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An Elf (Legolas a character from Lord of the Rings)
Elves are generally depicted in one of two was, the first being small, human-shaped creatures, that employ their magical skills to manufacture many different things from delicious cookies to toys in santa's workshop. The second is that they are powerful, human-sized beings, more beautiful and noble than humans, they are genrally long-lived and eternally youthful.

An elf is a mythical creature of Germanic mythology/paganism which still survives in northern European folklore. In Norse mythology they were originally a race of minor gods of nature and fertility. Elves are often pictured as youthful-seeming men and women of great beauty living in forests and other natural places, underground, or in wells and springs. They have been portrayed to be long-lived or immortal and they have magical powers attributed to them. Following the success of J. R. R. Tolkien's epic work The Lord of the Rings—wherein a wise, angelic people named Elves play a significant role—they have become staple characters of modern fantasy (see: Elves in fantasy fiction and games).

Elf can be pluralized both as elves and elfs. Something associated with elves or the qualities of elves is described by the adjectives elven, elvish, elfin or elfish. A convention of modern fantasy usage is: the v in elven or elvish refers to human-sized elves (who correspond more closely to the mythology of the Viking Era), whereas the f in elfin or elfish refers to tiny-sized elfs (who correspond more closely to the folklore of the Renaissance and Romantic Eras).






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If you know a lot about mythical creatures, then what do you think a girl with a short temper,earth loving,kind of tall, out of my knowlage, magical (i have a magic ora), can be helpful (sometimes). my personality can be annoying, fun when i want to be, nice, can be wise, can be silly, love to sing/dance, love fire,trees, snow, love and are attracted to full moon, loe nature, like to be with people and to be alone.
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