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Then, of course, Elves cease to grow altogether. They come of age at fifty but often aren’t fully grown until 100 - so fifty might be the human equivalent of 17 or 18, when adolescents come of age in most societies, while 100 is the equivalent of 25, when the human brain actually finishes maturing. They look seven when Men are reaching adulthood. In other words, Elves grow almost as quickly as Men until their third birthday and then slow dramatically. Not until the fiftieth year did the Eldar attain the stature and shape in which their lives would after- wards endure, and for some a hundred years would pass before they were full-grown.

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Children of Men might reach their full height while Eldar of the same age were still in body like to mortals of no more than seven years.

The only information we have on Elven childhood and maturation comes from Laws and Customs of the Eldar (Histories of Middle-earth Volume X).įor at the end of the third year mortal children began to outstrip the Elves, hastening on to a full stature while the Elves lingered in the first spring of childhood. I’ve heard his Tolkien works are riddled with other fallacies and inaccuracies, but since I’ve not looked into them myself I’ll refrain from commenting on them.įor now, I feel that it’s necessary now to fully dissect and debunk David Day’s Lung Map of Arda once and for all, while providing accurate maps of Middle-earth. However, newer maps of Tolkien’s world and better atlases analyzing his maps have been published for decades now, and yet David Day persists in pushing this now obsolete map of Arda in his Tolkien-related publications even as recent as 2015. If this were something drawn up back in the late 1970′s before Tolkien’s full world maps were released to the public, there’d be no harm done. The fact that lands such as Beleriand, Numenor, Utumno, and the Two Lamps are shown existing at the same time isn’t the problem since this is a composite map. This map, nicknamed the “Lung Map”, has plagued Tolkien fans and scholars for many years. The absolutely gorgeous cover design drew me in immediately, but I knew something was horribly off from the second I looked to the interior cover map, shown above in color. So the other day, I decided to take a trip to the bookstore when I noticed a newly published little book titled Tolkien: An Illustrated Atlas by David Day. Beyond-the-dork: TOLKIEN PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT