Indeed they certainly do
Around these parts we make sure we don't offend them when laying roads in their lands. The very least we can do.
Very interesting sexual morality in Tolkien's books
Justin Myers
Ryder Mitchell
Carter James
I'm more ponderous about Heinlein's fat business around sexual liberation. I'm not sure if he was urging it or simply prophetic. I think he may have just been a weirdo but his work is all over the place.
Aaron Foster
I mean, I think its fair to say that dark elves are probably just dwarves. But light elves are described as being so beautiful they have to be akin to angels in Christianity.
Also looga dis
Justin Collins
It's not even about bad news, or Hortler, it's about comparing fucking fictional books from almost a hundred years ago to today's culture.
Fictional, not even historical ffs.
Lincoln Anderson
Yes obviously the early christians had to season their bland religion by pretending the elves are some sort of winged beasts living up in the clouds. Same with their holidays.
Jason Johnson
That is telling half the story. He didn't know, untill he killed himself, when she revealed it. He was a cursed, tragic hero.
So you can have multiple wives, if you remarry if one dies?
Also don't Elves have the ability to just live again, if they want it (but rarely actually do)?
I read that somewhere randomely and haven't been able to confirm it.
But whatever. Tolkien probably didn't think to deeply about how you would meet both of your dead wives in the afterlife. Even if he did, he is careful about making it this information getting out in a plausible way. He even says often how these stories probably didn't quite happen as they are told.
Now we Dark Elves are ugly too. Why don't you just buy into dwarven propaganda more and say that we are all dungeon-dwellers too and never see the sun?
William Powell
The idea was that elves might stay in the halls of Mandos for a long long time before coming back to Valinor, but I think Finwe's first wife died the hard way.
Charles Garcia
Regarding Heinlein and not to entirely derail, there is work such as this, what is highly aware of what it is.
Benjamin King
I think its also apparent that Tolkien knew who (((their))) true god is too.