Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-27860585-20160227122451/@comment-26453572-20160508200535

Catfishperson wrote: An interesting thing to keep in mind is that just about everything we know about the elves and the dwarves comes from the Silmarilion. And who wrote the Silmarilion? The elves! If the dwarves had written it, would they be the ones described as graceful, perfect beings, and the elves as grumpy, ugly little scoundrels? They didn't "write it", so to speak, Tolkien did. I can't imagine that Tolkien would write a story in which the fictitious authors unjustly glorified themselves and made everyone else seem inferior in every way. I'm more than positive that there is truth in the descriptions that Tolkien provided. What would be the point in making a story if it was full of lies about the univers the story takes place in?