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| '''Light-elves''' was a name given to the '''[[Vanyar]]''', the [[Three Kindreds|kindred]] of the [[Elves]] who came first to [[Valinor]] and never returned to [[Middle-earth]].<ref>{{H|8}}</ref>
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| ==Comment==
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| This is an old and rare term, used just once in ''[[The Hobbit]]'' and never again in any [[Canon|canonical]] source. This is probably to avoid confusion with "Elves of the Light", the [[Calaquendi]], of whom the Light-elves formed just one part, together with the [[Noldor]] and the [[Falmari]] (called "[[Deep-elves]]" and "[[Sea-elves]]" in ''The Hobbit'').
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| Tolkien also uses the term in a manuscript note concerning [[Eöl]], referring to the ill-disposition of the 'Dark Elves' towards the 'Light-Elves'.<ref>{{WJ|Maeglin}}, p. 320</ref>
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| ==Inspiration==
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| In Norse mythology, there are the Light Elves (''[[Wikipedia:Light elves|Ljósálfar]]'') and the [[Moriquendi|Dark Elves]] (''Dökkálfar'' or ''[[Wikipedia:Svartálfar|Svartálfar]]''), a tradition which was well known to [[J.R.R. Tolkien]].<ref>{{HM|SG}}, "Appendix A: Origins of the Legend", p. 359</ref>
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