Since tourism came to the Dolomites in the 19th century, skiers have displaced sorcerers and elves have lost ground to exclusive resorts.
The book is a literary treasure of childhood, an adventure story with dwarves, wizards and elves in a world beyond conventional imagination.
Gnomes and elves live underground and their motives range from pure evil to cheeky mischief, as embodied in garden gnomes, the cult's chief manifestation today.
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Yesterday, Snowball and I worked as Santa elves and I got excited when he started saying things like, I'd follow you to Santa's house any day, Crumpet.
Fortunately for both Santa and the elves, there is no tax payable on those benefits.
Not that Solstheim was short on ice and crags, but at the very least we can hope to see some serious rivalry between Nords and Dark Elves playing out across this new territory.
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Perhaps it is the fault of bookstores for pulling Fantasy and Sci-Fi into one category: I like both, but elves and magic swords don't exist, while the solar system and the stars do.
Many Icelanders still believe in supernatural creatures, and if there were a place where elves, dwarves and gnomes surreptitiously roamed, this otherworldly land would have to be it.
Over at the Bethesda forums, a user scanned the code from the latest Skyrim patch and found some interesting pieces of code concerning crossbows, snow elves, and even a snow elf prince.
Maybe they could throw in some dancing elves and a strobe-like flashing effect?
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By the end of our shift, we were in the bathroom changing our clothes, and all of a sudden, we were surrounded by five Santas and three other elves.
Such a book might ignite a campaign for real fantasy, rekindling a desire for moving, vital fantasy that transcends the trilogies of magic elves and dwarves and identikit pastorals that pass for fantasy in today's mass market.
The house first came to prominence in the early '70s, when a man named Bill Clot transformed his home in the Miami suburbs into an impressive Christmas display, a miniature village populated by mechanical Santas, reindeer, angels, penguins, villagers, elves and holiday lights.
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We were given a demonstration of various positions and action, acted out by returning elves who was so onstage and goofy, that it made me a little sick to my stomach.
Act Two will bring our band of dwarves through the spider-infested wood, lead them to their conflict with the Wood Elves, and finally take them to the mountain, Dale, and the showdown with Smaug.
Little wonder that Tolkien rode the gusts of Zephyrus to worldwide fame with his writings on the adventures of Hobbits, Elves, Dwarves and dragons.
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Concerned that England lacked a set of myths comparable to, say, the Norse legends, he created the fantasy realm of Middle-earth, home to a jumble of orcs, elves, wizards and hobbits.
In popular imagination, New Zealand has become the home of dwarves, elves, dragons and 4ft-tall hairy-footed Hobbit burglars since director Sir Peter Jackson used his homeland as the backdrop for his version of Middle Earth in the Academy-Award winning film series.
Eomer and his men going missing...an army of Elves turning up (I assume this is a mis-timed reference to Elrond's sons and the Dunedin turning up before Aragorn takes the Paths of the Dead ?)...
They had been like little elves tending to my illness, Herbert and Emily, there but not there.
The elves always speak in refined British accents and the dwarves, well, you know what dwarves sound like at this point.
There are ancient evils that defy human comprehension, the tribulations of immortal elves, centuries-old prophesies, and nothing less than the fate of the world at stake.
Ten Chimneys is like a very large elves' cottage, a white nook-and-cranny house.
And the magical, serene, etherial quality of the Elves is completely GONE.
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What you don't want to discover is that Santa's elves have been monitoring your Google, Bing and Amazon searches for gift ideas, then poring over your Facebook wall to see if you've been good enough to deserve them.
Players get to start as one of 10 different races -- from Argonians (lizard men) and Khajiit (cat men) to the more typical humans, elves or orcs.
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