How long are elves pregnant for?

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 long are elves pregnant DND?

Elves follow mammalian reproduction, with a gestation period of 8 months.
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How long is an elf a baby?

100 to 200 years

Though an elf reaches mental and physical maturity at the age of 25, very few elves become parents until much later in life. Elves rarely feel that they're ready to settle down and begin families before they're at least 100 years old, and most stop having children soon after reaching the age of 200.
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How long does it take for an elf to be born?

Elves are born about one year after their begetting.
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How often do elves reproduce?

Exactly: An elven woman will have 29 children in her lifetime. That is, if they achieve maturity at 90 years, one child every 20 years by mean (assuming she's having children while able).
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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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How long are Tolkien elves 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.
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How long do Elves carry children?

Elf mothers are with child for 1 year. Once born, elves' minds and bodies initially grow rapidly, advancing past the infant and toddler stage within the first year. Development then slows down and an elf is mentally in adolescence for roughly the next 49 years.
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What is the lifespan of an elf?

They aren't really considered old until age 260 or so; a venerable quel'dorei is around 350 years old, and the maximum life span for a high elf or blood elf is 360-400 years of age.
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Can Elves be pregnant?

Perhaps Elves gestate for years... even centuries. And if you're already pregnant, you can't get pregnant again. So even a particularly fecund Elf is only going to have one, maybe two children. (I would assume menopause kicks in for Elves sometime around the half-millennia mark.)
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How old is a 100 year old 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. So to them 100 years feels like what 20 years feels like to a Human.
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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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Can elves and humans mate?

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 you get pregnant in D&D?

Whether by natural or magical means, there's nothing in the official D&D rules that mentions pregnancy. However, characters can get pregnant and have children; the real question is whether they should. This must be agreed upon by both players and the DM.
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How long are dwarves pregnant?

* A dwarven gestation is 48 months – or 4 years. * The minimum age difference between two dwarven siblings would be 50 months (just over 4 years). * Most dwarves are born 9 or 10 years apart from any of their siblings.
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How long are Kobolds pregnant for?

About one in ten pregnancies led to two eggs. An egg needed incubation for about two months, but the newly hatched kobold could walk in just hours. The eggs were particularly sturdy, and the young inside could survive even if the egg broke as much as fifteen days early.
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How tall is the average elf?

The high elf is the most common elf variety. High elves average 5 feet tall and typically weigh just over 100 pounds. They live on fruits and grains, though they occasionally hunt for fresh meat. High elves prefer colorful clothes, usually with a green-and-gray cloak that blends well with the colors of the forest.
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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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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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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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How do elves get pregnant Witcher?

Elves are capable of interbreeding with humans (thus producing half-elves and quarter-elves) and dryads. Though elves are incredibly long lived, only young elves are fertile, thus elven populations tend to reproduce at a slower rate than humans. Like other nonhumans, elves are often persecuted by Nordlings.
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What happens when an elf marries Aman?

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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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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Why can't the elves have babies Witcher?

Though elves live extraordinarily long lives, they can only reproduce when they're young. Many believe that this is the reason elves are so easily dominated by the other races: they simply can't produce a large enough population to compete. Humans have too many babies.
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Do elves go into heat?

Despite this lifespan, elven women only go into heat once in their lifetimes for around 10 years, during which their biology all but forces them to focus solely on procreating.
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