Very good points. Somwhow I detect you as a deep friend of Melian. She must have known a sorrow few could comprehend. One wonders, here deep in the Fourth Age, if the Elves begin to rethink their appraisal of Men. On the one hand, confirming their superiority, they must see us as having dwindled in stature. Yet, does their once-elevating immortality on Arda now ssem a jail sentence? They may have come to envy the Gift of Men, that on death they escape the circles of the Earth. ::::: Opera :::::