Who's the best elf? Pic related.
Anvil Chan
Are elves best big or smol?
NOW YOU LISTEN HERE YOU KNIFE-EARED PIECE OF SHIT!
Half elves are best
If elves are so great why do humans dominate every single god damn fantasy world ever.
Elves have longer lives, they're more nimble, they're better at magic, they're super intelligent, and yet still they get fucking destroyed by humans in every reality they exist in.
And there are never any amazing half elves either. If you marry an elf your children are guaranteed to be mediocre.
Because they fuck like porn stars.
Anti-elf muh human dick shitposting aside, you get two answers:
Fantasy writers are retards and humans just always have to be the top dogs for easy self-insertion. Secondly most often elves were at the top for thousands of years, until SOMETHING happened and humans begun to squad in their ruins. Bonus points for elf civilization still being better after the fall.
Now western fantasy will more likeliy give good explanations, while in japanese fantasy elves are just there.
Usually distrustful of humans, running all nimbly bimbly in their forest of elf magic that nobody goes into because plot points.