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Author:  Aredhel Ar-Feiniel [ July 8th, 2007, 5:56 pm ]
Post subject:  Telain and mellyrn
I've noticed something in many RPs lately.. everyone seems to assume that every tree an Elf passes contains a talan.

I'm not sure if I'm making much sense here, but telain are pretty much a Lothlórien trademark, like the mellyrn are. I see people RPing in places like Mirkwood, Rivendell.. and according to those RPers, all those places also contain mellyrn and telain.

Okay, I'll give them the telain, since anyone is free to build them anywhere they wish to (though they were mostly used by Lórien's border guards for concealment...), but a mallorn in Mirkwood?!?!

It's a Galadhrim thing... :confused2:
Author:  Ashwise [ July 11th, 2007, 11:14 pm ]
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I agree, unless the Galaadhrim lived elsewhere
Author:  Aredhel Ar-Feiniel [ July 12th, 2007, 12:14 am ]
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But the Galadhrim are Silvan Elves of Lórien... if they lived elsewhere, they wouldn't be the Galadhrim :confused:
Author:  Fíriel_18190 [ July 24th, 2007, 4:17 am ]
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^
yeah, I don't believe Mellyrn grow in any other elven places in Middle-Earth than in Lorien. And I also believe that the Galadhrim only live in Lothlorien
Author:  Darrell [ July 24th, 2007, 4:25 pm ]
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I'm in full support of you there Haldir. Telain are (I believe) almost exclusive to Lorien.

[And as a point, you may wish to edit your post; 'mellyn' is plural of 'mellon', the word for friend, not the plural for mallorn ;) ]
Author:  Aredhel Ar-Feiniel [ July 24th, 2007, 4:34 pm ]
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Exactly, right? So it seems strange when people start using Telain in RPs in places like... Rivendell. :confused:

Ah, that would be my mistake... I forgot the "r" in "mellyrn". :blush:
Author:  Aerandir [ August 23rd, 2007, 8:49 am ]
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...Well, the colour-changing-eyes thing is actually feasible, because I've known a few people whose eyes actually do change colour.

But anyways, yeah, it gets annoying when there are telain in Mirkwood and Rivendell, etc. People seem to just pick and choose about just what they want to keep from the LotR Canon, saying that some stuff isn't important to keep to and other stuff is. It's really frustrating.
Author:  Aerandir [ August 23rd, 2007, 12:43 pm ]
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Ah. Well then, that's different, true. Yeah, that gets on my nerves. :P
Author:  Ashwise [ October 5th, 2007, 10:35 pm ]
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I'm sure some elves have color changing eyes. One of the characters in one of my fanfics dose, but they change from Green to Blue.
Author:  Miriel [ October 6th, 2007, 12:03 am ]
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I am totally sympathizing here...I get SO frustrated when people misrepresent an elf, or modernize characters, or do things un-lotr-ish! I am so glad I am not alone.

And in all I've read, none of the first-mentioned things are in any other place but Lorien.
Author:  Elthir [ November 3rd, 2011, 10:53 pm ]
Post subject:  Re:
Aerandir wrote:
But anyways, yeah, it gets annoying when there are telain in Mirkwood and Rivendell, etc.


I think there were arguably some flets in Mirkwood, as it was said of Thranduil's folk: 'In fact the subjects of the king mostly lived and hunted in the open woods, and had houses or huts on the ground and in the branches.' The Hobbit
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