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324: 1725:. They can recover from wounds which would be fatal to a Man, but can be killed in battle. Spirits of dead Elves go to the Halls of Mandos in Valinor. After a certain period of time and rest that serves as "cleansing", their spirits are clothed in bodies identical to their old ones. If they do not die in battle or accident, Elves eventually grow weary of Middle-earth and desire to go to Valinor; they often sail from the Grey Havens, where Círdan the Shipwright dwells with his folk. Eventually, any Elves that remain in Middle-earth undergo a process of "fading", in which their immortal spirits overwhelm and "consume" their bodies. This renders their bodily forms invisible to mortal eyes, except to those to whom they wish to manifest themselves. 1281: 1247:"because it seems to fit the rather 'Celtic' type of legends and stories told of its speakers". In the same letter, Tolkien goes on to say that the elves had very little in common with elves or fairies of Europe, and that they really represent men with greater artistic ability, beauty and a longer life span. In his writings, an Elven bloodline was the only real claim to 'nobility' that the Men of Middle-earth could have. Tolkien wrote that the elves are primarily to blame for many of the ills of Middle-earth in 1831: 480: 1729: 5777: 1758: 8325: 552: 1057:, like humans but fairer and wiser, with greater spiritual powers, keener senses, and a closer empathy with nature. Tolkien wrote of them: "They are made by man in his own image and likeness; but freed from those limitations which he feels most to press upon him. They are immortal, and their will is directly effective for the achievement of imagination and desire." 1799: 1319:. They awoke under the starlit sky, as the Sun and Moon had yet to be created. The first Elves to awaken were three pairs: Imin ("First") and his wife Iminyë, Tata ("Second") and Tatië, and Enel ("Third") and Enelyë. They walked through the forests, finding other pairs of Elves, who became their folk. They lived by the rivers, and invented poetry and music in 677:; the proud but honourable Elf-king; and the placing of his elves in wild nature. Tolkien might only have had broken fragments to work on, but, Shippey writes, the more one explores how Tolkien used the ancient texts, the more one sees "how easy it was for him to feel that a consistency and a sense lay beneath the chaotic ruin of the old poetry of the North". 2383:, "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age" "at the Grey Havens of Lindon there abode also a remnant of the people of Gil-galad the Elvenking. ... building and tending the elven-ships wherein those of the Firstborn who grew weary of the world set sail into the uttermost West. Círdan the Shipwright was lord of the Havens" 1650:
Wedding rings are worn on the index fingers. The bride's mother gives the groom a jewel to wear. Elves view the sexual act as special and intimate, for it leads to the birth of children. Elves who are married cannot be forced by other Elves to have sex; before that they will lose the will to endure and go to
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Needless to say they are not Celtic! Neither are the tales. I do know Celtic things (many in their original languages Irish and Welsh), and feel for them a certain distaste: largely for their fundamental unreason. They have bright colour, but are like a broken stained glass window reassembled without
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Elves, particularly the Noldor, spend their time on smithwork, sculpture, music and other arts, and on preparing food. Males and females are equal, but females often specialize in the arts of healing while the males go to war. This is because they believe that taking life interferes with the ability
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is unthinkable. Betrothal, with the exchange of rings, lasts at least a year, and is revocable by the return of the rings, but is rarely broken. Marriage is by words exchanged by the bride and groom (including the speaking of the name of Eru Ilúvatar) and consummation; it is celebrated with a feast.
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into a wild and wooded Elfland, and makes the quest successful. In Tolkien's translation the elves appear and disappear: "the king of Faerie with his rout / came hunting in the woods about / with blowing far and crying dim, and barking hounds that were with him; yet never a beast they took nor slew,
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to Valinor. After years, Ulmo returned to Beleriand to seek out the remaining Teleri. Without Elwë, many of the Teleri took his brother Olwë as their leader and were ferried to Valinor. Some Teleri stayed behind though, still looking for Elwë, and others stayed on the shores, being called by Ossë.
