On elf children - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

A Little Green · 10-20-2007, 03:11 PM

Now I have no idea whether this topic has been discussed before, nor do I know whether this is the right place for this.

Anyway, I came up with this question:

If elves indeed live eternally if not slain in battle, do their children grow as fast as human kids or slower or what?

It would sound silly to me that they would be adults in some twenty years and then live as adults for thousands of years... But also the thought of two hundred years old children sounds silly.

Has Tolkien written something on this topic in HoME or Letters (I have read neither) ?

10-20-2007, 03:11 PM	#1
A Little Green Leaf-clad Lady Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1,571	On elf children Now I have no idea whether this topic has been discussed before, nor do I know whether this is the right place for this. Anyway, I came up with this question: If elves indeed live eternally if not slain in battle, do their children grow as fast as human kids or slower or what? It would sound silly to me that they would be adults in some twenty years and then live as adults for thousands of years... But also the thought of two hundred years old children sounds silly. Has Tolkien written something on this topic in HoME or Letters (I have read neither) ? __________________ "But some stories, small, simple ones about setting out on adventures or people doing wonders, tales of miracles and monsters, have outlasted all the people who told them, and some of them have outlasted the lands in which they were created."