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* Elves in the best-selling Artemis Fowl series are portrayed quite differently from those in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
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Elves and Artemis
In Greek mythology Artemis was the leader ( ηγεμόνη: hegemone ) of the nymphs, who had similar functions with the Nordic Elves.
Elves and series
* Breton ( Elder Scrolls ), a race in The Elder Scrolls game series who are descendants of men and Elves ;
Terry Pratchett's Discworld series proposes that the world of the Elves is a " parasite " universe, that drifts between and latches onto others such as Discworld and our own world ( referred to as " Roundworld " in the novels ).
Other handheld titles in recent years include Beyond the Labyrinth, Deep Labyrinth, The Dark Spire, Orcs & Elves, and Class of Heroes, while on the PC the DarkLight Dungeon series and Legend of Grimrock has been recently released.
The Zero series also introduced a brand new Cyber Elf System, which allows Zero to equip small helper beings known as " Cyber Elves " to assist him in combat.
Later entries in the Zero series had more lenient prerequisites for the usage and consumption of Cyber Elves.
Later on in the series the world of Azeroth was expanded, revealing the new continents of Kalimdor, Northrend and Pandaria, allowing the introduction of the Night Elves, Tauren and other major races into the universe.
In the Harry Potter series of books, there is a large volume of House Elves.
Mobile game titles Doom RPG and the Orcs & Elves series were heralded as some of the best mobile games of their time.
However, unlike the first game, in which four specific Cyber Elves could be transformed into health-storing Sub-Tanks, two of the four Sub-Tanks are now hidden in various stages as collectible items, as they were in the previous series, while the remaining two must be unlocked using Cyber Elves.
Stirling's " Emberverse " series includes a character obsessed with The Lord of the Rings who creates a post-apocalyptic community based upon the Elves and Dunedain of Middle-earth.
The Dark Elves also constructed a series of fortified watch towers along their northern border to ensure the forces of Chaos did not trespass into their domain.
Early in the series, she loses her faith and trust in Celcia for she thought she'd betrayed the elven race for helping out Those Who Hunt Elves and sought to stop TWHE by using a powerful spell, but ended up opening a portal and bringing more earth-originated material through.
Throughout the game, enemies may drop Secret Disks, which may contain information about the Mega Man Zero series, enemy information, Cyber Elves, energy capsules, energy crystals or even customization chips.
* Those Who Hunt Elves ( 1996 TV series ), Anago Pirate ( ep 1 )
Drew Hayes ( Lawrence Andrew Hayes, 20 July 1969 – 21 March 2007 ) was a writer and graphic artist who is best known as the creator of the long-running independent comic book series Poison Elves.
He changed the series title to Poison Elves with # 8, and continued through # 20.
Azeroth, the fantasy world of the Warcraft computer game series originally featured elves similar to the Warhammer High or Wood Elves.
The series introduces the naturalistic purple-skinned Night Elves, who were portrayed more favorably than traditional dark-skinned elves.
* In the comic book series Poison Elves, writer / artist Drew Hayes depicted elves as rogues, thieves, and killers rather than the peace loving forest dwellers depicted by Tolkien.
* In the Warcraft series, the High Elves, a Tolkien-modeled society, experience a fall from grace when their homeland is overrun by the undead Scourge.
Elves and are
Then the runes are shaved off and the shavings are mixed with mead and sent abroad so that Æsir have some, Elves have some, Vanir have some, and Men have some, these being beech runes and birth runes, ale runes, and magic runes.
Elves in Earthdawn naturally live a very long time ; some are thought to be immortal.
A subrace of Earthdawn elves are called the Blood Elves.
Elves are first attested in Old English and Old Norse texts and are prominent in traditional British and Scandinavian folklore.
The Light Elves are brighter than the sun in appearance, but the Dark Elves are blacker than pitch.
Even though Wichtelmänner are akin to beings such as kobolds, dwarves and brownies, the tale has been translated into English as The Elves and the Shoemaker, and is echoed in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter stories ( see House-elf ).
In The Father Christmas Letters, which Tolkien wrote for his children, Red Gnomes are helpful creatures who come from Norway to the North Pole to assist Father Christmas and his Elves in fighting the wicked Goblins.
As of the latest expansion, Cataclysm, the new Alliance race Worgen and the Horde's Trolls are able to become druids in addition to Tauren and Night Elves.
Consequently, they are the only race of Elves that matches the fertility of ' lesser ' races, such as humans.
In Warcraft III, the Night Elves and the Undead are added as playable races.
Meanwhile, the Warsong Clan are left behind in Ashenvale to build a permanent settlement, but anger the Night Elves and their demigod Cenarius by cutting down the forests for resources.
In The Book of Lost Tales the very few Dwarves who appear are portrayed as evil beings, employers of Orc mercenaries and in conflict with the Elves — who are the imagined ' authors ' of the myths, and are therefore biased against Dwarves.
In the last interview before his death, Tolkien, after discussing the nature of Elves, briefly says of his Dwarves: " The dwarves of course are quite obviously, wouldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews?
In The Silmarillion, the Dwarves are described as shorter and stockier than Elves and Men, able to withstand both heat and cold.
However, in the Third Age, particularly after the closure of Moria, they grow mistrustful of Elves, though in later times cordial relations are established with the Elves of Mirkwood and the Men of Dale.
The Dwarves are portrayed as a very ancient people who awoke, like the Elves, at the start of the First Age, before the existence of the Sun and Moon.
In Peter Jackson's live action adaptation of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Gimli's character is occasionally used as comic relief and several of his appearances are intended to emphasize the difference between the Dwarves and Elves.
Elves and portrayed
In the published Silmarillion Eöl is portrayed as a Sindarin Elf with an unspecified kinsmanship to Elu Thingol ; however, in very late writings by Tolkien it is his final view that Eöl was an Avar, a Dark-elf, who descended from the same Second Clan of the Elves as the Noldor, the Tatyar.
Elves and fairies were often portrayed with blond hair in illustrations in children's book of fairy tales.
Elves on the Discworld are based more on the nastier kind of fairy-folk in European ( and other ) folklores than elves as portrayed in most modern ( post-Tolkien ) fantasy fiction.
; Elves: Little is known about the actual appearance of elves, but they seem to be very small people, and are often portrayed as having pointed ears.
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