Visit -> http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/default.htm - Encyclopedia of Arda
And -> http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/ - Ardalambion - Evlish Language Resource
Originally posted by Sifer
Visit -> http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/default.htm - Encyclopedia of ArdaAnd -> http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/ - Ardalambion - Evlish Language Resource
That won't stop us from asking questions and sites like those don't help very much so stop being sucha party pooper 😛
He's human, mortal, yes.
Númenóreans was just a name for the people coming from the island of Númenor 😄 so not really connected to the lifespan, though of course as they were the heirs of the Edain of the first age and given support by the Eldar they lived longer, especially their kings - descendants of Elves, Humans and Ainur (though only distantly).
He is a halfelven or what we would perhaps call a halfelven as some of his closer relatives are elves or at least halfelves - Aragorn has some elvish blood and Arwen also does, though she became mortal. So he will live longer then "normal" men, but most probably shorter than his father. I think you could also call aragorn a little bit halfelven (and boromir, too 😄 😄 ) though he (and all the other dunedain and numenoreans since elros) wasnt given the choice between mortal and immortal life, as Eldarion also wont be. He's mortal.
Elves do not in general have pointed ears. I dont know where this idea comes from... tolkien writes somewhere concerning the etymologies of the elvish words for "ear" and "leaf" that they are related as the elven ears were a bit more leaf-shaped than the mortal ones - though they didnt actually have to be pointed.
It's also not true for tolkiens elves that they dont wear beards 😉 and they were not supposed to be blond... well...
Originally posted by Kitoky
That won't stop us from asking questions and sites like those don't help very much so stop being sucha party pooper 😛
I didn't say, or imply that. I would rather everyone have access to equal amounts of information, hence the reason I posted it. Also, these 2 sites in particular DO teach you alot. Want to learn how to speak like an Orc? Take a look at the 2nd link, or possibly Quenya? Sindarin? Khuzdul? And many more. Read correctly, before you post seemingly witty replies with incorrect assumptions.
It's sad that nobody here ever seems to visit the ardalambion sites. There are about five links to it in each elvish thread and yet obviously nobody reads anything there though they are the best source for information about Tolkien's languages and would answer perhaps 90% of the questions about "elvish".
Originally posted by Sifer
Read correctly, before you post seemingly witty replies with incorrect assumptions.
Originally posted by Kitoky
I can't let this thread die....besides, there are loads of questions that Exa can answer like the thread Discos started or someone...
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The elves wanted to learn and were impressed by Sauron's skills and knowledge about making things of craft, so he taught them for long years, and well if you admire somebody you often do stupid things that for just a moment look like having a reason... so, why not also making rings? I dont know about any special reason... perhaps they saw rings of power as a perfect challenge... or sauron just told his pupils "well today we will start a new chapter... creating veeeery powerful ringies that might perhaps one day bring great evil."
They are related - Shelob is the last daughter of Ungoliant.
There are different versions of Ungoliant, but it seems quite sure that she died before the third age. It is said that "she devoured herself" in her hunger in the South of the World, while Tolkien wrote in a manuscript for a poem about Earendil that he killed Ungoliant on one of his journeys to the South.
You find everything on elvish.org:
FoTR:
http://elvish.org/gwaith/movie_soundtrack_fotr.htm