Q/A: Hey! Love your blog. So I read the elf fertility thing you posted, and I love your theories. I have a question I am curious to see your answer on, do elves feel physical attraction? Since they don't really have sex drives and don't really need to worry about evolutionary fitness, would they have sexual attractions?
Ooooh excellent question! I love all of what y'all are asking me! 💖
I believe that elves absolutely feel physical attraction as well as sexual attraction!
A good example of the physical AND sexual attraction is Luthien was extremely beautiful and Daeron was in love with her. Celegorm was even so incredibly taken by Luthien he wanted her hand in marriage for himself and as a power play over Thingol. (Hint hint on what makes the marriage thing happen again.)
Yet she was in love with neither and her heart belonged to Beren.
So they aren't oblivious and blind to any elf that they'd feel was beautiful or handsome. Elves pride themselves on their beauty and being beautiful! The longer your hair with an added bonus of a stunning voice and you are more attractive than an elf with a more average voice.
I PERSONALLY don't think elves necessarily begin to feel sexual attraction for other elves until they believe they've found their one or have fallen in love. Which as Tolkien has gone to show that even elves who think are their ones and fall in love and it might not turn out to be their one.
They'd also have to feel some kind of sexual attraction for one another when they marry for them to have sex. Tolkien does indeed note that they take great pleasure and joy in it. It's just as they reproduce they lose interest in sex.
As opposed to sex being a purely lustful thing like it can be for humans, it's just something that's incredibly special and coveted instead.
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