 Can we get a rant video about the Elves in Aragon? Yeah, okay. This is the introduction song. It's not very good, but it's not too long. Okay, so Aragon, if you don't know, I don't feel like explaining it, so just, like, go experience it yourself. I think it's a pretty good series, but I don't know whatever. It's not what I'm here to talk about. Yeah, yeah, I'm laying on the floor. Get over it. So, the Elves are super obnoxious in Aragon, though, because, like... They're the Middle Earth perfect Elves from the Lord of the Rings movies, not really the books, but the movies, just turned up to 11. Because the thing is, the Elves in Aragon are, like, these isolationist tree people with pointy ears, basically. Like, after the Dragonriders were all killed off, they went into their forest and they just sort of sat around and waited for more Dragonriders to come and solve things. Which is weird, because they're supposedly these big badasses who can fight really well, and we kind of see that later, but... So, it seems like they just kind of decided to leave humans to their own fate because humans are less enlightened than them. Because, really, Christopher Paulini writing about the Elves in Aragon feels like a weeaboo writing about Japan, except he's never been to Japan, and so he's only writing about what he's found through anime. That... I mean, that would be most weeaboos, but whatever. The point is, it feels like he's trying to make them as perfect as possible, and gloss over any flaws, or just not make any flaws. Because, like I said, they're these enlightened tree people, okay? They live in the woods, they don't eat meat. They're all vegetarians because they can telepathically communicate with animals and stuff, and they just know they don't want to be eaten, and they know others don't want to be eaten, so they just eat fruits, and they don't even cut down trees to make their houses. They like sing and use magic to make trees grow a certain way and live in them that way. That's kind of dumb. And they just spend all their time just gaining knowledge and being really good at magic, and they also have this weird free-love thing going on where they don't get married, and they just, if two people decide to be together, then they are, and if they're not, they're not. And they barely ever have children either, and that's never explained, I don't think? Because, like, they never mention any sort of birth control or anything, it's just, like, yeah, elves don't have children very often, and also they're immortal, so it's okay that they don't have children very often, it's just dumb. And then they have equality between men and women, and the humans are shown to be misogynistic, like, oh, humans are so silly and dumb, and then at the same time, the elves are, like, speaking of Enlightens, they're these hardcore atheists, which is, like, they're reasoning for it, and, like, the entire race are atheists as far as we see. And the reasoning for it is that, like, well, there's just not enough evidence to support deities being around, and I mean, like, okay, I don't disagree with your reasoning, but the way it's shown in the books is, like, really obnoxious, and I just kind of am reminded that Christopher Paolini was in a cult when he was a kid, but let's not get too deep into that. Look, um, anyways, the elves, like, yeah, they're just, their atheism is kind of obnoxious and just feels, well, no, it just feels obnoxious. And then, as I mentioned earlier, they're supposed to be these big badasses, and they are. They're, like, you know, they're immortal, and they spend all their years learning about how to do amazing magic that humans can't do, and because of their bond with the dragons, it makes them, like, harder, better, faster, stronger than humans could ever be, except for dragonriders, obviously, and so when they find they get involved in the war at the end of the series, they kick crazy ass, and they cut through all the human armies, like, crazy, and it's just like, why didn't you guys do this before? Why didn't you do this a hundred years ago? Like, you're supposedly fighting Galbathorix because he's evil, but, like, you couldn't do that earlier. Why not? Why not? Do it earlier. You could have saved everyone trouble, whatever. And what else was there? Was there anything else about the elves that was dumb? Oh, they're impossibly beautiful, too. Like, all of them, like, they can change their appearance at will, but even, like, by default, they're just extremely beautiful by human standards. Like, you know, they're super fair, and their skin and eyes are, like, glistening and bright, and all that. And they're immortal, so they can just do whatever they want forever. It's like, it's... The term Mary Sue gets thrown around too much these days, but, I mean, the elves are a Mary Sue race because they're like, even the people that dislike them, for the most part, are shown to be, like, dumb or shown to be wrong. Like, the humans who are afraid of elves stealing their children are shown to be superstitious and stupid. And, like, literally the wiki page for elves in Aragon, the top quote is someone just saying, Bah, the elves, all they do is sit around and wait to be conquered. And by the end of the series, it's like they're trying to show him wrong by throwing the elves in there. But, like I said, the elves were just kind of hanging around, not helping anybody. So that's really what a Mary Sue is. Well, that's part of what a Mary Sue is, is that, like, the people that hate them are shown to be wrong in every way because, oh, well, I wouldn't you like the elves. They're amazing, so it's just dumb. And, I mean, there's something, a bit of a non-sequitur, I know, but, like, there's something about the races in the series where, like, the dwarves seem to be, like, this masculine ideal where they're, you know, they're really tough and gruff and they fight a lot and they have big beards and they're constantly being, I don't know, they just seem like a masculine ideal whereas the elves are, like, beautiful and intelligent and always looking for knowledge and basically they're more cerebral than the dwarves, so they're supposed to be, like, this feminine ideal, I guess. And I forgot where I was going with this, but I guess this might be an interesting essay topic or something one day because, I mean, I'm not going to jump to any conclusions here, but I will say that the elves didn't actually want to fight until they were forced to, so I don't know, what's that say? I don't know, I'm not, whatever, I'm not making any real statements on that, just whatever, whatever. Just people wanted rants, the elves and Ergon are obnoxious for all the reasons I just listed and that's it. Patron names here, woo, thanks, and it's a rant video, you don't need all your names said, bye.