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Way back in like February, we left off saying that we finally get to talk about Elves and Men, which are the children of Eru also, kinda like in different earthly religions when the god or god is like "all you humans are my kids and I love you the same".
Eru basically does this. Except he doesn't. Sort of.
Basically, he starts off by saying "I love all my 'kids' equally" and then two sentences later, he says (and I quote), "...the Quendi shall be the fairest of all earthly creatures, and they shall have and shall conceive and bring forth more beauty than all my Children..."
He goes on to say that he gave men "strange gifts".
ooookay then.
Elves (which is what Tolkien meant by "Quendi") are the most beautiful and wonderous of anything on earth that exists, but it's ok guys he gave men "strange gifts" so they're equal, a'ight?
Sounds like we have a little Manwë-reminiscent favoritism going on here.
After that, Tolkien says that the Valar really only liked the Elves anyway because they had nothing in common with men, and so they chilled with said Elves and...basically contradicted the whole "everyone is equal" thing.
Apparently, I'm not the only one who thinks this because the elves themselves think that the Valar dislike men because men are the most similar to Melkor (which is apparently a bad thing), but Tolkien just says that the elves are wrong on that front, and that Manwë (ugh) has never hated anyone or anything.
Lovely.
I imagine a modern parallel.
"Mom, Dad? Do you like my sister more than me?"
"No dear, of course not. We just relate to her more. You're more like weird uncle Bob."
"...Weird Uncle Bob who's on the FBI watchlist?"
And that is the end of that.
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