>>16702284 (OP) >if elves were real
Which fucking elves, retard? Does the media you are referencing establish their origins?
You probably didn't even realize the answer is "yes."
>>16703344
This is terrifying. There is a schizo on /x/ who claims there was a warlord from the desert who created the elves in a frenzy of malevolent experiments. Everyone laughed him off because of the Tolkien "Nordic Elves" interpretation.
>>16703358 >>16703361 >tfw heat related >not necessarily desert related >there was once rainforest there
SOMEONE DELETE THIS THREAD! OP JUST WANTED A LATIN NAME FOR ELVES! WE'VE DELVED TOO DEEP! https://youtu.be/xhe9kRCySxM
>>16703353
I'm sorry, but there's not much nordic about Tolkien's elves. Most of them had black hair and spoke a language similar to Italian. Tolkien's humans, and namely the Rohirrim, are far more nordic.
>>16702284 (OP)
Would elves even be in the homo genus? I think in most mythologies and fantasy worlds, elves have completely different origins from humans, usually being magical creatures or descendants of godlike beings or powerful spirits while humans tend to just be modern humans. But then again, those same elves are able to mate with humans.
>>16703353 >>16703361 >>16703362 >>16703368
wtf are you guys on about I tried searching /x/ desuarchive for shit about desert elves and couldn't find anything other than the typical /x/ larping
>>16703569 >would creatures that look exactly the same as humans on the inside and the outside, act exactly the same as humans, freely hybridise with humans, and only live longer than humans, be the same genus as humans
Finally /sci/ starts asking the real 300 IQ questions.
>>16703569
No, the fact that Elves and their variants are generally considered to be distinctly separate from the races of Men makes me think they should be in a separate genus, possibly even a separate family.
Other anons have suggested nymphae, fae, hommunculinae, etc. If elves, fairies, gnomes, halflings, dwarves, and other fantasy races are to have some common ancestor with humans then I suppose it's a matter of how far back the split is.
>The ingredients in Quenya are various, but worked out into a self-consistent character not precisely like any language that I know. Finnish, which I came across when I first begun to construct a 'mythology' was a dominant influence. Though this has been reduced in late Quenya, it survives in some features: such as the absence of any consonant combinations initially, the absence of the voiced stops b, d, g (except in mb, nd, ng, ld, rd, which are favoured) and the fondness for the ending -inen, -ainen, -oinen, also in some points of grammar, such as the inflexional endings -sse (rest at or in), -nna (movement to, towards), and -llo (movement from); the personal possessives are also expressed by suffixes; there is no gender. >Excerpt from a letter from JRR Tolkien to WR Matthews, June, 1964
>>16703581
1. There are numerous examples of convergent evolution, such as carcinisation, and elves and humans could be another case of that.
2. If elves are magic or divine creatures, then they probably wouldn't be subject to the same biological limitations and mechanism as other creatures and thus could probably breed with humans through magic bullshit even if they aren't genetically close enough to humans normally.
Although bringing magic into this does kinda ruin the thought experiment, any "scientifically probable" elves would probably have to be some hominid offshoot.
I don't really get why so many people have a hard on for elves. Anime elf ears are kinda cute but "realistic" elf ears look pretty gross and elvish features/proportions just look alien.
>>16702284 (OP)
Irl the elf myth came from ppl creating mercenaries to fight their battles for them. They have a mystical and magical aura due to the amount of warfare they've been through. The biological name wouldn't matter because it's a metaphor for the irl phenomena of mercenary creation. Anyways you could study eye color instead since the science board is about science.
