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Originally Posted by Flyndaran
That last issue alone could explain half elves. The human half picks up the slack for fetal mana dependency.
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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.