She-elf?

[The Barrow-Wight]

In my opinion, the term 'she-elf' is the absolute worst Middle-earth pollution the screenwriters managed to inject into the movies. It is a ridiculous term and fairly insulting to both females and Tolkien fans as a whole. I see it as just another twist of the knife into the backs of those people who were distressed by Glorfindel's metamorphisis, and an undisguised gadget to show a little 'girl power'. That it has been subsequently overused by impressionable film fans only makes the term more pernicious. It needs to be shoved into a barrow with Grelvish and forgotten.