Once again, I don't know where this would go, so I'll just put it here.

[SimplyStrange]

Anyone notice that I do that alot? lol

Anyway, the point of this thread was that I was just thinking that I have this huge fascination with elves. And not the elves like the little short dudes that help out Santa Claus, but the tall, slender, forest dwelling elves of fantasy novels and mythology. Any ideas on why, guys? I've ALWAYS found these to be interested, and manage to tie at least one elven character into the things I write.

Does anyone know of any websites/books on the elven race I could check out?

Does anyone believe them to be real beings that perhaps dwell in a different place than Earth? Like the spiritual plane, for instance? Anyone have any sort of elven interests like me? Or do I stand alone here?

[MistOfTheSea86]

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arcade/3677/elfrunes.html

[flar7]

where I live, but we are up to our necks in "the little people"
native american version (Cherokee) of faerie types. Just look like real small people. Taboo to speak about them in public for some reason.

And yes, I find elves fascinating. Especially Elven courts, heros and legends of faerie troops or parades.

[Swanspirit]

among the human species........ they are treated like freaks of nature......instead of the precious beings they are.........
other than that......... my grandmothers maiden name in Italian translated to " the good little people " so......I dont know too much LOL
Love and Light
Swannie

[flar7]

arent dwarves or dwarf like. They fall under the myth type beings. I have never seen one, but many of my cherokee friends as well as the elders strongly believe in them. They are little mischief makers, around 2' in height.

[SimplyStrange]

Yeah, faeries and the like have always been interesting to me...

But still, I dunno why I have this fascination with elves. Elven males, more often than not...who knows?

[Euphoria]

sometimes we feel attracted to someone or something or things because we see part of ourselves in them ......... i am attracted to dragons as i find that they have a distinct aura of power about them and i fancy myself having that aswell lol ... perhaps some of the elven qualities are what u have inside and one of the reasons for your attractions....... i sepoecially loved lord of the rings ... to me that was heaven lol

[Ball-Bhreac Ròn]

:elf: hehehe...

[talamh]

i have come across the theory that elves and/or faeries were an actual early type of "human" that had greatly-developed phychic/spiritual abilities and that they were driven slowly westward through Europe and then the British Isles and Ireland by a physically stronger but phychicly less developed people.... that they were there way before the Celts, and that the legends of the barrows and faerie are the mythical remains of a way of life that we can no longer understand, since we have lost much of our phychic abilities.

Why no "emperical" archeological evidence? Maybe we have it but don't understand it.. like the archeologists who thought the Venus of Willendorf Goddess figues found throughout Europe were "examples of early pronography".

The theory of an earlier people with greater "extra-sensory" abilities would help to explain ley lines or dragon lines and why there are stone circles and barrows at the "power points" where these lines cross.

How this theory relates to "little people" in the Americas i don't know.. since no one is at all sure how or where the people of the Americans came from. Maybe the "human race" developed in the Americas and spread to Europe and Asia .... or perhaps first developed in Australia.

There is so much we don't know.... and myths and legends of faeries and elves are only some of the more delightful clues. bb talamh