Lailath:
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As we've discovered, the Avari question is very problematic, particularly given all the revisions the Professor made during the course of his long life.
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The situation we have here is identical with that of the thread which explored the labels of High-Elven/Eldar/Noldor etc.
JRRT's usage of the terms in bothcases seems to have been subtly nuanced at one moment only to be contradicted by a later detail and then revised yet again, etc, etc.
If we were to strike a mean balance [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] of all of this, I would hazard to say that the nandor/Silvan/Green-Elves did indeed pick up [ or were found by] the more adventurous or disconsolate Avari group here and there over the ages and that small groups were probably to be found within Lothlorien, Mirkwood/Greenwood, Harlindon and Dorthonion.
It would be great if someone with the time [ i.e. not me [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ] could set out the above quotes in as close to chronological order as can be ascertained.