#157- Tolkien's The Silmarillion Part 1
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The Gift of Men
There are rational creatures in this world. There's elves, there's dwarves. What literary function do they serve? It's not clear to me. They have a perspective that if you write men with their three score in 10 years, they let you tell a story in a different way than you could if only you wrote men. So for humans, it's really interesting. If you read this and think about mortality, the humans can die. The elves can't and the humans don't get it that it's actually a good thing. Their home isn't here because this is Arda,. You know, because it's all true history. For the elves, it's here. And so
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