User blog comment:Hippogriff12/The Scarcity of Racists in Skyrim/@comment-5135631-20120729152141/@comment-80.216.219.47-20120731052755

No, Nords never massacred Snowelves before the Night of Tears, where did you misslearn that? The Falmer completely unprovoked started killing Nords.

It may have been because the elves thought that there were too many humans, or because Men had found something that the elves wanted, who knows?

What is known however, is that the elves did not start killing Nords in retaliation for Nords killing elves, since Nords and elves had lived and coexisted peacefully before the elves commited their foul butchery at Saarthal.