Imin, Tata, and Enel are not the names of elves, they are titles. Gandalf, Elrond, and Galadriel are not the 3 elven lords the article is referring to. The 3 elven rings were forged during the second age, but the elves woke up way before, during the first age. We are never told the names of the first elves that wake up. Michael Martinez has pretty much proven that the 3 elven lords of the Vanyar, Noldor, and Teleri (Ingwe, Finwe, and Elwe) were at least second generation elves.
[ March 17, 2002: Message edited by: Thingol ]
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Yet the lies that Melkor, the mighty and accursed, Morgoth Bauglir, the Power of Terror and of Hate, sowed in the hearts of Elves and Men are a seed that does not die and cannot be destroyed; and ever and anon it sprouts anew, and will bear dark fruit even unto the latest days.
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