I'm not going to say that elves are exactly Asian or Asian-based because everyone knows that they were originally based on creatures of European myth.But the more I look at it, I can't shake the feeling that Asians or at least East Asians are Elven in their appearance and mannerisms.Quiet and reserved, never imposing? Check.Suppression of emotions and individualism? Check.Strongly effeminate features in both males and females? Check.Overpowering emphasis on tradition? Check.Intellectually superior? Check.Relying on martial arts to compensate for weaker overall physique compared with other races? Check.Tight little vaginas? Double check.
Elves are tall, blonde aryan chads and I disregard your game-less shitposting idea based on porn and memes.
>>98244500>isolationist>live on a single island>make a big deal of being the oldest civilization around>devoted to absurdly intricate practice of impractical hobbies like flower arranging, silk weaving, harp playing>manners and protocol matter above everything in court>wear scale not plate armor>biggest enemies are the dark version of themselves>act snooty about their achivements but not actually that advanced vs. the rest of the world>monarch is a sacred line of succession passed down from the gods>have a corps of devoted sword masters who obsess over their special blades>in actual warhammer art have slanty eyesWHFB High Elves may be the most Japanese fantasy race to ever hit the mainstream.
>>98244500>can't grow a beard>Aryan chadsDoesn't check out.
>>98244598You just described england.
>>98244635It's well known that Britain and Japan match. But the English wore plate, weren't dedicated swordmasters and don't have slanty eyes.
>>98244611>>can't grow a beardDepends on the setting.Caring about superficial appearance like this is a womanly thing in the first place.>>98244598You can cherrypick all that all day long, yet there are many aspects that draw inspirations from ancient people from Europea and minor asia.GWs design philosophy with their elves is based around pre-monotheistic cultures and religions.And Ulthuan is not just "an island", it's an entire continent. It's landscape does not mirror glorious Nippon at all.
>>98244647>But the English wore plateNot the whole time irl, you're being a loony. >dedicated swordsman Dude they have an entire foundational myth about a bunch of knights and a magical sword in a stone. >slanty eyes They're squinty and beady, close enough.
>>98244657Forgot to add: Ulthuan is based on Atlantis.Also, High Elves were only "isolanist" for some time. They weren't in the past, they colonized large parts of the known world, were explorers and conquerors. And the history of interacting with the world again is completely different from how Japan got forced by western powers.
>>98244657It's pretty straightforward dude. Grow a beard, if you're so manly.
>>98244657Sorry bruh. If you can't grow a beard, then you ain't a chad.
>>98244598>>isolationistDepends on the time, not in the past, not in the year 2500 whatever of the setting.>>live on a single islandIt's an entire continent and they have colonies here and there.>>make a big deal of being the oldest civilization aroundPretty sure the Japanese don't do that, they have the Chinese right next to them.>>devoted to absurdly intricate practice of impractical hobbies like flower arranging, silk weaving, harp playingHallmark of every high culture.>>manners and protocol matter above everything in courtByzantine inspiration.>>wear scale not plate armorThey do have plate, but not full body plate. Ancient greek, persian, near eastern inspiration.>>biggest enemies are the dark version of themselves??? How is that Japanese.>>act snooty about their achivements but not actually that advanced vs. the rest of the worldHigh elves are plenty advanced in various fields, for instance nautical science or magic. No Japanese inspiration here (who are very good at copying and refining other peoples tech)>>monarch is a sacred line of succession passed down from the godsYou know how many ancient people did this?>>have a corps of devoted sword masters who obsess over their special bladesYou found the one.>>in actual warhammer art have slanty eyesDepends on the artist.They are also tall, blonde and blue-eyed.
>runback /tg/ bait from 2010 and trigger an elfaboo in 2026wonderful stuff
>>98244690>>98244701t.
>>98244732And you can't manage even that. Imagine.
>>98244481Traditional games?
>>98244481Ive always considered elves as whiter than whites. Like we are to elves like niggers are to us.
>>98244481SAAR
>Elves can't grow beards
>>98244481Partially right, fantasy elves are a mix of the Romans, the North European, specifically the Norse idea of what and elf is.The stereotypical wearing silk, the elegance of their buildings and the things they build, the fact they have thousands of years of history before humanity and have longer lifespans may have been drawn from the European idea of Ancient China than China itself. But you aren't completely wrong.
