Elvish Knowledge of Reembodiment

(First off, for those who don’t know about this yet, here is the post explaining the elvish afterlife and the concept of reembodiment.) The answer to this question depends on which elves you’re talking about. In a discussion of the elvish afterlife, Tolkien wrote: What then happened to the houseless fea? The answer to this…

A (Super Brief) Outline of Elvish Linguistic History

So, actually, Sindarin didn’t come from Quenya at all – the two languages share a common root in Common Eldarin, but each come from a separate branch of the languages that developed from that language. Probably the best example of the differences between the elvish languages (or, at least, the most-developed of these languages), is…

What is the translation of Eol’s name? It doesn’t say in any of the books, from what I’ve seen, while it does have the translation of everyone else’s name, like Finrod’s, Feanor’s, and Legolas’s.

Tolkien never had a meaning for Eol’s name. In fact, he wrote in one note that: Another name from primitive FG – meaningless then and now. But it was not intended to have any meaning in Quenya or Sindarin. For Eol was said to be a ‘Dark Elf’, a term then applied to any Elves…

What makes you say the Avari looked like the Noldor/Teleri elves? I haven’t heard that theory before :) Love the blog!

I kind of talk about that in this post, but it’s not really a theory – the Avari are made up of Noldorin and Telerin elves (or, rather, pre-Noldorin and Telerin elves), and therefore their appearance would be a mixture of the two. In The Silmarillion Tolkien says: Then befell the first sundering of the…