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Were 🧝elves and men more powerful in the first age?
Solution
Obviously.
The whole Tolkien world is constructed in a way, that earlier you go, you see more (raw) power, and it's pretty clear right from the get go.
My theory is that small army of Noldors (let's say just Feanor group) from Valinor, from the first age, would obliterate all combined army from the third age... probably even whole Ar Farazon army from the Second Age.
The whole Tolkien world is constructed in a way, that earlier you go, you see more (raw) power, and it's pretty clear right from the get go.
My theory is that small army of Noldors (let's say just Feanor group) from Valinor, from the first age, would obliterate all combined army from the third age... probably even whole Ar Farazon army from the Second Age.
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Supported too, by the clear evidence that at time of LoTR, it was only the 'older' Elves that had much real power left. There's someplace it's even mentioned their power was waning as their time in Middle-earth came to an end.
The same can't be said for men, as at the end of LoTR, it was the "age of men."
That said, it's clear the men dispersed abroad were but shadows of the great men of the earlier age, which is also spoken to. In part I believe, because in one place it's said their power grew less as they were overtaken by greed and lust in their pursuit of the immortaility of the Elves.
Evil too, Sauron and Saruman, were but shadows of the evil that was Melkor, and probably even Ungoliant. We can recall Sauron originally built his 'follwers' not due to his own power (though that played, as Melkor's first lieutenant) - but due to Sauron's construction of a Melkor-worshipping cult. He was quite smart, though not quite wise.
The same can't be said for men, as at the end of LoTR, it was the "age of men."
That said, it's clear the men dispersed abroad were but shadows of the great men of the earlier age, which is also spoken to. In part I believe, because in one place it's said their power grew less as they were overtaken by greed and lust in their pursuit of the immortaility of the Elves.
Evil too, Sauron and Saruman, were but shadows of the evil that was Melkor, and probably even Ungoliant. We can recall Sauron originally built his 'follwers' not due to his own power (though that played, as Melkor's first lieutenant) - but due to Sauron's construction of a Melkor-worshipping cult. He was quite smart, though not quite wise.
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