>>98244611Depends on the era, again much like China, in if beards were or weren't allowed. The Romans were considered odd by non-Mediterranean cultures because they were all relatively clean shaven so to a lot of the beard wearing cultures of Europe they had the appearance of children.Places like Greece, Carthage (And the other non-Greek or Roman cultures on the Medd), and Egypt were a mixed bag depending on culture and era with Egypt probably also being the most clean shaven after the Romans, following the Greeks and Carthage because beards were more a signal of wisdom and experience.Beards did become more acceptable around mid- to late Roman Empire with particularly the European and far East Legionaries sporting beards while the most clean shaven people of the Empire were still on the Italian Pennisula.The early modern era of being clean shaven is also a recapturing of that Roman Imperial ideal when it came to ideologies like Fascism, but there were also Communists who were clean shaven as well. Americans were also pretty clean shaven during that time period after WW1 where people were just used to the habit of shaving and that "Roman Idea" mixed with Christianity where shaving was seen as a way of being clean and hygienic (something Christianity demands generally and inability to do so is seen as sloth). Now beards are more popular again and seen as "traditional".>tl;dr: hairstory (sorry) is long and complicated and basically constantly changing, evolving, with ideologies, global states, and cultural shifts.
>>98244481>Quiet and reserved, never imposing?>Suppression of emotions and individualism?Elves have been described as imposing, passionate since Tolkien. FR elves are chaotic by default.>Relying on martial arts to compensate for weaker overall physique compared with other races?This is absolutely laughable on all fronts. Some systems don't deal with attributes maluses at all. Standard is a lack of toughness/constiution, but they rarely lack strength and have a bonus for agility/dexterity, which is a physical attribute as well. Elves are fit. And "relying on martial arts"? What the fuck? Every professional fighter of some sort in your regular fantasy world trains techniques and martial skills.
>>98244481What game?
>>98244954>despite making up only 13% of sentient races humans cause 52% of the wars
>>98244670>arthurThat's all welsh though, and the english just stole it because they have no distinct mythology of their own. Same with stealing Roland&company from the french.Indeed, this was actually Tolkien's primary motivation for writing LotR: to give the english specifically a myth of their own.
>>98245330Good point, elves are welsh.
>>98245588>the elven language is unintelligible to all god-fearing men and sheep
>>98245330>Welsh>BrittonicNo, your culture, ethnicity, and language derive from the Britons, but you are not Britons. Those people went culturally and lingually extinct after the Fall of Rome and genetically disappeared after being pushed out by the Angles and Saxons which made the modern day celtic ethnicities and Bretons.
>>98245330>England was medieval Rome and just stole all the best parts of other cultures, changed them, then proceeded to dominate the world.Stop, you are making me like the English.
>>98245588>What if....>I made two big elf groups>There's a third one but they don't count>Welsh Elves>And>Finnish Elves
>>98245713The Elves also came from "Not Elfenheim" as well from Norse mythology.
>>98245713Based
>>98245713That's why he's the GOAT. And Finnish elves ARE Asian, so OP was right after all.
>>98244481Setting dependent. Tolkien’s Deep Elves are uber German.Forgotten Realms: Sun Elves are Japanese, Moon Elves are Canadian. Wood Elves are Native Americans. Drow are a fem-dom fetishist fantasy mashed up with antebellum America.
>>98244481Interesting idea, do you have more art related to it please?
>>98245957>And Finnish elves ARE Asian, so OP was right after all.>Silmarillion was about the finnish korean hyper war I fucking knew it.
>>98244611beards are for soicucks unless you're a viking chad.I have a beard right now I am growing for viking LARPing and it makes me feel like a hipster faggot.every "chad" I've known IRL has been cleanshaven or would look fine cleanshaven.
>>98246127I think it depends the type of beard you have, a lot of those kinds of people have pubic hair or dirty looking bears that aren't really conditioned, shaped, or taken care of outside of maybe a rinse or a shampoo wash.Nicely kept and shaped beards are still kind of hipsterish or mid-centuryish but comes off a lot better than the unkempt Diogenes beard a lot of people have.
>>98244481Disregarding your statements and opinions, OP, because I want to see representations of Elves of every culture>Japanese elves>Arab elves>Amazonian Rainforest elves>Czech elves>Khoisan elvesAnd more!
