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elfkin culture is wearing pointy ears and random people asking if you are a real elf, to which you can correctly respond "yes :)"

elfkin culture is random small children getting very excited that they get to meet a real elf in person!

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How am I to deal with all these memories, all these feelings, shifts both phantom and psychological, the likes, the hates, the urges to do hobbies i no longer can so?

How am I to deal with handfuls of lives stuffed to the brim into one body? How am I to live feeling torn apart longing for any of the places better than this one that I once called home?

Im hanging by a thread trying to manage eons of sorrows, loves, neglect, hatred, trauma, and emotions into one lifetime. Im at my tipping point, how am I to hang on any longer when even just one memory of one life I’ve lived brings me to tears. I cannot cope with this heartache much longer all I wish is to return home, to any of my homes but this one.

I do not wish this sorrow upon anyone. I feel for you, my friends and kin, if you do and know there are more out there dealing with sorrows much like your own.

Nothing compares to the feeling of sitting outside in the rain.  The sound, the smell, the cool humidity and occasional breeze, seeing the small splashes of the raindrops as they hit the ground.  I love everything about it, it makes me feel at peace.

Hi!! Could you talk a little about what following Tolkien elven religion is like for you? (Only if you want, of course.)

I'm a very newly awakened elf and I've just started reading the silmarillion. I haven't even gotten that far yet, but already it's the most connected I've felt to any religious system/religious lore before. I'm considering practicing Elvish religion, but idk. I feel a little strange saying I want to practice a religion from a work of fiction, y'know? (Please don't take this as me saying your beliefs are strange— I think they're incredibly cool. This is very much just a me thing.)

Anyway, I guess my question is something along the lines of How did you realize this was the religion for you/What do you believe wrt Tolkiens work being or not being fiction?

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this, and doubly so if you choose to answer! Have a nice timezone :))

Alatulya, welcome kin! this one is a little long so there is a break. i also accidentally hit publish early, so we will see how editing it works lol.

table of contents: 1. my personal history and variety of practitioners 2. dealing with fictional mythology + my fave paper on this 3. specifics of tolk elven religion

Eldarin religion has been my primary religion (buddhism and my eclectic animistic witchcraft also there and co piloting) for seven years. I have been working with other eldar on our own group experience of this religion for two or a bit more years. I have taken a bit of priestly service role of collecting and organizing materials and keeping track of the calendar, which we call Loa and which assigns different holidays and themes in order throughout the year. i suspect this role is agreeable and natural for me as minya, but that anyone could do it. the degree of demand differs depending on the person, and i would say that much of my time is set to thinking of or practicing our religion. others have less involvement, and some of us feel our cosmology and philosophy is more cultural than religious the way humans might think being a member of a religious group should be. as for my own journey of getting here, i have been otherkin for most of my life and many years of that was 'generally a nature spirit type thing.' which became 'an elf but i am not sure what kind.' which then became 'oh god… am i one of those hoity toity tolkien elves?' bc there is a cultural expectation among elfkin that tolk elves are more dour and care what color clothes you wear or something… turns out that is not true! or, at least, i have not met these grim arbiters of what is becoming of the firstborn! reading the silm and other texts in the legendarium to fill in what i had absorbed from the hobbit and lotr (books and movies) was the lightbulb in the dim cellar. i use a mixed spiritual and psychological theory of origin and function for my several theriotypes and elven kintype, and this experience filled in some gaps i had just been sitting with. i personally feel that i am living one continuous eldarin life--awoken at cuivienen among the minyar, lived and died, spent my time in mandos, and was reembodied here. my sense of memory is dim, and i generally assume that is just a sign that memory is not necessarily important for this part of my life the way it was in arda. it is a great honor to live this life and to find other eldar and folks of all kindreds to share my love of life with. it was natural to transition from my magic and religious work with nature spirits to a cosmology centered on the legendarium-some of the spirits i still work and live with admit they are maiar, others are not maiar and are of the many kinds of spirit and sprite that entered into ea after its foundation to explore. our working relationships and the techniques i use for magic have stayed much the same. so how i do it is just one example in a variety.

