Re: The Hobbit, after all these years

jgoldie247@btinternet.com said:
> He's Elrond the Half-Elven - his father was Human, his mother an Elf and
> he and his brother had the choice to be Human or Elven. His brother
> chose to be a mortal (Aragorn's ancestor), and Elrond chose to be Elven
> - but that choice was also available to his children. (choice not
> available to the children of the mortal side of the family)

That only came after The Hobbit, right? I think in The Hobbit he was only
listed as en Elf-Friend. It also kinda seemed like the elves lived on one
side of a bridge in a gladee and Elrond lived on the other in his house.

> Most of the elves we meet in the Hobbit are not 'High Elves' but Sylvan
> Elves - their ancestors hadn't travelled to the Undying Lands in the
> West, so they were more grounded in Middle-Earth.

Were those the Mirkwood elves or the Rivendell elves? Or both?

>> Given the treasure stored up in their cave, I'm not sure I'd include them in
>> the ranks of the working poor.
>
> burglers, robbers, muggers - the 'non-working class'.

In all fairness, we don't have any real proof the trolls were robbers.
They could have been fences, and only guilty of receiving stolen goods.

Cannibalistic fences, but still just fences.

Wayne