Celtic Elves? Jackson’s design and the Elves of the films

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Originally Posted by NogrodtheGreat

Yes you can call in "pro nature" if you like but it's still artificial. Natural processes that would otherwise have taken place a disrupted by the Elves for their own philosophical purposes.

Would you rejoice when your tomato plants got powdery mildew because it's "natural"? I don't see your logic. Diseased plants are a sorrow, and shielding the plants from the disease is hardly artificial. It's husbandry.

Nor is cleansing Mirkwood an artificiality.

I could understand your focus if you were arguing about the builders of Gondolin or other Noldorin cities, but the Lorien elves specifically dwelt in the trees in flets, or talans. It wouldn't surprise me if their art reflected the trees they lived in; their brooches were leaf-shaped, and the belt they gave Boromir.