When did you hit peak elf and why? - fantasy thread for true and honest women

7.62x38mmR said:
im a dwarfcel, elviggers cannot comprehend
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Get out, simp.
 
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Safir said:
Harry Potter is commonly thought to be for girls (people tell me it's mostly a boys' book in the West among normies).
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Wait, boys like Harry Potter?

Anyway, I’m team vampire. Elves are cool when done right, I agree entirely with your take on Tolkien’s depressive elves, but vampires give you so much more room to do bleak stories about narcissistic parasites who refuse to accept that their time is over, has been over for centuries. Stay dead, stay dead, stay dead, and out of this world.

Also I read a lot of vampire smut in my teenage years and that general “twinky goth pretty boy” look remains hot to me.
 
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ShiftyBoi said:
Peak elf has already been achieved by Record of Lodoss War I'm afraid.
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The original Lodoss Senkai before it was adapted to a series of books was just the written record of a bunch of people's actual DnD game they used to have them printed in some Japanese table top magazine. Way way back in the day someone on 4chan started translating those old playthroughs and it was honestly pretty interesting. The player who played Deedlit was a massive troll. Deedlit pretty much fucked the entire party over on multiple occasions and even got the player who played Parn killed really early in the game before the DM rolled it back. I think the player was trying to play Deedlit as a sort of English fairy type character. A mischievous and malevolent trickster that followed a very rigid internal code that would cause the other players to run afoul of her character if they violated one of her unspoken rules.
I wonder if those translations are still around.
 
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Miriam Margoyles said:
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Get out, simp.
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The original line was even worse.
“Hear all ye Elves!’ she cried to those about her. ‘Let none say again that Dwarves are grasping and ungracious! Yet surely, Gimli son of Glóin, you desire something that I could give? Name it, I bid you! You shall not be the only guest without a gift.’
‘There is nothing, Lady Galadriel,’ said Gimli, bowing low and stammering. ‘Nothing, unless it might be – unless it is permitted to ask, nay, to name a single strand of your hair, which surpasses the gold of the earth as the stars surpass the gems of the mine. I do not ask for such a gift. But you commanded me to name my desire.”
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Gimli doest NOT represent us dorfs. He was named "Elf-friend" only because FLAMING FAGGOT wouldn't sit right with PR.
 
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On the topic of DnD elves, Incursion: Halls of the Goblin King has a nice inversion of them. High elves are the ones with an utterly selfish bitch of a patron goddess and live in constant fear of catching her attention; they sacrifice beautiful creatures or artists to her to keep her busy for a moment. Drow are the rebels who ran away from her underground and turned to demon worship for protection.
 
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Miriam Margoyles said:
I'm just gonna say it, I think drow having black skin and white hair is fucking dumb. What, did someone just learn to invert colours in MS Paint or something?

It makes no sense and it looks silly, especially when nerds try to cosplay their heccin' cool drow OC, have to get the boot polish out, and end up looking like @RACISM's avatar.

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I actually think it makes it more interesting if dark elves and regular elves pretty much look the same, physically. You'll never know if that elf you met is going to be the lawful good 'harmony with nature' kind or the lawful evil 'stab you to death while you sleep' kind (although, admittedly, if he's dressed in all black and his armour's covered with spikes, that might give it away a bit).
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demicolon said:
On the topic of DnD elves, Incursion: Halls of the Goblin King has a nice inversion of them. High elves are the ones with an utterly selfish bitch of a patron goddess and live in constant fear of catching her attention; they sacrifice beautiful creatures or artists to her to keep her busy for a moment. Drow are the rebels who ran away from her underground and turned to demon worship for protection.
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i think the coolest spin on the elf/dark elf trope are the tiste races in steven eriksons malazan book of the fallen.
yes they're not technically elves (no pointy ears) but they still score very high on the elf checklist: superhuman height and beauty, immense combat prowess as well as magical ability, extremely long lifespan, the whole package really. and they do have their own version of the elf/drow divide in some ways: tiste andii are ebony skinned and worship mother dark, tiste liosan are ivory skinned and worship father light, tiste edur are grey skinned and worship the shadow, but none of them really line up with any of the dnd alignments - andii are sad and despondent due to past tragedies, liosan are zealous fanatics, and edur went into isolation far away and have reverted to a state of living as primitive tribal barbarians.
i think before writing any of the books, erikson had originally created the setting for his own homebrew pen and paper roleplaying sessions
 
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Dwarfs are the best. Sorry Uncle Ted, industrial society has accomplished a hell of a lot, and is more reliable than magical bullshit or hobbit/halfling agrarianism (they make most of their money thieving anyway). Dwarfs are busy mining and grinding and getting shit done, while elves sit in trees being pretentious dickheads. How do they stay so clean and pretty when they don't have proper sewer systems and sanitation? It's some bullshit is how.
Pierre D'Olnique said:
The original line was even worse.

Gimli doest NOT represent us dorfs. He was named "Elf-friend" only because FLAMING FAGGOT wouldn't sit right with PR.
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I SERVE THE FLAMING FAGGOT
 
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What never sit down with me about the LoTR is the idea that hobbits are resistant to corruption thanks to being too stupid to consider any life other than smoking pot and eating.
 
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I will forever hate that many of the d&d shitters and the japanese made the male elves into fembois. they can be pretty and masculine you shitheads REEEEEE and don't get me started with the anime coomers constantly portraying orcs/trolls as rapists (WH fungus orks are funnier and superior imo).

Unpopular opinion: I'm sick of human x elf pairings
 
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RA-5C Vigilante said:
If I had played Dawn of War and never looked into the Eldar, I would have been normal. Alas,
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Tall pointy eared redheads.
I am become simp, defender of knife ears.
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