Originally Posted by
Mace
indeed, i notice people bandy about perfect too easily when it comes to tolkein's elves, they are actually an excellent model to use, because i did like his vision of what humans could possibly rise too, if we were far more careful to do the right things, yet without losing their humanity, cos you never get the impression that elves can't help but be perfect, they have much humanity to them, they get tempted and riled, enraged, feel grief, pain loss all those things, yet despite, they still have a very low error rate, but you also do see them make errors as well, they can be fooled, but it's not an easy thing to do either.
i'm not sure when or why blizzard decided making their elves fumbling, bumbling bafoons was a good thing, , now no one holds that position, sure they could raise another race to that position that the night elves use to have, but that would be overusing - because it iwll appear like every new race is the IT thing, an unnecessary addition where you could use the already existing race you introduced for that same purpose still. Besides, again, it just seems a bit false that all of a sudden you have new races that is now super human and uper good in every way and are just amazing, in the space of a few short years.
Fantasy writing has to be good and be as realisitic as possible so we can relate to it, to make up for the unrealistic things like different races and magic etc that are in it, otherwise it just ends up being bad