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Morthoron · 10-08-2008, 08:41 AM

Perhaps Elves, being so attuned to nature, do not necessarily require making mountains out of dung hills...or crops for that matter. In their ability to 'speak' to flora and fauna (as realized in the awakening in Cuivienen which included teaching Ents to speak), maybe, like ancient fertility gods and godesses (and Yavanna to an even greater extent certainly resembles one of these), they sang for their supper (or rather the grain for making said meal).

P.S. As far as other provender, we know the elves hunted deer, and as everyone knows, deer hunts, at least in England, were more or less the sole province of royalty and punishable by death for poaching on crown land (hence, one of Thranduil's sources of irritation at the dwarves in Mirkwood)

10-08-2008, 08:41 AM	#22
Morthoron Curmudgeonly Wordwraith Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Ensconced in curmudgeonly pursuits Posts: 2,515	Perhaps Elves, being so attuned to nature, do not necessarily require making mountains out of dung hills...or crops for that matter. In their ability to 'speak' to flora and fauna (as realized in the awakening in Cuivienen which included teaching Ents to speak), maybe, like ancient fertility gods and godesses (and Yavanna to an even greater extent certainly resembles one of these), they sang for their supper (or rather the grain for making said meal). P.S. As far as other provender, we know the elves hunted deer, and as everyone knows, deer hunts, at least in England, were more or less the sole province of royalty and punishable by death for poaching on crown land (hence, one of Thranduil's sources of irritation at the dwarves in Mirkwood) __________________ And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision. Last edited by Morthoron; 10-08-2008 at 10:18 AM.