[ggc-urantialist] Re: Fwd: Of Elves and Men: the Post-Adamic Age
- From: Larry Geis <lrgeis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "ggc-urantialist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ggc-urantialist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 11:35:52 -0700
Hello Michelle,
Thanks for posting this. I wanted to attend Jonathan's workshop, but had some
sort of conflict. It is a fascinating exposition.
Larry G
GGC
On Monday, August 4, 2014 11:07 AM, Michelle Klimesh
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear friends,
Greetings from farmland! This is a transcript from a workshop at IC '14 that I
enjoyed. The presenter, Jonathan Zoba, is in his late 20s. Fun food for thought.
XOX, Michelle
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>On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Jonathan Zoba <jonzoba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>Hey Everyone,
>>
>>
>>Thanks for coming to my Elf workshop; I'm glad that the effort was well
>>received. There is certainly plenty more work to be done was we look back
>>into history, but this is a good (and fun) start.
>>
>>
>>As I compile more work, I at least wanted to send you the text for the
>>workshop I gave so that you may review it as you wish and ask more questions.
>> Here is just the elf section before moving on.
>>
>>
>>I'm thankful to be a part of a community where this type of scholarship is
>>appreciated : )
>>
>>
>>Jonathan
>>
>>
>>ELVES :: VIOLET RACE
>>
>>
>>Tolkien’s concept of elves seems strikingly similar to the historical fact of
>>the Adamites. They are generally regarded as tall, beautiful, with light
>>complexion, playful and artful yet sorrowful. They are in exile, having had
>>a unfortunate past.
>>
>>
>>According to Tolkien there are several types of elves, but the few mentioned
>>in his popular Books, The Lord of the Rings, are the High Elves, Wood Elves,
>>and the Elves of Lothlorien, and of the Last Homely Home, Rivendell.
>>
>>
>>If we would go by Tolkien’s records as much as possible the different groups
>>of elves could be regarded as such in actual history and geography:
>>
>>
>>The High Elves or Light Elves:
>>These are the pure line descendants of Adam and Eve, or could be regarded as
>>Material Sons and Daughters in general, both on this world and in the System.
>> They have a light shimmer to their appearance, and most of them left early
>>on, and went Edentia. They understand light and cosmic energies in a way
>>that most don’t.
>>
>>
>>The Wood Elves:
>>Were the elves that ‘stayed behind’. I regard them as of the few descendent
>>and Adam and Eve who wandered into continental Europe and blended with the
>>blue man and other races. In order to qualify as an elf, generally they
>>needed to be at least 1/4 Adamic by blood, after further dilution they would
>>generally be recognized as Andite. They were pacifistic, therefor avoided
>>battle whenever possible. They did this by mastering the arts of stealth and
>>hiding. In their later days, as their doom as a people approached, they
>>lived in trees and were masters of evasion and escape. They were all master
>>bowmen and hunters. They carried their traditions mostly in song, being in
>>exile they often had to pick up and move.
>>
>>
>>The elves of Mirkwood were an example of one of the last violet strongholds
>>in the spreading forests of Europe, probably located somewhere around
>>southern Germany.
>>
>>
>>As the elves were constantly escaping, they learned to leave little or no
>>remains as they departed, often using only organic materials for their
>>constructions. When the scouts determined that an invading horde could not
>>be stopped by their archers, they collected their wares, torched their entire
>>settlement and continued to move north and west, the invading horde finding
>>only ash. This explains why there is little or no evidence of the elves in
>>Europe or of their later mixed descendants who also built homes of wood and
>>cremated their dead. The later druids where an example of the remnant
>>woodland elvish culture, memorizing tremendous amounts of lore and
>>information by song.
>>
>>
>>Lothlorien was a stronghold high in the trees near present day Romania, once
>>Thrace. Memory of the Elf queen persisted in the mother cult or Eve cult
>>that remained in this region for a while, as well as around the
>>Mediterranean. Lothlorien possessed some of the last pure-line, or High Elf
>>stock in Middle-earth, the rest generally having set sail for the Western
>>Seas. The Elves of Lothlorien departed to the Grey Havens after the War of
>>the Ring, bringing with them one of last remaining ‘Silmarils’ or jewels
>>symbolizing their possession of pure-line Violet blood. Lady Galadriel, was
>>a mighty High Elf, one of the last remaining in the woods, the Galadhrim--
>>meaning tree-people in Sindarin, an elf language.
>>
>>
>>Most of the Elves soon blended with the surrounding races, especially with
>>the ‘Giants’ or the Nodites. But they realized that because of the folly of
>>their ancestors they would soon perish as a race completely, therefore they
>>took an oath to maintain three pure lines, symbolized by three Jewels of
>>strange power. One group went north, one went east and one went west across
>>the seas.
>>
>>
>>The eastern line was ultimately lost, but they engaged in terrible wars and
>>subversive cunning to maintain themselves for many centuries to come. In the
>>end, although it failed to maintain their pure line, it did work to foster a
>>very war-like and crafty culture in that region. In their dying days, they
>>sought to glorify themselves above all else, even above Illuvatar.
>>
>>
>>The northern line, long lived in the guarded region of the Transylvanian
>>plateau, and there they slowly diminished and spread becoming the ‘sylvan
>>elves.’ They did not fail to maintain their pure-line, but as mentioned,
>>they later retreated on horseback to the northwest where they met their
>>Sea-Elf kindred in the Grey Havens.
>>
>>
>>The elves of Mirkwood are an example of the elves that spread northwest from
>>Lothlorien, they maintained a strong and long line of partially mixed
>>descendent, whom Legolas springs from.
>>
>>
>>The most successful contingency of pure-line was the group that sailed west
>>beyond the inland sea out into the great Western Sea. They would eventually
>>loop up around Europe and settle in Scandinavia as the Ice retreated. Here
>>they were almost completely safe from any harassments from the servants of
>>Sauron or from the hordes of men. There were dwelling up in those regions
>>some diminutive Andonites, in whom they developed a fondness for, and in
>>their way, arranged for their protection. These were the Hobbits, whose
>>descendants are the Bretons. These elves had great white ships and they long
>>explored the Western Seas, familiarizing themselves with most of the islands
>>of the North Atlantic. And they long knew, and to some extent visited North
>>America, the Western Shores. But this land they kept secret from the races
>>of Men for many thousands of years.
>>
>>
>>They always avoided interaction with the Red man natives of North America.
>>But being masters of the light arts, as they inherited from Mesopotamia, they
>>were able to maintain settlements in the far north where they derived energy
>>from light and other cosmic energies associated with the north lights. These
>>were the Light Elves.
>>
>>
>>In time the remaining wood-elves would rendezvous with the northern sea-elves
>>in Scandinavia, in present day Oslo, and down along the Swedish coast from
>>there, Goteborg, where there is actual record of this place being referred to
>>as Alfheim, or Home of the Elves. It is in this area where Rivendell stood
>>for many centuries, the last Homely Home, protected from the ills of the
>>world by sea and ice. Here the Elves lived in peace, allowing the Northern
>>Andites to maintain their military headquarters in Denmark, just south of
>>their home, thus keeping them protected from any potential invasion from the
>>South. But after the war of the Ring, realizing that the age of the Elves
>>was passing and that the age of the Men was coming into its fullness, they
>>disbanded, some of them intermarrying with some of the Mighty Men, and the
>>last of them setting forth from the Gray Havens, which where elf-settlements
>>in the fjords of Norway, to sail west never to be seen
again. It is recorded that two Hobbits went with them, Bilbo Baggins and
Frodo son of Drogo.
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