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This was later spelled Quenya (High-elven); it and Sindarin (Grey-elven) are the most complete of Tolkien's constructed languages. Elves are also credited with creating the Tengwar (by Fëanor) and Cirth (Daeron) scripts. [4] Tolkien's Elves are immortal, and remain unwearied with age, but can be killed in battle. Spirits of dead Elves go to ...
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').
High Elves, the Vanyar, Noldor and Teleri who left for Valinor, are included in Category:High Elves (Middle-earth). Grey Elves, otherwise known as the Sindar, are listed more specifically under Category:Grey Elves. All other Elves, including the Silvan Elves, Avari, and Elves of uncertain or highly mixed origins remain in this category.
The Free Peoples of Middle-earth are the four races that never fell under the sway of the evil spirits Morgoth or Sauron: Elves, Men, Dwarves and Ents. Strictly speaking, among Men it was only the Men of the West who are Free People, particularly the descendants of the Dúnedain of the Isle of Númenor , as most Men of the East and South of ...
Tolkien made use of his philological expertise on Beowulf to create some of the races of Middle-earth. The list of supernatural creatures in Beowulf, eotenas ond ylfe ond orcnéas, "ettens and elves and demon-corpses", contributed to his Orcs, and Elves, and to an allusion to Ettens in his "Ettenmoors" placename. [8]
This includes all the Eldar who originally left for Valinor, but never crossed Belegaer: they became the Grey Elves of Beleriand. The magic word __NOGALLERY__ is used in this category to turn off thumbnail display since this category list unfree images, the display of which is restricted to certain areas of Wikipedia.
Navigable diagram of Tolkien's legendarium. The Peoples of Middle-earth, the last volume of analysis of the legendarium, contains materials written late in his life.. Each volume of The History of Middle-earth bears on the title page spread an inscription by Christopher Tolkien in Fëanorian letters (in Tengwar, an alphabet J. R. R. Tolkien devised for the High-Elves), that describes the ...
This picture of increasing separation is analogous to the progressive decline and fall in Middle-earth from its initial perfection, of which the Sundering of the Elves is a major element. [9] In Tolkien's scheme, the highest Elves are those who deviated least from their initial state (complying with the will of the Valar, travelling to Valinor ...