Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-27340559-20160126232306/@comment-27723099-20160127130959

Yes, this is what I always thought too. There is another important reasonf for it: Origin. Every NPC talks to the player like to a stranger who came from a distant country. That means the player does not seem to origin from Middle Earth, but he is still handled as human. Ainur are the only ones who can look like humans but are not from Middle Earth.