During the first age elves and men were friends and allies. The elves probably wanted to continue visiting men and I doubt that the Valar wanted elves and men to become estranged. The Valar did not take into consideration man's overriding fear of death. The Valar like the elves could not understand man's fear so therefore couldn't forsee man's resentment of the elves. The Valar did not foresee man's jealousy of the elven immortality, because they looked on death as a gift.
[ February 13, 2002: Message edited by: Thingol ]
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Yet the lies that Melkor, the mighty and accursed, Morgoth Bauglir, the Power of Terror and of Hate, sowed in the hearts of Elves and Men are a seed that does not die and cannot be destroyed; and ever and anon it sprouts anew, and will bear dark fruit even unto the latest days.
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