If Elfs were real, what would be their biological name?

>>16702284 (OP)
homo gay

>>16702284 (OP)
Homo sapiens longiauris

homo homo sapiens

Homo waifuensis

Homo Erectus Reloaded

>>16702284 (OP)
>If Elfs were real
>If
Vitalik Buterin is real and he is a Homo Sapiens

>>16702465
He looks like a stretched Hobbit

>>16702284 (OP)
Family: Nymphae
Genus: Filii
Species: F. lucis

>>16702284 (OP)
Homunculus longaurus

>>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."

>>16702646
So, what would be their biological name?

>>16702465
his ears are as unelflike as can be

>>16702284 (OP)
>friereddit
also, kill yourself

>>16703179

>>16702284 (OP)
>Fae Sapien Longa Auris

according to allen's rule, elves must originate from deserts

>>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.

>>16703353
It's Yakubs all the way down.

>>16703358
>the schizo was right
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
HOW DID HE KNOW?!?!

>>16703361
>"I take the spirits from the air and water, and lock them in flesh of fire and stone." - Ahriman's Stone Tablets
>mfw
>yfw
>tfwnfw

>>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

>>16703368
I guess you could say...
You elved too deep...
:D
https://youtu.be/mR3jnW2kcUs

>>16703361
Maybe R. D. Laing was right and schizophrenia is just a higher form of awareness.

>>16703371
SON OF A BITCH! I'LL KILL YOU!

Elven girls are made for human men.

>>16703374
D:

>>16702284 (OP)
"Elf" shares its origin with "alba" meaning "white" so you'd probably call them homo praecipuus

>>16703342
>Fae Sapien
Faepian?

>>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)
Sexo Muhdikicus

>>16703518
>and spoke a language similar to Italian
Tolkien's influence for the Quenya language was predominantly Finnish.

>>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

>>16703548
Bullshit. Anyway, Finnish is an Asian language.

>>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.

>>16703577
>Bullshit.

>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.

>>16703586
You do realise your quote confirms that it's bullshit, right?

>>16703599
>Tolkien's influence for Quenya was predominantly Finnish
>>Bullshit!
>"Finnish was a dominant influence" - Tolkien
>>Confirmed bullshit!

>>16703602
You needed to end the quote after two sentences if you were planning to be disingenuous.

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.

>>16703656
... and you haven't seen their feet yet.

>>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.

>>16703588
>convergent evolution
>of intelligent races
actual retard
>muh majik
nvm, a troll kek

>>16703518
>>16703577
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>>16703604
retarded nigger or medtroll?

>>16703656
Girls wear elf ears as a fashion accessory.