The Elven (The Saga of the Elven Book 1)

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The Kings' sagas include a rather elliptical but widely studied account of an early Swedish king being worshipped after his death and being called Ólafr Geirstaðaálfr ('Ólafr the elf of Geirstaðir'), and a demonic elf at the beginning of Norna-Gests þáttr. [97]

Throughout the medieval Germanic languages, elf was one of the nouns used in personal names, almost invariably as a first element. These names may have been influenced by Celtic names beginning in Albio- such as Albiorix. [41] Alden Valley, Lancashire, possibly a place once associated with elves Shippey, Tom (2005), "Alias oves habeo: The Elves as a Category Problem", The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm's Mythology of the Monstrous, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 291 / Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 14, Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in collaboration with Brepols, pp.157–187 In The Lord of the Rings Tolkien pretends to be merely the translator of Bilbo and Frodo's memoirs, collectively known as the Red Book of Westmarch. He says that those names and terms that appear in English are meant to be his purported translations from the Common Speech. [T 8] E.g. Rossella Carnevali and Alice Masillo, ' A Brief History of Psychiatry in Islamic World', Journal of the International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine, 6–7 (2007–8) 97–101 (p. 97); David Frankfurter, Christianizing Egypt: Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018), p. 50. Garth, John (2003). Tolkien and the Great War. London: HarperCollins (published 2004). p.222. ISBN 978-0-00-711953-0.

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Hadler, Jeffrey (9 October 2008). Muslims and Matriarchs: Cultural Resilience in Indonesia Through Jihad and ... By Jeffrey Hadler. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801446979 . Retrieved 23 June 2012. In 1937, having had his manuscript for The Silmarillion rejected by a publisher who disparaged all the "eye-splitting Celtic names" that Tolkien had given his Elves, Tolkien denied the names had a Celtic origin: [T 7] Tolkien, J. R. R. (1954a). The Fellowship of the Ring. The Lord of the Rings. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. OCLC 9552942. Shippey, Tom (2001). J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century. HarperCollins. pp.228–231. ISBN 978-0261-10401-3.

Even in the twenty-first century, fantasy stories about elves have been argued both to reflect and to shape their audiences' understanding of the real world, [5] [6] and traditions about Santa Claus and his elves relate to Christmas. In later Old Icelandic, alfr ("elf") and the personal name which in Common Germanic had been * Aþa(l)wulfaz both coincidentally became álfr~Álfr. [46] Thun, Nils (1969). "The Malignant Elves: Notes on Anglo‐Saxon Magic and Germanic Myth". Studia Neophilologica. 41 (2): 378–96. doi: 10.1080/00393276908587447. Horstmann, C., ed. (1887). "St Michael". The Early South English Legendary. lines 253-258: Trubner/Early English Text Society. p.307. ISBN 9780527000844. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location ( link)

Icelandreview.com, Iceland Still Believes in Elves and Ghosts". Icelandreview.com. Archived from the original on 6 December 2008 . Retrieved 14 June 2012. Cooper, Victoria Elizabeth (2016). Fantasies of the North: Medievalism and Identity in Skyrim (PhD). University of Leeds. a b Gilkeson, Austin (21 December 2018). "Rankin/Bass's The Hobbit Showed Us the Future of Pop Culture". Tor.com . Retrieved 26 October 2023. After the destruction of the One Ring, the power of the Three Rings of the Elves ended and the Fourth Age, the Age of Men, began. Most Elves left for Valinor; those that remained in Middle-earth were doomed to a slow decline until, in the words of Galadriel, they faded and became a "rustic folk of dell and cave". The fading played out over thousands of years, until in the modern world, occasional glimpses of rustic Elves would fuel folktales and fantasies. Elladan and Elrohir, the sons of Elrond, did not accompany their father when the White Ship bearing the Ring-bearer and the chief Noldorin leaders sailed from the Grey Havens to Valinor; they remained in Lindon. Celeborn and other elves of the Grey Havens remained for a while before leaving for Valinor. Legolas founded an elf colony in Ithilien during King Elessar's reign; the elves there helped to rebuild Gondor, living mainly in southern Ithilien, along the shores of the Anduin. After Elessar's death, Legolas built a ship and sailed to Valinor and, eventually, all the elves in Ithilien followed him. [T 20]

Frog, Etunimetön; Roper, Jonathan (May 2011). "Verses versus the Vanir: Response to Simek's "Vanir Obituary" (PDF). The Retrospective Methods Network Newsletter: 29–37. Alver, Bente Gullveig [ no]; Selberg, Torunn (1987),'Folk Medicine as Part of a Larger Concept Complex', Arv, 43: 21–44.A completely different etymology, making elf a cognate with the Ṛbhus, semi-divine craftsmen in Indian mythology, was suggested by Adalbert Kuhn in 1855. [39] In this case, * ɑlβi-z would connote the meaning 'skillful, inventive, clever', and could be a cognate with Latin labor, in the sense of 'creative work'. While often mentioned, this etymology is not widely accepted. [40]

Hostetter, Carl F. (2013) [2007]. "Languages Invented by Tolkien". In Drout, Michael D. C. (ed.). The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment. Routledge. pp.332–343. ISBN 978-0-415-86511-1.

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The name Inwe or Ingwë (in the first draft Ing), given by Tolkien to the eldest of the elves and his clan, [T 5] is similar to the name found in Norse mythology as that of the god Ingwi-Freyr, a god who is gifted the elf-world Álfheimr. Terry Gunnell finds the relationship between beautiful ships and the Elves reminiscent of the god Njörðr and the god Freyr's ship Skíðblaðnir. [19] He also retains the usage of the French derived term "fairy" for the same creatures. [20] Taylor, Lynda (2014). The Cultural Significance of Elves in Northern European Balladry (PhD). University of Leeds.