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.

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.

Kirk who provided the first translation into Gaidhlig of the Book of Psalms, however, he is better remembered for the publication of his book " The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies " in 1691.

The campaign itself is divided into five sections, with the first acting as a tutorial, and the others telling the story from the point of view of the humans of Lordaeron, the Undead Scourge, the Orcs, and the Night Elves, in that order.

After Sam and Rose's first child was born it was revealed that Frodo would leave Middle-earth, along with Bilbo ( Sam's old hero ), Gandalf and most of the remaining High Elves ( Wood Elves had no part of this exodus from Middle-earth ), for the Undying Lands.

They were the first to cross the Ered Luin in the First Age, and established strongholds in Beleriand before the building of Nogrod and Belegost in the Blue Mountains, and before the Elves arrived.

The Dwarves of Moria at first fought in the War of Sauron and the Elves, but in the year 1697 of the Second Age, the doors of Khazad-dûm were shut and its inhabitants no longer ventured forth into the world.

In Ar-Adûnakhôr became the first king of Númenor who took his royal name in Adûnaic, the language of Men instead of Quenya, the language of the Elves.

After Morgoth's defeat, Sauron extended his influence over the Easterlings, and although Sauron was defeated by the Last Alliance of Elves and Men at the end of the Second Age, the Easterlings were the first enemies to attack Gondor again in.

Anárion died first before Sauron broke the siege and the mighty king of the Elves, Gil-galad challenges Sauron to a duel, and is slain in combat.

The race of Elves first originated near here, though their original home of Cuiviénen no longer existed by the Third Age.

According to the Elven legend Cuiviényarna (" Awakening of the Elves "), the Vanyar are descendants of Imin, the first Elf to awake at Cuiviénen ; his wife Iminyë ; and six other pairs of Elves who were awoken by them.

The Teleri were sundered from the first two clans, the Vanyar and the Noldor, first because some, after seeing the Hithaeglir ( Misty Mountains ), dispersed from the journey ; these elves would become known as the Nandor and / or Silvan Elves.

This was the first of three Kinslayings that were committed by Fëanor's people against their fellow Elves.

The Third Age began after the first downfall of Sauron, when he was defeated by the Last Alliance of Elves and Men following the downfall of Númenor.

*** The Age of the Stars, when the Elves awoke, and the first age of the captivity of Melkor.

He notes elsewhere in The Silmarillion, however, that the Elves count their own dwindling from the time of the first rise of the Sun, and some epithets for the Sun by the Elves refer to it in that context.

This is the first time Ultima Online allows for more than one player race, as Elves are added.

Lantz also started to experiment with color cartoons, and the first one, called Jolly Little Elves, was released in 1934.

It was later revealed he was the leader of the Nazgûl, who were dispersed after the first overthrow of Sauron in at the hands of the Last Alliance of Elves and Men, but survived nonetheless.

He was the son of Bregor, husband of Emeldir, and most famous as the father of Beren Erchamion, who later was to marry Lúthien Tinúviel and result in the first union of Elves and Men.

* Tata ( Middle-earth ), one of the first Elves in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium

Álfheim as an abode of the Elves is mentioned only twice in Old Norse texts.

Brought into creation by the Old Ones, the Elves showed a natural talent for magic and superlative skill at arms.

* The Schönauer Karneval is a high point at Carnival time in South Westphalia celebrated with, besides the Prinzenproklamation ( about 11 November ), Altweiber (“ Old Women ’ s Day ”), Prunksitzung ( a sitting of the “ Elves ’ Council ” – actually a revue ) and Rosenmontagszug (“ Shrove Monday Parade ”) also with three further events under marquees.

Nordland's border encompass the Laurelorn Forest, home to one of the few communities of Wood Elves The Old World.

They have split into three factions: The High Elves ( Asur ) live on the island-continent Ulthuan ; the Wood Elves ( Asrai ) live in the Loren Forest, in the Old World, and the Dark Elves ( Druchii ) live in Naggaroth, in the New World.

Caradyrel recalled the Elven forces from the Old World to deal with the Dark Elves, thus abandoning the few remaining colonies who had refused to return to fend for themselves against the Dwarves.

After many years of raiding by Norse tribes, the Elves began to hear of the human Empire in the Old World, and became uneasy.

As the High Elves prepared to launch a suicidal attack on the Dwarf Holds news reached them that the Dark Elves had attacked their homeland and were forced to withdraw, eventually shattering the Elven empire in the Old World.

* 2150 IC: This marks the important date when the Sea Elves returned to the Old World, and Marienburg offered their original Land back in exchange for exclusive trading rights.

Most of the elves who decided to stay in the colonies took up residence in the deep forests of the Old World, and with time became known as Wood Elves ( Asrai ).