This thread pops up every couple of minutes on Tolkien boards, and usually ends up several hundred thousand posts long, each poster declaring one elf (out of a pretty consistent pool of about six or seven elves) to be the most groovy.
Usually one or two posters have actually read some Tolkien, and will cite
Unfinished Tales:
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Galadriel was the greatest of the Noldor, except Fëanor maybe, though she was wiser than he, and her wisdom increased with the long years.
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This portion of the
UT material happens to have come from another essay, published in
HoMe XII - The Peoples of Middle-earth, called
The Shibboleth of Feanor. In that essay, the following is also stated:
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These two kinsfolk [Galadriel and Feanor], the greatest of the Eldar of Valinor, were unfriends for ever.
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In an Author's Note connected to this sentence, Tolkien states:
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Who together with the greatest of all the Eldar, Lúthien Tinúviel, daughter of Elu Thingol, are the chief matter of the legends and histories of the Elves.
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So there you have it. The greatest of all the Eldar was Luthien Tinuviel. Now this question
never has to be asked again!