Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27912807-20170428183448/@comment-25101089-20170428195942

Direranger50 wrote: I think we should stick with what is in the finished text. Few players go to the extent of reading Tolkien's essays and such, and the mod so far has already gone with the elf theory in the corrupted elves.. Changing it would, while not having a huge effect on gameplay, would confuse players and fill the wiki and FB page with posts like "Why were corrupted elves removed???" or "I can't find corrupted elves anywhere!". Well as far as the mod is concerned, we're not going to remove Tormented Elves. But we might add some kind of Tormented Men as well. Although, having said that, it wouldn't make sense because unlike the Elves there's no way they could have languished there since Utumno was broken in the Elder Days... Maybe something else to suggest Mannish origins, then. But that's a subject for another time.

For something like this, I would rather have the mod avoid providing a definite answer to the question, and that can be done by including references to several of the 'theories' - of which Tormented Elves are only one, and for the moment, the only one, but it will not remain that way forever.