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2. Elf - Wikipedia

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   Ängsälvor (Swedish "Meadow Elves") by Nils Blommér (1850) An elf ( pl.: elves) is a type of humanoid supernatural being in Germanic folklore. Elves appear especially in North Germanic mythology, being mentioned in the Icelandic Poetic Edda and Snorri Sturluson 's Prose Edda . In medieval Germanic -speaking cultures, elves generally seem to ...

3. Queen of Elphame - Wikipedia

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   Queen of Elphame [1] or "Elf-hame" (- hame stem only occurs in conjectural reconstructed orthography [2] [3] ), in the folklore belief of Lowland Scotland and Northern England, designates the elfin queen of Faerie, mentioned in Scottish witch trials. In ballads and contemporary texts, she is referred to as Queen of Elphane, Elphen, or the Fairies.

4. Huldufólk - Wikipedia

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   Huldufólk or hidden people are elves in Icelandic and Faroese folklore. They are supernatural beings that live in nature. They look and behave similarly to humans, but live in a parallel world. They can make themselves visible at will. Konrad von Maurer cites a 19th-century Icelandic source claiming that the only visible difference between normal people and outwardly human-appearing ...

5. Garrie Cooper - Wikipedia

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   Garrie Clifford Cooper (22 December 1935 [1] - 25 April 1982) was the founder of the highly successful Elfin Sports Cars and a competitive racing driver in his own right, winning the 1968 Singapore Grand Prix, the 1968 Australian 1½ Litre Championship, and the 1975 Australian Sports Car Championship - all in Elfin cars of his own design.

6. Beren and Lúthien - Wikipedia

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   Beren and Lúthien is a compilation of multiple versions of the epic fantasy Lúthien and Beren by J. R. R. Tolkien, one of Tolkien's earliest tales of Middle-earth.It is edited by Christopher Tolkien.

7. Languages constructed by J. R. R. Tolkien - Wikipedia

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   The English philologist and author J. R. R. Tolkien created several constructed languages, mostly related to his fictional world of Middle-earth. Inventing languages, something that he called glossopoeia (paralleling his idea of mythopoeia or myth-making), was a lifelong occupation for Tolkien, starting in his teens. Tolkien's glossopoeia has two temporal dimensions: the internal (fictional ...