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The 1956 Looney Tunes cartoon short Yankee Dood It is based on this fairy tale, with Elmer Fudd as the king of industrial elves. 150 years after this fairy tale took place, he visits the shoemaker to retrieve the elves he has employed, while also imparting the virtues of mass production capitalism to him.
J. R. R. Tolkien accompanied his Middle-earth fantasy writings with a wide variety of non-narrative materials, including paintings and drawings, calligraphy, and maps.In his lifetime, some of his artworks were included in his novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings; others were used on the covers of different editions of these books, and later on the cover of The Silmarillion.
Anytime we hear one of the many oh-so-funny famous lines, it's impossible not to smile, so we rounded up 45 Elf movie quotes that are sure to spread Christmas cheer (maybe even as much as singing).
The framework for J. R. R. Tolkien's conception of his Elves, and many points of detail in his portrayal of them, is thought by Haukur Þorgeirsson to have come from the survey of folklore and early modern scholarship about elves (álfar) in Icelandic tradition in the introduction to Íslenzkar þjóðsögur og æfintýri ('Icelandic legends and fairy tales').
The image was well-known at the time Tolkien was writing The Hobbit, as Shell had it painted on their oil delivery trucks. Berners's decision to construct the Faringdon Folly landmark, a tall tower atop a hill on his estate in South Oxfordshire, too, was controversial, and Tolkien is thought to have been very interested in the construction.
A person dressed as a Christmas Elf, Virginia, 2016 19th century illustration of an elf teasing a bird by Richard Doyle With industrialisation and mass education, traditional folklore about elves waned; however, as the phenomenon of popular culture emerged, elves were re-imagined, in large part based on Romantic literary depictions and ...
A duende, according to the Chamorro-English Dictionary by Donald Topping, Pedro Ogo and Bernadita Dungca, is a goblin, elf, ghost or spook in the form of a dwarf, a mischievous spirit which hides or takes small children. Some believe the Duende to be helpful or shy creatures, while others believe them to be mischievous and eat misbehaving children.
Pages in category "Elves" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...