I'm terribly conservative in things like that; I like things to Stay The Same. So seeing within my own lifetime the huge changes where landscapes are altered makes me (1) feel old, dangit! (2) feel uncomfortable - humans are supposed to change, but that's not supposed to change!
Of course it does, of course we alter the world we live in. But I do very much understand the temptation that Tolkien says is the besetting sin of the Elves; the attempt to halt the flow of time (and at its worst, end up making Middle-earth a kind of nature preserve-cum-theme park, with those pesky Edain cleared off or out of the way, so that it can all be the way the Eldar want it to be).
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Date: 2012-09-04 09:19 am (UTC)Of course it does, of course we alter the world we live in. But I do very much understand the temptation that Tolkien says is the besetting sin of the Elves; the attempt to halt the flow of time (and at its worst, end up making Middle-earth a kind of nature preserve-cum-theme park, with those pesky Edain cleared off or out of the way, so that it can all be the way the Eldar want it to be).