how old can elves live...sorry im a newbie.

lol

elves can't die, they live forever, they can only get slayed in battle or die from a broken heart (orlando said so)

But as said, TOLKIEN did put a theoretical age limit on them, Aniron. He should know.

yeah i think they also died if they just lost the will to live anymore.. i think i saw that somewhere.. don't quote me on that haha

welcome! Elves are imortal they can only die if they are slain in battle or die of grief. if you read the hobbit there are a lot of dwarves and in the first lotr movie there were more dwarves in the concil of elrond. you alse see dead dwarves in moria but i dont think that counts...heh heh. 😑

thats what I said (and I quoted on it too) 😛

p.s I want to be an elf

But after some hundred years they got tired of the earth (if they lived in Middle-earth) and went away by ship to Aman where they lived on forever.

Some that were slain came back, like Glorfindel who died in Gondolin but Mandos let him go back because he sacrificed himself ...

But unlike mankind they were bound to the circles of the earth and when Fionwe destroys it in order to kill Melcor all that is left of the elves (not so much...) is also killed while the spirits of men survive and are involved in the second music of the Ainur

So for Arda elves are immortal but for eternity men are

All elves return to life after dying. But they have to wait a long time before they can.

They are asked if they want to; and only few really wanted to come back to middle-earth.

Until they can, they have to wait in Mandos' Halls, usually for several hundred years.

does anyone know what lies beyond the grey havens? where do they go and how come no one can enter and not come back unless on an urgent matter?

They set off from the Grey Havens to find the Straight Path (dunno what its called in english...) which is the only bridge to Aman, the land of Gods, which has been removed from the circles of the earth;

Thats also where the dead elves come, but they have to go to mandos' halls first.

yes i know that but they dont "die" do they? i mean no one kills them they just stay there till the end of their days???? thaat kinda sucks

Wheres "here"?

thats why they usually grow weary and want to die 😛
im always wonderin what the hell the elves in aman are doin the whole day... i mean, no enemys, as much food as they want, and they cant be making jewels and poems all day...

i know!! id b kind of boring wouldnt it? id much rather stay on middle earth...true theres a war there but i mean id rather live it out then be bored until i die : /

"Better to burn out than to fade away" (kurt cobain)

emp... but the elves got tired of seein all the death in middleearth so they moved to aman lol must be funny if you meet all your dead relatives there...

i knoe...on the other hand it would b nice to c them again yea? mebbe that s why elves arent so cry weep bawl when their relatives die

lol interesting idea 😛

must be irritating if every third elf there is somehow related to you or so...

never want to live in aman

lol i know...neither do i...hahah id much rahter b in the middle of all the action!! lol...plus like, you still have sooooooo many friends there....i mean you could go to the havens anytime right? but your mortal friends arent there forever

yea i know *thinkin of amroth and nimrodel*

perhaps thats why elfz seldomly have mortal friedns...