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proposes that these comments are a product of his Anglophilia rather than a commentary on the texts themselves or their actual influence on his writing, and cites evidence to this effect in her essay "'Mad' Elves and 'elusive beauty': some Celtic strands of Tolkien's mythology". Fimi proposes that
1080:. Alongside the idea of the greater Elves, Tolkien toyed with the idea of children visiting Valinor, the island-homeland of the Elves in their sleep. Elves would also visit children at night and comfort them if they had been chided or were upset. This was abandoned in Tolkien's later writing. 1415:
lay in the linguistic relationship, complete with sound-changes and differences of semantics, between these two languages of the divided elves. Shippey writes, too, that the elves are separated not by colour, despite names like light and dark, but by history, including their migrations.
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that were lighting Valinor. After three ages in the Halls of Mandos, Melkor was released, feigning reform. He however spread his evil and started to poison the minds of the Elves against the Valar. Eventually he killed Finwë and stole the Silmarils. Fëanor then named him
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in the dialogue of Galadriel. "Yet if you succeed, then our power is diminished, and Lothlórien will fade, and the tides of Time will sweep it away. We must depart into the West, or dwindle to a rustic folk of dell and cave, slowly to forget and to be forgotten."
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notes the "very complicated changes, with shifting meanings assigned to the same names" as Tolkien worked on his conception of the elves and their divisions and migrations. He states that the sundering of the elves allowed Tolkien, a professional
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to preserve life. However, females can defend themselves at need as well as males, and many males such as Elrond are skilled healers. Elves are skilful horse-riders, riding without saddle or bridle, though Tolkien was inconsistent on this point.
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as ambassadors to Valinor. Returning to Middle-earth, Ingwë, Finwë and Elwë convinced many of the Elves to take the Great Journey (also called the Great March) to Valinor. Those who did not accept the summons became known as the Avari,
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Tolkien-style Elves have influenced the depiction of elves in the fantasy genre from the 1960s and afterwards. Elves speaking an elvish language similar to those in Tolkien's novels became staple non-human characters in
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depicts the wood-elves in what Austin Gilkeson calls a weird way, quite unlike the elves in any other adaptation, not even resembling the film's depiction of Elrond. Gilkeson describes them as "like
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decided to summon the Elves to Valinor rather than leaving them where they were first awakened, near the Cuiviénen lake in the eastern extremity of Middle-earth. They sent Oromë, who took Ingwë,
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and full height are attained at around their fiftieth to one hundredth year, when they stop aging physically. Elves marry freely, monogamously, only once, and for love early in life;
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and home to the Elf-lord Glorfindel; and the Grey Havens, ruled by Círdan the shipwright. Círdan and his Elves built the ships on which Elves departed for Valinor.
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and where they went he never knew". Shippey comments that Tolkien took many suggestions from this passage, including the horns and the hunt of the Elves in
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states that with the underground enslavement of the Noldoli to Melkor, Tolkien was essentially rewriting Irish myth regarding the Tuatha Dé Danann into a
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they defeated him, though both the king of the Noldorin Elves, Gil-galad, and Elendil, king of the Númenóreans, were killed. During the Second and
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flint arrowheads and the temptations of the devil. Tolkien takes "elf-shot" as a hint to make his elves skilful in archery. Another danger was
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and elves and demon-corpses", a grouping which Shippey calls "a very stern view of all non-human and un-Christian species". The Middle English
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and Teleri (who spoke Vanyarin Quenya, Noldorin Quenya, and Telerin, respectively). On their journey, some of the Teleri feared the
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appear in much of Tolkien's early poetry, and have influence upon his later works, in part due to the influence of a production of
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had been sent out by a philanthropist to brighten servicemen's quarters, and Faery was used in other contexts as an image of "
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After the War of Wrath, the Valar tried to summon the Elves back to Valinor. Many complied, but some stayed. During the
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Elves, at least the Eldar, have a pregnancy that lasts about a year. By the age of 1, Elves can speak, walk and dance.
