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Again, you are right, but that doesn’t change the fact that the Empire are the main protagonist.  If you take the Empire away completely, bin them off and remove all trace of them from Warhammer, the whole setting ceases to be warhammer, it loses it theme.  The only other faction you can say that about is Chaos.  Empire and Chaos are the main protagonist and antagonist respectively.

 

The Hobbit is a children’s story with Dwarfs and Hobbits and is fairly light hearted.  I personally think it’s quite telling when he decided to write The Lord of the Rings, the genre defining work for “epic fantasy”, that the Elves and Dwarfs play almost no part at all.  They’re mentioned extensively in the appendices and historical information Tolkien wrote, but they don’t play a significant or meaningful part, as a civilisation, in the story of the Lord of the Rings.  Those tropes have partially found their way into Warhammer.  The Elves have mostly retreated to Ulthuan and the Dwarfs to their mountain strongholds and play little part in the world of men.  It is the Empire who are described as the front line in the battle against Chaos.  The Empire is the Gondor to Chaos’ Sauron.