no notion of elves whatsoever, to my knowledge. Is this a joke, or can you cite chapter+verse?
- saraid216 14y ago
  Yes, it's a joke. 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. 4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. 5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
  - eli_gottlieb 14y ago
    Ah, thanks. The last time I checked any details of the story of Noah was when I read them in a Madeleine l'Engle novel, ie: years ago.

eli_gottlieb 14y ago

I would not say, "in every aspect better". One of the major themes of Lord of the Rings was that the elves are tied to nature but not really to history. They can't evolve as Men and such can, and so as history drags on they just sort of decay with entropy until eventually becoming nothing more than ghost-wraiths, voices on the wind... unless they pass into the Uttermost West, the only place protected from entropy such that elves can exist eternally there.