voronwe wrote:I guess the same can be said about the Wayward Elves or the Wild Hobbits of Wilderland... not that they did anything (or even exist anymore) at the time of the War of the Ring (or more precisely, even some decades before, after the death of Smaug).
The Wild Hobbits as a rule would have stayed hidden from outsiders, but Wild Hobbit Heroes might have aided in the defense of the North. Likewise, we know that forces from Dol Guldur warred against the Wood-elves of both Mirkwood and Lothlórien. There's no reason to think that the Wayward Elves wouldn't have participated in the defense of the Woodland Realm. Why would you think that they would have disappeared before then? I assume that the Wayward Elves were among those who remained in Middle-earth and faded over centuries.
I think it is not about the higher or lower participation of a culture in the main events but about its presence or relevance in late Third Age. In that term, the Elves of the Grey Havens were the second of third largest Elven community in all Western Middle-Earth and ranked similarly among the different peoples (whichever the race) of Eriador.
Yes. My point was just that by the end of the Third Age they seemed to confine themselves to the Grey Havens and Lindon; maybe wandering bands might be occasionally encountered east of the Blue Mountains and in the wilder parts of The Shire. But you're right; they might still qualify as an Heroic Culture, producing at least a few player Heroes.
And about your statement "I don't think that the Havens were represented at all in the War of the Ring with the exception of the participation of Galdor, envoy of the Elf-lord Círdan, at the Council of Elrond"... well, without the Elves of the Grey Havens and their ships Gandalf, Frodo, Galadriel, Elrond and the others wouldn't have left Middle-Earth for Valinor at the end of the War of the Ring...
Yes, but that was well after the end of the War. That's hardly the same as participating in it.
) time to spend on this fascinating culture... the perfect place for it would be the Western Eriador supplement, of course... so if the Bree book will be that supplement perhaps I arrive a bit too late with my pledge... 
