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Symbolic and Mythic Expression in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
High-Elves
12/28/2K6
"'These are High-Elves! ... said Frodo in amazement."
-- Of the Elves whom Frodo encountered in the Shire (Fellowship, p. 89)
Supernatural providence finds expression in that the Elves who came along as the Black Rider was drawing near were, as Frodo put it, High-Elves.
High-Elves, unlike other Elves, were not from Middle-earth. Rather they were from the Far West, beyond the Great Sea.
Of all the Elves in Middle-earth, High-Elves had the power to withstand Black Riders--possibly by virtue of having dwellt in the Undying Lands.
It was not just that Elves came along. It was that High-Elves came along, at the right moment.
"'These are High-Elves! ... said Frodo in amazement" (Fellowship, p. 89).