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Nixing these two quotes, as they fit the older trope definition but not this one.
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->''Chiefly thanks to Tolkien, you know elves as Nordic-looking white people who may as well be extras from a lazy '80s porno. They are tall and elegant and fairly girly at all times, they live in forests and are experts at everything...''
-->-- ''[[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-fantasy-characters-that-need-to-be-rebooted/ 5 Fantasy Characters That Need to Be Rebooted]]''
->''"And if readers like one race of [[CantArgueWithElves smug, pretentious and lecturing immortals who are always right]], they will love a whole bunch more! Want to preach about environmentalism? Add Wood Elves and make them tree-hugging hippies. Want to make your elves edgy? Send them through a {{goth}} phase and make them Dark Elves.''
-->-- ''WebAnimation/TerribleWritingAdvice'', "Fantasy Races"
-->-- ''[[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-fantasy-characters-that-need-to-be-rebooted/ 5 Fantasy Characters That Need to Be Rebooted]]''
->''"And if readers like one race of [[CantArgueWithElves smug, pretentious and lecturing immortals who are always right]], they will love a whole bunch more! Want to preach about environmentalism? Add Wood Elves and make them tree-hugging hippies. Want to make your elves edgy? Send them through a {{goth}} phase and make them Dark Elves.''
-->-- ''WebAnimation/TerribleWritingAdvice'', "Fantasy Races"
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-->-- ''WebAnimation/TerribleWritingAdvice'', "Fantasy Races"
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-->-- ''WebAnimation/TerribleWritingAdvice'', "Fantasy Races"Races"
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->'''Rovain''': When [[Creator/JRRTolkien Tolkien]] wrote about the elves, [[AccidentallyCorrectWriting he wasn't too far off]]. But he'd never met an elf in his life. His writings were based off of the [[Myth/NorseMythology Norse Alfar]].\\
'''Sean''': So... does that mean that elves met Germanic peoples?\\
'''Gina''': It was an accident.\\
'''[[DeadpanSnarker Kevin]]''': An accident that helped [[TropeCodifier give rise]] to one of the most [[UndeadHorseTrope over-used elements in modern fantasy]].
-->-- ''FanFic/PowerRangersGPX''
->''The elves did not appear, because appearing had the implication they had not been previously there. They had been, they’d just decided that Creation would not be able to see them. That was the way with the older elves: they decided what rules applied to them. They could not ignore more than one, but that was usually enough. Besides, she would not put anything past these two: they had been old before they’d ever set foot on Calernian soil. Few people would have called the two Emerald Swords beautiful, she decided. By the standards of humans their faces were too long and angular, their skin so perfect as to seem almost marble and those wide eyes filled with so much contempt it was nearly a physical thing. They were tall and slim and terrible to behold, like a coldly shining star. The one on the left was called Dawn and the other Dusk. They were both men, [[DudeLooksLikeALady not that she could have figured it out from looking at them if she had not already known]]. [[BewareTheSillyOnes The]] [[TheBard Bard]] let out an obnoxious whistle.''
-->-- ''Literature/APracticalGuideToEvil''
->''Chiefly thanks to Tolkien, you know elves as Nordic-looking white people who may as well be extras from a lazy '80s porno. They are tall and elegant and fairly girly at all times, they live in forests and are experts at everything...''
-->-- ''[[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-fantasy-characters-that-need-to-be-rebooted/ 5 Fantasy Characters That Need to Be Rebooted]]''
->''"And if readers like one race of [[CantArgueWithElves smug, pretentious and lecturing immortals who are always right]], they will love a whole bunch more! Want to preach about environmentalism? Add Wood Elves and make them tree-hugging hippies. Want to make your elves edgy? Send them through a {{goth}} phase and make them Dark Elves.''
-->-- ''WebAnimation/TerribleWritingAdvice'', "Fantasy Races"
'''Sean''': So... does that mean that elves met Germanic peoples?\\
'''Gina''': It was an accident.\\
'''[[DeadpanSnarker Kevin]]''': An accident that helped [[TropeCodifier give rise]] to one of the most [[UndeadHorseTrope over-used elements in modern fantasy]].
-->-- ''FanFic/PowerRangersGPX''
->''The elves did not appear, because appearing had the implication they had not been previously there. They had been, they’d just decided that Creation would not be able to see them. That was the way with the older elves: they decided what rules applied to them. They could not ignore more than one, but that was usually enough. Besides, she would not put anything past these two: they had been old before they’d ever set foot on Calernian soil. Few people would have called the two Emerald Swords beautiful, she decided. By the standards of humans their faces were too long and angular, their skin so perfect as to seem almost marble and those wide eyes filled with so much contempt it was nearly a physical thing. They were tall and slim and terrible to behold, like a coldly shining star. The one on the left was called Dawn and the other Dusk. They were both men, [[DudeLooksLikeALady not that she could have figured it out from looking at them if she had not already known]]. [[BewareTheSillyOnes The]] [[TheBard Bard]] let out an obnoxious whistle.''
-->-- ''Literature/APracticalGuideToEvil''
->''Chiefly thanks to Tolkien, you know elves as Nordic-looking white people who may as well be extras from a lazy '80s porno. They are tall and elegant and fairly girly at all times, they live in forests and are experts at everything...''
-->-- ''[[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-fantasy-characters-that-need-to-be-rebooted/ 5 Fantasy Characters That Need to Be Rebooted]]''
->''"And if readers like one race of [[CantArgueWithElves smug, pretentious and lecturing immortals who are always right]], they will love a whole bunch more! Want to preach about environmentalism? Add Wood Elves and make them tree-hugging hippies. Want to make your elves edgy? Send them through a {{goth}} phase and make them Dark Elves.''
-->-- ''WebAnimation/TerribleWritingAdvice'', "Fantasy Races"
