Quotes / Standard Fantasy Races

When you got these people on your hands, you've got to make them different, haven't you? Well, of course, as we all know, ultimately we've only got humanity to work with. It's the only clay we've got, and of course any races you make, if they're speaking and thinking, are taken from certain parts of humanity as one knows it, with slight alterations of emphasis. It's all you can do, isn't it really?

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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