ok but can we talk about how the Noldor hunted Dwarves when they came to Arda, because they just didn’t realize they were sentient??? like… how did that happen? how did that go down and what happened once they saw their mistake? cause it sure was mentioned casually in my copy of the Silm??
I know that the petty dwarves supposedly looked different/were slightly genetically different from the dwarves they had deals with? Still sentient tho
Makes it even darker because they kinda hunted them to near/outright extinction, if I remember correctly. Like, here are slightly smaller stranger looking dwarves, let’s slaughter all of them for fun
Like holy shitballs dude it doesn’t matter how many dwarves kill how many kings for how many necklaces, it’ll never top the genocidal elves who committed mass murder because they were bored
And based on what Eol said, the Noldor also didn’t treat the Moriquendi well either. I don’t think Eol had any reasons to lie there, so ayyyyy. Humans were the only one not bothered as a group, where they
I was under the impression the elves (for some reason my brain is saying Sindar, pre-Noldor arrival, but it has been a very long day and I may not know what I am talking about) hunted the petty-dwarves for bushmeat.
BUSHMEAT.
And yet somehow the orcs are the morally abhorrent cannibals of Arda. Tolkien, wtf??
(I think I read this somewhere in HoME, but that doesn’t particularly narrow it down any. Maybe Book of Lost Tales…??)Yeah it was the Sindar who hunted the petty dwarves before the Noldor even managed to show up with their own brand of being awful. [Rummages]
The Eldar did not at first recognize these as Incarnates, for they seldom caught sight of them in clear light. They only became aware of their existence indeed when they attacked the Eldar by stealth at night, or if they caught them alone in wild places. The Eldar therefore thought that they were a kind of cunning two-legged animals living in caves, and they called them Levain tad-dail, or simply Tad-dail, and they hunted them.
From V12 Histories of Middle Earth. Then the Sindar met the dwarves of Ered Lurin who explained the Petty Dwarves weren’t animals and the hunting stopped. Askmiddlearth did a post on it: http://askmiddlearth.tumblr.com/post/67465996730/elves-and-dwarves-early-contact
Never forget the Petty Dwarves as an indicator of relative xenophobia and willingness to kill anything that looks sufficiently “other” in the sentient races of Middle Earth.
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