@thehubble101 A remarkable—and well-researched—essay. Thanks for sharing it freely.Pushing Tolkien's elves fully into fae is bold but you certainly laid it all out convincingly.And any mention of "Beren and Lúthien" always gets me right in the feels. That scene where he holds up his stump to present the stone gives me chills. And the suffering of Carcharoth was duly earned and yet still unbearably tragic.I was surprised to read in your essay about a Christopher Tolkien "diminishing" Galadriel but also not really that surprised.Finally, interesting to compare Galadriel with Tom Bombadil and to show she was originally presented similarly more above and apart the concerns of man, no matter how high the stakes may have seemed to us.In the end, I find myself agreeing with your conclusion.
