Elves Quotes

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To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was… — Annie Besant
Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of… — Orlando Bloom
Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top. — Orlando Bloom
Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant… — Joseph Chilton Pearce
Id have to say, for me, as a child, my favorite memories were always centered around Christmas time. It always seemed like no matter how… — Josie Bissett
A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore. — Terry Brooks
I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place where things are a… — Jim Butcher
Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to… — P.J. O'Rourke
Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos. — Matt Groening
If Mitt Romney was Santa Claus, he would fire the reindeer and outsource the elves. — Ted Strickland
It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and… — Francesca Lia Block
It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves… — C.S. Lewis
Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress. — John Milton
Much evil must befall a country before it ever really forgets the Elves, if once they lived there. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance ...… — Michael Dirda
Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth… — Henry Timrod
Enchanted worlds still exist because the child within us never dies. The doorways may be more obscure, but we can still seek them out. There… — Ted Andrews
"We will make such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves and Men. Forth the Three Hunters!" Like… — J.R.R. Tolkien
For the rest, they shall represent the other Free Peoples of the World: Elves, Dwarves, and Men, Legolas shall be for the Elves; and Gimli… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words… — Neil Gaiman

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