Elrond or Elros? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Galadriel55 · 01-19-2011, 06:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Rune Son of Bjarne

Do we get this choice in Middle-Earth or in our world?

Well, since I still haven't met any halfelven in our world, I suppose the choice belongs in ME.

Rune Son of Bjarne · 01-19-2011, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Galadriel55

Well, since I still haven't met any halfelven in our world, I suppose the choice belongs in ME.

It does make the question a bit more difficult, because In ME we know that Eru exists, so there would actually be a fate after death.

Yet, if you can grow weary of ME, surely you can also grow weary of what comes after? I have never seen Eru's gift as being superior to the fate of the elves, merely different.

However I have always been way more attracted to the splendour of the elves, then the flaws of humans, so I would still chose to join the Elven race. Though both offers are attractive.

Galadriel55 · 01-20-2011, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Rune Son of Bjarne

Yet, if you can grow weary of ME, surely you can also grow weary of what comes after? I have never seen Eru's gift as being superior to the fate of the elves, merely different.

Good point! That sure turns the question, doesn't it?

Bom Tombadillo · 02-04-2011, 10:58 AM

L. Ron, certainly. I always wanted to be a writer.

On more serious terms, I would be an elf. I don't have enough friends to worry about them dying before I do (I'd probably lose contact with them before then anyway), and I think that the ability to leave ME when I got tired of it, rather than running the risk of dying before that happened, or of wearying of the world and being unable to voluntarily leave the circles of the world (save by suicide, which I don't think Eru, being after all the creation of a Catholic writer, would approve of).

Plus, if not eternity, then at least a very long time in which to hone my skills would just be awesome.

skip spence · 02-04-2011, 11:46 AM

I'd make the choice of Elrond without a second thought. Maybe I'd come to regret it after thousands of years (eventually even the Valar will envy the Gift of Eru) but that'd just be some other time in the far distant future. Now I want to be young and pretty.

Galadriel55 · 03-13-2011, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Rune Son of Bjarne

Yet, if you can grow weary of ME, surely you can also grow weary of what comes after? I have never seen Eru's gift as being superior to the fate of the elves, merely different.

You know, this really made me reconsider my decision.

If this was in our world, I'd choose man without a doubt. However, we're talking about ME (thanks Rune for bringing this point up!). Maybe I would choose to be an Elf...

Cirdan · 03-14-2011, 08:31 PM

I would choose the Elves, but only under certain conditions: I have an Elven Ring of Power (or the Elessar gem) in Middle-earth, or I live in Valinor. Those are the only counters to world-weariness.

02-04-2011, 11:46 AM	#5
skip spence shadow of a doubt Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Back on the streets Posts: 1,125	I'd make the choice of Elrond without a second thought. Maybe I'd come to regret it after thousands of years (eventually even the Valar will envy the Gift of Eru) but that'd just be some other time in the far distant future. Now I want to be young and pretty. __________________ "You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way" ~ Bob Dylan

02-04-2011, 10:58 AM	#4
Bom Tombadillo Wight Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Behind you . . . . BOO! Posts: 222	L. Ron, certainly. I always wanted to be a writer. On more serious terms, I would be an elf. I don't have enough friends to worry about them dying before I do (I'd probably lose contact with them before then anyway), and I think that the ability to leave ME when I got tired of it, rather than running the risk of dying before that happened, or of wearying of the world and being unable to voluntarily leave the circles of the world (save by suicide, which I don't think Eru, being after all the creation of a Catholic writer, would approve of). Plus, if not eternity, then at least a very long time in which to hone my skills would just be awesome.

03-14-2011, 08:31 PM	#7
Cirdan Animated Skeleton Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: In the Tower of Elostirion with my new Palantir Posts: 33	I would choose the Elves, but only under certain conditions: I have an Elven Ring of Power (or the Elessar gem) in Middle-earth, or I live in Valinor. Those are the only counters to world-weariness.