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Elves are cool, man. -- Orlando Bloom
Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that. -- Orlando Bloom
Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top. -- Orlando Bloom
I was a massive Tolkien fan. 'The Hobbit' was... my favorite book as a little girl, and the Silvan Elves were my favorite characters in the book. -- Evangeline Lilly
Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai. -- Orlando Bloom
More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is hard pressed to describe how they really look.... as if Tolkien has summoned archetypes from so deep in our minds that we can only recall them incompletely. -- John Howe
Elves don't shimmer -- David Rangel
Elves are wondrous fair to look upon. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
O! Tril-lil-lil-lolly the valley is jolly, ha! ha! -Elves of Rivendell -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Much evil must befall a country before it ever really forgets the Elves, if once they lived there. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Elves, pixies, gnomes- the Moomins, Chorlton and the Wheelies, SpongeBob SquarePants- they all tried to invade you at some point. -- Jacqueline Rayner
Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you. May the stars shine upon your faces! -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Wonderful folk, Elves, sir! Wonderful!' 'They are,' said Frodo. 'Do you like them still, now you have had a closer view? -- J. R. R. Tolkien
All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life's sober sadness. Let's be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were made for gladness! -- Lewis Carroll
Mordak has the mental clarity to recognise that when it comes to running a bureaucracy, Elves can achieve a degree of blinkered ruthlessness that makes goblins look like teddy-bears. -- Tom Holt
Elves and Dragons! Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you. ~Hamfast Gamgee (the Gaffer) -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes. Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
When someone writes something dazzlingly brilliant, people want to imitate it. The result is a lot of less-than-brilliant knock-offs. Elves, Dwarves, Goblin army, cursed ring, evil sorcerer. Tolkien did it. It rocked. Let's move on. Let's do something new. -- Patrick Rothfuss
We do not fear the flame, though it burns us,We do not fear the fire, though it consumes us,And we do not fear its light,Though it reveals the darkness of our souls,For therein lies our power.-- Blood Oath of the Iron Elves -- Chris Evans
I really dislike elves. -- Rhianna Pratchett
'No Hands' art goes straight back to Warhol. He was the first to use elves. -- Tom Wolfe
A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore. -- Terry Brooks
Dragons, to my way of thinking, are just another 'race' of sapient characters. We see lots of elves, dwarves, orcs, goblins, giants and, of course, dragons. -- Robin Hobb
To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child. -- Annie Besant
Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves. -- Henry Timrod
The fantasy world, the 'Game of Thrones' world, the forgotten realms worlds - they're the type of worlds I've always wanted to live in. Where vampires, dragons, dwarves and elves are real. -- Robert Kazinsky
I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self. -- George R. R. Martin
I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to. -- Karen Joy Fowler
If you read 'Lord of the Rings' and dismiss it as a lie because it has orcs and elves, you're missing the whole point of the story. If children don't have to be concerned about strangers because there's no such thing as a Big Bad Wolf dressed like Granny, you're missing the point. -- Doug TenNapel
I'd have to say, for me, as a child, my favorite memories were always centered around Christmas time. It always seemed like no matter how much money my parents had or didn't have, we got completely spoiled rotten. There were always presents under the tree, and we always did special things, like hide elves around the house. -- Josie Bissett
It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with all these sub-Tolkien rip-offs because they all end up doing the same old things and there's no rigour to it. -- Jonathan Stroud
When in doubt, blame the dark elves. -- Kevin Hearne
Silly dark elves. Earth is for Druids. -- Kevin Hearne
Have you not heard? Dark elves are psychopaths. -- Anglia Spring
Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos. -- Matt Groening
...The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world! -- Nicole Krauss
90% of toys are made in china, which technically makes the chinese elves -- Sean Lock
If you don't believe it's elves, that's your problem. I know it's elves. -- Janet Taylor Lisle
We (people) only remembered that elves sang. But we forgot what they sang about. -- Terry Pratchett
