You must log in or # to comment.
last i checked elves were very explicitly doomed to fade away as magic left middle earth, and what with it canonially being our reality in the past and us now having 8+ billion humans alive, how many elves were there at the last point in time depicted in the books? It feels pretty safe to say we outnumber them now, at least.
Also makes me wonder what’s supposed to have happened to dwarves, i think hobbits just interbred with humans until everything kinda evened out but did dwarves do that too? must have been a bloody slow process considering… everything about them…
Didnt the elves leave Middle Earth for lands across the sea, or at least some of them, to avoid dying off?
They did. Elves are a migratory species.
African or European?
Keebler.
To the moon you say!
Seems accurate, since IIRC Valinor is no longer reachable by normal means, after the Earth stopped being flat.
Have you not heard the story of Ælfwine?
He was initially the fictional narrator/author of Tolkien’s works, later just referenced as a character. Born in the late 800s(by our reckoning) England, and he learned of the story when he was the first human who sailed to Valinor in thousands of years. He is a distant descendant of Elves which probably helped, but at that point most humans probably are related to them.
It was left out of The Silmarillion, but is mentioned in some other works released by Christopher.
All of Christopher’s releases are unfinished or scrapped ideas. In this case probably deliberately because it messes with quite a lot of his definitely-not-an-allegory.
IIRC one book says that hobbits still exist, but got smaller, and too shy to appear.
Dwarves just died off, too few children.
so hobbits turned into gnomes and duendes? yeah honestly that tracks
F in chat for the dwarves 😔
Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold…
