What's the purpose of an elf's long ears? Why are they so large and pointy? Do they have alchemist propieties...

What's the purpose of an elf's long ears? Why are they so large and pointy? Do they have alchemist propieties? Do they work as radiatiors, preventing their brains from being fried due overuse of magic?

They'd hear better, supposedly.

Makes them more adorable

Aesthetics. That's literally it. There is no satisfactory answer to your question that won't be argued to death forever. It's just because it's an interesting and distinctive look they've become associated with.

Selected for from their ancestors due to their mobility enabling improved directional hearing and emotional expression.

It's to show they're not human

To make them cute

You know, halflings, dwarves, orcs, they most of the time also have pointy ears. It's a rather recent and anime thing to give elves huge ears.

Practically they serve no real purpose, the elongated outer ear only slightly increases their acuity. They are, however, quite useful socially. Elves have very limited control over their ears, much like even stonefaced humans have a hard time controlling their micro-expressions. They droop, twitch and perk depending on the mood of an elf, allowing other elves to quickly divine their true feelings no matter how hard one may try to hide them. This increased emotional awareness prevents misunderstandings, allows elves to communicate that which cannot or should not be said and therefore makes all cooperation between elves work better. This is why their civilization is miles ahead of that of humans: with all misunderstandings and hurt feelings smoothed out, they can direct more effort towards working together.

This also explains why hu-mens find these ears so cute: an elf has no control over them. Much like how a dog can't choose to not wag his tail when he's happy, an overjoyed elf can't stop herself from wiggling her ears.

The oldest examples of pointed ears that I know of is the greek god Pan, who had pointed ears to emphasize his distance from humanity and unity with nature (they were like the ears of a goat).
Elves generally take their design from the fairies (fair folk) who in turn are heavily intermingled with the same folk beliefs that gave rise to greek spirits like nymphs and faun, thus the inhuman trait is literally only to emphasize their inhumanity.

Cup your hands around your ears and you'll find that you hear better. I do it all the time, get some strange looks but it's worth it for the perception boost.

To detect the sweet sweet sound of potatoes (straight cut, not natural cut) being fried

Marcille is accepted, your "elf" is a farce however.

b-but she's so cute and cuddly

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Erogenous zones according to a certain tech priest.

You hate elves, don't you?

N-no what makes you say that?

Handlebars for vigorous oral sex.

Saw some people posting these un-elf looking things from anime and manga while actively hating them. Sometimes these fetish elves go so much against what traditional games elves are like that you question why they are even posting them here. Surely if you would like the basic idea of an elf you wouldn't post a parody version of that. Also, sometimes I get the impression that /a/ takes elf-hate much more serious these days than Veeky Forums does.

tl;dr please leave

And the only reason they did it in anime is because in Japan, pointy ears on an otherwise basically normal looking human denote a demon or similarly nefarious supernatural being. When Western fantasy started to get marketed in Japan, they gave elves *long* pointy ears to distinguish them from demons.

Not that I'm complaining. I like the anime style elf ears, personally.

That right here is why I love that comic.

Drop it in the bowl and let it slide toward your mouth.

I don't like this. They are always trying to glorify skelly by making fat fetishes.

Because they were only just slightly pointy in myths from Europe, but when Japan heard about them they already gave all their mythical beings pointy ears, so elves has to get even longer, pointier ears to make them stand out.

What's the purpose of dwarves' big beards? Why are they so long and hairy? Do they have runic qualities? Do they works as insulants, preventing their bodies to freeze as the alchool makes their veins too dilated to retain heat?

Mee too. Can't understand why people go full REEEEE on them, honestly.

>anyway Warcraft did it before most nerds in the west knew of eleven's elves

To smell you better, of course. The hair captures the particles in the air while blocking the underground pollutants.

Same as human beards. Filtration device that doubles as a food reserve. Very practical for long expeditions in tunnels.

I tought they actually worked like a cat's whiskers. When the dwarf is in enclosed and smoky areas, the hairs go erect and feel around the dwarf.

Someone has read artemis fowl, I see.

like a tiefling's horns?

