Elfin Anatomy - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Lush · 12-27-2001, 02:10 PM

As one of my dear friends once said, "It's either killer birth-control, or serious abstinence!" I would certainly hope it wasn't the latter! :P
I used to think Tolkien's works to be totally sexless, but after reading into a few key passages, I think that's not entirely true. I think the reasons why the elves didn't have many kids was because they probably didn't need to, with the loooong lives they led. A couple of kids would last an eternity, there wasn't that big of a need to safeguard the race in that way, like it is with humans, for example.

12-27-2001, 02:10 PM	#17
Lush Fair and Cold Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the big onion Posts: 1,770	As one of my dear friends once said, "It's either killer birth-control, or serious abstinence!" I would certainly hope it wasn't the latter! :P I used to think Tolkien's works to be totally sexless, but after reading into a few key passages, I think that's not entirely true. I think the reasons why the elves didn't have many kids was because they probably didn't need to, with the loooong lives they led. A couple of kids would last an eternity, there wasn't that big of a need to safeguard the race in that way, like it is with humans, for example. __________________ ~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~