What is the ultimate fantasy race? To me, its Orcs.
>>97294187quar
Humans, as they are incorrigible fantasists.
Elves symbolize optimism for the future. Maybe we too will find a way to live in equilibrium with nature. Live for centuries. Master the arts. Achieve equality of the sexes. And in general be less fat, hairy, and ugly. People who hate them are invariably hardcore nihilists and angry edgelords.
Elrk
>>97294367>Elves symbolize optimism for the future.That's literally the opposite of how they were created.>b-but Tolkien didn't create Elves!I know, faggot. But he codified them as they are now. Mythologically Elves and faeries and gnomes are all little nature spirit critters.
Ultimate in what regard?If we're talking about what portrays the genre the best, I'd say dragons. flying firebreathing lizards that are all but ubiquitous across the world
>>97294187Elves.>women are eternally beautiful as well as generally wise and skilled, while elf subtypes cater to your fetish>men are brave and masterful, simultaneously being innawoods hunters, harmonoiusly natural hippies, and cultured academics>don't get pigeon-holed like dwarfs, hobbits, orcs, centaurs, etc
>>97294436/thread
>>97294187Traditional games?
>>97294187Furries.
>>97295922Yes
I love concepts of Ogre mages and Troll shamans, basically all brute races who also have potential for magic.
>>97294187Its unambiguously Elves. Elves basically *define* the fantasy genre, they are inescapable. You can swap out orcs with any other kind of monster or threat, or choose to exclude dwarves entirely, but you always find yourself back at using some kind of elf even if you change minor details about them or call them something different.
>>97294367Get your head out your ass
>>97294187Goblins.
>>97294187ELVES
>>97304094Anon, those are big-titted tigers.
>>97294367>Elves symbolize optimism for the future.Literally ass-backwards. The entire point of elves is to be a civilization and people in decline, whose way of life proved to be incompatible with the world around them.
>>97304417I've seen bigger.
>>97304745On tigers? Tell me more.
>>97294367>p*ckee21>retarded opinionWho would have thought
>>97294187Dragons. Serpent slaying is peak fantasy. Giants are up there too.
>>97294367OP's question make no sense, but I NEED the sauce for this elf.
>>97304933Prepare to be disappointed!
>>97294431Elves as fairies is an Early Modern invention. Before that, they were semi divine humans
>>97305053Before that they were very vaguely defined. What's modern is thinking every mythological creature had a definitive, universally agreed upon version
>>97305053No. Elves, faeries, pixies, gnomes, goblins were all an amorphous blob of nature spirits.
