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>why
because dnd copied tolkien, then games workshop and the japanese animation industry copied dnd and then blizzard copied warhammer and the japanese animation industry kept copying itself. so now you have a pop culture singularity of how elves are supposed to look and behave. and it all goes back to tolkien.
>how do you fix it
either by basing elves on original depictions of mythology they are taken from. or by not using elves at all. if you base your elves on anything tolkien derived it will fall into the same category as all the elves in the picture.