Moreover Elven etymology was in a constant flux.

It was only then that his possession of Narya, one of the Three Elven Rings, became generally known.

In the period of counterculture in the Western World of the 1960s and 1970s, a commune called Maos Lyst ( Mao's Delight ) was founded in Denmark in 1968, its inhabitants replacing their surnames with Kløvedal, Danish for Rivendell, inspired by Tolkien's Elven outpost.

The three Elven rings are shown being cast using a cuttlebone mold, an ancient primitive casting technique consistent with the book's description of them as " only essays in the craft before it was full-grown ".

Its location was only known to a few and it remained hidden there until it was taken back to the West with the three Elven Rings.

He told Aulë that while both were his children, their creation was outside the scope of the Music of the Ainur, and often strife would arise between the Dwarven race and the Elven race as the events of the world unfolded.

Indeed the only known Elven Kingdom in Middle-earth after the Second Age was the Silvan realm of Mirkwood, ruled by the Sinda Thranduil.

The Peredhil, Elrond and Elros, were partially of Sindarin Elven descent, as their mother Elwing was the daughter of Dior, the son of Lúthien, the daughter of Thingol and Melian.

For at least a while an Elven colony founded in Ithilien was led by Legolas.

Nevrast was the centre of an Elven kingdom of Turgon for about a century until ca.

In Elven Lands, an album containing Anderson's recordings with The Fellowship, was also released as were the first seven volumes of a box set called The Lost Tapes.

He was later the same year hailed as king at Gulating in Bergen, and at Haugating, Borgarting and local things east of Elven ( Göta Älv ).

His wife was an Elven lady named Eldalótë (, meaning ' Elven-flower '; Eðellos in Sindarin ).

Immediately, the greater part of the Elven forces were driven back, and Lake Helevorn was defiled.

It was constructed when the Elven were thrown out of our world.

Although he was not identified by name, he was portrayed by Elven Havard in the 1970 film Tora!

During the War of the Elves and Sauron, Sauron attempted to invade and conquer the Havens in order to gain the Three Elven Rings but was halted and defeated at the Lhûn by Gil-galad with the timely arrival of the great Númenórean armament of Tar-Minastir.

During the Fourth Age, it was one of the last Elven havens as the remaining Elves of Rivendell and Lothlórien left Middle-earth.

In all four known cases, the husband was mortal, while the wife was Elven.

It was a tradition in Dol Amroth that Imrazôr the Númenórean had married an Elf and therefore his descendants, the Princes of Dol Amroth, were of Elven descent.

In the Third Age, Eregion was a pleasant but unpopulated land, and contained many ruins of the Elven civilization that once thrived there.

The change of name is due to the fact that the name Gildor has the suffix ' dor ', which in Tolkien's Elven languages is a masculine suffix used only in the names of male Elves.

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.

However, only a further two groups were discovered, leaving none for Imin ; his group of fourteen thus became by far the smallest of the three Elven clans.

Finrod himself had not expected the caves to survive as Elven territory ; in the Silmarillion he remarks " Nor shall anything of my realm endure that a son might inherit.

* " Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth " — A discussion between two characters, an Elven king Finrod Felagund and Andreth, a mortal woman, about the tragedy of death and immortality and the way Elves and Men suffer their different sorrows ; and about the healing of death by the Resurrection and the Incarnation.

Because of their guardianship, the Orcs of Morgoth were unable to approach either the nearby mountains, or the important ford of Brithiach to the south ; the eagles ' watch had been redoubled after the coming of Tuor, enabling Gondolin to remain undiscovered the longest of all Elven realms.

They speak their own language ; some also speak Elven or Dwarven.

Each sphere is mastered by two wizards ( except Cosmos ), only three wizards do not have a seat in the Circle of Evermore: Julia, Queen of the Elven Court ; Meandor, her brother ; and Merlin, a Human King.

The box contains: a rules manual ; a map on a cardboard board, depicting the northwest area of Middle-earth at the end of the Third Age ; playing pieces — two light-colored sets containing Elven Archers, Riders of Rohan, and Eagles for light, and Trolls, orkish leader shields ; and, finally, a pewter replica of the only One Ring.

The Necromancer was originally Thû, the precursor of Sauron ; Thorin's grandfather was imprisoned in the same dungeons that held Beren and Lúthien ; the Elven king was Thingol and his land Menegroth.

Worse yet, the Cult of Pleasure ; a society of poets and artists founded by Morathi herself ; had become a front for a Chaos cult of Slaanesh ( In more recent history, these cults were of the darker aspects of the Elven pantheon ), was taking root in Elf society, being particularly strong in his homeland of Nagarythe.

They are often deployed alongside Dark Riders ; fast and highly manoeuvrable warriors swathed in black robes who ride upon swift Elven steeds.

An Elven week, used for ritual rather than practicality, contains six days and is called enquië ; and a yén contains 8, 766 of these enquier.

The ' true ' demons were sealed long ago within an alternate universe, named the Forbidding ; this prison is ' maintained ' by the Ellcrys, a sacred Elven tree ; if she dies, the Forbidding fails.

Spellweavers can, like the Highborns, ' purchase ' a kindred ( they can only join the Glamourweave Kindred, which makes them forest spirits and requires that they ride a mount ), have access to all Spites ( except the Cluster of Radiants, which is available only to Ancient Treeman and Branchwraiths ), and have a variety of mounts to choose from, including Elven Steeds, Great Eagles, and Unicorns.

In his fictional universe of Middle-earth, the tengwar were invented by the Elf Fëanor, and used first to write the angelic tongue Valarin and the Elven tongues: Quenya and Telerin.

He seldom came out of it again, but did when challenged to single combat by the Elven king Fingolfin and earlier to investigate the first appearance of Men.

He first appears in The Silmarillion as a god or Vala ( Middle-earth ) of the Elven pantheon.

Yet he was the first of the Dúnedain to perceive the rising threat of Sauron, he gave needed aid to the Elven King Gil-galad and laid the foundation for the future alliance of the Elves and the Men of Númenor against Sauron.

This force was to conquer first the human nation of Abanasinnia, then the Elven nation of Qualinesti, and finally the Dwarven nation of Thorbardin.

Labelas Enoreth was first detailed in Roger E. Moore's article " The Elven Point of View ," in Dragon # 60 ( TSR, 1982 ).