Thread:Dark dwarves 2/@comment-26453572-20160901020547/@comment-26453572-20160902011314

Well, I actually agree with that "eurocentric" view of the Elves, and I don't find it any more unrealistic than Elvish culture. I think Tolkien would have told us if the Avari Elves and Orocarni Dwarves had Asian elements to their culture, just like he mentioned the ethnicities of men. Not everything is a strict translation from our world to Middle-earth, which is why I'm opposed to factions like Atmora. The Elves themselves are very European from the start, and since they developed long before men did, I see no reason for them to be Asian just because they coincidentally awakened in "Asia". Dwarves are obviously different from Elves, but I don't think the Asian culture fits them, either.

Finally, I don't think real world languages should effect these fictional languages. Sure, Westron and Rohirric are represented by English and Anglo-Saxons respectively, but that doesn't mean that's what they are. Sure, his languages use some aspects of our real world languages, but they definitely aren't those languages, they're only inspired.

I don't like the way real cultures are being thrown into Tolkien's creations, no matter how undeveloped he left them, because it ruins immersion in what I've come to know as Middle-earth. Let men have their diverse ethnicities, and let the Elves and Dwarves keep their own.