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An elf is a mythological creature, originally from Germanic mythology.

Elf or Elves may also refer to:

Entertainment

Fictional entities

• Christmas elf
• Elves in fiction, of the fantasy genre:
  • Elf (Dungeons & Dragons)
  • Elf (Middle-earth), in J. R. R. Tolkien's work
  • Elves (Discworld), in Terry Pratchett's work
  • House-elf, a magical creature in Harry Potter

Film, television and media

• Elf (film), a 2003 American Christmas comedy film
  • Elf (musical), based on the film
• Elf (band), an American band
  • Elf (album), their 1972 album
• Elves (film), a 1989 American horror film
• Lego Elves, a toy line and media franchise that began in 2015
• Elves (TV series) a 2021 Danish television series

Politics

• Earth Liberation Front, an international environmentalist political group
• Environmental Life Force, an American radical environmental group
• Eritrean Liberation Front, a main independence movement in Eritrea
• Essential Living Fund, an English welfare assistance scheme
• European Liberal Forum, a think-tank
• European Liberation Front, a neo-fascist group

Science and technology

• Electron localization function
• ELVES, a type of upper atmospheric lightning
• Enceladus Life Finder, a proposed NASA astrobiology mission to Saturn's moon Enceladus
• Extremely low frequency, electromagnetic radiation (radio waves) with frequencies from 3 to 30 Hz
• Eretis, a genus of butterfly
• Microtia elva, a species of butterfly

Computing

• COSMAC ELF, a single-board computer kit based on the RCA 1802 microprocessor
• Executable and Linkable Format (.elf), a file format for executable files
• Extended Log Format, a text format for web server log files
• Elf, a tablet in the NOVO7 series

Vehicles

• Ekolot JK 01A Elf, a Polish motorglider
• Isuzu Elf, a truck model
• Riley Elf, an automobile
• USS Elf (SP-81), a United States Navy patrol boat
• Elf (yacht), an American racing yacht
• Pesa Elf, a Polish electric multiple unit
• Elf, a tugboat taken into British Empire service as Empire Belle

Organisations

• Elf Aquitaine, a French oil company
• ELF Corporation, a Japanese eroge game studio
• Elvish Linguistic Fellowship, an organization that studies the invented languages of J. R. R. Tolkien
• Endangered Language Fund, an American linguistic group
• Environmental Law Foundation, a British charity
• Estonian Nature Fund, an environmental organization
• European Lacrosse Federation
• European League of Football, a professional American football league based in Europe
• Eyes Lips Face, an international cosmetics brand

Other uses

• English as a lingua franca

See also

• ALF (disambiguation)
• Elfin (disambiguation)
• Elph (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with elf
• All pages with titles containing elf