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Now elves were prayed to even in Christian times as like saints, elves were being worked with or against in such cases as ‘elf-shot’ in magical practices’, fairy magic was a very real practice that came up in medieval court cases, so are countless Islamic grimoires concerning djinn. And yet I have never seen a case of an elf being depicted as a force that can be manipulated or worked with by human magicians in any modern fantasy work, and really do I see humans being manipulated by elves as they are so often depicted as doing. Even drow or wood-elves do I rarely see the pure naturalistic chaos that elves could embody, as purely chaotic forces of nature that could heal you or destroy you in any second. Now the transcendent nature of elves in fantasy works is also a joke, and elves get mocked for being pretentious but that’s because the mortal mundane nature of elves in fantasy works don’t really capture the purely incomprehensible transcendence of elves that Tolkien captured in symbolically. They appear as a joke, and are treated as fantasy Frenchmen, because unlike Tolkien or elven spirits they have no real transcendence to back up their pomp. Sure they are skilled, wise, artistic, they are biologically stronger and magically speaking too but they are really just biologically more advanced humans at the end of the day. Elves sometimes appeared as something that so resembled humanity, yet so incomprehensible and pure in their beauty because they were/are beyond anything in this world- literally. Nor is the sexuality of elves really addressed in fantasy at all, because it is uncomfortable, but it captures their inhuman nature that’s beyond any human comprehension of morality. Now in popular fantasy sexuality is a way to demean or mock elves, but really it was their most dangerous weapon. Tales of female elves seducing men via vile games only to kill them and eat them, even if they saw through it all and refused.
Now elves were prayed to even in Christian times as like saints, elves were being worked with or against in such cases as ‘elf-shot’ in magical practices’, fairy magic was a very real practice that came up in medieval court cases, so are countless Islamic grimoires concerning djinn. And yet I have never seen a case of an elf being depicted as a force that can be manipulated or worked with by human magicians in any modern fantasy work, and really do I see humans being manipulated by elves as they are so often depicted as doing. Even drow or wood-elves do I rarely see the pure naturalistic chaos that elves could embody, as purely chaotic forces of nature that could heal you or destroy you in any second. Now the transcendent nature of elves in fantasy works is also a joke, and elves get mocked for being pretentious but that’s because the mortal mundane nature of elves in fantasy works don’t really capture the purely incomprehensible transcendence of elves that Tolkien captured in symbolically. They appear as a joke, and are treated as fantasy Frenchmen, because unlike Tolkien or elven spirits they have no real transcendence to back up their pomp. Sure they are skilled, wise, artistic, they are biologically stronger and magically speaking too but they are really just biologically more advanced humans at the end of the day. Elves sometimes appeared as something that so resembled humanity, yet so incomprehensible and pure in their beauty because they were/are beyond anything in this world- literally. Nor is the sexuality of elves really addressed in fantasy at all, because it is uncomfortable, but it captures their inhuman nature that’s beyond any human comprehension of morality. Now in popular fantasy sexuality is a way to demean or mock elves, but really it was their most dangerous weapon. Tales of female elves seducing men via vile games only to kill them and eat them, even if they saw through it all and refused.
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