Why do the Eloi fear darkness?

       The Time Traveler did not understand the Eloi's fear of darkness until after he had visited the voracious Morlocks. As written, "The enemy I dreaded may surprise you. It was the Darkness of the new moon. Ween had put this into my head by some at the first incomprehensible remarks about the Dark Nights."(76) It finally all made sense to the Time Traveler. After his first two hypotheses had been incorrect, his last assumption was correct. The reason for the Eloi's fear of the night was due to the Morlocks; the Morlocks are the cannibalistic race of future humans that eat and stalk the Eloi at night. The Time Traveler now fears for his own life as he travels to a green castle-like building with Weena.