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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9585503" data-attributes="member: 42856">After discovering that Landor was much older than initially thought, I think we should question Thayne's age. He didn't strike me as young based on the description you shared. More like a middle-aged elf. And Estla is both his AUNT (one generation earlier) and blind, which is often the sign of being old. Following the link, you mentionned that Estla is his "grand-aunt". A sibling of Thayne's grandfather. There is a strong chance she was around 500 years ago. She is just out of young adulthood for elfs, and young adults typically don't have grand-nephews. Sure, Thayne mentionned her to be more "more than 200 years old". While a human can be said to be more than 20 years old when he's 54, it's an odd way of presenting things. Here, however, we're confronted with an elven culture that might have a different relationship with age. First, Thayne could be 200 years old and just mention that aunt Estla has always been around. Especially since counting years might not be something useful for extremely long living races. As a human, when your 6, you NEVER fail to mention that you're 6 and 3 month or 6 and a half. Because it's important. When you're over 40, you tend not to care about whole years...Finally, there is the Tolkien cop-out that the Years of the Trees were ten times longer than the year of the Sun, and elves don't count years the same as we do.Anyway, I won't force you to reread book 1, but the combination of wise + great-aunt of a middle-aged character + blind lead me to think she's in firmly in the middle-aged side of her lifespan. It is something we must be on the lookout if we drop by her village in another reality, not the reality of OUR Carr.</blockquote>

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