Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-31907131-20170209042613/@comment-31907131-20170210040015

The capability for sleep does not need to be removed. I am merely suggesting the replacement of the Lorien beds with what I think should be a sort of pallet, the same general shape as a bed, but most likely without designs, and perhaps with a slightly different function to a normal bed- thoughts on what this might be are welcome, perhaps it could be regeneration of health and saturation while sleeping in an Elvish bed?

Dreams. These could, I suppose, be added to Elvish beds, though it would no doubt take a ton of coding and work to have them.

In the case of Rivendell, remember that it often received visitors of different races, especially at the time of the Council, and even those who dwelled for a while in Imladris were probably not all Elves- for example Aragorn in his youth, and even the master of the Last Homely House was only a Half-Elf. And when Merry and Pip spoke of Lorien, it may have merely been (or, objectively, was) the case that a couch was similar enough to a bed- and it was clearly stated that they slept on couches.

The flet. There were two flets in trees next to each other in the chapter, and I assume that both were the same, small flets used to house what were after all simply a group of border sentinels. These guards would not see the need for a guest flet, I should think. Outsiders were not allowed normally further into Lothlorien, and they would have been unwelcoming of most comers who were not either Elves or Elf-Friends. The two flets were more likely for a slightly larger complement of guards and supplies- remember at this time many Elves were making the journey West over the Sea, and the numbers of Elves would have waned, so that they might not have the same number of sentinels that the flets were built for.