The Chinese were the former high elves of the world - isolationist elitists of a formerly glorious long running civilization - until the white man showed up and took it upon themselves to become the even higher elves of the world - and as such are dying out in present day as the rest of the world fights over their leftover scraps.
>>98246334Trvth Nvke
>>98246334Humans sometimes take what elves had and do even more with it. Far more. Way more.
>thinly veiled HFY threadAnd that's why /tg/ doesn't want elves to be aryan chads.
>>98245027>Christianity demands you to shave or it considers you lazy and unclean>While the saints are almost universally depicted as bearded dudes>While the apostles where bearded dudes>While priests and monks of the oldest denomination are required to have beards>Christians look at picrel and go "look at that lazy dirty slob!”Doesn't check out. Seems more like a cultural than a religious thing to me.
>>98247918>Christianity never changed with the times>Can't explain why most Americans and Europeans were clean shaven in the early modern period.>While priests and monks of the oldest denominationLet me stop you right there, as much as Orthodoxy wishes that Non-Orthodox Christians care about what they do, we don't.>Christians look at picrel and go "look at that lazy dirty slob!”They didn't because Jesus is of another time and Immaculate, they are not the Son of God so of course they need to be clean shaven.
>>98247918Mormons aren't supposed to have facial hair for that exact reason and they are one of the fastest growing religions in America and they don't seem to get hung up on this contradiction, I wouldn't expect people in the early 1900s to be that pedantic either.
>>98247918>Can't explain why most Americans and Europeans were clean shaven in the early modern period.Didn't have to because I agree with that part of your post:>The early modern era of being clean shaven is also a recapturing of that Roman Imperial ideal.Although you do talk about fascists and communists who have nothing to do with the early modern era so I guess you are probably talking about the modern era and that "early" was a typo or something. Beards were pretty common in the early modern era as well though. Just look at the Tudors.>Let me stop you right there, as much as Orthodoxy wishes that Non-Orthodox Christians care about what they do, we don't.Not really that relevant. My point is that this is mostly a cultural thing instead of a religious thing since christianity is a universal religion instead of an ethnic or tribal one.>They didn't because Jesus is of another time and Immaculate, they are not the Son of God so of course they need to be clean shaven.What about the apostoles, the saints or even the church fathers? The Catholics were the only ones that were anal about beards for a time but that was probably because they had a beef with the orthodox christians. Right now even they don't have a strict ban on beard and they even have some bearded monastic orders.>>98247958>MormonsNot relevant since they aren't even christians. It's shocking how many people don't know that.
>>98244481>Elves are Asian??Yes, and orcs are... Well...
>>98248151Orcs are vikings, or perhaps mongols, depending on your interpretation.
>>98245330>and the english just stole it because they have no distinct mythology of their own. Same with stealing Roland&company from the french.Says the taffyyou have no culture which isnt stolen from english peopleTolkien was a hack
>>98248157Maybe Scythians.
>>98245713Finns are mongoloids so they are asians
>>98244481Have you ever played traditional games?
>>98246334>>98246422Lol accurate
He waited for page 10 to make that reply.
>>98246334White men are the sauron of the world. A dark corrupting pressence whose existence brings misery and pain to all.
>>98244481How do you know an elven vagina is tight? Did Tolkien describe this?
>>98244481All of your points are incredibly stupid but I need to really highlight one.>Relying on martial arts to compensate for weaker overall physique compared with other races? Check.You hate your ancestors. You think they were all dim brutes just whacking at things with knives without technique or skill.Before the gun became so ubiquitous that it outmoded other weaponry, martial arts were part of the European battlefield. We even have vestiges of them in sports. You think something like fencing just pops up out of nowhere?
>>98259615Yakub pilled
>>98244481>Quiet and reservedThis does not describe asians >Suppression of emotions and individualismThis does not describe elves>Relying on martial arts to compensate for weaker overall physique compared with other racesThis does not describe elves either
>>98260019It's implied. Tom Bombadil a being older than the world who presumably sampled human, elven, maiar and valar pussy and bussy over the millennia lives somewhere innawoods with a single elven woman.I'm pretty sure their extra tight and also produce that dolphin jelly.
