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Wood elf is a generic term for an elf that lives in wooded areas such as forests. Wood Elf may refer to: Silvan Elves, a fictional race in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth of northern Mirkwood and Lothlórien; Wood Elves, a subrace of elves in Dungeons & Dragons; Wood Elves (Warhammer), a fictional race in the Warhammer universe
In the Heroes of Might and Magic series, Elves are divided into two sub-species: Wood Elves, and Snow Elves. Wood Elves are from the wooded kingdom of AvLee which lies in eastern Antagarich. They are descendants and cousins of the Vori elves. Snow Elves a.k.a. Vori Elves or "true elves", are from the icy isle of Vori, which lies north of the ...
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 wood-elves of the realm are called Galadhrim. The realm, a broad woodland between the Misty Mountains and the River Anduin, is the Elven centre of resistance against the Dark Lord Sauron in The Lord of the Rings. Galadriel had one of the Three Elf-Rings, and used it to keep Sauron from seeing
Thranduil is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium.He first appears as a supporting character in The Hobbit, where he is simply known as the Elvenking, the ruler of the Elves who lived in the woodland realm of Mirkwood.
[1] [6] The character Tauriel is a Silvan Elf, which means she is of a much lower order than the elves that had previously been seen in The Lord of the Rings film series, and holds a lower social status than characters like Arwen, Galadriel, Elrond, and Legolas. [1] A Woodland Elf, her name has been translated as "Forest Daughter." [7] [8] [9]
Wood Elves are an isolated race of green-skinned, semi-plant Elves, who consider themselves closer to the trees of their home forests than the humans of Gastonia. Due to their willowy nature, most Wood Elves make poor fighters, but their mastery of nature make them excellent herbalists and their great libraries make the Wood Elves scholarly giants.
The names Calaquendi and Moriquendi, Light-Elves and Dark-Elves, correspond to names used in Old Norse, Ljósálfar and Dökkálfar. [ 2 ] Matthew Dickerson , writing in the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia , notes the "very complicated changes, with shifting meanings assigned to the same names" as Tolkien worked on his conception of the Elves and ...