[Gothmog]

Great! The long sought quote. Thank you Lalwende!

This puzzles me a bit as surely most people leave no footprints walking on grass?

This can be discussed. It depends on how we define footprints. Of course our feet bends the grass straws, but there's no clear print visible. To us that is. Think on Aragorn for example, a Ranger of the North, great hunter and all. Don't you think he would have the skill to interpret those bent straws as a footprint? Besides, the level of print left depends on the grass. When I was in Scotland two years ago, we had a picnic (sp?) outside one of the many castles. The print we left when sitting in the grass was still visible an hour later! So I'd say that we all leave some sort of prints when walking in grass.

Farael:

That is, until you find a soft spot in which you will sink knee-deep on snow. Still, if I can walk in frozen snow, I would guess a much lighter and athetic elf should be able to run on any kinds of snow.

I know the feeling. Hate it... But back to topic: is elves lighter then humans? In that case, why? Hollow bones like birds? Or is this some sort of elven skill? Or the not-wholly-of-this-world-effect? Looks like we're back on square one where we started this discussion many posts back...