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Resting by wildelbenreiter on DeviantArt

Shadowrun Sprawl Ops Elven Decker by raben-aas

digitalsidhe, thought of you when I came across this.

Of the flight of the Noldor by yidanyuan on DeviantArt

Gil-galad by Naochan003 on DeviantArt

Lord of autumn. Beleriand. by Fealin-Meril on DeviantArt

Teleri by Irsanna on DeviantArt

Some elven/faery comics I have been reading lately:

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Halflight
Nahalenya, or Lenya to her friends, was sent forth from her home years ago to study magic at the University. Finding it too difficult to stand out as much as she did, she found a way to lead a double life. While her time has been rich with learning, she must soon graduate and begin her journey home – something that will take a lot longer than she could ever suspect.

This is only the first story of Halflight, a place where tales like this can be told, long and short, happy and sad, as if around a campfire past the end of the world and outside of time.

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Estranged
Edmund Carter is not what he seems. He’s a changeling, a fay child swapped for a human child in infancy. Raised by an unwitting human family, Edmund has guarded the secret of what he is all his life.

The World Below is all the nameless human Childe has ever known. Raised by fay royalty, who dote on him as an exotic pet, the Childe dreams of the human world. When a neighboring kingdom invades his home, the Childe flees with Whick, a golem made of wax and his only companion. Having nowhere else to go, the Childe seeks out the fay who replaced him at birth in the World Above.

Now Edmund and the Childe, along with Whick and their human sister Alexis, must evade the assassins of the usurping Queen, protect their human family, and choose the life they want to lead.

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Feral Gentry
Feral Gentry is an occasionally animated new weird comic about modern fairies. The main character Tuomi finds his safe but solitary life suddenly shaken when he meets another of his kind for the first time in years.

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Chrysalis - based on Changeling: the Dreaming
It's the year 1969. When the first Man steps on the Moon, Mankind believes again and Arcadia's doors burst open. The sidhe come back to their old lands believing Spring has come back so they can retake their kingdoms, but the commoners think otherwise...

(Unfortunately, per their news post, this comic has ceased in the middle of a story as of last September, or at least is on indefinite hiatus.)

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(DW autocompleted my attempt to type the tag "elves" on this post with "eldritch terrors". Whether there is any truth to this is left as an exercise for the reader.)

From the Dept. of Thinking Too Closely About Things That are Meant Mythically, Subsection "It's Just a Story, One Put Together from Unpublished Fragments at That; I Should Really Just Relax":

So, during the Years of the Trees in Arda, there was nothing lighting the sky in Middle-earth other than the stars, yeah? So.... how did any life survive there? In perpetual near-darkness I would think nearly everything ought to have withered, frozen, and died (cf. nuclear or volcanic winter). What's up with that? The Sleep of Yavanna doesn't seem quite consistent chronologically, at least as it's described on that page, which makes it sound like it was the entire time from the destruction of the Lamps to the first rising of the Moon and Sun. That can't be right because we know the Elves awoke at Cuiviénen while still under only the stars, and that some portion of them eventually made it to Aman and laid eyes on the Trees. So it can't just be, handwave, they were all magically asleep all that time. I don't get it. Am I missing something?

(Maybe Quendi don't actually need to eat and aren't endotherms :P )

Some very beautiful LotR icons, part of a Lothlorien series the maker was doing for fellowship100: http://community.livejournal.com/swanboat_icons/42433.html

Elven Poets Notebook

The artists has the various share features turned off on this one, so I can't embed or easily do thumbnail+link, but trust me. Lovely little handmade book, green leather-bound with gold knotwork on the front, hand-dyed and painted everything.