On The Nature of The Children Of Illuvatar

[fictivore]

This is the product of too much thought on the unhappy nature of endings in the Silmarillion. Eru Illuvatar is a kindly and omniscient God, very demonstrably not the jealous and vengeful god of the Old Testament. Hence, it seems inconceivable that he would make the predominant instinct in the Eldar, the need to mate in soul for all eternity and

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[lindahoyland]

I enjoyed this.

[fictivore]

Thank you! :)

[dawn_felagund]

I've been meaning to get to this since you posted the link but have been mired in school and work and four "hens" that turned out to be roosters. (My life is weird, yes. :D) Anyway, my brain feels like a glob of hasty pudding at this point, so I can't promise much coherence, but I'll try. ;)

I agree with you that I have trouble swallowing that the fëar of Elves and Mortals would be eternally sundered. I think somewhere it says that one theory was that they would be reunited after the world ended after the Final Battle, but that not even the Valar know what will happen then; it is a secret only Eru knows. This has always been my own favored theory, just because I can't bear breaking up families for eternity, and I don't see how you could truly have Arda Healed unless those bonds were also restored, unless Eru erased the memories of those who had bonds to the "other" kind, which is a rather dark and creepy idea. (It might make a good story. Hmmm. Back, foul rabbit! :D

[fictivore]

Wow... That sounds... interesting?

Yeah, that had always bugged me. Andreth/Aegnor have been one of my favourite pairings since I found out about them, thanks to the Athrabeth. That piece raises so many questions, but I didn't really like/agree with many of Finrod's conclusions. Why would Eru make his Children so like each other (it's pretty clear that Tolkien Elves are really not that different from humans , at least the Edain, even in terms of strength etc) and genetically compatible and able to fall in love with each other, if that was wrong