What do the High Elves really think of Men?

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Originally Posted by CSteefel

Not that I want to defend Celeborn all that much, but at the time of the writing of the LOTR, I believe that Celeborn had been present at the sack of Doriath (later this seems to have changed, with Celeborn perhaps crossing over the mountains before the end of the First Age). As I believe Tolkien himself pointed out in the Unfinished Tales, the Dwarves that populated Khazad-dum had nothing to do with the sack of Doriath, but this could be the explanation for Celeborn's hostility (rightly or wrong, which evidently he had not completely forgotten by the end of the Third Age).

Point taken. However, Celeborn was not an isolated case, nor was the sack of Doriath the only cause of Elvish-Dwarven hostility. Eol was considered strange for his love of Dwarves. Most of the Sons of Feanor, if not all, disliked the Dwarves, considering them "unlovely". The Dwarves never liked the Eldar for that reason - they thought them arrogant and rightly believed that the Eldar treated them contemptuously.