elves

Tolkien's endless discussions about orcs and elves are talking about something, just maybe not literal orcs and elves.

This is like buying Santa's workshop so kids will like you and then executing all the elves.

Someone suggested a Magic Elves theory, which helps a lot of other stuff to make more sense.

Dwarves and Elves openly hate each other, throwing racists epithets like daggers whenever they meet - think of Thranduil in the Hobbit, or Gimli confronting the elves on the borders of Lothlorien.

On the other hand, these elves are getting paid $50/hour while they do market research and get free product ideas.

It makes me think that the elves are inexperienced or that this is just a thin wrapper around Mechanical Turk or oDesk.

You might as well ask what the elves in the Lord of the Rings can teach us about the science of longevity.

Is it possible subterranean elves are more common in the UK?

Are they being hand crafted by a small village of elves?

Ha, self transforming machine elves filter!

I remember when I was a toddler and they taught me that Santa's elves and God's angels where spying me to make sure I was good.

I can also turn the author's previous sentence around and state that there are probably many people that get too invested in elves and orcs as well.

Asked what were the secrets of his success, Cray said "Well, we have elves here, and they help me".

Treating business units that book revenue as "profit centres" only makes sense if the revenue they book is entirely due to goods and services supplied by magic elves.

"While I'm digging in the tunnel, the elves will often come to me with solutions to my problem", he said.

This is addressed in the article: "Now, in his conversation with Frodo, Bombadil implies (but avoids directly stating) that he had heard of their coming from Farmer Maggot and from Gildor’s elves (both of whom Frodo had recently described).

If Melkor is the Serpent (who corrupted the Elves), then perhaps Bombadil is the real original evil.

It has a similar function to leaving a baby in front of The Happy Little Elves.