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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 svartálfar are almost only attested in the Prose Edda (the word does appear in Ektors saga ok kappa hans, but is presumably borrowed from the Prose Edda). [4] The svartálfar mentioned in Skáldskaparmál 35 are the Sons of Ivaldi, whom Loki engages to craft replacement hair for Sif, wife of the god Thor, after Loki mischievously sheared off her golden tresses. [5]
J. R. R. Tolkien built a process of decline and fall in Middle-earth into both The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings.. The pattern is expressed in several ways, including the splintering of the light provided by the Creator, Eru Iluvatar, into progressively smaller parts; the fragmentation of languages and peoples, especially the Elves, who are split into many groups; the successive falls ...
The elf appeared as a character race in the third edition Player's Handbook (2000), [19] and in the 3.5 revised Player's Handbook. [20] Elves were detailed for the Forgotten Realms setting in Races of Faerûn (2003). [21] Elves were one of the races detailed in Races of the Wild (2005). [3]
The Elves of the Light, Tolkien's Calaquendi, are those who successfully complete the journey, while the Elves of the Darkness, the Moriquendi, are those Elves who, for whatever reason, do not arrive in Valinor. [14] [T 11] [15] Diagram of the Sundering of the Elves, showing Tolkien's overlapping classifications. The main division is into ...
On the journey to Valinor, some of the Teleri ("Those who tarried") abandon the main group, and those of them who did not mingle with the Moriquendi become the Laiquendi (Green-elves), the Sindar (Grey-elves) and the Nandor. These elves of the great journey who remain in Middle-earth are then called the Úmanyar (The Unwilling).
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After being re-embodied, previously dead Elves stay in Valinor permanently. [2] Tolkien eventually decided that each Elf's name should be unique, and therefore the two Glorfindels should be one and the same. [2] In 1972, he wrote an essay in which he explains how Glorfindel returns to Middle-earth following his death in the First Age.