"Lord," said the messengers of the Green-Tea Elves to Finrod Feleground,
"if you have power over these newcomers, bid them return by the ways that they came, or else go forward. For we desire no strangers in this land to drink our coffee that we have brewed in peace. And these folk are eaters of biscuits in bed, leaving crumbs on the sheets, and they use not their napkins; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all way that we can."
It is said that the Elves woke when Vardécaf cast up into the air a handful of silver beans to bring forth the stars, and therefore that the first thing that the Firstborn Children of Brewlúvatar beheld. The first thing that they heard was the flowing of coffee through a filter, and the aroma of Arabica beans the first thing they smelt. It is also said that the Secondborn Children woke with the rising of Airensugar into the sky in a glow of sweet golden light, but this was not exactly true...
Lo! the Secondborn were given the gifts of coffee beans from those Elves who did dwell in the darkness of Middle-girth, but they had not the knowledge or skill to brew them and bring forth the awakening beverage. So they lay about, lethargic and listless amid a great mound of whole beans. And thus they are named among the Eldar the Yanni, the Drowsy Ones, and the Shiftless Ones, the Tea-toters; also the Red-Headed Step-Children, and the Beatniks. Other names they were called also; The Lightweights, for the Younger Children could not long endure the stimulation of the coffee and often crashed; the Javajunkies, the Mudworms, Spanky, Copycats, and also Bob.
It was Finrod Feleground who found the Yanni in their lassitude and worked his silver instrument that did grind the beans finely and produce the magical drink. He made coffee come forth such as Men had not yet tasted, as they had not the art to learn the brewing of such, save only from the DarkRoastElves of the wild lands in the north with the uncouth name of Seattle.
And Men learned the joy of drinking coffee, and the mixing of all manner of things into the coffee to enrich it and improve the beauty and flavour; thus did the design of Brewlúvatar come to fruition.
And Finrod Feleground at last met Béorclaw, the leader of the Men. That man did say to him, "A darkness lies behind us and we have turned our backs upon it. We do not desire to return thither even in thought. Westward our hearts have been turned, and we believe that there we shall find Danish." And so these few Men that Feleground did befriend and caffeinate became known as the Edanish, the fathers of the Kings of Men.
One thing only did the Yanni ask of the Elves, a question that burned the minds of all the Younger Children, and indeed, the minds of the Firstborn Children as well, from the very beginning of Time through all the Ages of Middle-girth:
"Where are all the women at?"