Elves were originally thought of as ambivalent beings with certain magical abilities capable of helping or hindering humans, but in later traditions became increasingly sinister and were believed to afflict humans and livestock in various ways.

Id Software has also overseen several games using its technology that were not made in one of their IPs such as Shadowcaster, ( early-Id Tech 1 ), Heretic, Hexen ( Id Tech 1 ), Hexen II ( Quake engine ), and Orcs and Elves ( Doom RPG engine ).

These were the languages spoken by the tribes of his Elves.

The Wizards were commanded to aid Men, Elves, and Dwarves, but only through counsel ; it was forbidden to use force to dominate them — an injunction Saruman disregarded.

These were in addition to the three Celebrimbor forged, untainted by Sauron's evil, for the Elves.

Warcraft III contains four playable races: Humans and Orcs, which had previously appeared in Warcraft: Orcs & Humans and Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, and the Night Elves and Undead, which were introduced to the Warcraft mythos in this installment.

Several other Elves, Dwarves and Men also arrived at Rivendell on separate errands ; at the Council of Elrond they learned that all of their errands were related to the fate of the One Ring, and they should decide what to do about it.

He is one of the Istari or Wizards who were sent by the angelic Valar to aid the Elves and Men of Middle-earth in their struggle against the Dark Lord Sauron.

Unlike Elves and Men, created by the supreme God Ilúvatar, Dwarves were created by the Vala ( angelic being ) Aulë.

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.

Afterwards they were mostly left alone, but not before the Petty-dwarves came to hate all Elves with a passion.

Some time after the Elves had awoken at Cuiviénen, the Seven Fathers of the Dwarves were released from their stone chambers.

Far to the west of Khazad-dûm, the great dwarven cities of Belegost and Nogrod were founded in Ered Luin ( The Blue Mountains ) during the First Age, before the arrival of the Elves in Beleriand.

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.

Less charitably they were called Engwar ( The Sickly ), owing to their susceptibility to disease and old age, and their generally unlovely appearance in the Elves ' eyes.

Through their services and assistance rendered to the Elves and the Valar in the War of Wrath at the end of the First Age, the Edain were rewarded with a new land of their own between Middle-earth and the Undying Lands.

The minority faction, the Faithful, were led by the lord of Andúnië, the westernmost province of Númenor, remained friendly to the Elves and favoured Quenya.

They were joined after the War of Wrath by those of the Edain who did not wish to travel to Númenor ( similar to how, at the end of the First Age, various Eldar remained and went east, becoming lords of the Silvan 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.

They lived among the Folk of Haleth in the First Age and were held as Edain by the Elves, who called them Drúedain ( from Drûg, Halethian name for them, plus Edain ).

Three were intended for the Elves, Seven for Dwarves, Nine for Men, and one, the One Ring, was created by Sauron himself in Mount Doom.

They were made by the Elves of Valinor in the Uttermost West, by the Noldor and maybe even Fëanor himself.

Also, because both Eärendil and Elwing were descended from a union of Elves and Men, Manwë granted to them and their sons the gift to choose to which race they would be joined ( a gift that was further passed to the children of Elrond, who became known as the Half-elven ).

After the downfall of the Dark Lord Morgoth at the end of the First Age ( which is described in the Quenta Silmarillion ) the Edain, those Men who had aided the Elves in their war against Melkor were given Númenor, a new small continent of their own, free from the evil and sadness of Middle-earth.

Along with a few words in Khuzdul, Tolkien also developed runes of his own invention ( the Cirth ), said to have been invented by Elves and later adopted by the Dwarves.

This word from Valarin was said to mean appointed dwelling, referring to the Earth as the abode of the Valar and / or Elves and Men.

Valarin itself is also said to have been unpleasant for Elves to listen to, though this was because it radiated such force and power that non-Ainur were discomforted by it.

Whereas the Second Prophecy explicitly states that the Elves and Valar shall be renewed after Dagor Dagorath and that the fate of Men is unknown, The Silmarillion states that Men will participate in singing the Second Music, and that it is the fate of the Elves that is unknown, and nothing is said of the fate of the Valar.

Other possible members are said to be among the mightiest of Elves, the Elf-lord Glorfindel ; Elrond's chief counsellor Erestor ; and Celeborn, Galadriel's husband, whom Galadriel herself called " Wise ".

In his commentary on the Extended DVD version, Jackson said he wanted to show the sacrifice of the Elves in a visible fashion.

For this reason it is said the Fates of Men and Elves are sundered.

They are closely linked to the mist and it is often said in Sweden that " the Elves are dancing in the mist ".

In Raistlin ’ s vision, all things wither and die before him ; though longer-lived races, such as Elves, are said to only appear to age slightly, while the Irda do not age to him at all.

However the true light of the Trees, before their poisoning by Ungoliant, was said to now reside only in the three Silmarils, created by Fëanor the most gifted of the Elves.

Treebeard said that the Elves " cured us of dumbness ", that it was a great gift that could not be forgotten.

Meadow Elves, by Nils Blommér, 1850

Bragi generously offers his sword, horse, and an arm ring as peace gift but Loki only responds by accusing Bragi of cowardice, of being the most afraid to fight of any of the Æsir and Elves within the hall.

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In the early 30s Tolkien decided that the proto-language of the Elves was Valarin, the tongue of the gods or Valar: " The language of the Elves derived in the beginning from the Valar, but they change it even in the learning, and moreover modified and enriched it constantly at all times by their own invention.

Conflict was avoided by the arrival of the Goblin and Warg army who wanted the treasure out of greed, and the Dwarves decided to ally with the Elves and Men to fight this greater evil in what became known as the Battle of Five Armies.

However, the Men of Esgaroth, supported by Thranduil and the Elves of Mirkwood, demanded a part of the dragon's hoard as recompense for the destruction.

The Lonely Mountain: Lair of Smaug the Dragon is a board game produced in 1985 by Iron Crown Enterprises, designed by Coleman Charlton which features groups of adventurers, either Dwarves, Elves, Orcs or Men entering Smaug's Lair to capture his treasure before he awakens.

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.

A colony was settled in Ithilien by the Elves of Mirkwood, welcomed there by Legolas, and " it became once again the fairest country in all the westlands ", until after some time all Elves had departed over the Sea .</ div >

Khuzdul was written in Cirth, a runic alphabet developed by the Elves.

Because they awoke at the start of the Years of the Sun, while the Elves awoke at the start of the First Age during the Years of the Trees, they are called the Afterborn by the Elves.