28 thoughts on “Tell me your favorite thing about elves.”

  7. I like their long lifespan and the different outlook it gives them on life. That’s what makes them wise, alien, allof, and condescending.

    It’s fun to play an elf because they come preloaded with so much trope it practically oozes from them.

  8. I like their long lifespan and the different outlook it gives them on life. That’s what makes them wise, alien, allof, and condescending.

    It’s fun to play an elf because they come preloaded with so much trope it practically oozes from them.

  9. Daniel Fowler , the first European settlers in my hometown were British deserters who lived in a hollow tree known as Pringle Tree. Thanks to the corrupting influence of commercials, when I was really little I thought it was the tree where the elves who made Pringles lived.

  10. Daniel Fowler , the first European settlers in my hometown were British deserters who lived in a hollow tree known as Pringle Tree. Thanks to the corrupting influence of commercials, when I was really little I thought it was the tree where the elves who made Pringles lived.

  11. My favorite thing about elves is their nebulous nature. The standard “trope laden” fantasy elf (that IS fun to play) is only a tiny fraction of the elf world. If you look at fairy tales about interactions with elves, they are remarkably similar to alien abduction stories and ghost stories. Elves are the “other” that can never be reconciled.

  12. My favorite thing about elves is their nebulous nature. The standard “trope laden” fantasy elf (that IS fun to play) is only a tiny fraction of the elf world. If you look at fairy tales about interactions with elves, they are remarkably similar to alien abduction stories and ghost stories. Elves are the “other” that can never be reconciled.

  13. I like the idea (that Anthony Thomas alluded to) elves acknowledge the gods but don’t worship them. I think Tolkien started it, because if I remember correctly, Galadriel went to war with the gods back in the day because she felt like elf-kind didn’t owe them shit.

    In a standard fantasy game, races like elves also serve a really interesting and helpful narrative function: they’re a connection to the ancient world.

  14. I like the idea (that Anthony Thomas alluded to) elves acknowledge the gods but don’t worship them. I think Tolkien started it, because if I remember correctly, Galadriel went to war with the gods back in the day because she felt like elf-kind didn’t owe them shit.

    In a standard fantasy game, races like elves also serve a really interesting and helpful narrative function: they’re a connection to the ancient world.

  15. Just to follow-up on my last post, how cool was it in The Fellowship of the Ring film when we learned the elves call Gandalf something different because they know him from back when the world was young? Chills!

  16. Just to follow-up on my last post, how cool was it in The Fellowship of the Ring film when we learned the elves call Gandalf something different because they know him from back when the world was young? Chills!

  17. I like the Icelandic version of elves.

    They are usually invisible and, if treated with respect, quite neutral, but don’t cross them.

    When they do come out of hiding, they look just like humans, but often seem out of sync in time with current language, customs, and dress and they live and worship in rocks.

    Even if this is not wholly true (read the article, not everyone in Iceland believes this and some of the stories attributed as being widely believed interventions of and/for elves may be exaggerated), I like the idea of it in a fantasy setting.

    theatlantic.com – Why So Many Icelanders Still Believe in Invisible Elves – The Atlantic

  18. I like the Icelandic version of elves.

    They are usually invisible and, if treated with respect, quite neutral, but don’t cross them.

    When they do come out of hiding, they look just like humans, but often seem out of sync in time with current language, customs, and dress and they live and worship in rocks.

    Even if this is not wholly true (read the article, not everyone in Iceland believes this and some of the stories attributed as being widely believed interventions of and/for elves may be exaggerated), I like the idea of it in a fantasy setting.

    theatlantic.com – Why So Many Icelanders Still Believe in Invisible Elves – The Atlantic

  23. Can I also say, I don’t like elves that are merely distinct by the color of their skin/hair and the places they have chosen/been forced/were born into living. IE, I don’t like the traditional presentation of drow in D&D.

  24. Can I also say, I don’t like elves that are merely distinct by the color of their skin/hair and the places they have chosen/been forced/were born into living. IE, I don’t like the traditional presentation of drow in D&D.

  25. I’m not a fan of the Tolkien version of any of the fantasy races, but I really like the Fair Folk aspect, probably because I’m Cornish. Exalted’s Fair Folk book and 4th Ed Dark Sun had great, inhuman takes on elves.

  26. I’m not a fan of the Tolkien version of any of the fantasy races, but I really like the Fair Folk aspect, probably because I’m Cornish. Exalted’s Fair Folk book and 4th Ed Dark Sun had great, inhuman takes on elves.

  27. Robert Bohl the dungeon world campaign I’m running. It feels very fitting for elves though being detached from the world/unconcerned with the things that the shorter lived races care about?

  28. Robert Bohl the dungeon world campaign I’m running. It feels very fitting for elves though being detached from the world/unconcerned with the things that the shorter lived races care about?

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