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Bag End, Mario V artstation.com

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'Druid's Circle' Prehistoric Stone Circle, Penmaenmawr, Wales.

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Prehistoric Rock Art at 'Rowtor Rocks', Birchover, Peak District.

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girls night! *gets horribly lost in the labyrinthine catacombs beneath the city and chased by creatures and beings*

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🧝Elves🧝

🍃 Today the word ‘’elves’‘ conjures up images of Santa’s little helpers, but early folklore describes them as handsome, human-size beings. They show up in the legends of the Teutonic peoples, where the elves exhibit great skill as artisans, archers,and healers. Scandinavian myths divide elves into three types. Light Elves dwell with the gods and goddesses in the Upper World. Dark Elves live in the Lower World. Black Elves are attractive and human in size and live in a realm between the other two. According to Norse folklore, humans who proved themselves worthy could advance to the level of elves after death.

🍃 Shakespeare sometimes used the terms “elves” and “fairies” interchangeably. Folklorists might argue that elves could be considered a subset within the generic species called “fairies”, but they form a distinct group unto themselves. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Bard presents them as small, mischievous beings. Hans Christian Andersen, in his fairy tale “The Elf Of the Rose,” described elves as being small enough to live inside a rose. J.R.R. Tolkien, in Lord of the Rings, however, portray elves as a noble race, tall, handsome, and benevolent, resistant to disease and death.

🍃 Art By: @LoraDeSore on deviantart: https://www.deviantart.com/lorandesore/art/Crystall-elf-556916965

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🍃 Tradition says elves don’t much like humans and can harm as well as help people- despite the fact that elves have been known to mate will mortals, as did the mother of the warrior Hogni, one of the last survivors after the fall of the Germanic Nibelungen. Stories tell of these spirits attacking humans with poisoned darts known as “elf-shot”. And in “The Elfin Hill”, Andersen writes that the pretty females of the species, who love music and dancing, have been know to spin about so deliriously that they dance human men to death.

🍃 Art By: Nixri on deviantart: https://www.deviantart.com/nixri/art/Young-Blood-Elf-741171767

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🧝 Icelandic Elves 🧝

🍃 The people of iceland have a special relationship with elves, closer perhaps than citizens of any other culture. Iceland’s Tourist Board reports that 80percent of the country’s people believe elves exist. Iceland has even enacted policies to protect the elves from human incursion. In the port city of Hafnarfjordur, where 25 percent of residents say they’ve seen fairies, land has been preserved for the elves and no construction can take place in designated areas. People who fear they’ve offended the elves by building on their sacred ground may call in an elf-whisperer to meet with the elves and find a way to resolve the problem.

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Source:Fairies : The Myths, Legends & Lore By Skye Alexander

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The Sacred Grove of the Druids, from the opera ‘Norma’ by Vincenzo Bellini

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