Thinking from a purely authorial standpoint, half-elves give a connection to the human audience, while full-elves are meant to be out of reach and ethereal. Th

Thinking from a purely authorial standpoint, half-elves give a connection to the human audience, while full-elves are meant to be out of reach and ethereal. The reason you would not write a scene with your ultimate villain on the toilet is the same impulse Tolkien may have felt here.