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Mar 19, 2018 at 22:40 comment added Pryftan @BolucPapuccuoglu He suggested this in the letters actually; that they rather resemble humans. Although it might be more correct to say he stated this as far as stature - I cannot recall precisely but he certainly drew comparisons to humans and elves.
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Jan 8, 2016 at 12:33 comment added RedSonja Both elves and wizards are long and thin. If the only difference is ear shape and fashion sense, then wizards could be hiding pointy ears under the ZZTop hair. If they had a shampoo and blow-dry and wore leggings wizards could pass for elves too.
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Jul 6, 2014 at 18:23 comment added tchrist Well, there’s the precedent of Father Christmas, who looks like a bearded old human but is actually a beneficent, jolly old elf with a team of Christmas elves to help him build toys and to chase off the goblins when the North Polar Bear isn’t around. See The Father Christmas Letters, by Tolkien père.
Jul 4, 2014 at 22:21 comment added trysis The Valar performed pretty much all the deeds of the first few Ages (this is if you don't count the time before Arda was made in "Ages"). The elves performed most of the great deeds of the first few Ages of the Children of Illuvatar, plus a couple before that. There were a dozen or 2 Ages before the Elves awoke.
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Jul 2, 2014 at 21:59 comment added Adriano Varoli Piazza @BolucPapuccuoglu "if you will need drawings of hobbits in various attitudes ... fattish in the stomach, shortish in the leg. A round, jovial face; ears only slightly pointed and 'elvish'; hair short and curling (brown)." JRRT - Letters #27, writing to Houghton Mifflin circa March-April 1938" Douglas Anderson wrote "In his notes on the stem LAS[1] from *lasse = 'leaf' and LAS[2] 'listen' (*lasse = 'ear'), Tolkien noted the possible relationship between the two in that Elven "ears were more pointed and leaf-shaped" than human ones." The Annotated Hobbit, Flies and Spiders (note 6) 1988
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Jul 2, 2014 at 10:48 comment added Boluc Papuccuoglu Actually, and also in light of Jimmy Shelter's answer, I don't recall any passages in LOTR or The Hobbit which state that elves look any different than humans. The whole pointy-eared elf trope is something created after Tolkien, I believe.
Jul 2, 2014 at 10:23 comment added Paul D. Waite Out of universe, I think it makes it more obvious that wizards are special. If they did seem to be elves, their magic might just seem elven, rather than wizardly.
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