Better late than never– Garrett Moritz responds (June 19) to Elvish propaganda:
Elves want to save the world because it is a world that benefits them, and they’ve constructed a useful typology of good and evil which serves their ends. Of course the elves don’t want change, safe in beautiful country-club-esque forest homes like Rivendell while everyone else scrapes by in the dirty, muck-a-day world of Middle Earth. When it comes down to it, the one thing the Elves really do seem to care about is keeping everyone else out of their beautiful forests.