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Female elves engaging with sex with men in order to pull sick pranks on them. And stories of male elves, well, frankly being rapists with stories such as the birth of Gunther the half-elf. Now as silly as that may sound for spiritual creatures, stories concerning such things also exist for gods, and the existence of half-elves mirrors stories of Demi-gods or people born from men having relations with such things as nymphs. The weird woman who claimed to have sex with elves did so with the backing of folklore. There is of course the whole thing concerning light elves and dark elves, the Seelie and Unseelie courts, black lodge vs white lodge type stuff, the underworld (irrational and subconscious) and the overworld (highly ideal, superconscious) - as above so below. Though it’s not like light elves are described as being free from dark mischievousness either, or killing you because you did not appreciate their beauty enough. Even Tolkien’s orcs being corrupted elves, calls to existence itself and nature being corrupted by evil, and makes the industrial and anti-nature essence of orcs more impactful. They are the blight and sickness of the earth

My point is that there is no fantasy work that really captures the spiritual, uncontrollable, chaotic and purely natural nature of elves. The human relationship to them is always to an ally or rivalry towards a snobbish elder, and yet they are extremely detached which is far from the relationship that people lived, not what is essentially a relationship of humans with nature, something they can work with, bargain with, even fight and protect against but never tame. A deep respect that comes not from pretentious pomp, but with an understanding of something that is integral to their being and them being something that is really beyond any normal comprehension.


*also forgot to mention in my first post that many Icelanders considers some rocks to be Christian churches for elves to congregate