[Suzerain of Sheol]

Okay, well, enough about what-if land, if no one minds.

We shall now talk about... elves. Do they seem consistent throughout his various stories? I have a bit of a hard time reconciling the kin-slaughtering, vengeance-oath-swearing, Balrog-owning tragic badasses of the Silm. with the singing, care-free sprites of Elrond's house in the Hobbit. And yet, some of them are probably the same elves...