🧝Elves' time

[Ricardo]

I always thought about the burden of immortality, what do you do with your time?

In the case of elves, at least they don't (mostly) have the problem of losing their loved ones, but still, tens of thousands of years is a lot of time to fill in. How don't they get bored?

I know that elves would fade away if remained in Middle Earth and that the fea becomes stronger as time pass, taken over the hroa more and more.

But then, I thought of what Legolas said, that time doesn't run the same way for elves and men. For elves time is both very fast and very slow.

so is it that elves just perceive the time in a different way? Because the fea expects to be in Arda for a very long time, just their feelings and thoughts adapt to that reality? A year or a decade in the life of an elf maybe like a second to a mortal?

 

[Alexander Scamilton]

I always thought about the burden of immortality, what do you do with your time?

Doomscroll

In the case of elves, at least they don't (mostly) have the problem of losing their loved ones, but still, tens of thousands of years is a lot of time to fill in. How don't they get bored?

They do get bored. If they didn't, elves would be overpopulating middle earth.

But then, I thought of what Legolas said, that time doesn't run the same way for elves and men. For elves time is both very fast and very slow.

You can always count on Legolas to clear things up

 

[Starbrow]

I suppose they could create art, like sand mandala's which are destroyed after they are made.

 

[HALETH✒🗡]

And what about people or hobbits? The question concerns them too because Tolkien believed in life after death. This second life will remain forever. Probably, only those people can be happy in Heaven who are able not to get bored without money and material things that just won't exist anymore. However, there will still be art, friendship, love and it can encourage us to live forever.