Hobbits are to English as Elves are to .....eh...does anyone know??
Where do elves come from? I mean the ACTUAL myth of the elf?
Leprechauns come from Ireland, Gnomes are Germanic, and Trolls were created by the Scandinavians...but I can't find where the myths of Elves come from.
Does anyone know or have any speculations?
~~Daegwenn
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"And still of a winter’s night, they say, when the wind is in the trees,
When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
A highwayman comes riding—
Riding—Riding—
A highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door.
Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard.
And he taps with his whip on the shutters, but all is locked and barred.
He whistles a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there
But the landlord’s black-eyed daughter,
Bess, the landlord’s daughter,
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair"
Highwayman
Alfred Noyes
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