Okay, this looks funny, what is it?

MAGIC SENSORS.

Like the hammer head's shark's head that is shaped like a hammer, the ears contain a delicate system of magical sensors that it uses to find magical prey or detect magical predators.

This is why the really key difference between species of elves isn't coloration, though regional variations are often distinguishable via coloration as well, but whether the ear is arranged so that the ears protrude outwards or backwards - those that protrude outward give the elf the equivalent of binocular vision regarding their magic senses, much as forward facing eyes are the mark of predatory birds or mammals and similar are often indicator of omnivorous or carnivorous elf species, while elf species with backwards (or the incredibly rare forward protruding species) are generally herbivorous and use their magic sensing ears to give them more than 270ยบ of coverage for the magical senses which makes it harder for magical predators (such as other elves) to sneak up on them while they forage, eat, or sleep.

Elflation.

Ancient Veeky Forums shitposting has always held that Dwarven Tremor-Sense is due to beard sensing.

A-actually I didn't...

Of course.
>all fantasy races with elongated facial traits were invented by perverted nerds with facefucking/cumdumping fetishes instead of just mythology or symbolism etc.
>all male versions of these species therefore get demasculated and ridiculed as gay because of said features.

This makes more sense than I thought.

All fantasy stuff is just something someone invented because their fetishes were too much for mere mundane reality to handle.

something to nibble on in bed

>All fantasy stuff is just something someone invented because their fetishes were too much for mere mundane reality to handle.


This is pretty much why I'm on Veeky Forums.

Elf ears are for sexual.

Gives them better balance, improving their stability, body coordination and hearing, making them more agile, adept at sword dancing and better at aiming.
Also, they are not only better at hearing, they have a greater spectrum of hearing sensitivity, which makes them good with music and as a consequence all kind of lyric art.
Since a both balance and hearing are functions of the brain, that means that elfs probably have a more developed central nervous system, which explains their talent with magic that relies on studying and understanding theories such as wizardry spells.

Elf San Wa something something/ Elf-san can't into diet

Fun fact, dogs also show some emotion with their ears. My dogs ears move when he reacts to certain things.

No that's halfling ears.

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>elves flatting their ears back when nervous or sensing danger
cute desu

C U T E

Weirdly enough, I don't think even Tolkien made any mention of the ears of elves being particularly pointy.

Chalk it up to cultural inertia, I guess.

Makes them cat-like and therefore uncanny in a non-threatening way.

what is this? and she wouldnt happen to be raping that guy behind her would she? Not enough elves raping and enslaving human males

>raping
What are you, some kind of savage? Elves are for
>being part of matriarchal societies with a chronic shortage of men
>stalking woodland travelers from the trees, on the prowl for handsome and lightly (or un)guarded men
>descending on unsuspecting men and dragging them back to the village
>being wedded to these men, confirming their ascent into womanhood
>consumating the marriage in front of the entire tribe, marking her mate and asserting her dominance over him before the village elders
>Living happy and fulfilled lives with
>Raising a new generation of elf amazones with

>cats
>uncanny
U wot m8? The only uncanny thing about them is how much I want to touch them despite my allergies

I think their ears are a bit like cat or bat ears; they are sensitive and directional, because elves are forest predators.

Dosukebe Elf no Ishukan Nikki
Mostly she buffs herself up with two dozen protective spells and throws herself at monsters to get used as a living onahole but beta orbiter-kun gets thankyou sex when he drags her insensate ass back to town.

This man speaks wisdom.

Because otherwise they'd just be a race of attractive women. You gotta make them stick out as a different race somehow and it was the only attractive feature they could pull from old folklore. It's that or make them crinkly and squat.

Ignore all over answers. The truth is that elves store their excess body mass in their ears so that their body won't grow giant. This is because a giant elf is impossible, an elf who became giant would just be a giant with pointy ears, not an elf.

They use it to knife you.

He did not. Mostly he just said they were all really pretty.

You forgot the part where it's her life's goal to be fucked to death by a dragon.

