Welcome to the Lord of the Rings lorecast, the show that explores the background of Tolkien's amazing world from the very beginning. So I'm sure a number of you are wondering, when are we going to get to elves?

This is five episodes in.

We've been discussing the creation of the world, the valar, the spirits and powers underneath everything in the lore.

But isn't the Lord of the Rings all about stories about men and elves and dwarves and hobbits, all of these different races and middle earth.

What's with all these spirits and powers and gods and things like that?

Well, yes.

Well, we have to remember, right?

At the beginning of the story, there are vast time periods that go by that are all about the forming of the world and the things that

happen. This is the way Tolkien designed it. But I know, I know. The stories about the elves and

the men and the dwarves and all of those things, that's the meat of the story. That's where we

come in. That's where we join the adventures

that's the story of the hobbit the lord of the rings that's the stuff that we can relate to

while you're in luck today we are discussing the coming of the elves.

Everything that I've laid out so far was necessary to discuss the coming of the elves, because

the coming of the elves is such an important part of the story that it could not have been explained in a vacuum.

Everything needed to have been set up so far for the coming of the elves and the importance of the coming of the elves to be understood.

You have to have understood who the Lovetar was, who the Valar are, who Melkor is,

and the events that had transpired up into this point, the way the world was created, the locations of the continents, all of this, the way the light worked, all of these features have to be understood for us to even understand who the elves are and

why they are the way they are. It all makes sense. All of these pieces work together. It's the

way the mythology works. Let me back up a little bit because there's still a little bit more you need to understand.

Let's review some of the things that we discussed on the previous episode.

Remember the orbs, the orbs of light, the one in the north and the one in the south that Melkor so nicely destroyed and, of course, messed up the earth well those are gone and melchor of course

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