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<blockquote data-quote="Riley37" data-source="post: 7593707" data-attributes="member: 6786839">I guess the question here, if elves and dwarves aren't literal &quot;people who aren't humans, who use fire and language, and have co-existed openly with humans for centuries&quot;, is the role of dwarves and elves. They're populations which send representatives to the Council of Elrond, and that can be analogous to any alliance of people who have clashed but it's time to unite or die.They're also populations with different relationships with the Rings. The elves made their own rings. So whoever in your history made their own tech, and traded notes with the BBEG, are elf-equivalents.Humans (nine of them) received rings and were enslaved. They're cyborgs now. Were they literal kings, or sports superstars, or elite soldiers, before the BBEG put a ring on them?Dwarves (seven of them) received rings, and gained wealth, but sooner or later they (or their heirs) destroyed themselves and/or each other and/or were devoured by dragons. Sauron eventually ambushed Thrain II, father of Thror II (the one who hired Frodo as burglar), to recover that ring. Perhaps the barons of industry in 1930s Germany, who enabled Hitler's rise to power and became wealthy, shortly before their nation got bombed to rubble, are one example? Alas, wrong decade for Bitcoin miners who delved too deep and woke the nameless fear.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Riley37, post: 7593707, member: 6786839"] I guess the question here, if elves and dwarves aren't literal "people who aren't humans, who use fire and language, and have co-existed openly with humans for centuries", is the role of dwarves and elves. They're populations which send representatives to the Council of Elrond, and that can be analogous to any alliance of people who have clashed but it's time to unite or die. They're also populations with different relationships with the Rings. The elves made their own rings. So whoever in your history made their own tech, and traded notes with the BBEG, are elf-equivalents. Humans (nine of them) received rings and were enslaved. They're cyborgs now. Were they literal kings, or sports superstars, or elite soldiers, before the BBEG put a ring on them? Dwarves (seven of them) received rings, and gained wealth, but sooner or later they (or their heirs) destroyed themselves and/or each other and/or were devoured by dragons. Sauron eventually ambushed Thrain II, father of Thror II (the one who hired Frodo as burglar), to recover that ring. Perhaps the barons of industry in 1930s Germany, who enabled Hitler's rise to power and became wealthy, shortly before their nation got bombed to rubble, are one example? Alas, wrong decade for Bitcoin miners who delved too deep and woke the nameless fear. [/QUOTE]

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