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Re:Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Tolkien Elves by KineticLensman on Monday March 02, 2020 @01:57PM (#22467538)
You’d might like the Elves in The Nightmare Stacks by Charles Stross [0]. Which includes (mild spoiler) an assault on the city of Leeds in the UK by a combined-arms Elven battlegroup (think Waffen-SS with pointy ears). They have battle-tested air-land integration doctrine where their dragons operate in a close air support role. Some of their innate magical powers include foretelling and mind control over enslaved humans.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laundry_Files

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Re:Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Tolkien Elves by funnybeam on Monday March 02, 2020 @03:00PM (#22468286)
That’s a bit more than a “mild” spoiler...

I’d have been really annoyed if someone had told me that information before I read it (fantastic series of books by the way)

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Re:Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Tolkien Elves by gpderetta on Monday March 02, 2020 @04:14PM (#22469054)
Yes. Still worth reading after the spoiler though.
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