Even in the movies it was pretty clear that elves are racist as fuck. If they ran middle Earth they’d genocide the dwarves and enslave the men.
No. Not even close.
Why do you think the friendship between Legolas and Gimli was so notable? Cause dwarves and elves get along? No, cause they historically despise each other, talk down about each other, and distrust each other. Elrond, as well as all the elves of Lorien are openly hostile and intolerant towards Gimli and the dwarves and talk about them like they’re animals. I dunno what you call that but racism
I’ve already commented on another post with the why and how the dwarves and elves might dislike one another. But to say the Elves would “genocide dwarves and enslave men” if they ruled Middle Earth (spoiler they did rule Middle Earth for a time and none of that occured) is blatantly wrong and antithetical to Tolkien’s work.
Well, the Elves did hunt the Dwarves before they realised they too were Children of Iluvatar.
Every race has at least one fatal flaw. For the elves, it’s basically pride/conservatism (in the original sense of stopping change). Dwarves, greed. Humans, thirst for power. Hobbits, small mindedness. Ents, laziness. Orcs are only flaws basically. They do seem to be able to build machines of war rather well, so they are industrious at least, but only with a strong leader behind them.
What are you talking about? Those Teleri bastards were asking for it.
I’ve never actually heard someone say that. Lol Or maybe I have and just tuned them out?
Haven’t read the sil yet but my impression of the elves from the trilogy was that they’re a bunch of intelligent, nostalgic, racist, isolationist weirdos who just so happen to be good hosts and don’t wear their bigotry on their sleeves (most of the time)
