Why are the elves leaving?
I have been reading a lot about the history of this story on different websites. I have not read any of the books yet, but I plan to. I just wanted to add my two cents here. I have seen the extended version of The Two Towers. There were many scenes that moved me. But, this one really got me. The scene where Treebeard is singing to Merry and Pippin while walking through the woods. This is the song he sung to them:
Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves
And the dreams of trees unfold
When the woodland halls are green and cool
And the wind is in the west
Come back to me! (inhales as taking first breath)
Come back to me!
And say my land is best
The words, scenery, music, and the thought that the elves were the ones who woke up the trees but are now leaving, was almost too much to let myself feel.
i was kinda dissappointed that there weren't any more elf armies that came to help the humans. I wouldn't think the group they brought to helm's deep was all they had, and what happened to the remaining elves from that fight? or did they all die? screw leaving rivendale, they should just have a backyard boogie in the shire.
😕 ok, it took me a long time to read this stuff, so bear with me if i forget something that soneone has already said.
This is totally off topic, but I have been searching the web with no luck and there seems to be quite a few experts here. Could someone give me some basic facts about the ways of the elves. Not a history lesson, just what they do. 😮
Originally posted by Verity
It is the harbour where they take off to the Grey Havens. The elves leave because their age is over. The age of men starts with the end of wizards and elves....🙁
No 'tis not the harbour, The Grey Havens is the harbour, Valinor is on another island where the Elves originally came from and it is time where the Elves leave the dying land (Middle-Earth) to go back to Valinor, the Undying Lands. Get my drift?
I always thought it was the other way round dear...Since the word "haven" implies protection, place of rest?....Comes from "Heaven"? But then again maybe that's just me! When Aragorn says "take the Valinor", doesn't that sound like taking some sort of means for traveling? I'd like someone else to prove me wrong on that!
Originally posted by SeXyChIcK989
wow thanks Verity and Kitoky! but i tot that when you are in Valinor u cant go back? so how did u the elfs come back? i also have another question...if legolas is an elf...what is arwen?
Actually Valinor is the original place where the first elves came from. So all the Elves in Middle-Earth go to Valinor because their time in Middle-Earth is over. And Legolas is an Elf, Arwen is also an Elf.