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Originally Posted by Bęthberry
I think the longer elves lived in Arda, the longer their ears grew. (Just like our noses keep growing as we age.)
As the ears grew longer, they would begin to lose the roundedness on the top, and so the cartiledge would become more pronounced and hence pointy.
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Thanks for pushing things back on track, Bethy.
And for the record, when people figure out scientific answers to Tolkien-related questions, they do get a big applause from my side of the computer - I love knowing new reasons to swear to people it "could be real".
And I didn't know our noses keep growing as we age - is that true?
Anyway, wasn't there something in Tolkien's letters, to answer lmp's question about Elf ears? I seem to remember reading that they were in the shape of "mallorn leaves." Now, granted, since I've never bumped into a Mallorn tree, they could have leaves shaped like Ford Mustangs for all I know, but I believe he intended the mallorn leaf to round to a slight point at the end. Not like a little pointy object one can use as a weapon, I don't think, but just a bit of a tip on the end. That's always been my impression of the mallorn leaf.