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"Elves"

 Elves
The Elves

Often small, mischievous creatures thought to have magical powers. Although some elves are friendly to humans, others are spiteful and destructive. Elves have long been a staple of folklore, from Germanic mythology to J. R. R. Tolkien 's The Lord of the Rings, in which the elves speak a special language called Elvish.                                                                                        Elves have been a popular subject in fiction for centuries, ranging from William Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" to the classic fantasy novels of J.R.R. Tolkien 300 years later. But it's only recently that elves have been confined to plays, books, and fairy tales: In centuries past, belief in the existence of fairies and elves was common among both adults and children.In Tolkien Mythology, the Elves were the first children of Eru, the One, whom they called Ilúvatar. The Elves are not subject to disease or physical aging, though they could be killed by violence or by wasting away and losing the will to live. They were otherwise essentially immortal.

History of Elves
Background of Elves

The Firstborn, the Elder Children of Ilúvatar, conceived by Eru alone in the third theme of Ainulindalë, the eldest and noblest of the speaking races of Middle-earth. They awoke by Cuiviénen,(was the land where elves awoke) the Water of Awakening in the far east of Middle-earth, in the starlight of the Sleep of Yavanna, as the Sun and Moon had yet to be created. The first Elves to awake were three pairs: Imin ("First") and his wife Iminyë, Tata ("Second") and Tatië, and Enel ("Third") and Enelyë these three eleves with their wives joind up and walked throughy forest   and they come across six nine and twelve pairs of eleves and each patriarch claimed the pairs as his folk in order. The now sixty elves dwell by the rivers, and they invented poetry and music in Middle-earth. when they explore further, they came across a band of Elves watching the stars, which Tata claims as his. These were tall and dark-haired, the fathers of most of the Ñoldor. The ninety-six elves now developed many new words. Continuing their journey, they find twenty-four pairs of elves, singing without language, and Enel added them to his people. These were the forefather of most of the Lindar or "singers", later called Teleri. They found no more Elves; Imin's people has no more large group its smallest group of elves, were the ancestors of the Vanyar. All in all they numbered 144. Because all elves had been found in groups of twelve, twelve becomes their base number and 144 their highest number (for a long time). None of the later Elvish languages had a common name for a greater number.
At first the elves sang with grace and with highspirit without speech but soon they developed speech and spoke with words, so their first name for themselves was Quendi.(the one who speak with voice)

Discovery of elves

Search for Elves
The Elves were content  long under the stars of the forest near Cuiviénen. However, Melkor, the Dark Lord, latter called morgoth was aware of them and their location before the Valar the( power of arda), and at this time he sent his evil spirits to spy on them and did harm to them and some of these early elves ran away from home in blind fear and were taken by Melkor or one of his agents. These elves were never seen again and were taken to Utumno and were believed to be twisted and mutilated until they became the Orcs. So when they were discovered by the Vala Oromë during his travels throughout Middle-earth, some elves were afraid and hide, but the faithful ones that stayed soon found out that he was nothing to fear and met with him. Oromë loved them and gave them the name Eldar(people of the stars)Oromë spent some time with them and then returned to Valinor to tell Manwë of the finding of the Firstborn of Eru Ilúvatar. He then returned to live with elves for a time, learning about them. It was after this that the Valar decided to protect the elves by ridding Middle-earth of Melkor and his evils. The Valar made war upon Melkor and set a guard on Cuiviénen. The elves knew nothing of the war save that the earth shook and thunderous lightning was seen in the north. After the removal of Melkor, Oromë returned with a summons of the Valar to Aman. Some elves were afraid as they felt the tumults of the Valar's war on Melkor and relented. Knowing this, the elves chose ambassadors one from each kindred and they were Ingwë, Finwë, and Elwë and they went to Valinor as representatives of their people.

SOURCES
↑ The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion
↑ The Complete Guide to Middle-earth
↑J.R.R.TOLKIEN
↑ The Atlas of Middle-earth

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