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  Posted by Cuiviar on August 17, 1999 at 09:38:26
In Reply to: Re: Age and Marriage among the Eldar posted by pkirith on August 17, 1999 at 08:56:46:



: Doubtless this has occured to some-- what about the barren-ness or relative infertility of the Elven race? After all, living thousands of years, most Elves only have one or two offspring. So what's up with birth control? : Naturally these questions have not been deeply explored by JRRT. : Nevertheless, let me hazard one extrapolation for the board: Elven sex was a rare event, occuring no more frequently than pregnancy among the Second-born. : Perhaps one of the consequences made by Elves who became mortal would be to become sexually active as the Second-born...

Maybe. There was obviously no pre-marital sex, since 'bodily union' was the true bond of marriage. And Tolkien states that it was common for married elves to live in separate places at times. This probably gives us a bit to think about in terms of Feanor, however, with his 7 children (although I beleive Amrod and Amras were twins); his "spirit of fire" seems to have extended into his sex drive as well as other things. To back-up your statement another way, an elf would have a greater control of his hroa/body than would a man; an elf would be ruled mainly by his fea/spirit, that is to say, by his true nature, and not by bodily desires. In this case, I would extrapolate that there were not any fat elves either, since excesses in behavior of all forms tends to derive from the immediate wants of the body, not of the spirit.

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