(08-08-2013, 12:08 PM)Yeldir Melfusor Wrote: Something that has been driving me up the wall, in terms of trying to write Yeldir, is the issue of lifespan. Do we have any canonical leads regarding the general longetivity of the Elezen? If they're proper Tolkien knockoffs, we can just pick anything between fifteen and a billion and be content with that.Â
Yet I'm hesitant to define Yeldir's age without knowing how old he shouldn't be.
Tolkien's elves were a little more complicated than that (even before you get into whether or not going to Valinor counted as "dying" or their "three stages of life") but the only hint in any of the official lore says that they tend to live just a bit longer than Hyur. I would assume from the context that they're referring to a difference of decades, not centuries. It's difficult enough to peg down a Hyur lifespan but I would guess it would, as an average, be somewhere in the ballpark of 70-80 and so the elezen might be in the vicinity of 90-100.
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