Talk:Aen Elle/@comment-81.236.217.47-20150528232311/@comment-163.150.167.78-20170428183228

clarification on my earlier post (apologies mods please erase my previous)

The Witcher Elves have a similarity of geopolittical posistion with one group being removed and unconcerned with humans while the other is diminsihing before a coming human rule fo the world. The Aen Seidhe are at a significant technological disadvantage then their middle earth counterparts; though in the games it should be noted that the best swordsmith in the base game is Hattori (An A.S. elf... as far as we know) The Aen Elle are much more like their Tolkien counterparts only instead of kind and gentle they are much more totalitarian and authoratiative. Both display superior technological prowess to humans (and maybe dwarves though I dont beleive a comparison has been made between A.E. and dwarven craftsmanship) architectural embelleishment and sophistication as well as a signficant love of artistic motif and embellishment.

As for other similarities; most elves are derrived from Tolkien's work and its why they are so common. Tolkien and Sapowski both drew heavily from folklore and Norse/teutonic myth is in the same culture family as Polish and slavic myth. So if you do things a similar way you will get similar results. How much Sapowski was aware of Tolkiens work is questionable but its in the realm of reasonable possibility that his elves developed entirely without reguard to Tolkiens work or general fantasy.

The Dragon Age Elves are much more derrivitive from Sapowski's work though they also have sifnificant differences. In fact much of Dragon Age is fairly heftily inspired by the Witcher. Im speculating on half remembered articles; but I know that Bioware, who developed Dragon Age, helped CDPR develop the Witcher (They even appear in the opening screens); I dont know the nature of how or why Thedas is so much like the world of the Witcher; but the 2 series share a great deal.