ABSTRACT
This chapter sees the Silvan Elves not merely as inferior underlings to their High-Elven counterparts but as representing a distinct vision of attunement to nature. At times, as in the story of Amroth and Nimrodel, the Silvan Elves operate as a check of both any excessive idealization of the High Elves and also of the dominance of narratives involving war and power. That this Silvan vision is not simply an escape from history/Nature is inevitably historical.
