Vampires, Werewolves, Cats, Ents and other creatures

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

This is one big contradition: if you want magic to survive, you have to stop research and scientific and technological development, but you want to use these very means to regenerate the magical creatures.

Unfortunately for the "magical" ones in Middle-earth, the inevitable march in that mythical time was clearly away from "magic" and toward the rational. Hence, the beginning of the Dominion of Men, and the decline of Elves, Dwarves, and Ents.

You can call that sad, in that all kinds could not permanently co-exist indefinitely, but it also seems apparent that such was the design of Arda's creator from the Third Theme.