Can elves get pregnant?

Elves reach sexual maturity at 80-100 years of age and live for 600-800 years. Elves do not suffer infirmity until the very end of their lifespan. Elven reproduction is human-like. Human-Elven hybrids are possible, even somewhat common (~5% of the population in some areas).
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Can an elf have a baby?

As you can see from above, Elves can have babies, and they reproduce the same way as Men do, but they usually do it when they are young, Elvish libido diminishes over time, and having children is exhausting for Elves.
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Can elves reproduce with humans?

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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How long are elves pregnant for?

"Elves have a gestation period of approximately nine months, just as humans and other similarly sized creatures do. Once a child is born, his or her parents usually raise the youngster for the first few years, and then foster him or her out to a succession of older relatives until he or she reaches maturity."
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At what age do elves have babies?

According to the most recent official lore, elves probably bear children mostly between ages 100 and 300.
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Do elves get periods?

((EDIT: Although ti's very possible - even likely, that menstruation wasn't actually a monthly cycle. Elves rarely even counted in years (preferring centuries), let alone months.)) So, long story short, I'm pretty confident that elves do menstruate.
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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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Do elves only fall in love once?

By their very nature, they are "seldom swayed by the desires of the body" or influenced by lust. They marry only once for it was ruled by Manwë that, "'since the Elves are by nature permanent in life within Arda, so also is their unmarred marriage.
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Do elves have a gender?

In Tolkien's levish lexicon, Ellon means "elf-man", and Elleth "elf-woman". In that tale, male elves are often called simply "the men".
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Can elves have twins?

Can Elves have twins? Yes, not only were the sons of Elrond twins, it ran in their family, Elurid and Elurin were twins they were the brother of Elrond mother. Also Feanor had a set of twins Amras and Amrod.
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How do elves make babies?

The bride's mother gives the groom a jewel to wear. Elves view the sexual act as special and intimate, for it leads to the birth of children. Elves cannot be forced to have sex; before that they will lose the will to endure and go to Mandos. Elves have few children, and there are long intervals between each child.
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How many kids do elves usually have?

Elves reach sexual maturity at 80-100 years of age and live for 600-800 years. That means when an Elven pair enters reproduction age at 80-100 and cares about their child until it's grown up, during 800 years they can raise at most 7-9 kids, comparable with your 5-7 for humans.
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What happens when an elf marries a man?

So, if an elf were to marry a mortal, their only real choices would be to live forever after their spouse dies, or to find some way to die themselves and spend the rest of time in the Halls of Mandos. Neither of which are especially pleasant, which is why such pairings are so incredibly rare.
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Can u touch an elf mate?

As an avid elf fan, you already know the number one rule about having a Scout Elf: no touching! This helps Scout Elves keep their Christmas magic so they can complete their important Christmas duties.
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Do elf babies 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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What happens if you touch a baby elf?

Children are not allowed to touch them.

Elves are very fragile, and if they are touched by human children they lose their magic and ability to communicate with Santa.
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What do you call a baby elf?

changeling , also called elf child. In European folk tradition, a deformed or weak-witted offspring of fairies or elves substituted by them surreptitiously for a comely human child. changeling.
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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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What do elves call humans?

Because they awoke at the start of the Years of the Sun, long after the Elves, the elves called them the "afterborn", or in Quenya the Atani, the "Second People". Like Elves, Men first awoke in the East of Middle-earth, spreading all over the continent and developing a variety of cultures and ethnicities.
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Can Elves remarry?

Basically, elves do not remarry. This is mainly because an elvish marriage never ends. It sort of ties in to the way elvish immortality works. Though the elvish bodies (hroar) can be destroyed, or might fade away with time, elvish spirits (fear) are tied to the world for as long as the world exists.
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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 real?

From a scientific viewpoint, elves are not considered objectively real. However, elves have in many times and places been believed to be real beings.
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Do Elves have multiple partners?

It means that they did so only in the context of loving union. Tolkien decided that Elves could only marry once in their lives, and that for Elves sexual relations and marriage were the same thing.
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Why don t Elves have more children?

To conclude: declining birth rates has helped cause the end of the age of the elves, and the end of the age of the elves has helped cause declining birth rates. And the end product of this cycle is that we really don't see (or even hear of) any elf children after the early Third Age.
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Are dwarfs asexual?

Dwarves aren't asexual. There are female dwarves, and there is a small discussion of the in the apendix of RoTK. About 1/3 of the dwarven population iss female and about 1/3 of them actually get married. Due to that fact, the dwarven population grows very slowly.
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