re: #377 Ziggy_TARDIS

I admit I prefer them to Tolkien.

Probably because of the assumed goodness of elitism in those books, the idea things were better in the past, and a massive, latent racism.

The past might have been better if you just considered LOTR since The War of the Ring was essentially the twilight of the elven civilizations on Middle Earth. If you have read more of the materials, especially the stories in the Silmarillion you can see that Middle Earth was messed up from Day 1 and that the elves managed to screw themselves over repeatedly due to being greedy, egotistical, and as “human” as the race that followed them.