• her view, the sundering of the Elves reflects the progressive decline and fall in Middle-earth from its initial perfection; the highest Elves are those...
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  • Tolkien worked on his conception of the elves and their divisions and migrations. He states that the sundering of the elves allowed Tolkien, a professional...
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  • represents the Christian Logos. Tom Shippey links the sundering of the Elves into different groups to the Two Trees and to the Prose Edda which speaks of light...
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    Elves") and Ljósálfar ("Light Elves") are two contrasting types of elves; the dark elves dwell within the earth and have a dark complexion, while the...
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  • Lhammas (redirect from The Lhammas)
    Elves the proto-language is remembered rather than reconstructed. This "concept of increasing separation" was also employed for the Sundering of the Elves...
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    The once thriving civilization of the Elves was torn asunder many thousands of years ago by a bitter civil war, resulting in the sundering of the race...
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  • division of the Elves in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium; see Sundering of the Elves § Eldar Aeldari (Warhammer 40,000), a race of elf-like...
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    Tolkien took this to imply the separation of peoples, in particular the complicated and repeated sundering of the Elves. Scholars including Flieger have noted...
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  • Literature The Eldar, an elven race in J. R. R. Tolkien's Sundering of the Elves Star People, mythological creatures from the fantasy Narnia world of C. S....
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    together in the far east of Middle-earth, Cuiviénen, and began "naturally" to make a language. With the sundering of the Elves, all the Elvish languages are...
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  • they invited the Elves to live in Aman. This led to the sundering of the Elves; those who accepted and then remained in Aman were the Vanyar; those who...
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  • taught the first Elves to speak. All languages of Elves and most languages of Men are Oromëan. Aulëan, named after Aulë, maker of the Dwarves, is the origin...
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    Thingol (category Grey Elves)
    King of the Sindar Elves, High-king and Lord of Beleriand, he is a major character in the First Age of Middle-earth and an essential part of the ancestral...
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  • Decline and fall in Middle-earth (category Themes of The Lord of the Rings)
    fragmentation of meaning. Tolkien took the fragmentation of language to imply the sundering of peoples, in particular the Elves. He took the division into...
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  • Mithril The Palantíri Phial of Galadriel Rings of Power The One Ring The Silmarils Weapons and armour First Age Sundering of the Elves Third Age Battle of Helm's...
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    In The Silmarillion, these include the sundering of the Elves, their repeated splintering into separate groups neatly mirroring the fragmentation of Quenya...
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  • "Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor" Tolkien 1977 Tables: "The Sundering of the Elves" Tolkien 1955, Book 5, ch. 5, "The Ride of the...
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  • legendarium. Finwë is the first King of the Noldor Elves; he leads his people on the journey from Middle-earth to Valinor in the blessed realm of Aman. His first...
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  • Galadriel (redirect from Lady of Lórien)
    as "the mightiest and fairest of all the Elves that remained in Middle-earth" (after the death of Gil-galad) and the "greatest of elven women". The Tolkien...
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    Quenya (category Middle-earth Elves)
    terms of phonology, morphology and semantics. The division between Light Elves and Dark Elves that took place during the Sundering of the Elves is reflected...
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  • splintering the original white light of creation "to many hues, and endlessly combined in living shapes" in the forms of the sundering of the Elves into light...
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    Owen Barfield (category Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford)
    device of repeated fragmentation, of the created light, of language, and of peoples especially in the sundering of the Elves. Barfield's contribution, and...
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  • II of The Sundering Jacqueline Carey". Macmillan. Retrieved 2010-07-11. "Banewreaker: Volume One of the Sundering". Retrieved 2010-07-11. Sundering series...
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  • Drow (category Fictional elves)
    The drow (/draʊ/ or /droʊ/) or dark elves are a dark-skinned and white-haired subrace of elves connected to the subterranean Underdark in the Dungeons...
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  • many details about the history of the Elves and their sundering. It also explains the Elvish names given to Men, Dwarves, and Orcs. "The Cuivienyarna" is...
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  • Warcraft (redirect from Night Elves)
    this is the second major change to the face of Azeroth, the first being the Sundering. The Sundering was caused as a result of the War of the Ancients...
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  • in the works The Book of Lost Tales, The Children of Húrin, and in the epic poems of The Lays of Beleriand. The land is occupied by Teleri Elves of King...
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  • the Sartan attempted to end the conflict by sundering the Earth into four elemental realms, and imprisoning the Patryns in a fifth prison world, the Labyrinth...
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  • devised for the High-Elves), that describes the contents of the book. The inscription in Volume XII reads: "This is the last volume of the work of Christopher...
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  • process of decline and fall in Middle-earth, marked by the splintering of the original created light and by the sundering of the Elves. The Elves sought...
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