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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Giltonio_Santos" data-source="post: 3348941" data-attributes="member: 36874">I'm sorry, but I believe you're a little misguided on your statement. At least, I conclude you're judging Tolkien's role on the formation of the contemporary view of fantasy inferior to what it actually is.For Example, the figure that Tolkien gave to elves is more than good-aligned humanoids of archery and magic living in forests. In D&D, I believe Dark Sun elves are the only ones which play with a really different concept, but you'll still see a lot of Tolkien's influence there.Keeping with the statement above, I believe Eberron's vision of elves to be very in line with Tolkien's elves. Pointy-ear dudes of magic and swordplay? Check. Ancient, proud, and noble? Check. I’d say Fëanor would be proud of those Valenar warriors, and they would equally rejoice in the figure of an ancestor like him.The same cannot be said about Halflings though, but anyway, D&D Halflings are already very distant of their hobbit parents, and Eberron doesn’t present such a great jump in regard to this, in my opinion. Dark Sun already had barbarian Halflings like a decade before… <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I could continue talking about the figure of Oalian in Eldeen Reaches, or how the first line on the dwarven race describes them as natural miners and smiths (not Tolkien’s creation, by the way, but totally in line with his vision), but I hope I was able to make a point here.Despite loathing the Middle-Earth, you’re playing a campaign setting that is strongly influenced by Tolkien’s vision of fantasy, and the domain that his conventions had in fantasy in the last thirty years are essential for you to have Eberron today.Cheers,</blockquote>

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