Please get rid of the /h/-shit in this thread.

Why was this deleted
It's not even cropped porn, there was no lewd on that page whatsoever

You will never touch ears of cute elf

Thanks mods.

In, I think it was, Fellowship he mentioned that they had leaf shaped ears.

He did described hobbit ears in one of his letter as leaf-shaped and "elf-like". At the same time people in his day started to portray his elves with pointy ears and he never objected this. As well as Christopher, who tends to know about middle-earth.

I feel like the japanese have no understanding of how uncute obesity actually is. Do they even have landwhales overthere?

They turned landwhales shoving each other into a national sport.

It's a fetish you dip.

What's the purpose of a long`and large ear lobule? Why are they so large with some people and non existing with some other people?

You can make anything cute with anime/manga it has nothing to do with fetishes or real life attraction.

Their fetish is...teasing the shit out of slightly chubby people?

It's still a fetish manga that has barely anything to do with Veeky Forums.

Pat elf.

Erufuda isn't obese though, she's just chubby. According to Japanese societal standards she'd probably be on par with an obese person in 'Murica, but chubbies can be cute. My thesis based on assumptions I pulled straight out of the blackest part of my ass is that chubby cheeks and a bit of bellyfat are somewhat neotenous traits and therefore adorable.

You mean to say you wouldn't prod your finger into a chubby elf's tummy to make it wiggle a bit while she blushes, gets puffy and tells you to stop it?

The Hylians, also known as the Hylia people (or simply the Hylia) are a recurring race in the Legend of Zelda series. Creatures that worship the goddess Hylia, from which their name derives, the Hylians are the original race of Hyrule. It is said that they were created by the Goddesses or Oocca race. Physically, Hylians resemble humans, and the only difference appearance-wise between them is the Hylians' long, elf-like ears that supposedly enable them to hear special messages from the goddessess.

>You mean to say you wouldn't prod your finger into a chubby elf's tummy to make it wiggle a bit while she blushes, gets puffy and tells you to stop it?
Pretty sure that's assault.

>That
>uncute
user, I..

>The human prince has unwittingly invoked the ire of the wood elves during a political scandal with the elf princess
>The elven ambassador declared war, claiming that such the price of such humiliation can only be repaid in blood
>"B-But all I did was poke her tummy, call her cute and kiss her ear!"

That's the thing, they depict her as if she's some gluttonous shameful landwhale but she's barely overweight. Maybe japs who stuff their face like pigs really do just end up slightly chubby, but it gives me this weird sense of disconnect between how the character is depicted and how I'd expect them to actually look. Like they're trying to make it seem perverse but it's just vanilla.

>physically touching royalty
>ok in any culture
So what you're saying is someone was dumb enough to bring Laius to an embassy meeting?

Depends on the setting context

Every goddamn royal from every goddamn setting.

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>So this is the elven capital. It's important that you follow my lead and don't do anything st-
>Laius don't touch that.
>Laius, that's our sacred grove. Only priests are allowed to enter it.
>Laius, you can't eat the fruits of our sacred grove.
>Laius, you can't drink from the sunwell.
>Goddamnit Laius!

Even my "elf slave what do?" setting?

That setting belongs to

You just hate fun

Itz dey cultcha

It's to see if they can fit through a space. If they can pass through with their ears by sticking their head through to see, then they can pass through with their whole body since their ears grow to the length of their shoulders.

In my setting monarchs are not that much higher up than nobles or generals or similar. They greet by the armshake, you know the one where you grab eachothers forearm instead of hand and shake.

Some people's fetish is that, yes.

>muh fun
This is the last resort of the shitposter.

>you know the one where you grab eachothers forearm instead of hand and shake
That's so fucking cool, it makes me feel bad about the fact that we now do faggy handshakes instead of CHAD WRISTGRABS.

I recognize that artist.

>So me and the ambassadors are all friends now right?

Ye olden sissy cucks didn't have the strength to lock eachothers forearms down, clearly. Or it wrinkled the clothing, more realistically.

We do fist bumps now. Keep up with the times gramps.

SAUCE

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