Alfred the Great (, " elf counsel "; 849 – 26 October 899 ) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899.

* Old Norse: The definite article was the enclitic-inn ,-in ,-itt ( masculine, feminine and neuter nominative singular ), as in álfrinn " the elf ", gjǫfin " the gift ", and tréit " the tree ", an abbreviated form of the independent pronoun hinn, cognate of the German pronoun jener.

In the fictional history of Middle-earth, the original Certhas Daeron was created by the elf Daeron, the minstrel of king Thingol of Doriath and was later expanded into what was known as the Angerthas Daeron.

In the distant past of Earthdawns setting, an elf scholar discovered that the time of the Horrors was approaching, and founded the Eternal Library in order to discover a way to defeat them — or at the very least, survive them.

Originally ælf / elf and its plural ælfe were the masculine forms, while the corresponding feminine form ( first found in eighth century glosses ) was ælfen or elfen ( with a possible feminine plural-ælfa, found in dunælfa ) which became the Middle English elven, using the feminine suffix-en from the earlier-inn which derives from the Proto-Germanic *- innja ).

However, throughout Germanic tradition, given names which contain elf as an element are frequently attested, suggesting that the malevolent or evil image of elves in West Germanic tradition was a secondary development, reinforced by Christianization.

The archaic form Alpdruck means " elf pressure "; it was believed that nightmares are a result of an elf sitting on the dreamer's chest ( incubi ).

This second kind of elf cross one was worn as a pendant in a necklace and in order to have sufficient magic it had to be forged during three evenings with silver from nine different sources of inherited silver.

They left a kind of circle where they had danced, which were called älvdanser ( elf dances ) or älvringar ( elf circles ), and to urinate in one was thought to cause venereal diseases.

Typically, elf circles were fairy rings consisting of a ring of small mushrooms, but there was also another kind of elf circle:

During his trial Boyd stated he was playing Shadowrun, specifically the role of criminal elf Buho, at the time and may have " blurred reality and fantasy ".

Since Inglorion means " son of Inglor ", the straightforward reading is that " Gildor Inglorion " was the son of Inglor, son of Finrod, son of Finwë, which would make him an elf of very high lineage.

In the Third Age Lindon was ruled by Gil-galad's ally, the Sindarin elf Círdan the Shipwright, master of Mithlond.

Often, it was thought, a baby would be snatched and replaced with a simulation of the baby, usually a male adult elf, to be suckled by the mother.

Lúthien is the only known elf to have been permitted to share the Fate of Men, and so her fëa passed out of Arda and was lost to her kin ( together with her lover Beren, the only known Man to have been permitted to be re-embodied and return to Middle-earth for a while ).

Still to be decided is how much of a witch she naturally was versus how much magic was given to her by the elf queen.

Originally the Sahuagin frame was more like that of the aquatic elf not possessing a tail and having a similar skeletal structure to humans.

Her mother, Coral Short, is described as a European elf who was temperamental and had an appearance similar to Holly's.

In the Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying game, a drider is an aberration that was formerly a drow ( dark elf ).

Figwit is a fan-created name for an unnamed elf extra in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, played by actor and musician Bret McKenzie of Flight of the Conchords fame.

Former band member Bret McKenzie is also a member of international award-winning comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, as well as playing Figwit the elf in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings.

The conclusion of Grimm is that the classification " elf " can be considered to " shrink and stretch by turns ".

On the other hand, oaf is simply a variant of the word elf, presumably originally referring to a changeling or to someone stupefied by elvish enchantment.

Middle High German has a feminine singular elbe and a plural elbe, elber, but the word becomes very rare, mostly surviving in the adjective elbisch, and is replaced by the English form elf, elfen via 18th century German translations of Shakespeare's A Midsummernight's Dream.

Poor little birdie teased, by Victorian era illustrator Richard Doyle ( illustrator ) | Richard Doyle depicts the traditional view of an elf from later English folklore as a diminutive woodland humanoid.

The legend has been interpreted as a traditional folk tale which has been subjected to Christianization where the familiar story of the seduction of a human being by an elf or fairy leads to the delights of the fairy-realm but later the longing for his earthly home is overwhelming.

Over time, the remaining elves turned into drow by powerful magic, and at this time any elf who is evil enough can spontaneously turn into a drow.

* The 1957 Soviet cartoon " The Snow Queen " is introduced by the Sandman who is depicted as an elf who puts children into a trance ( sleep ) using a black umbrella which causes a dreamless sleep or a colourful umbrella which causes dreams.

The Eldar are a race of elf like beings who inhabit the fictional universe of the game Warhammer 40, 000, a 1987 tabletop miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop, set in a dystopian science-fantasy universe.

It also has a collection of Danish elf ( nisser ) dolls that were donated by Ellen Bredahl, formerly holder of the Guinness Record for the largest collection of these popular Danish dolls.

Some fictional approaches definitively establish the independence of the parallel world, sometimes by having the world differ from the book's account ; other approaches have works of fiction create and affect the parallel world: L. Sprague de Camp's Solomon's Stone, taking place on an astral plane, is populated by the daydreams of mundane people, and in Rebecca Lickiss's Eccentric Circles, an elf is grateful to Tolkien for transforming elves from dainty little creatures.

In another strip he attempts to pick up a woman by telling her that he works as ' an assistant to a well-established provider of goods to the younger end of the market '; despite being exposed as an elf in Santa's grotto in a local department store ' by his derisive mates, he still attempts to keep up the pretence that his job brings him success with women --' Y ' see lasses fancy summat a bit special '.

Poor little birdie teased, by Victorian era illustrator Richard Doyle ( illustrator ) | Richard Doyle depicts an elf with the facial features associated with Williams syndrome.

In this ballad, an elf threatens to abduct a young woman to be his lover unless she can perform an impossible task (" For thou must shape a sark to me / Without any cut or heme, quoth he "); she responds with a list of tasks that he must first perform (" I have an aiker of good ley-land / Which lyeth low by yon sea-strand ").

The story centers around an elf outcast named Rhys who has triggered a series of events foreseen by his mentor, Colfenor, and a flamekin pilgrim named Ashling who believes her path and Rhys's are the same.

Ashling, now known as the Extinguisher, has a central role in this shift, and it falls to Rhys ( an elvish hero in this place ) and Maralen, a mysterious elf and one of the very few unchanged by the transformation, to discover why.

It follows the rescue of Artemis Fowl I from the Russian Mafia, alongside the battle against the goblin rebellion led by the pixie Opal Koboi and elf Briar Cudgeon.

During their journey they are joined by the wolf Aragh ( Victor Buono ), a woodland elf named Giles, and the archer ' Danielle of the Woodlands ' ( Nellie Bellflower ).

An example is " Ólafur Liljurós ", an Icelandic víkivaki folk song dating to the 14th century, about a man on his way to meet his mother who is seduced, kissed and stabbed by an elf woman while riding his horse, then eventually dies.

Paul is one of the few non-sock puppet characters, played by a plastic elf hand puppet.

The elves are described using Tolkien's own words, including borrowings from his Elvish languages ( for example, moredhel, Feist's name for his " dark elves ", is found in Tolkien and comes from the Sindarin elements mor ' dark ' and edhel ' elf ').

Conversely, elves of the Tolkien mould have become standardized staple characters of modern fantasy to such an extent that breaking the norms for how an elf is supposed to be and behave has become an end in itself.