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== Fan Works ==

 

 

** Alternatively, the Elves are the fairies and the role of High Men is filled by the Númenoreans.

** The Elves themselves are subdivided, with the High Elves (the Noldor and to a lesser extent, the Teleri) filling the High Men role and the Grey and Green Elves (The Sindar and Laiquendi) filling the more Mundane role. The Vanyar who play little part in the books might be the Fairies. The the Avari might fill the Sixth Ranger or Fallen roles, but play almost no part in the stories (though some would have become the forerunners of the Orcs at the hands of Morgoth).

* An exception is [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'' novels, which have many different races, but only three are especially defined: Humans, Dwarfs (note the plural spelling) and Trolls (and although very different, Dwarfs and Trolls are both Stout by the trope's definitions). Elves appear in only three novels, ''[[Discworld/Lords and Ladies|Lords and Ladies]]'', ''[[Discworld/The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]]'' and ''The Science of Discworld II: The Globe'', and are [[Cosmic Horror|sociopathic extradimensional pillagers]] instead of the usual Tolkien-esque [[Hidden Elf Village|isolated sages]]. Gnomes, Vampires and Werewolves are increasingly used, but tend to be more focused on the individuals rather than well-culturally defined races.

** Gnomes (and pictsie) are kind of like the "cute" race, but more [[Violent Glaswegian|violent]]. They are tiny and hard-headed in every sense of the word. Vampires and Werewolves <s> tend to be bastards</s>vary considerably, with one known group of organized bastards in each race contrasting sharply with characters like Angua and Maladict{{spoiler|a}}.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** From the 3.5e PHB races, we get:

*** Dwarves are Stout, because they're [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|all the same.]] Also Half-Orcs, though they're human-sized.

** Tomb Kings & Vampire Counts - these don't really follow the standard Race issues, as some of them are highly magical but not particularly Fairy-like, while others are tough and capable warriors but don't resemble Mundane or High Men in any other way, and most of the Stouts are special units and not part of the standard army.

** Skaven - The ratmen are also hard to define. They have a lot of magitek like a variation of Fairy, but are evil plague bringers. They have large numbers for melee but each is rather weak, but they are expendable so feel free to shoot into melee. All in all they are Mundane with some hints of the others. They might even be Cute if you have dark humor as they blow themselves up or 'accidentally' kill each other with such alarming frequency (and then blame it on their enemies rather than any fault on their own part) that their sourcebook itself advises you to laugh it off and move on. It's notable that Fantasy, being what it is, has absolutely no Cute races. The closest they get are the Halflings, who aren't a playable race (anymore thank Sigmar), and are more fat and lazy than Cute.

** Imperial Guard- Mundane

** Space Marines- High Men in general, though now subsets exist with the Chapter Codexes, the first real variation being the Space Wolves and Grey Knights (see below). It is unknown if future Chapters will produce more variants.

** Redguards could also be counted as High Men, considering their pick of the attributes and martial skill, and their history of military and naval prowess.

** The events between [[Oblivion]] and [[Skyrim]] move the Altmer—or at least [[The Usual Adversaries|their government]]—to [[Fantasy Axis of Evil|Fallen]] instead.

** The Humans are, of course, the '''Humans.''' ([[Captain Obvious]] to the rescue!) However, due to their mundanity, and the way some of them value hard work, they may well also fill the '''Stout''' role.

** The Mr. Saturns are the '''Fairies.''' They're weird and quirky, and they may have magical powers. Maybe. They're an entire race of [[Cloudcuckoolander|Cloud Cuckoolanders]], so it's hard to tell.

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