2. i will answer first on dealing with the fictional aspect and wrestling with the nature of constructed or pop culture or modern mythology spirituality-the individual beliefs differ there, too!

for my part, i do not think the legendarium is a factual history of this actual world we currently live in. i do think jrrt was channeling something, and may or may not have been kin himself of arda reembodied here.

i think ea, like most faerie realms, is both here and not here and you have to open yourself up and step into it. once most people have experienced the enchantment of an otherworld, they are never fully able to drop the sense of it. i do feel that the legendarium makes a suitable mythopoetic 'history' for powers and themes that apply to both this world and ea and where they overlap, and that the legendarium becomes more historically factual the closer you move into ea and the further you go from current earth.

there is a lovely paper that i surely have annoyed everyone with titled the tolkien spiritual milieu by Markus Altena Davidsen of the university of leiden that really gets into the anatomy of constructed religion and what is present in certain medias that lends itself to that anatomy, which he calls 'religious affordances' in the text. it details a number of groups of many varied beliefs in the tolkien spiritual sphere, some active and some long gone, and i feel that it is a great way to expand one's vocabulary and mental concept of constructed religion and the wide variety that is possible in such constructions. the pdf is available from the university website here

if you check out mr davidsen's other published papers on that website, there are several others also relevant to fiction sourced mythology and spirituality including some by other authors.

3. that being said, there are religious affordances for the eldar in the texts, but not necessarily enough for a fully fleshed out practice as is prepared and given to new members of various world religions. it will take a bit of crafting, but we elves do love to craft! most of us blend legendarium cosmology and philosophy with practices or philosophies we are previously familiar with, like neopaganism or judaism or etc etc.

we have developed some structure in the forms of: a multiply layered observational calendar for the six seasons, eight holidays, twelve months, and seven days of the week; the fourteen valar and several named maiar associated with certain valar; the panentheistic experience of the creator Eru; and the use of witchcraft, meditation, devotional or worship activity, enchantments, glamor, and arts like music poetry painting crochet etc.

most of us practice our own personal flavor by ourselves, and group rituals or ensorcelments are rare at the moment. we are all exploring, and i would be thrilled to hear about your own explorations and what calls to you!

sooo… basically i have a worship and work relationship with our gods and supportive spirits, and give observation on the schedule of the loa. i have daily practices, like offering of beverage an thanks or an oil anointment of my body, and then weekly practices like an eruhini veneration and well wishes for the dead. and monthly practices on the full and dark moon, which is focused on the vala of that month, where i usually do spellwork for the constellation. there are holidays at the start of each season and at the solstices, where i will sometimes do magic for the group but is usually about the personal journey. the one time another elf was physically with me i did do some small rituals including that elda. my herbalism work is inherently religious to me and i also count both learning and practicing herbalism as a devotional activity, same with going on walks or drumming.

i invite you very earnestly to reach out any time and through any means you are comfortable with, and i wish you a very blessed full moon of winds. hantanyel ar namarie!

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High-Res Elfkin Flags

I really think the elfkin flag is underrated, but I’ve always been picky about image resolution when it comes to flags (or anything, really), so I colorpicked and reconstructed it in ibispaint. here’s the versions with and without colors inside the star, plus the star itself with the colors in it. hope this is helpful to someone!

Dark Elf/Fae Tips

Wear some dark academia

Talk with rhymes

Wear head piece jewellery

Pointy nails

Get some eye contacts

Don't tell ppl your name

Put extra blankets and pillows on your bed (make sure they fit the theme!!)

Go on walks in nature

Dark earthy colors, for clothes or makeup

Wear jewellery!! Sliver or gold is nice

Study witchcraft or herbalism

Collect bones, bottle caps and lil things off the ground

Get some elf ears or elf cuffs!

Don't make promises easily

Light some earthy Incense

Scarfs and wearing layers is good

Study the stars and planets

Putting fake/real plants in your living space

Play some fun lil pranks (nothing to extreme-)

Read/write poetry

Wearing thick cloaks and fancy boots

Enjoy!!

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I want to get silicone elf ears but I have glasses and a hearing aid

And the glasses alone make it difficult to wear the hearing aid 🥲

Mirkwood/Lothlorien elves <3

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so i'm alterhuman, otherkin, and therian. sort of. i'm a shapeshifter, and my main humanoid forms are human, and elf. but then my animal forms are a cat, a bird (maybe a crow? or a peregrine falcon? or both but at different times). and a cat, again different cats at different times, but mainly a small black cat. and then also shapeshifter in the sense where certain body parts of these different things could like. combine and be retractable? so i could be human shaped with elf ears, angel like wings, and claws, or i could fully be a cat, or fully be a bird. and i could probably be some other animals too, but those are the main ones / the ones i feel the most connected to!

tolkien elfkin culture is being annoyed by pop culture insisting that elves are de facto vegetarian. did aredhel ar-feiniel mean nothing to you? beleg cúthalion? the entire population of mirkwood? i'm looking at you, mr. jackson.

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I purchased a bunch of fake ivy to decorate my room with. One step closer to feeling like im back home in the faewilds

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Got a new wig recently and it makes me feel so so so good