Men……..Just like us?

[MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie]

Hmmmm.....I've always sort of wondered this myself. I think that maybe Tolkien did this to portray how the human race is not really fair and elegant. Or maybe it was to show how a race (humans) could survive for so long and while doing that, destroying things fiar and beautiful. It's just a thought of mine. I don't think that Tolkien intended for men to be exactly like us, but possibly he wanted to show some qualities of our race that disturbed him. What's so amazing though, is how much the human race has been put down by elves and how they've been blamed, yet they are the race (mainly) that continuously fought back the forces of Mordor and protected the free people of Middle-earth. And how men are the ones that prevail. And about the blaming on the humans, I just have to say that any elf (say, if it had been Elrond) would have refused to destroy the ring like Isildur did. Man, there I go again, rambling on.....sorry....