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11-19-2013, 08:51 PM
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Pile O'Bones
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Canberra, Australia
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Yes you can call in "pro nature" if you like but it's still artificial. Natural processes that would otherwise have taken place a disrupted by the Elves for their own philosophical purposes.
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11-20-2013, 05:13 AM
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Stormdancer of Doom
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars
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Would you rejoice when your tomato plants got powdery mildew because it's "natural"? I don't see your logic. Diseased plants are a sorrow, and shielding the plants from the disease is hardly artificial. It's husbandry. Nor is cleansing Mirkwood an artificiality. I could understand your focus if you were arguing about the builders of Gondolin or other Noldorin cities, but the Lorien elves specifically dwelt in the trees in flets, or talans. It wouldn't surprise me if their art reflected the trees they lived in; their brooches were leaf-shaped, and the belt they gave Boromir.
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11-20-2013, 01:13 PM
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Loremaster of Annúminas
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Lorien was dominated by the Mallorn tree, which today's environmentalists would abhor as an "introduced alien species" which has completely altered the native ecosystem.......
 -------------- If Tolkien's Elves were actually Celtic elves, they'd be right bastards. Terry Pratchett's Lords and Ladies gets closer, as does Jonathan Strange.
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