Comments on: Book Giveaway: Blood of Elves (10/3/2014)

By: Sylvia

Sylvia — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 23:11:52 +0000

I agree with Mango Heroics that Tolkien defined the characteristics of elves and dwarves, and most authors respected that style.
Dwarves probably use axes because they are tough and short, and axes give the impression of being heavy. Elves tend to be agile, and curved swords add to their swiftness. Longswords don’t really give the impression of speed…

By: Shane Kiely

Shane Kiely — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 11:21:47 +0000

Dwarves use axes because they’re miners & axes are an important part of the mining process? (as a non miner i’m not sure what & couldn’t even hazard a guess)
Curved swords are pretty & elves are the prettiest of all the mythological races (except Mermaids/mermen but they use tridents)
Orcs are a bit rough thus their weapons are a bit rough & ramshackle. Proper weapon sellers wont deal with them so they make their own (studded clubs, stone mauls etc) or steal them (but being a bit rough they take very little care of them & go blunt/rusty but then the orcs start using swords as metal clubs)

By: Simon Bradley

Simon Bradley — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:23:18 +0000

The typo is the bit about “March 10th”, right?

By: Barb Petersen

Barb Petersen — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:06:16 +0000

Elves are too proud to be blacksmiths and have to rely on the dwarves to make their swords. The dwarves make them curvy as payback for insults real and imagined.

By: paul

paul — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:23:56 +0000

Elves have curved blades to match the way their mind works. They think in curves rather than in straight lines resulting in behaviour very different to other sapient beings

By: Mulluane

Mulluane — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 05:05:37 +0000

Dwarves have axes because swords are really long and Dwarves are really short. Best they could do, when not tripping over the darn things, is run around poking holes in their opponents’ legs.

However, with an axe they can chop the legs off at the knee which has the added benefit of making their opponents as short as they are. This enables them to remove their heads on the back swing.

Win/win

By: Mango Heroics

Mango Heroics — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 03:55:15 +0000

Just guessing elves & dwarves & orcs have what they have because JRR Tolkien wrote them that way and every one who read him (we are legion) decided he had some inside information. So monkeys see, monkeys expect, monkeys keep doing. Just ask Gareth Powell (about monkeys, that is).