Why do elves hate humans

However, as far as intelligence goes, Elves are not quite superior. How fast does an ELF go? According to federal guidelines, the top allowable speed using the electric motor only is 20 mph on a flat surface. ELF owners can travel faster by pedaling, some riders regularly go more than 25 mph. The ELF is designed for use under 30 mph. And Thranduil loathes Dwarves. These two pretty much hate each other from the start; Legolas because he thinks Gimli is an idiot for trying to destroy the One Ring with a good blow from his axe nice try and Gimli because well, look at how beautiful Legolas is!

So began a battle that none had expected; and it was called the Battle of Five Armies, and it was very terrible. There we have it. According to the most recent official lore, elves probably bear children mostly between ages and So to them years feels like what 20 years feels like to a Human. So you starting at is still a young elf getting ready to become independent and experience the world for themselves.

Love was not always re- turned; and more than one might desire one other for spouse. Santa advises that no family member touch their Elf on the Shelf , but he does describe a few rare instances when an adult may use tongs or potholders to help an elf in an urgent situation.

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Search forums. Log in. Install the app. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Humans seem to hate elves. It seems to be a commonplace trait, especially in the Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, Athas, and Aebrinis, to name a few worlds.

Now, why would this be? How could humans hate flighty, frivolous, joyful beings like elves? Here's why Some staples of teenaged life: Hi Dad, I'm having a party at the house tonight read: tomorrow the house will look like a herd of bulls tramped through it. Hi Dad, I'm going out and will be back at 11 read: I'll be back sometime tomorrow after you spend all night frantically looking for me. Hi Dad, I need to borrow the car If you're lucky, you'll only sit scared half to death while your son or daughter is out.

Hi Dad, I'm going out with that guy read: well, we all know what to read into that! Hi Dad, I need to use the phone read: 3 days later, the phone company shows up thinking the line is out of order, because of the constant busy signal. Of course, what they DON'T tell you is even worse. What you don't know, with teen-agers, is The worst of teenagehood seems to last only 5 years, from 14 to But in elves Teenagehood lasts From age 30 to age Who are teenagers when you are a little boy.

And of course, their flighty, frivolous parents And if possible, elven teenagers are worse than human teenagers. Human teenagers grow up into somber, serious young men and women. Elven teenagers grow up into flighty, frivolous young elves. This is Reason Number 1 why humans hate elves. It's the teenagers. And, if you really think about it, elven teenagers are worse than Dragonlance kender.

For the kender, are probably being restrained from learning magic and other such dangerous lore, but elven teenagers are encouraged to learn every kind of magic, every kind of stunt, and on and on.

So when the aspiring bladesinger crashes through your roof into your bed during the night, and then goes leaping through the window to escape your wrath, you know the drill. I suddenly know why elves have such a low fertility rate Firstly when Thor sees fit to abscond with Loki so he can face Asgardian justice: Iron Man and Captain America are having none of that and one brief duel later he's agreed to let them take Loki to S.

One completely one-sided supreme Hulk-flavored ass-beating later and he's left on the floor, physically and mentally in shock.

Hulk: Puny "god" Zira : Taylor, don't treat him that way! Taylor : Why not? Zira : It's humiliating! Taylor : The way you humiliated me? All of you? You led me around on a leash! Cornelius : That was different. We thought you were inferior. Taylor : Now you know better. MacDonald : If we appear to be lacking in gratitude, Caesar, what have we to be grateful for? If you mean to set us free, then free us completely. Caesar : What do you mean? MacDonald : We are not your children , Caesar!

Eros : You see? Your stupid minds! Stu pid! Jeff : That's all I'm takin' from you! This is coupled with Rage Against the Heavens , since his plan for getting what the Elves have, namely immortality, involves invading the home of the Valar, who are effectively the gods of the fantasy world. The war situation developed not quite to his advantage , and the plan wouldn't have worked anyway even if they somehow had succeeded in their conquest, but that's what you get when you take advice from Sauron.

Frodo: "And it is also said, "Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes. Peter F. Hamilton's Silfen from the Starflyer sequence and Void Trilogy are basically alien Elves with sandworm maws for mouths.

