Posted: August 15, 1999 at 15:12:23: by Michael Martinez
: My questions are: (a)are the "Laws and Customs" refering to sun
: years or tree years?Years of the Sun. : (b) can the essay be counted as relaible information?- ie,
: being cited as "Aelfwine's Preamble" makes me think that it was
: an older work of Tolkien "Laws and Customs" dates from the mid-1950s. It is reliable to a certain extent, but one cannot expect complete consistency between this work and other sources. : (c) is the essay refering to common elves, and the
: marriage ages just tended to vary between the commoners and the
: royalty? The essay is making generalizations, to which there are always exceptions.
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Parma Endorion: Essays on Middle-earth, Revised Edition
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