Originally posted by sweet_angel1
And it most certainly did not happen.Then who comes there aint no elves around the place. They are immortal. Yeah, they went to the never dieing lands but where exactly is that place.
By the way. Isildur found the ring duing the second age.
Of course logic tells us that it did not happen... but it feels like it happened.
At least for me, the creation of Ea, the First Age, Númenor etc feel a LOT more real than the Babylonians, the Stone Age or Ancient Egypt.
As for the elves, there are endless explanations for it. True, most of them moved to the Undying Lands; those Undying Lands were in the beginning of the world in the West, far beyond the Great Ocean Belegaer, but after the Downfall of Númenor the "course of the world" was changed and the U.L.s were removed from the Circles of the World - they can now only be reached via the "straight way" which can only be found by the elves.
In the later world, instead of the Undying Lands, the "New Lands" can be found beyond the Sea.
Most of the elves lived on the Lonely Island in the later ages; the lonely island was moved to the coast of "normal middle-earth" and given the name "Luthien" - = England.
This "England" was the last residence of the elves in the Mortal Lands, but as the Mortals mercilessly ruined the english Nature, burnt down the woods, needlessly hunted down the animals etc, the Earth kinda - died, and as the fate of the elves is bound to the Earth, they, too, began to fade away, growing smaller and "thinner", became invisible for Mankind and are now only to be seen as a "movement in the grass" and "whisper in the trees".
"Found" is kinda the wrong word 😛 but yes, that was in the last year of the Second Age. He lost it again three years later, already in the Third Age.