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Mastermind said:Actually one of the things that sets it apart from other fantasy games is that the apparently repetitive ideas are usually given some pretty cool twists. There's no idealism in the elves like there was in tolkien.
Well, the 'idealism' in Tolkein re: the elves is kind of the point. The elves are a perfect first creation and so on. It's retarded when you try and work that into a swordnsorcery or DnD-verse but then ... DnD is retarded anyway.
But yeah, Morrowind does have a genuinely interesting spin on things: High Elves are eugenicists. Wood Elve are cannibals. Dark Elves are more fleshed out with politics of empire vs tribe vs a trinity of living gods.
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It's still childish however compared to the witcher, and real art is childlike not childish.
An author like Tolkein invents a new language to name his characters: Facile and childish. Sapkowski on the other handnamed ciri after a child porn website he used to frequent.