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I've noticed it's very common and popular to hate elves. Even I used to have a little bit of an antipathy towards them in the past. This was mostly born out of my first real fantasy franchise I spent any time with being The Elder Scrolls and with Oblivion being my first game they got the absolute worst treatment out of all of them and thus the worst first impression. What reason do you have for hating elves? There's even an anti-elf quote in the quote rotation at the top of the site!
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anti elf = anti white
Vergil wrote: ↑ March 21st, 2025, 04:06
anti-elf quote in the quote rotation at the top of the site!
I'm not surprised to see ameriggers having inferiority complex towards the ideal race.
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They're malevolent spirits.
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I love them in Christianic works such as Tolkien or Eternal Dream, where they are a take on what if God had not been merciful to Adam and shortened his lifespan. He would be condemned to live forever in a fallen, decaying world, seeing his creations torn down by others and unending malice and disappointment. Secular imitators miss this and is why their elves come off as flat or as unlikeable.
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Val the Moofia Boss wrote: ↑ March 21st, 2025, 04:20
what if God had not been merciful to Adam
lol
Val the Moofia Boss wrote: ↑ March 21st, 2025, 04:20
and shortened his lifespan
lmao
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Because I AM A DWARF and I'M DIGGING A HOLE, obviously.

You know why dwarves like axes?

Because elves like trees.
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I like elves, they're cool and they live in the woods like me
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I do kind of hate that elves are basically always following the exact same "waning empire" trope. You never get to see elves during their rise or peak.
Tinky Winky wrote: ↑ March 21st, 2025, 04:13
anti elf = anti white
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Norfleet wrote: ↑ March 21st, 2025, 04:23
Because I AM A DWARF and I'M DIGGING A HOLE, obviously.

You know why dwarves like axes?

Because elves like trees.
Being brown and manlet is not something I'd be proud of, imagine being as tall as an average indonesian "man".
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Tinky Winky wrote: ↑ March 21st, 2025, 05:07
Norfleet wrote: ↑ March 21st, 2025, 04:23
Because I AM A DWARF and I'M DIGGING A HOLE, obviously.

You know why dwarves like axes?

Because elves like trees.
Being brown and manlet is not something I'd be proud of, imagine being as tall as an average indonesian "man".
I wouldn't engage with it. It's like quicksand.
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elves gay, effeminate, poncy, arrogant, lame, cringe, mary sue race

the men are androgynous and shiet

their overall aesthetic and design is lame and womanly

they're either hippies, or hoighty toighty fancy shmancy **** (dark elves can be alright though cause edgy n shiet, particularly Warhammer Dark Elves since they're so over the top)

they can't grow facial hair, while having long, woman-like hair


in short: ****
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Manny V wrote: ↑ March 21st, 2025, 06:09
while having long, woman-like hair
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More like Von Copestein
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bald and bootiful
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Manny V wrote: ↑ March 21st, 2025, 06:13
bald and bootiful
Yea after I buff and polish it in order to see my own reflection in it :king:
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Vergil wrote: ↑ March 21st, 2025, 06:15
Manny V wrote: ↑ March 21st, 2025, 06:13
bald and bootiful
Yea after I buff and polish it in order to see my own reflection in it :king:
on that note there might be a more suitable character from Warhammer for you to fawn over:

https://warhammerfantasy.fandom.com/wik ... agnificent

***** literally has retainers follow him with mirror shields so he can look at himself at all times
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My opinion about elves is somewhat similar to Val's, as in I think that the OG Tolkien elves were a very good mold but the modern "intellectual authors" who dislike Christianity are unable to understand Tolkien's life views and thus can't replicate what made his elves good.

