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<blockquote data-quote="niklinna" data-source="post: 8735510" data-attributes="member: 71235">Welcome to enworld, and how we do things!Maybe, perhaps, there is no &quot;exactly&quot;. Also, competition comes in many shapes and forms. Are you looking for another faction in the setting/background that is in competition with elves? If so, you could find any number of things they are in competition for, or disagreement/conflict over. Are you looking for some group to take the place of elves, and there are no elves at all? Why does that spot—whatever it is—even need to be filled?In Tolkien, elves were in contrast with dwarves, as the tree-loving nature folk who made (and guarded) wonderful treasures above ground (well above ground, in some cases), whereas the dwarves lived under the earth and made (and hoarded) wonderful treasures there. Elves were tall, dwarves were short-ish. Elves were graceful and nunimous and elegant and wonderful, dwarves were, well, earthier, coarser, and rather rebellious (but&nbsp; not too rebellious).In Tolkien, elves were directly opposed to orcs, in just about every literal and visceral sense. They hated each other and had a kill-on-sight policy. The orcs were &quot;made&quot; by the equivalent of Satan, after all, and elves had been created by the agents of God, and just shy of angels themselves.In Tolkien, elves were immortal and never-changing and, while occasionally mistaken, never wrong, while humans were young and fragile and died quickly and quite often made not just bad but wrong decisions that led to untold woe. And yet the elves saw their time on Middle Earth was over and headed west across the sea, leaving earth to the humans. For...reasons.Is there a single exact area this one author's elves have consumed? Yeah, you could argue so. But it's all in contrast to several different things, without which elves would be even more boring than they are on their own.At least they have pointy ears.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="niklinna, post: 8735510, member: 71235"] Welcome to enworld, and how we do things! Maybe, perhaps, there is no "exactly". Also, competition comes in many shapes and forms. Are you looking for another faction in the setting/background that is in competition with elves? If so, you could find any number of things they are in competition for, or disagreement/conflict over. Are you looking for some group to take the place of elves, and there are no elves at all? Why does that spot—whatever it is—even need to be filled? In Tolkien, elves were in contrast with dwarves, as the tree-loving nature folk who made (and guarded) wonderful treasures above ground (well above ground, in some cases), whereas the dwarves lived under the earth and made (and hoarded) wonderful treasures there. Elves were tall, dwarves were short-ish. Elves were graceful and nunimous and elegant and wonderful, dwarves were, well, earthier, coarser, and rather rebellious (but not [I]too[/I] rebellious). In Tolkien, elves were directly opposed to orcs, in just about every literal and visceral sense. They hated each other and had a kill-on-sight policy. The orcs were "made" by the equivalent of Satan, after all, and elves had been created by the agents of God, and just shy of angels themselves. In Tolkien, elves were immortal and never-changing and, while occasionally mistaken, never wrong, while humans were young and fragile and died quickly and quite often made not just bad but wrong decisions that led to untold woe. And yet the elves saw their time on Middle Earth was over and headed west across the sea, leaving earth to the humans. For...reasons. Is there a single exact area this one author's elves have consumed? Yeah, you could argue so. But it's all in contrast to several different things, without which elves would be even more boring than they are on their own. At least they have pointy ears. [/QUOTE]

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