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This is something that I couldn't really figure out properly. It is stated that if they stay in Middle-Earth for too long, the elves' bodies start to get physically weakened and degraded until they become like wraiths due to the marring of Arda caused by Morgoth. But their bodies will stay...

I mean of course the spirit, not fear as scared :). I was reading one of NOME essays about a conversation between Manwe and Iluvatar, where Manwe asks if the Valar have the authority and the capability to re-embody elves's fear. in fact, it starts with Manwe asking about re-embodiment because...

Or did J.R.R Tolkien say. Just English, and it wouldnt matter if its Cockney, Redneck, Australian, British or American accent. Just overall curious? edit: found this reddit post. Unsure if this is quote by Tolkien, but here is what it says (Tolkien wrote about this to the BBC when they were...

Per invitation, I am posting a Middle-earth fanfic here I have been thinking over for some time. My main character is an OC and I'll do my best to portray the characters well, both in-world characters and those I make up. Enjoy! Prologue: Free Moments. I don't remember how my story began...

Hello fellow Tolkien fans! I've been continuing on in reading through parts of the Legendarium. After having finished The Silmarillion a couple month ago, I've been jumping around a bit in the reading, and the planned reading, before I continue on into the Second Age. The material I've chosen...

But some of the woodmen still hunted the Orcs on their borders; and thus it was that as Túrin came thither he heard the sound of an affray. He hastened towards it, and coming warily through the trees he saw a small band of men surrounded by Orcs. They defended themselves desperately, with their...

Were elves and men more powerful in the first age?

Were there elves and men who fought in the dagor bragollach among the elves and men who went to and lived in the gondolin before or after the dagor bragollach?

I'm reading now where Boromir is trying to seduce the Ring from Frodo. He's stating that maybe wizards or Elves couldn't handle wielding the Ring but somehow Men could. Did he not read of how the Men of Numenor were seduced by Sauron or how Isildur took the Ring and was betrayed by it? He...

Why were men banned from entering the undying Lands?

Here is the family tree for Men, much simpler than in the published Silmarillion. You might find it useful when picking through Book 5. Like the Elves one, needs light mode to see properly . . . :( One nice thing is with the simplified genealogy you can see Elrond's human descendency in one go.

Why Did Eru Give Men The Gift of death And Not To The Elves too?

So the Valar were mad at the Noldor after the Kinslaying but it seems excessively petty to condemn men and dwarves to be afflicted by Morgoth as well (especially considering Melkor was THEIR responsibility (they freed him after all)). The Moriquendi I can at least argue (they'd chosen to stay...

The uruk olog-hais of the third age were stronger than the orcs and trolls of the first age. In the first age there were elves who slew the balrogs. But there are the rohan cavalry that can defeat mumakils 2-3 times the size of a balrog. Do you think the numenor and gondor people of the third...

I just began re-reading Akallabeth and it talks of the evil men who sided with Morgoth and fled to the eastern parts of ME. My unfounded asumtion of the third age writings is men=good but of course, this is not so. The haradrim, the Easterlings, the wildmen of Dunling, all were on the side...

During the 1st Age, Easterlings had been proved to much more competent military human resources than Melkor's backbone-orcs, for infiltrating into the Free People, such high risk military operation, obviously, hadn't been dared by Melkor till they appeared, even though they obviously had no...

Disputes settled, Realization to a greater threat, Knowing an ME under the dark cloud of Sauron was not beneficial whatsoever, Practically redemption to live alongside their own race etc. Haradrim? Easterling? Corsairs? Variags? I've been wondering this for a long while and tbh I don't...

The civil wars between Faithful and King's Men were proved to be impossible, however, how about civil wars between the King's men? Yes, seriously. As we know Numenor begun to lost it's virtue after it's corruption since the reign of Ciryatan, patriotism, as an result, though not directly...

below is a link to a video about a possible future if the ring went west to the undying lands with an elf with a plea for aid to the valar. all comments are welcome . But also Please let me know is it possible that what the video shows below about the ring going west is accurate to what would...

Which divisions or cultures (as Numenoreans, Northmen, Easterlings, ...) of Men were in the times just before Numenor fell?