February 10, 2004
"What Tolkien Officially Said About Elf Sex"
My friend Anton Sherwood posted a link to this cute little quasischolarly piece, "What Tolkien Officially Said About Elf Sex"; an excerpt:
Happy Begetting-Day To You!
Elves do not remember and celebrate the day that they were born as the day they came into existence. Instead, they celebrate the day their parents begat them. That's the day their parents had the sex that conceived them... apparently, there was some parental will involved in the act of begetting. Either that, or they were having so little sex that it was easy to remember. "Pregnant? How did that happen? Oh, that Thursday three turns of the seasons ago. Oh yeah…" This seems like a good moment to mention that Tolkien was Catholic, so this was compatible with his religion and belief system.Posted by Russell Whitaker at February 10, 2004 09:03 PM | TrackBack
Comments
Oh? Thats how often Catholics do it?
Posted by: Wayne Bienek on November 10, 2004 05:45 AMUhuh...and where did Tolkien say that?
Posted by: Adel on May 18, 2005 12:28 PMAdel,
You seem to be incapable of two things:
1.) Traversing links to check references yourself;
2.) Humor.
dude you are wrong i have done a ton of research on tolkien and he has never said that. i have also written many papers on tolkien and this is the first time i have ever even heard of tolkien saying something like this.
Posted by: nick on November 22, 2005 07:42 AMPost a comment
