I know this is a hot-button topic, but I want to try and address it with the respect it deserves. A common theme I see in the role-playing communities regarding Forgotten Realms is a tendency for players to use inaccurate lore regarding elves to start unproductive tirades against anything involving elves or elf roleplay, which detrimentally affects the players involved in such things. Or they only look at the endless number of poorly played elves on servers as their main source and it inevitably skews their perception of reading surface level lore. When I say this, I do not mean the people upset at how some elf players or Dungeonmasters (DMs) play their elves – that, I will address in another piece. 

My post On Forgotten Realms Elf Lore: A Primer on What is Often Missed or Misconstrued (Part I) has made it clear I take umbrage with people who are hyper critical of elves to the point of inaccurate memeing. Some of these people reach the point of cherry-pick lore examples of elves being a problem, using them as the reason to conclude then always at fault for any issues they have. People critical of the problematic elements of the lore, or who have an issue with certain playstyles and the projections involved in elf playerbases, I am happy to converse with them. As much as I have issues with bad faith elf-hating, I take as much – if not more – issue with elf players who try to gatekeep how to roleplay elves and ignore problems that do exist in the lore. Their actions and attitudes feed into the issues that form with some elf-haters.