"It's not like the entire antler," Andrew said. "It's just pieces of elf antler."
"ELF ANTLERS!" the little kids all squealed.
"Ugh. Wrong continent," Andrew moaned.
"WRONG CONTINENT?!" the kids howled. "Where do you think elves live?!"
"Wrong consonant! I swear I said consonant!"
"You did, in fact, say continent," I solemnly informed Andrew.
"This is like cannibalism!" Zoƫ exclaimed.
And thus ensued a long conversation about (a) Andrew's knowledge about which animals live in the south pole and which live in the north pole—he gets them confused sometimes and (b) the hierarchy of humanoid creatures in The Lord of the Rings and who is okay with eating who and (c) how this translates back to our own realm regarding humans, elves, and apes.
Apparently elves outrank humans. Orcs are fallen elves who don't necessarily outrank humans but who definitely would eat humans. But in our world humans outrank elves, so we could eat elves, but only if we were fell humans.
Andrew was laughing so hard he was crying.
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