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I'd like to give my two cents to defend elves, cause I think the existance of these creatures opens the door to a super interesting conversation about human existance.

So, little premise, according to European folklore, elves and humans were created, at the beginning of time, on the same day of the same substance. The creator made these creatures very similar to each other, but he gave each one different gifts.

For the Elves he granted immortality, and their destiny was to remain in the world until the end of days; for this reason they have enormous affection for nature and know, better than men, all its creatures, with whom they live peacefully. For the same reason, they received the gift of divination and prophecy, and were made to remain eternally young and supremely wise.

Men were created mortal, but they were given the gift of shaping their life, adapting it to the vicissitudes of the world, in which they would spread out in search of something they would never find.

To make this search more bearable, the creator wanted humans to live only for a short period of time. Their destiny ended with death, but what awaited them next, even the elves did not know.

In this distribution of gifts, the elves were not sure if they had received the best part.

Men's lives were a mystery, so they were always watching them and they were testing them. Perhaps the elves envied the uncertainty in which those beings so much like them lived. Hence the legend of the demons, fallen/dark elves.

With this basis down, do you really want to blame elves' detachment and lack of participation in the human history? They're not a different race, even if they look a bit like us, they're a completely different species, like humans and dragons. Like we wouldn't inferfere too much with, idk, a dragon war, neither the elves are obligated to participate in ours. And here it opens the reflection.

Think about it, us humans were given mortality, we KNOW our life is fragile and that we're not strong enough to survive on our own. Yet, we don't unite, we don't adapt to nature but we take over it like WE are the SUPERIOR ones, we are always in search for power and we make wars for it. We should have evolved even better than elves, because we now the real value of life, and some of them even envy us for it. Yet, they're the ones who dispose of their unlimited time in a good way, so I'd say they are superior. There's nothing wrong with it either, we should know we're not the better species out there, look at our planet...

We love to blame our situation on someone higher than us, huh? (speaking as an agnostic)

It would even go against elves' NATURE to inferfere too much with us.

Fantasy is made to reflect on our word, but it does not mirror it. Elves are not there to resemble human condition, they are there to make us think about a condition above us, and how it would be if we emulated it.

I'm back to reading Eldest after not reading for weeks. and it's the point when I'm asking does christopher paolini want me to hate the elves??