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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MonkeyDragon" data-source="post: 2186168" data-attributes="member: 23929">I love Mercedes Lackey.  The Elvenbane is one of my favorite books.Visually, I also like the "idealized human" sort of elves, and hate the huge eared anime elves.  In artwork, I like elves to be either slightly taller or slightly shorter than humans, with thin, delicate features and ear tips that are longer than the LOTR movie elves, but shouldn't rise past the top of the head.  They should be slender, lithe, and lightly built.In literature, I like all kinds of elves.  The haughty, aristocratic elves, the feral, forest dwelling elves, mysterious magically critters.  I'm not terribly keen on the elves as faerie folk angle.  I do like those stories, but I think of them as different than the elves that I usually think of as elves.The elves in my world are physically as above, and culturally range from fierce, nomadic desert elves, the more refined woods elves, and reclusive sea elves.  I haven't knocked out all the cultural bits yet.One kind of elf I don't think anyone's mentioned yet are the elves from the Elfquest books by Wendy and Richard Pini.  They aren't my favorite kind of elf, but they're fun, and I really like the books.  If you look at the full-page picture of the druid in the Complete Divine, she is very reminiscent of an Elfquest elf, in line, shape, and coloring style.</blockquote>