Are the elves in The Hobbit different than the ones in LotR? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Galadrie1 · 07-28-2002, 03:58 PM

When I went to see the movie, I hadn't read much of LotR (the hobbits hadn't even gotten to Rivendell yet). I'd read The Hobbit, though, and I pictured elves as short little sprites the skipped around singing all the time. I think this is because Tolkien didn't really describe the elves' appearence too much in The Hobbit... am I right? Or maybe he did describe them, but I was happy enough picturing them as slightly more advanced forms of "Santa's elves"....

07-28-2002, 03:58 PM	#4
Galadrie1 Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: The wrong place at the wrong time. Posts: 385	When I went to see the movie, I hadn't read much of LotR (the hobbits hadn't even gotten to Rivendell yet). I'd read The Hobbit, though, and I pictured elves as short little sprites the skipped around singing all the time. I think this is because Tolkien didn't really describe the elves' appearence too much in The Hobbit... am I right? Or maybe he did describe them, but I was happy enough picturing them as slightly more advanced forms of "Santa's elves".... __________________ "For this is what your folk would call magic, I believe; though I do not understand clearly what they mean; and they seem to use the same word of the deceits of the Enemy. But this, if you will, is the magic of Galadriel."