Exactly! The orignal Elves were like the Sidhe of Celtic legend, a higher (although, fallen) race than man. They were tall, beautiful, and immensely skilled. Tolkien always hated Shakespeare because he made Elves into a little race of pixies that hid in woods.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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