On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves. -- John Milton
Snowball just leads elves on, elves and Santas. He is playing a dangerous game. -- David Sedaris
If Mitt Romney was Santa Claus, he would fire the reindeer and outsource the elves. -- Ted Strickland
No Hands' art goes straight back to Warhol. He was the first to use elves. -- Tom Wolfe
Ask not the elves for advice, because they will tell you both 'yes' and 'no'. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves. -- Stephen King
I realized that there was an actual job of making movies. They weren't created by elves. -- Patrick Lussier
So elves could be walking around in our midst, disguised as normal, everyday, vertically challenged citizens. -- Janet Evanovich
Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size. -- W. H. Auden
Druid log July 15: Dark elves are not only quick and efficient killers, but creative and pyrotechnically inclined ones. -- Kevin Hearne
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories. -- Neil Gaiman
Mythology was littered with people who meddled in the affairs of elves and fairies and were never again heard from. -- Thomm Quackenbush
All those poor elves I haven't set free yet, having to stay over during Christmas because there aren't enough hats! -- J. K. Rowling
I want to take you away from this," I say, motioning around the kitchen, spastic. "From sushi and elves and... STUFF. -- Bret Easton Ellis
Long are the lives of elves' he said.Short are the tempers of dwarfs,'Gotrek muttered, just loud enough to be heard. -- William King
The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky. -- Elizabeth Oakes Smith
We were born in the '70s, back when twins were rare, a bit magical: cousins of the unicorn, siblings of the elves. -- Gillian Flynn
There are no magics or elves / Or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must / Wizard a track through our own screaming weed. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress. -- John Milton
Her eyes the glowworm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee. -- Robert Herrick
Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible - though very unlikely - that our whole world is controlled by elves. -- Jerry A. Coyne
Yes, they are elves, Legolas said. and they say that you breathe so loud they could shoot you in the dark. Sam hastily covered his mouth. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Yes, they are elves," Legolas said. "and they say that you breathe so loud they could shoot you in the dark." Sam hastily covered his mouth. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words around. -- Neil Gaiman
Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as strange as, oh, the French. -- Will Shetterly
Whatever hypnotizing charms I may have over boys, did not in fact work on three hundred pound girl elves. Not that I would ever try it again. -- Cyndi Goodgame
Whatever hypnotizing charms I may have over boys, did not in fact work on three hundred pound girl elves. Not that I would ever try it again." -- Cyndi Goodgame
When in doubt, know your way out, I always say.I thought you always said, 'When in doubt, blame the dark elves.'Well, yeah, that too. Oberon said. -- Kevin Hearne
Most fantasy is incredibly derivative of Tolkien, so when you read a lot of fantasy, it's really just elves and gnomes, and it all goes back to Tolkien. -- John Orloff
She was only a year old, but elves grew up fast. Not like witches, who Jenks swore were not able to be on their own until they were thirty. Ahem. -- Kim Harrison
Nor elves, nor fays, nor magic charm, Have pow'r, or will, to work us harm; For those who dare the truth to tell, Fays, elves, and fairies, wish them well. -- Maria Edgeworth
I'm not implying that fantasy is for kids. I'm saying that more and more people are finally realizing that there's more to fantasy stories than elves and wizards and goblin armies. -- Patrick Rothfuss
Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant clue to the whole affair. -- Joseph Chilton Pearce
I wander forth this chill December dawn: John Frost and all his elves are out, I see, As busy as the elfin world can be, Clothing a world asleep with fleecy lawn. -- Robert Williams Buchanan
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The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it's just a gloss. I mean, they're small, and they have the archetype. They're more like leprechauns, and this maybe raises a racial issue. -- Terence McKenna
Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be. -- Francis Spufford
"Admission" is Paul Weitz's movie. This is Karen Croner - the screenwriter's - movie. To have such a lovely role in such a beautifully written script offered to me, it's like elves made the shoes. -- Tina Fey
But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons -- Dave Eggers
The Elven Way passes beyond the fields of the known into the forest of the unknown, illuminated by the glow of the elves. -- The Silver Elves

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