For the most part, modern elves are basically just humans with pointy ears that live very long. Each interpretation making them more mundane than the previous one.
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Manny V wrote: ↑ March 21st, 2025, 06:17
Vergil wrote: ↑ March 21st, 2025, 06:15
Manny V wrote: ↑ March 21st, 2025, 06:13
bald and bootiful
Yea after I buff and polish it in order to see my own reflection in it :king:
on that note there might be a more suitable character from Warhammer for you to fawn over:

https://warhammerfantasy.fandom.com/wik ... agnificent

***** literally has retainers follow him with mirror shields so he can look at himself at all times
He was on my radar however after inquiring about him I could never play as him. I found out his body is ONLY 17 THAT SICK ****


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Manny V wrote: ↑ March 21st, 2025, 06:09
elves gay, effeminate, poncy, arrogant, lame, cringe, mary sue race
Also, there's absolutely no logic to how their civilization is supposed to function. Can you imagine an elf performing any kind of basic manual labor? Where are these elven mines that the metal for their shiny weapons and armor come from? Who cleans the animal poop off the elven streets? Where do THEY even poop? There's something clearly WRONG about elves, and it's probably because they steal babies.
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Magic is just the tool. WHO is doing it? Is there some elf whose job it is to magic away all the poop? Elven Poopomancer?
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Norfleet wrote: ↑ March 21st, 2025, 06:41
Magic is just the tool. WHO is doing it? Is there some elf whose job it is to magic away all the poop? Elven Poopomancer?
browns and their obsession towards feces.
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Tinky Winky wrote: ↑ March 21st, 2025, 06:44
Norfleet wrote: ↑ March 21st, 2025, 06:41
Magic is just the tool. WHO is doing it? Is there some elf whose job it is to magic away all the poop? Elven Poopomancer?
browns and their obsession towards feces.
He's very old so things like "accidents" and bed pan cleaning are common topics on his mind (and in his pants)
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Tinky Winky wrote: ↑ March 21st, 2025, 06:44
browns and their obsession towards feces.
You have me confused with someone else. I'm not a brown.
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I don't hate elves. But I do loathe bad writers who want (their audience too their audience) to view elves as equivalent to colored people, "because slavery" and and all that ****** stuff. I also detest those that view elves, dwarves, gnomes and halflings as "smaller humans" that need "diversity just like in RL" and for that reason start inserting PoC and Asian heads on them. On humans? Fine, if their background can justify it (e,g., a character from Kara-Tur or even further east), but there are no corean elves or dwarves. And gnomes are not RL dwarves.

On a sidenote, I guess a "welcome back" is in order. Wonder how long it'll last this time? :lol:
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fkirenicus wrote: ↑ March 21st, 2025, 06:46
I don't hate elves. But I do loathe bad writers who want (their audience too their audience to) view elves as equivalent to colored people
The thing is, elves are the slavers. Notice how their society seems to have a total lack of anyone doing important basic manual labor. It's well known that elves steal human babies, for instance. You can't trust those treacherous knife-ears.
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Some of you would probably like the Overlord games since making fun of elves is a common theme. The second game even makes them stereotypical environmentalism hippies.
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Norfleet wrote: ↑ March 21st, 2025, 06:50
The thing is, elves are the slavers. Notice how their society seems to have a total lack of anyone doing important basic manual labor.
In more than one setting (game franchise); definitely.
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UltraFan123 wrote: ↑ March 21st, 2025, 06:23
My opinion about elves is somewhat similar to Val's, as in I think that the OG Tolkien elves were a very good mold but the modern "intellectual authors" who dislike Christianity are unable to understand Tolkien's life views and thus can't replicate what made his elves good.

For the most part, modern elves are basically just humans with pointy ears that live very long. Each interpretation making them more mundane than the previous one.
How would you make them interesting without ripping off Tolkien ripping off Christianity and pagan lore?
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imagine being a 600 year old level 1 fighter
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Vergil wrote: ↑ March 21st, 2025, 07:01
How would you make them interesting without ripping off Tolkien ripping off Christianity and pagan lore?
This is a good point, actually. Tolkien wrote LotR his books (both those released in his lifetime as well as those posthumously released by his son Christopher) as an attempt to create an "English mythology", and borrowed himself much from both Norse mythology and Finnish (language as well as mythology; Kalevala), as well as Beowulf.
His elves are a far shot from the sort we meet in e.g., Elfquest however, and which formed (and maybe still forms?) much of how (A)D&D players in the 80s and 90s envisioned their elven characters.
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