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Traditional examples of Faerie include:

• in Germanic folklore and myth:
  • Álfheim in Norse mythology, (spelled Elphame in Scottish tales such as Thomas the Rhymer)
  • Elfland or Fairyland in English folklore
• in Celtic folklore and myth:
  • the Avalon of the King Arthur legends
  • the original land of the Tuatha de Danaan

Modern fictional Faeries include:

• Valinor or AmanIn the fiction of J. Tolkien, Aman ("blessed realm") is a continent that lies to the west of Middle-earth, across the great ocean Belegaer. It is the home of the Valar, and three kindreds of Elves: the Vanyar, some of the Noldor, and some of the Teleri. in J. R. R. TolkienHe is wearing a WWI-era British Army uniform in this photograph. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien ( January 3, 1892 September 2, 1973) was the author of The Hobbit and its sequel The Lord of the Rings his most famous work. A former pupil of King Edward's School,'s legendariumA legendarium is a book or series of books consisting of a collection of legends. The word was also used by J. Tolkien to describe his artificial mythology of Middle-earth and Valinor. Tolkien's great mythological tales of Middle-earth are meant to be tak
• the World of the ElvesIn Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels elves are extradimensional inhuman monsters. Discworld elves 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. in Terry PratchettTerence David John Pratchett OBE (known to some fans as Pterry is an English fantasy author (born April 28, 1948, in Beaconsfield, Bucks), best known for his Discworld series. Biography Pratchett's first published work was the short story "The Hades Busin's DiscworldThe Discworld is the creation of Terry Pratchett. It is an imaginary location that appears in most of his books. One of Pratchett's earlier novels, Strata also features a disc-shaped world, but a different one. The Discworld It consists of (as the name su novels.

See also Faery WiccaWicca Faery Wicca is any of a number of forms of Wicca that focuses on the Fae ( gnomes, elves, faeries, sprites, etc. and the world of wonder and nature in which they live. Faery Wicca should not be confused with the Feri Tradition of witchcraft of the l, WiccaFor the pre-Christian wiccans see Volva. For the book series Wicca see Sweep (book series) and Circle Of Three''. Wicca is the most popular Neopagan religion, originally founded by the British civil servant Gerald Gardner, probably in the 1930s, although, Gnome, Troll, Spirit, Animism

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