What is the purpose of the elves in the book The Hobbit?

Answer 1

The Elves sought peace, which is why a majority of them were fleeing to The Grey Havens. They wanted nothing to do with Sauron or The War of the Ring, though the three people holding the three Elven Rings, Nenya, Vilya and Narya, (held by Galadriel, Elrond and Cirdan the Shipwright, who rules the Havens, respectfully) had to see to it that these three Rings would lose their power when the One Ring was destroyed. Which they did, or nearly so, though Cirdan still gave his ring to Gandalf. That is why, along with Frodo and Bilbo, the three of them left to the Grey Havens. Cirdan stayed behind, however, to take one last ship, which carried The Last Ringbearer, as well as a pair of highly unique friends.

Answer 2

The answer to this question is an essay, not a paragraph. But a few things can be quickly said.

Many purposes, they:

- represent unfallen humans / angels

- show the divine in creation

- show the problem of pride and the redemptive value of humility

- represent the "art" of magic, v.s. the "science" of magic (i.e. Saruman)

- and that death, if chosen for reasons of love, can be a moral choice

- etc.

Answer 3

The elves were departing for the Undying Land, the destruction of the One Ring signalled the end of the age of magic and elves. As a reward for their bravery and as a way of healing the physical and mental scars caused by bearing the ring, Frodo and Bilbo were invited along.

Answer 4

As is described in the Silmarillion the elves originated in Middle-Earth in its far eastern part, as also did Men much later. But for their safety as Morgoth and his followers held control of much of Middle-Earth at the time the Valar summoned the elves to leave their homes in Middle-Earth and cross the Great Ocean to travel to the land of Valinor to live with the Valar. Some elves refused (the avari) and dropped out of the histories of the elves at that time, other elves (woodelves, Sindarin elves) came partway but never left Middle-Earth (these are thus known as the elves of darkness, as they never saw the original light of Valinor in the time of the Two Trees).

But there are two returnings of elves from Valinor to Middle-Earth:

1. Feanor had made three great jewels called Silmarills that captured and held the light of the Two Trees. When Morgoth came and poisoned the Two Trees and stole the Silmarills, Feanor and his sons swore a great oath of vengeance on Morgoth and to recover the Silmarills. So he, his sons, and many other Noldorin elves (relatives and followers) returned to Middle-Earth to make war on Morgoth.
2. When Morgoth was greatly oppressing those in Middle-Earth the man Earendil a great sailor took the one Silmarill (that Beren the grandfather of his wife Elwing had recovered from Morgoth) to Valinor to request assistance from the Valar, the Valar agreed and came to Middle-Earth along with a great army of elves. They defeated Morgoth, recovered the other two Silmarills (but they were soon stolen by the sons of Feanor trying to fulfill Feanor's oath), and the First Age ended. Most of the elves then in Middle-Earth left for Valinor.

Occasionally throughout the Second and Third Ages ships of the Telerian elves would arrive at ports of Middle-Earth to trade with the elves of Middle-Earth and took back with them those that wished to leave. The final elvish ships taking the last of the elves to Valinor departed from the Grey Havens early in the Fourth Age, no elves have been in Middle-Earth since that time.

Answer 5

The elves left since the power of the eldar or something like that was leaving them Just also they were being called back.