Elven race / elves - what do you like about them?

[Naruzeldamaster]

Why is this repeated all the time?
Not counting LotR, but I never have seen someone writing elf characters like this.

Newer media has taken to making elves less idealistic. Now they're more just magical humans (and it depends on the author how much)
Older Media got hung up on the Tolkien variety being the de facto way to depict them. Which got pretty stale like a few years after LOTR hit the scene.
Even Skyrim took the Tolkien approach with it's elves.

 

[Malik]

Why is this repeated all the time?
Not counting LotR, but I never have seen someone writing elf characters like this.

Terrarch, Court of Elves, a crapton of Romantasy, Bethany Adams's whole Return of the Elves series from Soulbound onwards, many others but if I keep going I'm going to start getting into books by authors I know and like personally, and whom I'm going to be sharing panels with year in and year out.