I'll second Goldberry here. I think it's alright to pick edge-case characters that stand out, but it would be doing the setting a disservice to not better represent elves and have the game recognize that the very un-elven Elves are seen as pariahs or exceptions to the otherwise pretty universal rule.
Forgotten Realms has helped a lot by doing much of the race creation and setting development homework for us, and the way they've developed the races outside of humans is more interesting than most people give it credit for.
