Available classes:
Champion, Guardian, Hunter, Minstrel, Lore-master
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Throughout the ages, the deeds and struggles of the noble race of Elves have been entwined with the very history of Middle-earth. They remember all too well the devastation caused by the tides of evil that once darkened the land - a shadow which threatens to do so once again. In ages past, the Elves divided into many different groups, and settled throughout Middle-earth, primarily in the ancient forested realms where they yet live. Tall and strong, fair and graceful, Elves have keen senses and a deep affinity for the beauty of the natural world around them. Elves do not "die" in the way understood by Men; Elves often live in the lands of Middle-earth for thousands of years, suffering neither the effects of time nor disease, though the body of an Elf may be struck down in battle. At the end of their days in Middle-earth, the Elves travel to unknown realms across the western sea.
Long ago, the Elves welcomed the "younger" races of Middle-earth and allied with them when the need was great, but centuries of war, betrayal, and hardship have made them fiercely protective of their seclusion. Now, as the Third Age draws to a close and the War of the Ring is at hand, the Elves are once again stirring from their forested realms and hidden valleys, allying with the Free Peoples of Middle-earth against the darkness which grows from both the North and East.
Video Introduction
A video introduction to this race
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Passive Skills
- Agility of the Woods: Increased agility
- Fading of the Firstborn: Reduces Fate
- Sorrow of the Firstborn: Reduces Morale
- Suffer no Illness: Resistance to disease and poison
Starting Area
The Elf starting area is Ered Luin
Starting Stats
- Might - 8
- Agility - 14
- Vitality - 10
- Will - 14
- Fate - 11
Subraces
Information about the various elf subraces.
At the end of the Third Age, the setting of 'The Lord of the Rings Online', the role of the Elves in Middle Earth has diminished and the Age of Men is dawning. Most of the High Kindred of the Elves, the Eldar, have either gone or returned into the West, to the Blessed Land of Aman.
As such, players will only be able to play one of the lesser races of Elves, the Silvan Elves. They are the ones who tarried during the long voyage west from Cuiviénen, the Water of Wakening where the Elves first awoke. While their kin continued their journey towards Aman, these Elves fell in love with Middle Earth and chose to abide in it, forsaking the journey in the face of the Misty Mountains. Later, some of them still crossed the mountains and, after having journeyed through Eriador, entered Beleriand, where they were called the Green Elves by their Sindarin kin.
Lindon
After the destruction of Beleriand, home of the Sindarin Elves and their exiled Noldorin allies (the Noldor were part of the Eldarin Elves), many Elves of the Noldorin kind settled in Eriador and there mingled with the Silvan Elves of Middle Earth. Gil-Galad, High King of the Noldor, continued his reign at the newly shaped far west coast of Middle Earth. As such, in the first year of the Second Age, the kingdom of Lindon was established. From the Grey Havens, all Elves could still hearken the call of the Valar and set ship towards the West.
After the defeat of Sauron at the end of Second Age, where Gil-Galad fell with many of his kin, Lindon remained but a small Elven enclave, a shadow of its former glory under their High King. It is even said some part of Lindon disappeared under the sea when Numenor was destroyed. Círdan the Shipwright now rules the remaining Elves of Lindon.
Lindon became home to many of the survivors of the destruction of Beleriand and as such, several of the Elves of Lindon can trace their lineage back to the great houses of the Eldar.
Lorien
Lórien, the Land of Gold (in reference to its golden Mallorn trees) is one of the two Silvan Elf kingdoms in Middle Earth. Lórien was established by the Nandor, the followers of Lenwë, who led his people down the Anduin river. The Elves of Lórien, called the Galadhrim or 'tree-folk' are led not by one of their own, but by Galadriel of the Noldor, perhaps the mightiest of the Elves still present in Middle Earth at the end of the Third Age, and Celeborn, an Elf of Sindarin lineage, whom have replaced the lost ruler of Lórien, Amroth. It is by the power of Galadriel's Ring, Nenya, that Lórien remains a place unsullied by evil, much like Imladris in Eriador.
When Eregion was destroyed in the Second Age, some of the Noldor from that Kingdom crossed the mountains and entered Lórien, where they mingled with their distant kin.
Mirkwood
The second of the Silvan Kingdoms in Middle Earth, it is ruled yet by another foreign King, namely Tranduil, like Celeborn of Sindarin origin. Mirkwood's Elves have long kept to themselves, but have in recent times known an existance of strife and turmoil. They were present in the Battle of the Five Armies at the Lonely Mountain, Erebor and more importantly have had to struggle against the darkness of Dol Guldur for years, until the White Council drove the Necromancer Sauron away from his citadel in southern Mirkwood. Though the south of Mirkwood, around the hill of Amon Lanc, was their home before Sauron drove them from it, Tranduil's reign stretches now only over the northern part of Mirkwoord, where his brave Elves keep the evil of the forest, and of Sauron, at bay.
Rivendell
A refuge in the east of Eriador, close to the Misty Mountains, Rivendell is called Imladris in the Sindarin tongue. It was founded by Elrond Half-Elven in the mid-Second Age, and he keeps its borders safe through the power of his Ring, Vilya. As the evil in the world growns stronger, the halls of master Elrond Half-Elven are always open to the weary and he has gathered many Elves to live with him and preserve the memory of all that was fair and great. A great loremaster of old, Elrond has lived to be almost 6500 years.