This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elf_(Middle-earth) 00:00:41 1 Development 00:00:51 1.1 Background 00:03:35 1.2 Early writings 00:04:39 1.3 iThe Book of Lost Tales/i (c. 1917–1927) 00:08:05 1.4 iThe Hobbit/i (c. 1930–1937) 00:08:35 1.5 iThe Quenta Silmarillion/i (c. 1937) 00:10:01 1.6 iThe Lord of the Rings/i (c. 1937–1949) 00:12:02 2 History 00:12:11 2.1 Origins 00:15:30 2.2 Sundering 00:17:43 2.3 Exile 00:18:35 2.4 Wars of Beleriand 00:19:47 2.5 Second and Third Age 00:23:46 3 Life cycle 00:24:15 3.1 Early life 00:25:10 3.2 Sexuality, marriage, and parenthood 00:28:40 3.3 Daily life 00:29:31 3.4 Later life 00:30:04 3.5 "The third cycle of life", aging, and facial hair 00:32:10 3.6 Death 00:34:47 4 Names and naming conventions 00:40:35 5 Elvish languages 00:41:36 6 Adaptations 00:44:46 7 See also 00:45:08 7.1 Notable Elves Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91 Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.7631649719583886 Voice name: en-AU-Wavenet-A "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Elves are one of the races that inhabit a fictional Earth, often called Middle-earth, and set in the remote past. Unlike Men and Dwarves, Elves are immortal. They appear in The Hobbit and in The Lord of the Rings, but their complex history is described more fully in The Silmarillion. Tolkien had been writing about Elves long before he published The Hobbit. Like many of the other concepts Tolkien introduced in his books, elves have become a staple of fantasy literature both in the West and in Japan.

• published: 13 Jun 2019
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