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Both Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1954) and Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924) greatly increased popular awareness of half-elves. As a result, half-elves have become common in other fantasy writings and role-playing games, the best-known being the 1974 Dungeons & Dragons. [27] Half-elves are also featured in the role-playing ...
Tuor Eladar and Idril Celebrindal are fictional characters from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium.They are the parents of Eärendil the Mariner and grandparents of Elrond Half-elven: through their progeny, they become the ancestors of the Númenóreans and of the King of the Reunited Kingdom Aragorn Elessar.
The choice of fate offered by the Valar to Eärendil and Elwing, resulting in both of them becoming immortal Elves, has been interpreted as a move of Tolkien to solve "several untidy plot points in one fell swoop": being Half-elven, neither of the two would have been allowed to set foot in the land of the Valar, nor was their eventual fate ...
[2] [3] [4]: 79 Michael J. Tresca, in the book The Evolution of Fantasy Role-Playing Games (2014), stated that prior to Tolkien's work, "the most modern depiction of elves that would influence the fantasy genre was Lord Dunsany's novel The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924)" which "firmly establishes that elves can breed with humans (more echoes ...
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Elrond Half-elven is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. Both of his parents, Eärendil and Elwing , were half-elven , having both Men and Elves as ancestors. He is the bearer of the elven-ring Vilya , the Ring of Air, and master of Rivendell , where he has lived for thousands of years through the Second and ...
About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; ... Fictional half-elves (1 C, 4 P) M. Middle-earth Elves (4 C, 23 P, 2 F) O. Orcs (1 C, ...
Half-elven who chose the fate of Elves Half-elven who chose the fate of mortal Men References. Tolkien, J. R. R. (1955). The Return of the King.