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Old 06-11-2020, 09:20 AM   #36
jason taylor
 
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Default Re: Assumptions about Elves

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Originally Posted by Flyndaran View Post
That last issue alone could explain half elves. The human half picks up the slack for fetal mana dependency.
Not really. Tolkien always pictures man/elf romances as Arthurian eccentricities looked on with suspicion at least by elves and possibly men. There are only a few times elves actually mated with Humans or Dwarves for that matter.

Half-elves are usually royal children. They have a story behind them and a pretty interesting one.

Of course that does not have to be the way you do. If you go by the route you do you might get a situation where the relation between elfwives and humanwives is rather like that between wives and concubines among humans. You might have a Prince only allowed one elfwife but a large numbers of willing (or not depending on the elven evilness rating) humanwives.
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