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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9466417" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I am saying that your central thesis--that the people electing the team would ONLY AND EXCLUSIVELY choose people like them--is disproved by the very book that started the idea of the "core four" in the first place."Vanilla races" only happens when you have elected to shackle yourself to a hidebound, limited set. Tolkien had no such thing when he was writing his world. Hell, he literally invented what most people now think of as "elves" and "orcs" and "dwarves" and "halflings." Elves used to be little sprite things. Dwarves (rather, dwarfs, as "dwarves" is Tolkien's invention) were garden gnome type creatures. Orcs were a boogeyman or demonic entity from Old English, and the name had completely disappeared from English by the 1600s. Tolkien reclaimed it and invented a trope that is now so widespread, it's literally the topic of the thread.If Tolkien is meant to be a defense of "vanilla" races, you've missed the point of his worldbuilding. Profoundly so.</blockquote>