In Faerieland there is no death, no age, no sickness, no ugliness. Time is, as it is to the dead, non-existent. A mortal who would be taken to Faerieland for 700 years would stay there thinking but one year had passed. Their social organization is, of course, like that of man. They live in Faerie houses, furnished in abundance with silver and gold.
Much time is spent with music and dancing.
Although there is no death in Faerieland there is birth, and Faeries search earth for mortal women to nurse Faerie births. Venturing from Faerieland in search of mortal mid-wives, the Faerie found in increasing number, humans who were suffering the plight of mankind, for the evil which was engulfing the earth was spreading. Death, war, pestilence, disease were ravaging the earth above middle earth and below the space above. They called man's plight Concerns, so that all in Faerieland would know of the trouble's of man, even though such had not been actually witnessed. With such understanding, there began venture's from Faerieland, by those who equipped with knowledge, who left doing so with the expressed purpose of helping men overcome their difficulties.