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Languages, Myths and History: An Introduction to the Linguistic and Literary Background of J. R. R. Tolkien's Fiction
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Shippey suggests that the "fusion or kindling-point" of Tolkien's thinking about elves came from the Middle English
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had many divergent and contradictory associations. Tolkien had been gently warned against the term 'fairy', which
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have acquired much of the atmosphere of German, Scandinavian, and Celtic tales, and many characteristics of the
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near the culmination of the war. When the Elves had been forced to the furthest southern reaches of Beleriand,
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Fimi compared Jackson's handling of Elves with Tolkien's. Tolkien's Elves are rooted as firmly as possible in
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According to Shippey, the theme of diminishment from semi-divine Elf to diminutive Fairy resurfaces in
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Tolkien derived Elves from mentions in the ancient poetry and languages of Northern Europe, especially
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by Oromë, and they took Ingwë, Finwë and Elwë as their leaders, and became respectively the Vanyar,
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resolved the Middle English puzzle, letting Elves go not to Heaven but to the halfway house of the
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In its case, the other two races are the sea elves (mermen) and the Jüflings (of rocks and hills).
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and the chief Noldorin leaders sailed from the Grey Havens to Valinor; they remained in Lindon.
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Tolkien developed his conception of elves over the years, from his earliest writings through to
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theme, and was used to critique social and religious values, a tradition which Tolkien and
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made it clear in a letter that his Elves differed from those "of the better known lore" of
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names" that Tolkien had given his Elves, Tolkien denied the names had a Celtic origin:
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and other elves of the Grey Havens remained for a while before leaving for Valinor.
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Through Stranger Eyes: Reviews, Introductions, Tributes & Iconoclastic Essays
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some of the stories Tolkien wrote as elven history are directly influenced by
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design. They are in fact "mad" as your reader says – but I don't believe I am.
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to take the Silmarils back, and led a large army of the Noldor to Beleriand.
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In Valinor, Fëanor, son of Finwë, and the greatest of the Elves, created the
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and dared not cross them. They turned back and stayed in the vales of the
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And bi daye muche in wodes heo beoth : and bi niƺte ope heiƺe dounes.
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Working With English: Medieval and Modern Language, Literature and Drama
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Mortal visitors to Elfland are in danger, as time seems different there.
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are derived); but in later times, through their use in translation,
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wanes and they focus their interests elsewhere, like the arts.
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and by day they are much in the woods: by night up on the high
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Jackson's Elves resemble those of the 19th-20th century
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in Norse mythology, a god who is gifted the elf-world
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source which he presumes Tolkien must have read, the
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These are called Elves: and often they come to town
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1094:shows that in 1088: 1087:(c. 1930–1937) 1082: 974: 973:(c. 1917–1927) 968: 955: 909: 908:Early writings 906: 889: 886: 883: 882: 876: 864: 858: 857: 851: 848: 839: 838: 835: 813: 809: 808: 805: 794: 785: 784: 777: 767: 761: 760: 757: 750: 742: 741: 738: 725: 717: 716: 713: 710: 542:to the elves, 466: 463: 401:Marjorie Burns 335:Edwin Landseer 331:Fairy painting 320: 317: 272: 271: 246: 230: 229: 226: 205:Middle English 196: 195:Halfway beings 193: 148: 145: 126: 123: 115: 112: 26: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 8731: 8720: 8717: 8716: 8714: 8697: 8694: 8692: 8689: 8688: 8687: 8684: 8680: 8677: 8676: 8675: 8672: 8670: 8667: 8665: 8662: 8661: 8659: 8655: 8649: 8646: 8644: 8641: 8639: 8638:Christmas elf 8636: 8634: 8631: 8630: 8628: 8624: 8618: 8615: 8613: 8610: 8608: 8605: 8603: 8600: 8598: 8595: 8593: 8590: 8588: 8585: 8583: 8580: 8576: 8573: 8571: 8568: 8566: 8563: 8562: 8560: 8556: 8553: 8551: 8548: 8546: 8543: 8541: 8538: 8537: 8536: 8533: 8531: 8528: 8527: 8525: 8523: 8519: 8513: 8510: 8508: 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Index

Quendi
J. R. R. Tolkien
Middle-earth
Men
Dwarves
immortal, though they can be killed in battle
Halls of Mandos
Aman
Earthly Paradise
Valinor
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
The Silmarillion
Old English
Sindarin
Quenya
staple of fantasy literature
Elf
J. R. R. Tolkien
Íslenzkar þjóðsögur og æfintýri
Elf
Old English
ælf
Germanic languages
Germanic mythology
Anglo-Saxon
Celtic
J. R. R. Tolkien
Scandinavian mythology
Tom Shippey

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