Tolkien Elf vs Twilight Vampire

This is soooo dorky, but who cares :) I was laying in bed last night and it popped into my head how similar the vampires in Twilight are to Elves. (besides the whole drinking blood thing ya know ><)

So I started going through this list in my head of similarities. And then the freak that I am I thought, well who would win in a 1 v 1?

So we start off with similarities. Keep in mind all of this is based of vampires from the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer and the elves are based from Middle Earth in J.R.R. Tolkien stories.

Elves and Vampires are both very Agile creatures. Actually I wrote down Graceful/Agile. Vampires have developed this trait by being hunters and predators. Elves were born with the natural ability. Along with being Agile they both are fast. Running. Although we don't know exactly how fast each can run, it is for sure too fast for the normal human eye to decipher.

They are both said to be beautiful and breathtaking when looked at. 1 v 1 though I don't think this would make a difference :)

Elves and Vampires both have the experience of age. Both being immortal, gives each a lot of time to perfect their way of life and fighting skills.

One of the iffy similarities I can think of also would be healing. Elves have the skill of herbology that helps with healing and most elves the magic art of healing. Vampires on the other hand don't exactly call it magic but they can regenerate and heal their own wounds. As far as I know these vampires are not learned in herbology unless you consider modern medical technology they could use. Vampires though have no blood running through their body so in the end Medical drugs/assistance wouldn't be a wise choice. Which brings us to the differences between the creatures.

Elves are living. They have hearts and blood running through their bodies. They can become poisoned or bleed to death if not treated soon enough by either by magic or herbs. Vampires are already dead with no heart beating and no blood flowing through their veins. The only way to kill a vampire is to dismantle the body and burn it. The ways an elf can die include a mortal wound, weariness, or grief.

Getting to the actual fight between a Vampire and an Elf we must first consider that the Vampire is a natural predator. To some that could mean an upper hand. Vampires are made to kill and it is instinct. Elves... not so much. But elves are trained almost from birth how to fight, because they are involved in many wars.

Vampires have a natural melee weapon. The teeth. It can shred and pierce any skin while poisoning them at the same time. Elf has no natural melee weapon. They must make their own weapons and keep some sort of defense on them at all times.

And the most important skill in this fight would be magic. Now this word is hard to compare between the elf and vampire. 1. There is no such thing as magic in a vampire world. 2. Not all elves know battle/defense magic and if the do the expertise would vary between each elf. In Stephenie Meyers vampire world her vampires do have specialized skills though. Instead of fire, water, ice, heal ect. magic, each vampire has a different ability ranging from reading anothers mind, seeing in the future, blocking others out of your mind, changing a persons feelings, or torture by meeting ones eyes. So it will depend on what skill the vampire has and how much magic ability the elf has in this category.

So in relation to watching the "Deadliest Warrior" too much on Spike TV, I would be giving the edge to the Twilight vampire, considering the elf has no natural weapon and is much easier to kill. I would say the exception would be an elf with extremely advanced skills in magic, who would just make the vampire explode and burn. :p

What do you think?

Thanks for reading my extremely dorky Monday morning random essay haha.

I <3 Aion

It was soooo fun. I don't even know why I liked it more than any game I've tested, but I did. And i wasnt cheating on Lineage 2 cuz it was still NcSoft! I tried the SpiritMaster and Chanter. Chanter all the way for me on release. Most hybrid of the classes. Reminds me alot of the captain in LoTRO, cept using a melee staff instead of a halberd. One of the best things I think ncsoft has done with the chanter is make the buffs toggle skills that effect everyone in your party. This leaves out the possibility of people leveling buffers just to out of party buff. Brilliant, let's hope it stays like this! Of course I was so involved like always I forget to take alot of screenshots, but I did get a few.

And it starts...

Aion!

Finally on NA servers this weekend. The first Aion preview/beta event. Damn NcSoft for not sending me one of their keys. They sold the rest of them to mmo sites and gamestop. So, Cleve and I pre-ordered 2 of them so we could get the pre order items and participate in the preview/beta events. They sent us 1 key, for 2 orders! Doh! So now while Cleve has his key and is ready for the beta this weekend I'm waiting on a reply from gamestop about why they didn't send the other.

But omg either way I will get to play Aion this weekend. Granted, you can only play 1 faction and only to level 20, but I will probly just spend hours on the character customization screen. I decided I'm going Chanter class. Cleve wants to go Cleric. So healer and buffer here we come!

Ooooo I just got a tweet that The Hobbit will start casting for Bilbo Baggins in 2 weeks.

If I can't log into Aion tonight I still got 4mil sp to get on lineage 2 lol.

E3 random news

I was going to post about the weekend in Lineage 2. But I just got so absorbed into E3. Yesterday the EA pres was awesome just because of the new Star Wars: TOR cinematic. Must watch!! Bioware knows what they are doing! When Cryptic announces Star Trek Online they better have something up to those standards!

But I think what stuck with me the most was the xbox presentation and announcment of Project Natal. No more controllers, all played by motion camera. Amazing. If you didn't see it go see it now at !xbox!

Just got done watching the Nintendo conference. Still glad I didn't purchase a wii! As they said they are all about expanding though and have titles coming out for Final Fantasy, Mario, Resident Evil, Dead Space, and Metroid.

Getting ready to watch the Sony press conference in 30 mins. Will actually mean more to me since I do have a ps3 :)


Btw, anyone interested in Star Trek Online should join us in IRC on gamesurge.net
#STO. Cryptic Devs do chat with us in there often.


aaaaand 3% till 79 in L2 :)