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<blockquote data-quote="Steverooo" data-source="post: 784553" data-attributes="member: 9410">ElvesElrond, and his brother, Elros, were the Peredhil, or Half-Elven, but in Middle Earth, such was not to be!&nbsp; So they were given a choice; to be Human, or Elven.Elrond, of course, chose to be an Elf.&nbsp; Elros Tarminyatur became Human, and the first King of Numenor, from which Isildur and Anarion (and eventually, Arathorn and Aragorn) descend.Hence Arwen Undomiel's words to him upon their first meeting, when he declares his newly-learned lineage to her...&nbsp; &quot;Ah, then we are kinsmen from afar&quot;!Aragorn's bllodline contained not only Elf and Human, but also Melian the Maia's, of whom it was prophesied that her line would never end!&nbsp; IIRC, it was also Beren and Luthien who were the Human/Elven parents of Elrond and Elros.Now as to Tolkien's Elves...&nbsp; When the party first rides down into Rivendell (in The Hobbit?), we certainly see the Elves laughing, singing, and cavorting, making fun of Bilbo, and so on...&nbsp; There, Tolkien also makes mention of &quot;High elves, and merry ones&quot;.&nbsp; To me, that implies different types.Feanor and his sons certainly weren't the laughing, singing types.&nbsp; Neither was Maeglin!Now Legolas, on the other hand...&nbsp; While the rest of the party battles the cold and snow on Caradras the Cruel, he merrily shouts &quot;I go to find the sun!&quot;, and runs off across the new-fallen snow.&nbsp; When he gets back, he says something like &quot;She will not come!&nbsp; She is dancing on the fields of Cormallen!&quot;Nope, no comedy, there!&nbsp; He's certainly being aloof!&nbsp; His &quot;game&quot; with Gimli at Helm's Deep never struck me as being played with a straight face, either.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steverooo, post: 784553, member: 9410"] [b]Elves[/b] Elrond, and his brother, Elros, were the Peredhil, or Half-Elven, but in Middle Earth, such was not to be! So they were given a choice; to be Human, or Elven. Elrond, of course, chose to be an Elf. Elros Tarminyatur became Human, and the first King of Numenor, from which Isildur and Anarion (and eventually, Arathorn and Aragorn) descend. Hence Arwen Undomiel's words to him upon their first meeting, when he declares his newly-learned lineage to her... "Ah, then we are kinsmen from afar"! Aragorn's bllodline contained not only Elf and Human, but also Melian the Maia's, of whom it was prophesied that her line would never end! IIRC, it was also Beren and Luthien who were the Human/Elven parents of Elrond and Elros. Now as to Tolkien's Elves... When the party first rides down into Rivendell (in [U]The Hobbit[/U]?), we certainly see the Elves laughing, singing, and cavorting, making fun of Bilbo, and so on... There, Tolkien also makes mention of "High elves, and merry ones". To me, that implies different types. Feanor and his sons certainly weren't the laughing, singing types. Neither was Maeglin! Now Legolas, on the other hand... While the rest of the party battles the cold and snow on Caradras the Cruel, he merrily shouts "I go to find the sun!", and runs off across the new-fallen snow. When he gets back, he says something like "She will not come! She is dancing on the fields of Cormallen!" Nope, no comedy, there! He's certainly being aloof! His "game" with Gimli at Helm's Deep never struck me as being played with a straight face, either. :p [/QUOTE]

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