Could be. OTOH, LACE seems to make Eldar sex lives a reification of Catholic ideals. No re-marriage; marriage performed by the participants (the Catholic sacrament of marriage is performed by the couple; the Church wants priests there to observe and regulate, but the priest doesn't perform the sacrament); sex only for potentially procreative purposes. Plus the "death before rape", maybe? Dunno if that's Catholic, except in making elven sex outside of marriage *impossible* even by force.
Sexual desire having a terminus I assume is a blend of authorial population control (can't have elves breeding like rabbits) and Catholic values. Though one could argue it would be theologically sound for elves to keep having sex while being open to the tiny chance that Eru would send them a late child.
Anyway I'd bet this is at least as likely as him writing about his own sex life.
OTOH again, the usual caveat that a lot of this stuff was 'noodling' or subject to revision; LACE seems inconsistent with Celegorm trying to abduct Luthien, and is still in the mode of elves being reborn rather than being re-embodied.
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Date: 2021-09-07 12:12 am (UTC)Could be. OTOH, LACE seems to make Eldar sex lives a reification of Catholic ideals. No re-marriage; marriage performed by the participants (the Catholic sacrament of marriage is performed by the couple; the Church wants priests there to observe and regulate, but the priest doesn't perform the sacrament); sex only for potentially procreative purposes. Plus the "death before rape", maybe? Dunno if that's Catholic, except in making elven sex outside of marriage *impossible* even by force.
Sexual desire having a terminus I assume is a blend of authorial population control (can't have elves breeding like rabbits) and Catholic values. Though one could argue it would be theologically sound for elves to keep having sex while being open to the tiny chance that Eru would send them a late child.
Anyway I'd bet this is at least as likely as him writing about his own sex life.
OTOH again, the usual caveat that a lot of this stuff was 'noodling' or subject to revision; LACE seems inconsistent with Celegorm trying to abduct Luthien, and is still in the mode of elves being reborn rather than being re-embodied.