Thread:Dark dwarves 2/@comment-26453572-20160717171223/@comment-26184570-20160719151019

The Lord of Minas Morgul wrote: Argali, following evolution (which doesn't exist in Arda), they don't have enough time to have any form of evolution, having only a few thousand years of life at the beginning of the Second Age. Men didn't appear until the first rising of the sun, and the Elves had already existed for a thousand, give or take a few hundred, years. (Mind that these are just estimates based on the Valarin years, which are longer than years of the sun.) Taking all of that into account, Elves did not commonly interbreed with men, so it's highly unlikely to find an Elvish population with some mannish blood (more likely to find a culture like Dol Amroth, having only a little Elvish blood). "Pure" Elves would not look like that, plain and simple. Upon choosing someone from the race of men, the Elf sacrifices their immortality in Middle-earth. It still becomes very uncommon for an entire group of Elves, in this case the Avari, to have mannish features. DD2's faction is fine, because his Xin don't encompass the entirety of the Avari, just part of them.

My point in this? Not everything in Middle-earth can be fully represented by a real life culture. Ah, but you're forgeting the phenotypical differences courtesy of the Valar.