#I love elves

[middle-earth-mythopoeia]

Do you ever become posessed by how good the Silmarillion is? I'm just lying here in bed at 2am, gripped by some sort of delirium, screaming into my pillow because no book has ever consumed me with such feverish obsession. Even reading one quote from it, even remembering a quote from it sends chills down my spine. How can one story have the power to do this, and keep doing this over and over? It's like the most potent drug in the world. I love the Silmarillion so much it makes me berserk. IT MAKES ME INSANE.

[klinefelterrible]

What am I doing?

I, uh… better let me show you

[nim-arts]

All my elven Baldur’s Gate 3 characters.

[apollolewis]

One of the most impossible things for me to do is not make an elf when given the option. Like I physically can’t. Dragon age inquisition I’m picking an elf. Bg3 I’m picking an elf or half elf. Elder scrolls I’m picking an elf, dark elf specifically. Like elves are just the best, I love them.

[memray]

i’ll make a lotr oc at some point

it’ll probably be an elf

[stardayzzing]

You know what Im not really into men, but something abt the less talked abt elves of tolkien have me in a chokehold. Lindir? Glorfindel? Erestor? ALSO ALL THE SIDE CHARACTER ELVES WE SEE LIKE ONCE IN THE MOVIES?? Idk man, I could get over my fear of men for them

[michinarty]

Secret

Second attack and this time toward @krismatic

She really is the kind of character I could also have in my univers, she is just so pretty !

[daemon-in-my-head]

Hi! Thanks for making the durge creator questions. :) If you haven't answered this one yet for yourself: #2?

Thanks for enjoying and using my questions (and asking me too hehe)!

2. How does their race play into the design? Was it a conscious choice because of the racial features or did you simply enjoy the playstyle or lore?

I'm sorry I will be fangirling rly hard now, this is one of my fav questions I'm ngl.

My choice to go with an elf has multiple reasons. Besides adoring the fey folks in all their shapes and sizes, 'regular' elves in particular always have these stereotypes attached to them. And I wanted to challenge that. Cuz arguably, Elli can be lovely and refined; he's dealing with nobles and considers himself one for ages, but it's merely a mask. The real one is a completely chaotic gremlin and everything you would not attribute to an elf. They're also known for being somewhat aloof, and they cope with loss 'better' than short-lived races since they experience such a tremendous amount of it, but thx to his upbringing, he never quite learned that, so he's one of the few who's hit incredibly hard by it. Besides, they're also known for their skilful ways of handling memory, so an elf with amnesia? The wonderfully twisted irony.

But most importantly, they are inherently tragic. Elves, in the 5e setting anyway, are reincarnators, and their drawing of the Veil is incredibly traumatic even if they have a support system, but without it, it usually breaks them. They're pretty 'fragile' in a way, easily consumed by their past, and all of them have that inherent longing to go 'home' as they are not native to Toril. Plus, they got an extra afterlife reserved exclusively for wood, moon, sun, astral and dark elves (even drow are excluded), so no matter what my Durge does, whether his soul ends up in the hands of Bhaal or the Seldarine, the chances of him reuniting with the people he's lost are slim at best if not non-existent.

There's that one book ig (Larethian iirc) that actually encapsulates my infatuation with them quite perfectly:

"As in all myths the physiological reverse oblation (God gives to his people) is interesting. The elven people are not formed from Corellon's hip bone, his throat, his testicles. Instead they arise from an expression of sorrow. Some scholars frame them, then, as an antidote to his pain (Corellon was, at the time, experiencing loss and feelings of betrayal).

More traditional thinking (and here I quote the elven sage Aephir Loquellan) places elves, 'as sad as a species can be.'

This rings truer for me. Life, after all, deposits its fair share of difficulties on those burdened with living it, and elves endure a long, long time..."

The child of death who can't die no matter how much they long for it, a man destined to live for centuries incapable of remembering even his own name, someone longing for a home that no longer exists. A person who shouldn't form attachments growing obsessive in their affections. It's just such a vibe.

Also there's hardly any elven durges, they needed some good old messed up rep lmao

[haltijakapala]

My lovely elf is finally done! He will be a prismatic sticker if everything goes as I hope >:3c will post proper pictures then. Or probably a video :D

This guy is Daenthia, a high elf exile with a very high self esteem! The little thingie in the corner is me xD I Love Elves. So much.

[detect-undead]

DnD Character I was toying around with....Twilight Cleric Elf

[as-i-watch]

Senshi used Pretty Privileges

Its highly effective

[tingbaosart]

I love Elves! (via "I love Elves" Magnet for Sale by Moyanana)

[cottoncandiescupcakes]

Tolkien describing Elvish woman: The Lady was beautiful and pale with long silver hair and wore some kind of flowing garnment. anyway back to the men

Me: ok cool she sounds pretty can I hear more about her-

Tolkien describing Elvish man: FINDOR SON OF FINLOTH WAS SO FAIR AND GRAVE THAT THE SWANS DID HIS BIDDING. HE WAS TALL AND STRONG AND WIELDED A HUNTING KNIFE. HIS DARK HAIR FLOWING IN THE WIND, HE TOOK A LAST STAND AT THE PEAK OF MORGOTH'S SEX DUNGEON WHERE HIS GOLDEN-HAIRED ELVEN COMPANION HAD LONG FALLEN PREY TO THE DARK LORD'S WILES

Me: ok so you're going through a lot. I get it. It's fine my man

[darkurgediary]

I'd like to let the record show that Baldur's Gate has ruined elves for me by giving me Teiflings because I want to play NOTHING ELSE NOW

[dunmeshistash]

Dungeon Meshi - Elves

[vigilantegreen]

I honestly feel like nobody in lotr mentions how fucking weird Legolas is. He stays up pacing the floor and singing to himself in the dead of night. He deadass stares straight into the tree line in the absolute pitch black when no one else can see anything. He yells goodbye to a river he has heard about in songs. He's so strange and not one character mentions it AT ALL. I absolutely love him.