The Deliberate Reason for Having Fantasy Race

I really strongly agree with what Marshall was saying, which is, you know, what is your reason for having fantasy race. I can't even count the number of times that I've done writing workshops and critiqued submissions by aspiring writers who have defaulted to elves and orcs or something like that. And if they are just humans with pointy ears, like that's the main difference is that maybe they're more noble. But in the absence of a deliberate reason, I would not do that just for the sake of it because lots of other fantasy novels have done it. So, yeah, I'm with you on the, you know,. If part of this world is different fantasy races