Elves

In many works of modern fantasy, elves are depicted as a race or species of pointy-eared humanoid beings.

Post-Tolkien fantasy elves tend to be immortal or long-lived in comparison to humans, more beautiful and wiser, with sharper senses and perceptions, and abilities or crafts that seem alien or magical. Often elves do not possess facial or body hair, are not portrayed fat or old and are consequently perceived to be androgynous.

As a race, Elves are typically depicted as more ancient than humans or other races, mentioned to have flourished in a sort of Golden Age forgotten by other races. Tha
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New Releases Tagged "Elves"

Brigands & Breadknives (Legends & Lattes, #2)
Moth Dark
Stellarlune (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #9)
The Elven Days of Christmas (Villains and Virtues)
Unraveled (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #9.5)
The Aspect of Essence (The Aelfyn Archives, #1)
He Who Fights with Monsters 11 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #11)
A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic (Adenashire, #1)
The Broken Elf King (Kings of Avalier, #2)
Keeper of the Lost Cities The Graphic Novel Part 1: Volume 1
Of Empires and Dust (The Bound and The Broken, #4)
Azarinth Healer: Book One (Azarinth Healer, #1)
Of Darkness and Light (The Bound and the Broken, #2)
Ultimate Level 1: Shattered Dreams (Ultimate Level 1, #1)
Ultimate Level 1: Ultimate Dreams (Ultimate Level 1, #9)
Indaria (System Universe #6)
System Interference (System Universe #5)
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle #1)
A Deal with the Elf King (Married to Magic, #1)
Eldest (The Inheritance Cycle, #2)
Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3)
Inheritance (The Inheritance Cycle, #4)
Dreams of the Ringed Vale (Luthiel's Song, #1)
Fierce Heart (Elven Alliance, #1)
The Silmarillion
The Lord of the Rings
The King's Captive (Gate of Myth and Power, #1)
Homeland (Forgotten Realms: The Dark Elf Trilogy, #1; Legend of Drizzt, #1)
Elvish by S.G. PrinceThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienThe Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
All Time Best Elf Books
33 books — 34 voters

The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob GrimmThe Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Jacob GrimmThe Complete Fairy Tales by Hans Christian AndersenTales of Virtuous Stepmothers by Georgina WarrenThe Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E.T.A. Hoffmann
Classic Fairytale Books
209 books — 26 voters
I Am Lilith by Melanie DuftyThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit by Chuck DixonA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Epic Fantasy
161 books — 137 voters

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440 books — 798 voters


William Shakespeare
Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid, Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm’d The noontide sun, call’d forth the mutinous winds, And ‘twixt the green sea and the azured va ...more
William Shakespeare, The Tempest

Neil Gaiman
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.
Neil Gaiman

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