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What is it, I wonder, that makes them immune to internal assault, when they are vulnerable to external attack?
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I believe it is because elves have an incredible *cough* inhuman immune system, whereas a wound involves, well... blood. Blood that escapes the body and causes exhaustion and ultimately death. But that has always bothered me too. That brings up another point. In the Silmarillion, when Eol tracked Aredhel and Maeglin to Gondolin and hit Aredhel with a poisoned spear, Aredhel is not killed by the blow. She dies later that day, from the poison. Poison is considered an internal hurt. Wouldn't an elvish immune system powerful enough to neutralize any kind of disease that entered the body be able to neutralize poison also? I'm sure Tolkien had to have considered this, but he wrote it down anyway that she (as well as other elves, probably) died from a poisonous wound. Am I wrong that this is contradicting the fact that elves can fend off any internal assault?