They go the whole hog, magic-style tech, capricious personalities, unintelligible riddles, the lot. Ozzie Fernandez Isaacs has many encounters with the Silfen, and always gets at the very least annoyed with them for being so bloody obtuse. Glen Cook's Garrett of his Garrett, P. In Lisa Papademetriou's The Wizard, the Witch, and Two Girls from Jersey , the main characters are annoyed by the snooty Sylvan elves and their ridiculously long-winded poetry.

By contrast, the Kiblar elves basically Hobbits who are the Sylvan elves' servants are humble and down-to-earth. The protagonists shame the Sylvan elves into helping them by asking if they're not as brave as the Kiblar elf who is on their quest. Justified and averted in Terry Pratchett 's Lords and Ladies. The elves cast a glamour to make people think they're wonderful, but if someone breaks through that then they're usually downright pissed off. Granny Weatherwax at one point tells the Queen of the Elves what she can do with with herself: " Go back.

You call yourself some kind of goddess, and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn.

The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you. You're right. I'm older. You've lived longer than me, but I'm older than you.

And better 'n' you. And madam, that ain't hard. Gilmuriel: You don't like elves, do you, orc - I mean, Gunnery Sergeant? Gunnery Sergeant Dakashnit: Me? Man, I love elf. Nothing beats roast and basted elf haunch. Unless it's breast of elf with chile peppers. Piss off and hide in whatever corner of the cosmos you deem safe.

Jake: Andalites are very fast, those snakes are faster. One move from your boys and they will die Now we stop playing games, you're not the Andalite fleet, and I'm not going to snap a salute and say 'Yes Sir! Which, to be honest, is generous of us under the circumstances.

Jake: No, sir. This is Earth. This is a human planet. We are not the Hork-Bajir, we know how you 'rescued' them. As long as you're on Earth, you'll get along with us. Am I clear on that? Live-Action TV. In "When the Bough Breaks," after an advanced alien race used their technology to steal all the children on the Enterprise, then tried to ease their consciences by offering "compensation" for taking them. Picard : slowly advancing on the viewscreen Compensation?

You have stolen our children away from Picard: Captivity is an injury, regardless of how it's justified. And now that you've had a taste of captivity, perhaps you'll reconsider the morality of inflicting it upon others.

Beat Now get off my ship. Picard: Your I see no evidence that you're guided by a superior moral code or any code whatsoever. You may be nearly omnipotent, and I don't deny that your But morality, I don't see it.

I don't acknowledge it, Q! I would put human morality against the Q's any day. And perhaps that's the reason that we fascinate you so - because our puny behavior shows you a glimmer of the one thing that evades your omnipotence: a moral center. And if so, I can think of no crueler irony than that you should destroy this young woman, whose only crime is that she's too human.

Q: Jean-Luc Sometimes I think the only reason I come here is to listen to these wonderful speeches of yours. In the 'Inheritance Cycle' a different book series by another author , there is at least one Elf who is intensely aware of his advantages over Humans, and makes remarks to that end. And they may be right, as it seems that Morgoth corruption has been particularly severe on humanity, as:. But the sons of Men die indeed, and leave the world; wherefore they are called the Guests, or the Strangers.

But Melkor has cast his shadow upon it, and confounded it with darkness, and brought forth evil out of good, and fear out of hope. Morgoth was the first to find Men and he corrupted them, and according to the legends of Men, he reduced their lifespan and taught them to fear death.

After the Fall of Numenor, general attitude of contempt toward them except the line of Elendil. The best: Great friendship during the First Age, the Elves taught much to the first men, friendship with the Numenorians. As wicked fools I scorned them, but I pity them at last. There were individual exceptions though of course. Finrod and Beren, Turin and Beleg for example. I don't think the Elves pitied or looked down on other races, but they did consider them to be less wise, weak minded and easily corrupted.

That may be where you feel they looked down on others, but I think the reasons are different. It wasn't because they were physically stronger or more beautiful it was because they were wiser. A good example are the rings of power that Sauron had made. The only 3 rings that were never recovered were the Elven rings because they were smart enough to know not to use them and not to fall under the influence of their power.

The 9 given to men, totally corrupted the 9 and turned them into servants of Sauron. The 7 given to Dwarves merely made them greedy for more gold. It seems they only have pity in the worst of times, but for most of their history they were very indifferent to the other mortal races at best.

During the first age a lot more cooperation was seen, but after the downfall of Numenor, Needless to mention which also included the poor treatment of elves prior to the downfall , they did not collaborate with other races until the need was dire.