What do elves really look like?

English male elves were described as looking like little old men, though elf maidens were invariably young and beautiful. Like men of the time, elves lived in kingdoms found in forests, meadows, or hollowed-out tree trunks.
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Are there real elves?

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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How do elves look as they age?

Physically, elves will grow into their adult bodies by around 20, and just kinda look like that for 700 years until they die. Children for an elf doesn't mean the same thing, an elf child will likely be more socially advanced than any human child by the age of 20. Elf teens are like, older looking high schoolers.
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Do elves look like humans?

Depending on on the setting, elves tend to be shorter and much more slender than humans. They can also have wildly different skin tones, large slanted eyes, sharper features in general etc.
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Can elf be black?

absolutely appalling, Elves are a part Scandinavian folklore and Norse mythology and they are called “light elves” and there are no blacks in Norse mythology or in Viking society.
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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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Can elves have babies?

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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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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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 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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How many years can a elf live?

“Elves typically reach physical adulthood around the age of 20 (though other elves consider them to be fully emotionally mature at close to the end of their first century), and they can live to around 600 years old.”
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What color are elves eyes?

[edit] Eye colour

When Tolkien describes Elven eyes, they tend to be grey. This is certainly true of Lúthien and her descendants, including Elrond and his children (Arwen, Elladan and Elrohir) as well as Aragorn and the Dúnedain. Voronwë, who guided the man Tuor to Gondolin, also had grey eyes.
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How old is a child elf?

According to the most recent official lore, elves probably bear children mostly between ages 100 and 300. The latest official publication on 5e elves is Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, which has an entire chapter chock-full of lore on elves, including elven life cycles.
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Do elves still exist?

Yes, elves. Fifty-four percent of Icelanders either believe in them or say it's possible they exist. Roads have been diverted around boulders where the elves, or álfar in Icelandic, supposedly reside. A former member of parliament even swears his life was saved in a car accident by a family of elves.
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Is Santa real yes or no?

Santa Claus is real, of course. The New York Sun even reported it back in 1897! But the current Santa Claus isn't from the North Pole. According to an article published in the Washington Post, a man from Long Island legally changed his name to Santa Claus in 2012.
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Are elfs alive?

Elves are immortal, and remain unwearied with age. They can recover from wounds which would be fatal to a Man, but can be killed in battle. Spirits of dead Elves go to the Halls of Mandos in Valinor.
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Do Elves have mates?

Elves can have two kinds of mates: Lifemates and Lovemates. Throughout the course of the ElfQuest adventures there are many characters within the Elven race who are one of these kinds of mate classes.
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How big is an elf?

Christmas Elves are known for the tiny stature, colourful green and red clothes, and their toy making abilities. They love the snow and eating sugary treats. Santa's Elves, or Christmas Elves, are a maximum of 3' (91.5 cm) tall. The Christmas Elves live in the North Pole.
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How does an elf give up immortality?

The elves, or the Eldar, are immortal in the sense that they cannot die from illness or old age, however they can be slain. If they do die, they are summoned to the Halls of Mandos on Valinor, where they may eventually be returned to a physical form, although only in Valinor.
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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 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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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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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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Can u touch your elf?

7. 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 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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