fandomearth:

Nonbinary elves exist in the Tolkien legendarium because uhhh

1. It’s fantasy dudes. If the lord of chaos can scream like a 5 year old because of a huge ass spider, nb people can exist.
2. There is actually an elf whose gender was never specified as male or female, Elemmírë of the Vanyar. They are mentioned in HoME as one of the poets that wrote about the darkening of valinor.
3. The Silm was intended as a legendarium, and a lot of cultures had third genders, so why couldn’t elves have one too? Also Finnish, the language Elvish was inspired by, has no grammatical gender so there is only one gender neutral pronoun.