What's with apostrophes in alien names?

Yes, it’s a long-standing fantasy cliche.

Ph’nglui Mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.

Has’tur
Has’tur
Has’tur

no wait
thats not right
crap

My alias here should be really Nae’blis, but the forum didn’t support it. :(

Not even a tiny bit of bliss?

*with apologies to Monty Python.

SCNR

Not a galactico, but an alien?

Apostrophes in names makes me cringe almost as much as “fantasy is British” accents.

Yeah. Everyone knows evil empires are the ones with the British accents. Sometimes they just happen to be fantasy evil empires.

So do elves have a second epiglottis or something in addition to the pointy ears? Because their mouths and tongues look pretty human-like to me.