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Elfishness

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elf·ish  (lfsh) also elv·ish (lvsh)
adj.
1. Of or relating to elves.
2. Prankish; mischievous.

elfish·ly adv.
elfish·ness n.


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Although racial peace-weaving is significant to Galadriel, so in that context her Elfishness important, I am suggesting that Galadriel's power and her method of exercising it are in fact signposted as problematically feminine by the fact that they are hidden.
There are any number of times when the antic elfishness gives way to true and moving expressions of the unstable character's fear and confusion.
[17] Despite the varied nature of his first major book, Henley emphasized Yeats's Irishness by entitling the review 'A New Irish Poet' and by saying his 'verses have the wilding charm, the wayward grace touched with elfishness, characteristic of true Irish song'.
 
 
 
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