Still, the alliance was helpful as the tribe began to have violent encounters with MorgothвЂ™s twisted creatures and during the initial battles of the first war of Beleriand. Despite acknowledging the Sindarin High-King Thingol as their overall lord, they maintained their own independence and king and so were somewhat more civilized than other Avari. There they came into contact with their Moriquendi kin for the first time in long Ages and became known to them as the Green Elves. Some of the Avari, however, did make their to Beleriand eventually and settled in a southern, wooded region there known as Ossriand. This generational animosity was passed down to their Human students, who already had a bone to pick because of their own sense of abandonment by the divine lords of the West. Until eventually, the Lords of the West, the Eldar (with the possible exception of the Noldor), and Valinor became irrelevant to their culture, even into the late Third Age. The implication being that the Avari of the generation that met and knew of the Valar deep in their past, left that knowledge behind them, barely passing it on to their children so that they became distant myths. Given that Humans first learned of the Valar from the wild Elves, what they gathered was that they were little more than distant legends, if even that could be recalled. So the Avari were not total isolationists, though that may have been on rare occasions. Though paling in comparison to the rest of their kin, their tutelage nonetheless helped the new race as they struggled with the darkness that followed them in their own journey westward, as well as forming a base language for which they could communicate with the Noldor Elf-lord, Finrod Felagund, when he discovered their descendants in Beleriand. He may have been closer to Avari than Sindarin.Д®ven so, it was the Avari who first taught Humans the tools to form civilizations among themselves.

These behaviors mimic EolвЂ™s in many ways despite him being Sindarin. Take, for example, their sensitivity to sunlight and tendency to shun it whenever possible and their tendency to make their homes and base of operations from caves, even into the Third Age. If so, then some of the OrcsвЂ™ behavior can possibly be seen as perversions of Avari traits.

Part of the theory goes that these poor souls were specifically wild Avari. In it, there is speculation that they were Elves who were captured and tortured by Morgoth before he was captured and taken back to Valinor by his fellow Valar. However, a clue might be in the Silmarillion where it talks about the first generation of Orcs, who would become the mortal enemy of all Elves.

What people think of the race today probably doesn't touch on just how primitive, they were to even the rest of the Moriquendi. These were Elves who truly lived in the wild. The Avari were the first breakaways from the great migration. The Moriquendi sub-cultures varied even more so than the Eldar.

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