In Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels elves are extradimensional inhuman monsters. Terence David John Pratchett OBE is an English fantasy author (born April 28, 1948, in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England), best known for his Discworld series. ... The Discworld is a series of 35 humorous fantasy novels and a number of shorter works by Terry Pratchett set on the Discworld. ... This article is about monsters as a kind of legendary creature. ...

Elves on the Discworld are based more on the nastier kind of fairy-folk in British and European folklore than elves as portrayed in most modern (post-Tolkien) fantasy fiction. The Discworld is the setting for all of Terry Pratchetts Discworld series of novels. ... by Sophie Anderson A fairy is a spirit (supernatural being) found in the legends, folklore, and mythology of many cultures. ... Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Folklore is the body of narratives, including tales, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs current among a particular population, comprising the oral tradition of that culture, subculture, or group. ... For alternate meanings, see Lightning (disambiguation). ... J. R. R. Tolkien in 1972, in his study at Merton Street (from by H. Carpenter) John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973) is best known as the author of The Hobbit and its sequel The Lord of the Rings. ... For other definitions of fantasy see fantasy (psychology). ...

They are not native to the Disc, but come from a "parasite universe", sometimes called Fairyland. This pocket dimension can latch onto different universes at certain times, allowing the elves (and other fae creatures such as unicorns and, before they were cast out, the Nac Mac Feegle) to go hunting. The Discworld is the setting for all of Terry Pratchetts Discworld series of novels. ... A parasite universe in Terry Pratchetts Discworld is a universes cut off from the past and future. ... In mythology and in fiction, Faerie (also Fairy) is an otherworldly realm, home to the Fae or fairies, though many believe this place to be neither mythical nor fictional, but quite real. ... In common usage, the dimensions (from Latin measured out) of an object are the parameters or measurements required to define its shape and size, that is, usually, its height, width, and length. ... The gentle and pensive virgin has the power to tame the unicorn, in this fresco in Palazzo Farnese, Rome, probably by Domenichino, ca 1602 The unicorn is a legendary creature embodied like a horse, but slender and with a single — usually spiral — horn growing out of its forehead. ... Nac Mac Feegles on the cover of The Wee Free Men The Nac Mac Feegle, known also as the Wee Free Men, are a fictional type of fairy appearing in the works of Terry Pratchett. ...

One of the things they hunt is people. Elves have no imagination or real emotions, and therefore such things fascinate them. Because they cannot create they steal musicians and artists. Because they cannot feel empathy they enjoy the suffering of others. Even if an elf is, for reasons of its own, trying to be nice, its lack of understanding of humans mean there's always something "off" about it. Imagination is, in general, the power or process of producing mental images and ideas. ... Emotions are essentially impulses that move an organism to action, originating automatic reaction behavior which has been perfected through evolution as a survival need. ... Empathy is the recognition and understanding of the states of mind, including beliefs, desires and particularly emotions of others without injecting your own. ... Suffering is any unwanted condition and the corresponding negative emotion. ...

Mostly they get away with this, due to the illusion-creating glamour they cast. While elves are, as mentioned above, not musical, elfsong is perceived as beautiful by humans, and is highly hypnotic. Elves are generally seen as innately beautiful and stylish, but this is just another aspect of the glamour. Some of them are only vaguely humanoid. An illusion is a distortion of a sensory perception. ... The original meaning of the word glamour was the act of casting a spell over someone. ... Hypnosis, as defined by the American Psychological Association Division of Psychological Hypnosis, is a procedure during which a health professional or researcher suggests that a client, patient, or experimental participant experience changes in sensations, perceptions, thoughts, or behavior. ...

(The glamour does not seem to have as much effect on trolls and dwarfs, partly because they lack the romantic imagination to let it work and partly because of their connection to iron.) Trolls in Terry Pratchetts Discworld novels, unlike the monstrous trolls of folklore and J.R.R. Tolkien, have been subverted into a moderately civilised race. ... Dwarfs in Terry Pratchetts Discworld novels are similar to the Dwarves of J. R. R. Tolkiens Middle-earth, which they largely started out pastiching, and dwarfs/dwarves in other fantasy novels. ...

Elves have copper based blood, and are extremely vulnerable to iron. This is partly because there is no way of magicking iron, and partly that they have the ability to detect magnetic fields. The presence of iron disrupts this and sends them into a panic. The main gateway to the world of Elves in Lancre is surrounded by several large boulders of naturally magnetised meteoric iron. When there is no iron around they have the absolute confidence of beings who know exactly where they are. General Name, Symbol, Number copper, Cu, 29 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 4, d Appearance metallic brown Atomic mass 63. ... General Name, Symbol, Number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 8, 4, d Appearance lustrous metallic with a grayish tinge Atomic mass 55. ... The Discworld in Terry Pratchetts Discworld novels runs on magic. ... In physics, magnetism is one of the phenomena by which materials exert an attractive or repulsive force on other materials. ... Lancre (pronounced Lanker) is a fictional country from Terry Pratchetts Discworld novels. ... A burst of meteors A meteor is the visible path of a meteoroid that enters the Earths (or another bodys) atmosphere, commonly called a shooting star or falling star. ...

(Rational thought and absence of superstition, which makes the glamour harder, is referred to by elves as "iron in the head".)

Elves are ruled by a King and Queen (monarchy). The Queen is the most obvious ruler, organising the raiding parties and maintaining absolute control of her kingdom. The King (who bears some similarity to Cernunnos or Herne) tends not to get involved if he can avoid it and keeps to himself in a different aspect of Fairyland (possibly the Discworld version of Annwn). The King and Queen may once have ruled together, but it has been implied there was an acrimonous split, which brings to mind the rift between the fairy courts of Oberon and Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Depiction of Cernunnos from the Pilier des nautes, Paris Cernunnos in Celtic polytheism is the deified spirit of horned male animals, especially of stags, a nature god associated with produce and fertility. ... In English mythology, Herne the Hunter is a ghost or monster associated with Windsor Great Park. ... Annwn or Annwfn, ( under-world or un-world, sometimes inaccurately written Annwyn, Annwyfn or Annwfyn) was the Otherworld, the land of souls that had departed this world in Welsh mythology. ... A Midsummer Nights Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written sometime in the mid-1590s. ...

If it comes to that, there may not only be one King and Queen. However, due to the elves' lack of imagination and creativity any Kings and Queens of the Elves tend to be similar.

Elven invasions of the Discworld are recorded in Lords and Ladies and The Wee Free Men. The Science of Discworld II: The Globe involves an attempted invasion of (a version of) our world. Lords and Ladies is a Discworld book by Terry Pratchett. ... The Wee Free Men is the 30th novel in Terry Pratchetts Discworld series, and the second Discworld book for younger readers. ... The Science of Discworld II: The Globe (ISBN 0091888050) is a 2002 book written by novelist Terry Pratchett and popular science writers Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen. ...