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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PHATsakk43" data-source="post: 9539913" data-attributes="member: 7041071">I never got into Dragonlance, and with the exception of Dalamar in various The Wizards Three columns in Dragon Magazine had little exposure to them. Granted, Dalamar was a dark elf and I could tell there was something different to him compared with the typical way a drow elf was portrayed at the time.So, I may be missing part of it, but in Tolkien, being a "dark" elf was actually a bit of an way to distinguish a "sundered" group of elves that refused to follow the calling of the Valar for the elves to journey to west, where those who arrived ultimately witnessed the light of the trees of Valinor. They weren't "cast from the light" but more or less refused its summons. After the trees were destroyed by Ungoliant (I was really mixing up my Tolkien lore in my previous post where I referred to her as Shelob) and the Noldorian elves swore vengeance and returned to Middle-Earth, the two elves, light (in the form of the Noldor) and dark mingled and lived together. Granted, that for the most part the Noldor were the named members of the elven community, but not always. Thrainduil the elvenking of The Hobbit is a member of the Dark Elves (most likely) as was his son Legolas.The Noldor, while being "elves of the light" were referred to as Deep Elves (as well as the aforementioned gnomes.)Many Tolkien scholars assume that Tolkien was drawing upon <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B6kk%C3%A1lfar_and_Lj%C3%B3s%C3%A1lfar" target="_blank">Norse stories of Dökkálfar ("Dark Elves") and Ljósálfar ("Light Elves")</a>.</blockquote>

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