• ArbitraryValue
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    Galadriel and Celeborn were married in the First Age and the story takes place at the end of the Third, so they were married for at least six and a half thousand years. During that time, they had one child. How often do you think they had sex?

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        No, I blame Tolkien and his literally making elves only bang for the purpose of procreation because he’s a repressed Catholic weirdo sometimes.

        Jokes on him, modern society has agreed elves are hos.

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          It would be prudent for a sentient species with such long lifespans to practice planned procreation rather than multiplying exponentially like a culture on a petri dish.

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          Some would say 40k maybe went a little too far in the opposite direction with dark elves.

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        AkShUaLlY…. It’s pronounced “Kel-a-born”….but I still applaud your humor!

        Most, if not all c’s are pronounced as hard K’s in Elvish (Elven?) languages.

        It does get a little weird with places like Cirith Ungol, but there are, allegedly, older maps where it’s spelled Kirith.

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      Once.

      But elf sex is crazy weird. Like, they were still doing it while Frodo and the Fellowship were there.

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      Dude it’s elves who knows. She also slowes the passage of time by like MONTHS for a day, on top of being immortal it’s pretty obnoxious. Maybe they only plow once a 1000 years, or maybe it’s every day and they are only fertile once in thousands of years.