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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/bluepal.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: The oldest people of ME?
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Quote:<hr> Þus cwæþ Sharku:
What I doubted was whether the number of eldest Cuivienen elves, who could theoratically be older than Fangorn in my theory, was still big enough to count as a people. <hr></blockquote>
If, indeed, any were still alive in the Third Age - I don't know of any Elf referred to in the Sil. or the LoTR whom we can infer was "created, not begotten".
However, this does not take away from the fact that the Elven race as a whole still constituted a "people". If you wanted to see which was the oldest existing race, therefore, you'd still have to look at the antiquity of the Elven race, even if every original Elf was in Mandos. It's a different issue if you're looking to determine who the oldest living being was.
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