Silmarillion humour?

[Sharkû]

Mandos has some serious black humor:

"and if I must break them, I shall break my heart, and I shall be slain; first of all the Eldar in Aman." [-Fëanor]
"Not the first," said Mandos, but they did not understand his word.

And who couldn't smile at that?

Then Manwë and Yavanna parted for that time, and Yavanna returned to Aulë; and he was in his smithy, pouring molten metal into a mould. 'Eru is bountiful,' she said. 'Now let thy children beware! For there shall walk a power in the forests whose wrath they will arouse at their peril.'
'Nonetheless they will have need of wood,' said Aulë, and he went on with his smith-work.

Scenes of a marriage (: