It's a very destructive and colonialist sort of attitude, like the culling of the buffalo, or the hunting of the vast flocks of passenger pigeons into oblivion.

I was in a museum in Manchester, once, looking at the stuffed specimens, and there was a rare antelope, donated from the collection of Lord ThoughtlessFuckerWithaGun, who, upon hearing that there were only 70 left in the world, promptly went on an expedition to go shoot one. It made me .... inarticulately frustrated.

It's -- it says something about the elves, that that's in them, too.


........>.> cat!Thranduil.