*While I am a subscriber to the Apollonian ideal of the Ancient Greeks, the elves of Middle Earth are another society altogether, and I daresay a more conservative one than we often depict in our fics*
Everything in its place, yes. Though if we could import a few ideas from Periclean Athens to Middle-earth, I'd be all in favour of male elves exercising naked or as close to it as might be practical :)
I treat a lot of the staidness in Tolkien's writings as purely a reflection of his time and his personal belief system, but sadly I think you're right - outside of fanfiction, the elves were probably a very conservative, tradition-bound (rather boring) bunch *grins*.
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conservative one than we often depict in our fics*
Everything in its place, yes. Though if we could import a few ideas from Periclean Athens to Middle-earth, I'd be all in favour of male elves exercising naked or as close to it as might be practical :)
I treat a lot of the staidness in Tolkien's writings as purely a reflection of his time and his personal belief system, but sadly I think you're right - outside of fanfiction, the elves were probably a very conservative, tradition-bound (rather boring) bunch *grins*.
~Kei