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Post by Jack Sparrow on Dec 4, 2003 17:50:27 GMT
Do elves actualy sleep? I think I remember Tolken saying some where that they just "walk the paths of dreams" But when I went to look it up I couldn't find it... Anyone?
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Post by MirkwoodArcher on Dec 4, 2003 18:35:05 GMT
Most of the time they rest with their eyes open combining their dreams with the things they see. Once or twice, Legolas is sleeping while walking along. However, there's at least one time when Legolas sleeps as a human would. So it seems they can sleep that way, and sometimes do, but more often their sleep is a kind of meditation.
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Post by Jack Sparrow on Dec 4, 2003 18:41:13 GMT
So did I just make that part about "walking the paths of dreams" up?
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Post by MirkwoodArcher on Dec 4, 2003 18:42:27 GMT
No that's how Tolkien described their meditation
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Post by Jack Sparrow on Dec 4, 2003 19:12:36 GMT
Cool I have just invented something! No one use it its my genius!!! Mine! Myhahahaha! But really I wonder where I got that... Jack
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Post by MirkwoodArcher on Dec 4, 2003 20:14:10 GMT
It's definitely in Tolkien, or something very close is. I haven't found the exact quote, but Iknow he said something of the kind.
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Post by Jack Sparrow on Dec 4, 2003 23:04:11 GMT
Darn! I thought I had come up with something profoundly original. I think I remember it during the chase of Logolas, Arogorn, and Gimli after the orcs... Jack
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Post by Elessar on Dec 5, 2003 4:26:09 GMT
I did a yahoo search, and found these quotes: "Legolas already lay motionless, his fair hands folded upon his breast, his eyes unclosed, blending living night and deep dream, as is the way of elves...Gimli was still deep in slumber, but Legolas was standing, gazing northwards into the darkness, thoughtful and silent as a young tree in a windless night." "Only Legolas still stepped as lightly as ever, his feet hardly seeming to press the grass, leaving no footprints as he passed; but in the waybread of the Elves he found all the sustenance that he needed, and he could sleep, if sleep it could be called by Men, resting his mind in the strange paths of elvish dreams, even as he walked open-eyed in the light of this world." But I'm not sure right now where my copy of LOTR is, so I can't verify them.
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Post by Jack Sparrow on Dec 5, 2003 19:09:38 GMT
Yes that sounds right... *sniffs* I kind of wish I had made it up tho... O well
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Post by Galadeth Greenleaf on Dec 24, 2003 19:24:01 GMT
Mirkwood Archer is right!
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Post by River Daughter on Dec 25, 2003 13:48:56 GMT
Lol is she ever wrong!
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Post by Arwen Evenstar on Dec 25, 2003 20:50:57 GMT
I don't think she is!
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Post by Jack Sparrow on Dec 26, 2003 2:29:23 GMT
Don't I know
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Post by Tishamet on Mar 30, 2004 3:49:40 GMT
I know what you mean, Jack! I wish I had made up LOTR!!!!!!!! Tolkien describes that beautifully, though.
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