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[–] samus12345 140 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a dagger that was made by elves, Galadriel.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please don't use the E word, thanks. The preferred nomenclature is 'Firstborn of Iluvatar'. DEFINITELY NOT 'pointy ears'

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

These knife-eared snowflakes get whinier and whinier

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 142 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well I know who's next in line for a little chat.

[–] Sylvartas 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't elves have a visceral hatred for orcs, what with them being originally elves brutally deformed and beaten into submission by Morgoth and all that ? If anything, most elves would like you a bit more for being racist towards orcs.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Elves are super racist toward pretty much every other race.

[–] 123nope567 29 points 1 year ago

They're basically nostalgic brtish grandpas, of course they are.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] NewAgeOldPerson 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Treebeard bows deeply to the Lord and Lady of Lothlorian. Ents were taught to speak (trees in the old woods) by elves. So superiority exists.

Counterpoint. The first born are said to be envious of the gift the one gave the second born (men). Death. Before Melkor corrupted the truth and Sauron convinced the Numemoreans that death was evil.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

Whoa man. Keep those ideas back in the first age where they belong.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Jay we talked about this

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They absolutely are people. They clearly show intelligence and sapience. They may be people with morals that are opposed to the other species and they may be at war with them, but dehumanization (depersonization?) isn't the answer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They are constructs, imitations of life, animated by the evil will of Morgoth and his foul apprentice Sauron. They're no more people than ChatGPT is people.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remember watching Fellowship as a teenager in 2001 (if you're a millennial) and thinking that Cate Blanchett was probably in her 50s? Yeah she was 31.

[–] fidodo 12 points 1 year ago

I thought she was several thousand years old

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Orcs aren't people and I'm not afraid to say it.