I haven't seen it, but some of the Noldor especially (but not only them) were haughty, hot-tempered and could be cruel, avaricious, deceitful etc. The impression I got from The Silmarillion was that a minority shared most human flaws, especially the ones that lent themselves to the epic.
Human Houses or Eldar?
Why am I not surprised? But that's the thing about the elves. They are act like pacifists, but then in the houses, they rival each other and there are clashes on whose more heroic or whatever. For some reason, there's a pecking order. But for the outside, it's never shown. Not willingly. The outsiders only the-official-business-face, which is most often expressionless. So, you kind of get a cold feeling about them, especially when they expect you to survive like they do. But it's not what they are, because in their heart is kindness, even if sometimes it appears as cruelty. It's almost as if they all have a mask with two faces.
Feanor and his followers (about a third of the Noldor) killed many of the Teleri when stealing their ships to leave Valinor, but I don't know if that's what you're referring to as the two groups never met again, so there was no actual feuding.
*cough* The Hobbit.
Didn't Gandalf arrive by ship at the Grey Havens after the rings had been forged, and Cirdan gave him the ring he held?
It does make sense that mature characters we already know of in LOTR may be different in their youth.
At this point in the story she is over 5,000 years old. During LotR she is around 8,000 year old.
Like I said, they expect you to do extraordinary things, and it appears as arrogance. In the Jackson's Hobbit, you can't but feel it as the King denies time and again to help. You look closely, especially the capture scene, and they appear extremely protective of their community, because they view lesser races as nuisance, and not worth of their time. Which they have plenty.
What do you mean in her youth?
And this didn't happen until approx thousand years into the Third Age according to Appendix B of LotR. So they have the rights to use the Istari arriving in Middle Earth, but they are way off the canon timeline.
Repeating this request.
Go ahead. Anyone can create new threads. I haven't enough to say, myself. We can split this thread up, but it has been mainly about the reaction to the series as a whole, and very little on the individual episodes.
