• synae[he/him]
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    To be fair (🎶), the palantíri were made by the elves, and only later used for evil after falling into the wrong hands.

    (hey, something to think about the next a government wants to place backdoors in encryption protocols)

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      I’m glad there are people like you to defend the benefit of the doubt. As it is, he’s criticized the eleves. He’s done all but come out and praise Sauron.

      Yeah, that’s a hard line in the sand for me, too. I wonder if they’ll tell us when they try to do that.

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      The elves are better humans, ubermenschen if you want. It makes even more sense.

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        Am I the only one who cannot manage to feel sympathetic towards elves in any fantasy? In LOTR even the Uruk-hai see more of my sympathy than, say, Legolas.

        I know though that I am not fantasy literature material. The only fantasy movie I like is Dragonslayer and I really never could finish a fantasy book.