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Behold I love the earth ...the Quendi shall be the fairest of all earthly creatures and shall conceive and bring forth more beauty than all my children; and they should have the greater bliss in this world
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That does not sound like creatures created to be emotionally dead. Elves feel love stronger than any creature, the love that drives them to weave magics and defy to the dark lord himself. They feel pain and anger great enough to drive themselves like a spear into the very heart of the Hells of Iron, though there be no hope of return. They alone feel the pure bliss of Valinor in the True West and the horror at the loss of the Two Trees of Light. Elves show their emotions in great ways. Arwen and Lúthien give up their imortality for love of their men , and Elros for love of his kin. Elves have and show much greater emotion than any or the mortal folk save perhaps the Valar (the wrath of Morgoth anyone?)