Are elves Tall or short?

Elves are tall and slender, just like Tolkien described them.
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What is the height of an elf?

They value and protect others' freedom as well as their own, and they are more often good than not. Size: Elves range from under 5 to over 6 feet tall and have slender builds.
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Are elves taller or shorter than humans?

Elves tend to be shorter than humans. This is true in most cases though often you can find elves reaching 1.8 meters in height (males and females) and even higher.
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Are elves always tall?

Folklore generally has elves as slightly taller than humans, however in D&D elves have been shorter since advanced D&D.
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Are elves taller than men?

Quite the contrary. Tolkien´s elves are taller than humans. The earlier they were born, the taller they are, because elven blood weakens with age. Also, the random humans who are descended from the elves tend to grow taller than normal humans, and their longevity is more pronounced.
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What is the tallest elf?

Ralph is the world's tallest elf, and he's Santa's right hand man. Coming in at 6 feet 3 inches tall, Ralph oversees the elves on the shelves, Christmas-related emergencies, the toy making, the naughty and nice list and even Santa's security. Ralph wasn't always the tallest elf, however.
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Do elves go through puberty?

Elves, at least the Eldar, have a pregnancy that lasts about a year. By the age of 1, Elves can speak, walk and dance. Puberty and full height are attained at around their fiftieth to one hundredth year, when they stop aging physically.
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How tall were first age elves?

The Elves were the fairest creatures in Arda, a far more beautiful race than Men, and generally tall (seldom less than six feet for elf women, no less than six and a half feet for elfmen). Among them, those who had gone to Valinor were the fairest and had the greatest skill of body. Elves had keener senses than Men.
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What is the average age of an elf?

An elf typically claims adulthood and an adult name around the age of 100 and can live to be 750 years old. Elves take their time doing things because of their long life span.
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How old is the oldest elf?

He is thought to be over 10,000 years old by the time the War of the Ring takes place, and in all those many long years, he is credited with saving the entire elven race, selflessly putting his own wants and desires aside for the good of all, and of being a vessel through which the divine could communicate with the ...
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What is a female elf called?

elven (plural elvens) Originally, a female elf, a fairy, a nymph; (by extension) any elf. [
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How tall are Christmas elves?

Just like humans, elves' heights vary, but Santa's elves are typically between 2 and 4 feet tall.
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What is a half elf human called?

Half-elven (Sindarin singular Peredhel, plural Peredhil), are the children of the Union of Elves and Men. Half-elven are not a distinct race per se; rather, they were fertile offspring as the result of a union between Elves and Men.
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How tall is a male elf?

They are slightly shorter than humans on average, ranging from well under 5 feet tall to just over 6 feet. They are more slender than humans, weighing only 100 to 145 pounds. Males and females are about the same height, and males are only marginally heavier than females.
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Are half elves tall?

Size: Half-Elves are about the same size as Humans, ranging from 5 to 6 feet tall.
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How fast do elves age?

Elves' Second Cycle of Life Is an Endless Adulthood

Unlike the race of Men, they didn't physically age. They just remained constant -- an unchanging incarnation of their eternal form. Thus, once they were 100 years old, they looked the same for the rest of their lives.
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How old is Santa's youngest elf?

They state that one of the oldest elves around is 4,000 years old, and he goes by the name of Kringle. The youngest is only 700 and is named Buttercup. As you can see, Santa is always on the lookout for new elves with plenty of holiday spirit.
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What happens when an elf dies?

When elves die, their spirits travel to the Halls, where they rest for a time as disembodied shades. Most of them are then returned to corporeal form and rejoin all the other elves living in Valinor.
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Are elves friendly?

Characteristics and common features

Modern fantasy literature has revived the elves as a race of semi-divine beings of human stature who are friendly with nature and animals.
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How old is a 20 year old elf?

How old is a 20 year old elf? Elves take their time doing things because of their long life span. So to them 100 years feels like what 20 years feels like to a Human.
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Do elves have gender?

While we have trouble understanding this complicated subject in our own society its even harder to try and understand sex in a completely different race. Elves have sex the same way humans (and most mammals) do, in the physical sense but they treat it in a different way.
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Do elves age faster?

Elves' bodies developed slower than those of Men, but their minds developed more swiftly. In their twenties, they might still appear physically seven years old, though the Elf-child would have mature language and skill, :228 whereas Men at the same age are already physically mature.
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Can parents Touch elf on Shelf?

Are grown-ups allowed to intervene? Santa advises that no family member touch their Elf on the Shelf, but he does describe a few rare instances when an adult may use tongs or potholders to help an elf in an urgent situation.
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Why shouldn't kids touch Elf on the Shelf?

The official Elf on the Shelf website details the three rules to follow. The first and most important rule is that you must NOT touch your Elf. If you do, they will lose all their magic - and nobody wants that to happen. When scout elves lose their magic, they can't go about their Christmas duties.
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What age do kids stop believing in elf?

By age eight, kids begin to acknowledge the unlikeliness of one man travelling the world in a single night. The good news? If you started the tradition of Elf on the Shelf in your household, you can likely send the elf into early retirement around your child's eighth Christmas.
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