But just to indulge Uncle Lester's points a bit, if they wanted to go with the Alien Elf look, like say more Elrond from the 80s Hobbit cartoon, rather than Elrond from the Peter Jackson LotR films, they'd need to completely change the shape of the underlying skull. Basically compressing and elongating the lower part of the skull like an El Greco painting.
A freakishly narrow chin and jaw giving extremely high cheekbones, triangular shaped orbitals for the eyesockets, and a very narrow nasal aperture. But they clearly did not go that direction with their aesthetic at all, otherwise our elves would look much more like the Gith do currently than anything a normal Human skull would produce.
