To be fair, there's also wood/east-elves, fair/light-elves, grey-elves, green-elves, all of whom are bona fide elves. So just because he's called "modifier+elf

To be fair, there's also wood/east-elves, fair/light-elves, grey-elves, green-elves, all of whom are bona fide elves. So just because he's called "modifier+elf" doesn't mean they didn't think he's a proper elf.