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How many aliens/nonhuman races could be replaced with humans of the same coded culture without losing anything significant? Like, if your setting has dwarves who are basically just Fantasy Scots, you might as well eliminate the middleman and have Fantasy Scots in your setting. Same with Orcs who are Fantasy Huns: just use people with a Hunnish culture and put the extra effort elsewhere. One thing Tolkien did was make his elves categorically different in terms of their immortality and the way that immortality informs their history and outlook and relations with other races. It would be very hard to replace Tolkien's elves with human societies and not lose something. Tuxedo Catfish posted:if you REALLY wanted to start a nerd fight a much more fruitful question is "how many balrogs were there" A trick question because the correct plural is "balroggen". And a group is called "a simmering of balroggen". It's all true, no need to look up.
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