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elven adj

Belonging or relating to, or characteristic of, elves; elfin, elflike. elven n Originally, a female elf, a fairy, a nymph; (by extension) any elf. [...] (Kent, Sussex, Warwickshire, Worcestershire) An elm (a tree of the genus Ulmus, particularly the wych elm or Scots elm (Ulmus glabra)). The English author and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien, best known for his works The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955), died on this day in 1973.

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