It's a tenacious and fiercely expansionist thing, nature. You wouldn't believe how many of these settlements we've had to move because of the danger they'd be in...It's one thing to explain that dryads are incredibly and violently territorial but it's another thing to try and keep an entire town from having their children stolen.

[...Given what he now knows about how elvish works and what it implies about elven culture, a lot of so-called 'elven raids' may make a whole lot more sense now.]