Thread:Count of Howard/@comment-28083312-20170429182047/@comment-28083312-20170429191621

Oh my bad. I meant godlike in strength, not in invulnerability. Yeah, that's Tolkien's point tho. His hubris is what caused his downfall, just as his earlier hubris in leading the Noldor from Valinor resulted in the destruction of his house and the deaths of many of the Eldar. He wasn't a chump, he just arrogant beyond belief. I can buy that, it still would’ve been awesome to see him kick ass for more than two paragraphs >:( Eh. Men had only just arisen at that point and were still in their infancy. If anything, it was the noontime of the Eldar, and after Fëanor, Fingolfin was arguably the best. Even though man had only just arisen, elves still continually grew weaker because of the corruption in middle earth/lack of light that was in Valinor. The whole reason they faded was because Valinor was no longer supporting them & because the corruption of middle earth was wearing out their souls. Every second they stayed on middle earth they diminished further. Besides, that doesn't explain the boss Sindarin elves who never saw Valinor or only saw it briefly (a la Thingol, Beleg, Mablung, etc) and who still kick ass in Middle-earth. That actually was explained; it’s because of Melian. Thingol had seen Valinor when he originally went with Finwë & Ingwë, & he stayed with Melian constantly; add those together & you have an equivalent to the light of Valinor (I’m actually really pissed off that Thingol died the way he did; the power of balrogs in comparison to elves is debatable, but there’s no way Thingol shouldn’t have been able to waste those dwarves). As for Beleg & Mablung, you can chalk that up to them being exceptional elves, as well as for living within the girdle of Melian (it was said that she was like the light of Valinor all on her own, although much weaker).