Elfin Anatomy - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Eve · 12-26-2001, 12:11 PM

My lack of knowledge of Tolkien is showing through here, but why wouldn't elves have belly buttons? Do they have a completely different way of reproducing, or something? I'm still curious about how two elves can be married for millennia and stlil only produce a couple of kids.

as for the pointy ears thing, it always sounds so trivial, the kind of way people imagine elves when they're busy looking down their noses at this genre. and who wants to see Legolas as looking like Dr Spock?

does anyone, preferably with a better knowledge of biology than me, care to speculate on the evolutionary process that landed hobbits with hairy feet? thinking about it, aren't the palms and soles about the only bits on the body hat never have hair?

12-26-2001, 12:11 PM	#1
Eve Pile O'Bones Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 13	My lack of knowledge of Tolkien is showing through here, but why wouldn't elves have belly buttons? Do they have a completely different way of reproducing, or something? I'm still curious about how two elves can be married for millennia and stlil only produce a couple of kids. as for the pointy ears thing, it always sounds so trivial, the kind of way people imagine elves when they're busy looking down their noses at this genre. and who wants to see Legolas as looking like Dr Spock? does anyone, preferably with a better knowledge of biology than me, care to speculate on the evolutionary process that landed hobbits with hairy feet? thinking about it, aren't the palms and soles about the only bits on the body hat never have hair?