Melian.
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Senility’s definitely setting in. I have forgotten much that I thought I knew. I can see many things far off, but many things that are close at hand I cannot see.
By the One, I stole a march on the Master! Mark it in the Red Book, Elanor!
Quiet, you!
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Since we are speaking of elves, here is the thing I could never figure out.How are there enough elves to go around?
1.There were 144 elves awakened late in the years of the trees.
2. They don’t really start breeding until their 4 digits
3. They typically have 2-3 kids, with a few outliers.
4. There are large numbers killed in battle with Morgoth, Sauron, kinslaying.
5.Smaller numbers corrupted into orcs, getting lost, being avari etc.
The math just doesn’t seem to work, unless those rules were only for the noble elves, and the Proletariat Elves were boffing like bunnies.
Elves don’t die from old age or illness, presumably, which would result in their numbers increasing over time even with a low birth rate.
But they basically spent their entire existence in one war or another.
Melian conceived and gave birth as an elf woman.
They could always grow rhubarb.
Yes, and “My regiment is shipping out to the front line tomorrow” is the best pick-up line ever invented.
World War II was the bloodiest war in human history, but the earth’s population was greater in 1945 than in 1939.
Or mushrooms. Maybe that’s where Orcs and Hobbits can find common ground, in their love for mushrooms.