Interesting view on Lord of the Rings

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You hit the nail on the head, Occhi.

Another point while skimming the article:
Weren't the elves a race withdrawing from the world?  Slowly retreating to their Elven havens as the race of men took over?
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Yes. The Elves were cowardly. Rather than accept change and the gradual swing of power from themselves to another race, they ran away rather than face the music.

Kind of a dumb question... And my memory gets a bit fuzzy here about the books... But the Dwarves doing nothing (or very little) during the War of the Ring disheartens me for some reason. I wonder if Gimli felt shame over what his people did. After all, he lived with the Elves rather than his own kind, and sailed in to the West with Legolas, rather than let his friend go off alone. Well, he was Lord of the Glittering Caves for a while and he and a group of Dwarves did rebuild the gates of Minas Tirith out of Mithril... But he spent more time with humans and elves than most of his kind. My point is, something must have weighed heavily on his mind if he chose not to live like a king with his own peoples, rejecting them to the point where he chooses exile. Or sailing in to the West. Whatever you wish to call it.

One would think that an army of stubborn resolute immoveable stumpy dwarves would have turned the tide.