I've played Elder Scrolls since Morrowind and still don't understand why they've never really been fully explained on why they're so evil. Until the recent videos of the creators explaining why they want to reclaim Cyrodil, I think it is too late to say that they're really doing it for a good cause. Anybody else agree that they've been seen as evil for too long? I mean I love the Aldmeri Dominion and will participate in joining them when the ESO is released as a Wood Elf Archer.

I agree, The Dominion only want to reclaim what they deem as rightfully theirs! And see themselves as the oldest and wisest race in Tamriel.

I think it could be better established that the Altmer, having directly descended from the et'Ada, probably feel that their godhood has been unjustly taken away by Lorkhan, much more than other elves. Dunmer for example feel that Nirn is a test for them and accept their fate. They in particular feel they're much more worthy of control than the young and rash humans.

Its pretty much arrogance. They feel superior to everyone else and have no qualms about displaying it and taking any means necessary to prove that.

They're not evil, that's the thing.
People are stuck to thinking 'HIGH ELF = THALMOR AND THALMOR ARE EVIL LOL SKYRIM 4 NORDZ.'.
Due to Skyrim giving them a bad name? Has a lot to do with it.
The Aldmeri Dominion (High Elves) are direct descendants of the Aldmer, the oldest race on the face of Tamriel, and they think it's up to them to make sure that the wisest and most experienced race rules because the other races are 'foolish' and incapable.

My Issue is they've created a stereo type, I love the elves but the problem is through lore they've been misdirected to feeling they still own what they've build and created. In which - is most places around Tamriel. They've been stereotyped to seem as they ALL want to be brought back upto their 'god-hood'.

I agree

The Aldmeri Dominion aren't evil. Firstly, because morality is entirely relative in TES: the khajiit people have regarded the Dominion as saviors once or twice throughout history.

Secondly, and more importantly (as it motivates the 4th Era Thalmor), they do not subscribe to the view that the physical world, Mundus, is fundamentally good. http://www.imperial-library.info/content/monomyth-altmeri-heart-world describes the god Lorkhan tricking the deities into creating Nirn, which is a trap, and thereafter they and all mortals (who are descended from divine sources) are bound to reality, unable to escape. Humans (with the possible exception of the Redguard) are Lorkhanic, meaning they are aligned with the forces that the Altmer see as the root of all suffering in the universe. The Altmer oppose men as they are a corruption of the divine ancestors of the Altmer, and the 4th Era Thalmor go as far as http://www.imperial-library.info/content/dominion-prism-textract.

That's the point I'm trying to make..

No. The oldest race on Tamriel is the Ehlnofey and both men and elves are descended from them. The elves did come from the Aldmer, but the Aldmer came from the Ehlnofey.

I don't yet understand the point you're trying to make. The issues raised about the Dominion are true. The essential question posed by the Altmer is: "we're not evil, you are, and here's why". They're not supposed to be easy to relate to, and they're not going to be (that is, they shouldn't be) friendly to all mannish or beastly races any time soon.

Still, if they're from the Aldmer and the Aldmer are from the Ehlnofey, they're pretty much direct descendants, and in-game it seems that most Altmer don't know that, so they consider themselves direct descendants.

I'm trying to point out that they've been stereotyped as evil, skyrim has called them evil - even I've resorted to since calling them evil in some way. When they're not.

What the Dominion are saying is they don't see themselves as evil they see the other races as being bad for taking what they see as rightfully theirs (Tamriel).

The men are direct descendants by that logic, too.