Elven Children

[Raynor]

Originally Posted by Galin

'On earth while an Elf-child did but grow to be a man or a woman, in some 3000 years, forests would rise and fall, and all the face of the land would change...' Aman, Myths Transformed

Perhaps the correct meaning of the phrase is that it compares the rate of growth of things in Middle Earth and the growth of Eldar in Aman. Anyway, if we are to compare Myths Transformed and Tolkien's other writings, we should have in mind that at least part of the MT texts constitue what Chris called "a fearful weapon against [Tolkien's] own creation".