"About Elves" Topic

"Elves, the humanoid embodiments of beauty and grace armed with the wisdom of ages as well as a not insignificant amount of magical power. They are ubiquitous in modern fantasy but once upon a time Elves, Dwarves, Goblins, and fairies were synonymous and virtually the same thing.

The popular concept of an "elf" is a tall, angelically beautiful humanoid akin to a human being with a pair of pointed ears possibly armed with a head full of arcane knowledge. In concept elves have mutated from obscure references in ancient myth and then into the fairies of Victorian nursery stories ultimately taking their core modern form in the work of J.R.R Tolkien. In a way, the transformation of the "elf" resembles, at least superficially, the evolution of one of the most infamous characters in literature, Lucifer.

"[O]n the second day of creation, one of the archangels, in fact the highest archangel of all, had through pride attempted to set himself up to be worshipped as an equal to God (2 Enoch 29.4-5; cf. 1 John 3:8). The Latin translation of Isa 14:12 names this individual "Lucifer"." [Van der Toorn, Karel. 1999. Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible, Second Edition. Brill Academic Publishers, The Netherlands. 246] This reference in the King James Bible was to be taken by John Milton and shaped as Tolkien did the elves, into the character of Lucifer the fallen angel onto which the popular idea of the Devil/Satan persona hangs…"
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Armand

I tend to disagree. Morgoth is more like Lucifer than anything else from Tolkien's works. A favored immortal that was exiled from heaven. Whether it is an archangel or a sub-god the story seems the same to me.

The Elves remind me more of a chosen people gifted with knowledge and enlightenment, that was exiled from Paradise. More or less like the Hebrews from the old testament.

Jewves?

(smile)

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Armand