[JenB]

Well, they've rebuilt about twelve times already, their little cities keep getting knocked down and burned and stuff. I wonder how many thousand years it takes until you get so tired of life that you can't do anything....

[Overtaxed]

Even Tolkien said they were stagnant: Letter 181

Mere change as such is not represented as 'evil': it is the unfolding of the story and to refuse this is of course against the design of God. But the Elvish weakness is in these terms naturally to regret the past, and to become unwilling to face change: as if a man were to hate a very long book still going on, and wished to settle down in a favourite chapter. Hence they fell in a measure to Sauron's deceits: they desired some 'power' over things as they are (which is quite distinct from art), to make their particular will to preservation effective: to arrest change, and keep things always fresh and fair

[DonnerT]

Only takes 3 score here.