Can elves and humans breed?

Elves and humans have held the Armlet of Strength and half-elves are capable of interbreeding with both elves and humans and continuing to produce fertile children. Interestingly, half-elves can also breed with other half-elves and have created a fairly stable half-elf race.
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Can human and elf have a baby?

Half-elves may mate and breed, but will always produce the offspring of the other parent (a Half-elf/elf pairing will produce elven children, while a Half elf/human pairing will result in human children).
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What is an elf human hybrid?

A half-elf is a mythological or fictional being, the offspring of an immortal elf and a mortal human. They are often depicted as very beautiful and endowed with magical powers; they may be presented as torn between the two worlds that they inhabit.
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Do elves get pregnant?

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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What is a half-elf half human called?

Half-elves (also called Cha'Tel'Quessir in elven) were humanoids born through the union of an elf and a human. Whether a half-elf was raised by their human parent or their elven parent, they often felt isolated and alone.
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How old can a elf live?

An elf reaches adulthood at about 110 years of age and can live to be more than 700 years old.
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Are half-elves infertile?

For elves and humans to be different species they must not produce fertile offspring. We know that half-elves are quite common but they can be interperated as hybrids, similar to mules or ligers, which are infertile.
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Are elves asexual?

Ever since the movie of the book Fellowship of the Ring came out, there seem to be two popular ideas about Elves' sex lives. Either they are radiantly asexual, or they are all screwing each other madly, along with any dwarves, hobbits, and men who happen along.
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How long are elves pregnant?

Elves' pregnancy lasts for two years. Most elf-maidens don't make it through 2 years thus less children. Twins are more common in Elves than in humans.
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Are elves male or female?

During the Old English period, separate forms were used for female elves (such as ælfen, putatively from Common Germanic *ɑlβ(i)innjō), but during the Middle English period the word elf came routinely to include female beings.
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How tall is a half-elf?

Size: Half-Elves are about the same size as Humans, ranging from 5 to 6 feet tall. Your size is Medium. Speed: Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
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Can a dwarf and an elf mate?

The offspring of a dwarf and an elf was known as a "dwelf" (which was pluralized to "dwelves"). The fertility and offspring of half-dwarves was similar to that of half-elves. If a half-dwarf mated with a pureblood dwarf, the offspring would be a pureblood dwarf.
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Do elves mate for life?

Elves marry for love, or at least with free will from both parties, typically early in life. Monogamy is practised and adultery is unthinkable. By their very nature, they are "seldom swayed by the desires of the body" or influenced by lust.
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What does a half-elf look like?

Description. Half-elves, as their name implies, are the offspring of humans and elves. Half-elves are a subrace unto themselves, blending the features of human and elf. Half-elves look like elves to humans and like humans to elves (hence their elven description as "half-human").
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Do baby elves grow?

Eventually your Elf baby might grow up. For example, you have a baby Elf for one year and the next year that Elf baby arrives as a second Elf. Follow these Elf on the Shelf Ideas for Multiple Elves if your baby grows up.
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Can Elves get drunk?

Well, the Hobbit shows that Elves can certainly get themselves drunk. They can also be killed by poison, so presumably an Elf could theoretically drink themselves to death. However, they would be unlikely to suffer much from the long term physiological effects of drinking.
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How long does it take for an elf to give birth?

Concerning gestation periods Races of the Wild says, "Elves have a gestation period of approximately nine months, just as humans and other similarly sized creatures do." The Complete Book of Elves says, "Following a two-year pregnancy, elf women are glad to celebrate the lightening of their burden."
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Why don t Elves have more children?

Having children is exhausting. The Elves believe that their child-bearing process draws a heavier physical and spiritual toll on them, compared to what it does to humans. They're understandable reluctant to have a lot of kids, because what's the point in having a dozen kids if doing so might literally kill you?
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Are Elves virgins?

Tolkien has written about Elves' sexuality. They were monogamous and having sex equalled marriage. They thought of sex to be extremely personal and intimate. They also married only someone who loved and that was forever.
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Can Elves on the shelf have babies?

To answer the burning question, no, Elf on the Shelf can't have babies.
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Was Aragorn a virgin?

I can tell you one thing for certain, though: Aragorn and Arwen did not have sex before marriage. The mortal view on such things is a little vague, but Tolkien made it very, inescapably clear that the elves did not have premarital sex.
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Can Tieflings mate with humans?

It's always a tiefling offspring.

Their appearance and their nature are not their fault but the result of an ancient sin, for which they and their children and their children's children will always be held accountable. Based on that, I would say a tiefling/human pairing would result in a tiefling.
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What color are half-elves?

Half-elves are paler, fairer, and smoother-skinned than their human parents, but their actual skin tone, hair color, and other details vary just as human features do. Half-elves' eyes are green, just as are those of their elf parents. A half-elf reaches adulthood at age 20 and can live to be more than 180 years old.
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Can half orcs breed?

Half-orc is a term used to describe the offspring of an orc or half-orc parent and a parent of any other species. Since the beginning of the First War, orcs have interbred with a number of species: mostly humans, but half-ogres and half-draenei are not unheard of.
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