I enjoy the fact that the Elves look alien and otherworldly. It helps sell the idea of them as a strange race of others, more in line with my idea of the "steal your babies in the night" Fae, rather than the typical "Aryan ideal perfect humans" they're usually portrayed as.
I kind of wish Elves would at least act differently.
At least more distinctly then they do now.
Well, they eat people. Thats pretty cool. I doubt most people would have found Legolas nearly as dreamy if one night he just decided to wolf down Pippin with a fine
Chianti. It would have made him way more interesting, though.
The fact that they eat people is where it starts and ends...
They don't act differently because of it (outside offering bodyparts as rewards).
Would be neat if the fact that they are just a ball of other people's memories kind of popped up a bit more.
Elves are depicted as serious minded no-nonsense folks... who wear whimsical armor and weapons... Who eat people in gorey fashion. (and no one really cares oddly enough)
Yeah they hate humans... but everyone hates humans... and humans hate everyone else.
