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5mo ago

Elves would never

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Elves looking down on the other races in middle earth? Say it ain't so!
See also Galadriel's words in the prologue to Fellowship of The Ring: Three rings were given to the Elves - immortal, wisest, and fairest of all beings.
Where's that meme of Obama putting a medal on Obama?
- Even better
- IIRC, Elrond isn't as stuck-up in the book, but it's been a year or two since I last read Fellowship.
  
  One of my biggest problems with the movies is that they made Elrond (and all of the other elves) so angry and stodgy, and completely ignored all of the joyful aspects of his character from the books. The elves, especially the Noldor, are a people defined by the way their joy for life is inextricably mixed with sorrow as they fight the long defeat, which is part of what makes them so compelling.
  
  Yes, elves in the books are a lot more... human.
  They feast, they sing, they dance, they do stupid things, they prank each other. If anything they seem the most playful race.
  Shit, in The Hobbit, a soldier on duty gets so drunk that he passes out, allowing Bilbo and the Dwarves are able to escape in barrels.
  PJ very much took the Elves and said "let's make them into Star Trek Vulcans!"
- I suspect this is about the silmarils and not the rings

Well I mean arrogance was one of their traits. The elves were the racists of middle Earth
- To be completely fair they lived in a world where there actually were real differences between the races. In our world racism is silly because there aren't any actually relevant differences between the races, but the differences between elves, men, and dwarves are very real in middle earth. Not enough to pull everyone over a comb (to use a swedish proverb), but at least there's some substance to it.
  
  There used to be different types of people on earth but we likely killed them all cause of racism 😞
  Imagine if we still had other humanoids walking around
  
  It'd be more accurate to call them species. Elves are specist.
  
  Would you still say that if you knew Tolkien based elves on early "true" Christians, dwarves on Jews, Western men on Europe as a whole and their decline a metaphor for growing secularism, and the Eastern/Southern men given to evil on brown people who, even worse, aren't Christian?
  Because he did.

#FeanorDidNothingWrong
- Feanor: Look at this! I've made the 3 coolest jewels EVER!!! 🥹
  The Gods: Congrats, those are indeed the 3 coolest jewels ever made.
  Feanor: I know, right! ☺️
  The Gods: Now, hand them over to us.
  Feanor:
  
  Morgoth: I wasn't asking!

The Elves are going to the ships now, and they’re taking their bling.

I quite like how Dwarf Fortress treats elves with contempt. If you try to sell them wooden furniture, they sink to their knees and weep at the loss of life, vowing to never trade with you again.
Naturally, this leads to many players inviting an Elven caravan into their fortresses, sealing the doors shut, setting traps, and letting nature take its course

I'm literally shaking right now

I think OP lost a comma.

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