User blog comment:Efmrider/Character Card/@comment-12599067-20140706162425/@comment-10906938-20140706182256

They live a LOT longer than three times. Taken directly from the page on Elves, "Mer are capable of living for a thousand years, although few ever actually live that long due to disease and violence.[1]"  also,  "many living Altmer still remembered Tiber Septim's conquest of Summerset, thus putting them at an age of over 400 years.[4]  According to Uupse Fyr, there may be some Altmer/Aldmer on Summerset Isles who are over 4000 years old." According to the page on Men, humans live no longer than 100, normally 60-80. If a human lived 80 years and an elf lived 400, that's five times longer. And even then, that's a long-living human and a short life for an elf.