I found a site about elf girls tonight. The site is a gallery of elf girl pictures (girls dressed up in costumes for anime conventions).
The whole elf girl motif is kind of creepy if you ask me. It implies innocence but when you look at some of these costumes you have to wonder what kinds of movies or tv shows these girls are watching. The swords and weapons are hardly “innocent”.
Everything is about violence in today’s fantasy. You have to go on a quest, save a world, kill a bunch of monsters. There no longer seem to be any romantic fantasies where people are hurt but not killed.
The way fantasy should go, you want to explore all sorts of imaginary possibilities, not just the same boring stuff over and over again.