Quote Originally Posted by Blaze View Post
really? interesting. what is the reasoning behind this.
IIRC, someone else on this forum made the statement about elves and Abbie made the statement about dwarves, and I was not averse to either one.

I favor LII for Gandalf, and I keep wanting to type the elves as Merry because they're green and I associate that color with , but I do think that the conservatism and massive lifespans of the elves tends more toward Delta. The dwarves seem most strongly associated with industry (diligence), which is mainly a Gamma theme. While the hobbit community is described as Delta, all of the individual hobbits in LoTR seem Merry - but they are also considered strange by hobbit standards. I think that it makes sense to consider them Alphas arising from a basically Delta society (in keeping with the cycle of quadras).