Even if there was 'Infidelity' amongst the elves...wouldn't thousands of years of living make them a little more open minded? I always thought that it would--since after all, living that long would make one assume that they had seen a lot of things. I guess they don't have to worry about kicking the bucket when they get old like we do... *shrugs* But hey! Those are just my own meandering ideas...maybe I have been watching too much anime.

~~Daegwenn
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Squatter:
Of course, criticism is almost always deserved and healthy, but notice how I said almost always? I think Mr. Jenkyns' article was simply - as you so nicely put it - ignorant [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

You bet there will be more of my tale!
And, even though I deal with Elven infidelity in my story, I do not focus on the sex. In fact, I barely breathe a word of it. I focus on the dilemma of an illegitimate elf child. I have endeavored to keep my story in the vein of Tolkien's writing style, although I do include poker games and drinking fests; but that's as wild as it gets! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Not when I'm the critic. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

I see criticism as being like the little girl of the nursery rhyme: when it's good it's very, very good and when it's bad it's horrid. Poor Professor Tolkien does seem to provoke a lot of bad criticism. Even his lecturing style was panned by some people (there's an oblique and modestly sarcastic reference to this in his Valedictory Address).