Re: What constitutes an elf?

> > What is it that constitutes and elf? According to the Silmarillion, Aule created a race of "elves" that he thought could stand up to the power of Melkor, and so they were not elves, but the image of stronger elves in his mind.

> I really have no intention of answering the question (little too much thinking for 1 AM), but I am curious where in The Silmarillion Aulë created a race of "elves". As far as I know, all he tried to create as far as races were dwarves, and even then he didn't have the power to actually breathe life into them--it took Eru Iluvatar to breathe life into the Naugrim (dwarves).

> LP

I didn't mean that, I meant that he tried to make elves and failed because he didn't have a clear image in his head of what the elves looked like, plus he made them really strong, so in a sense he was trying to make his own elves and instead made dwarves.

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> > > What is it that constitutes and elf? According to the Silmarillion, Aule created a race of "elves" that he thought could stand up to the power of Melkor, and so they were not elves, but the image of stronger elves in his mind. > > I really have no intention of answering the question (little too much thinking for 1 AM), but I am curious where in <i>The Silmarillion</i> Aulë created a race of "elves". As far as I know, all he tried to create as far as races were dwarves, and even then he didn't have the power to actually breathe life into them--it took Eru Iluvatar to breathe life into the <i>Naugrim</i> (dwarves). > > LP > I didn't mean that, I meant that he tried to make elves and failed because he didn't have a clear image in his head of what the elves looked like, plus he made them really strong, so in a sense he was trying to make his own elves and instead made dwarves.
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