Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-25981649-20170510203140/@comment-31421070-20170613063832

High King Ithilion wrote: HighElvenDoge wrote:

MrHobit1234 wrote:

HighElvenDoge wrote:

PeterBobsonOver9000 wrote: Wood-elves should have battle-axes more than the others! No! No! No! No! No!

Elves are graceful people, not blood-thirsty axe-wielding barbarians! They fight with slender bows, or duel with elegant swords, not crude, mannish Tree-harming devices! REEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But seriously as Ithilien said, the elves were not light and graceful fighters, while some might have been the majority were not. Well, All my Elves are light, graceful and shoot with elegantly carved bows and fight with slim, curves swords. Indeed, Tolkien realised that the word "Elf" was the wrong word to use. The full name is much longer and grander, but only an Ent would listen to me! Don't recall Tolkien ever saying "elf" was the wrong word, just that it had ridiculous fairy connotations. His elves are very different than your or anyone else's beliefs, too often based on pop-culture stereotypes.

Ithilion, Discussions Moderator (Auta i lómë) 11:35, June 12, 2017 (UTC) It was written in the letter from Tolkien at the start of the Silmarillion.