Daeron’s Great Idea

Daeron's Great Idea is the first chapter of Elf Academy.

Author's Notes
This story was inspired by some newspaper articles, which can be found online, describing the creation of an Elf Academy ( Tonttuakatemia in Finnish) at the Lapland Vocational College in Rovaniemi, Finland [ see, e.g,, ‘Tonttuakatemia: Yule school to teach Santa’s elves’, written by Agnieszka Flak, published on 19 December 2007 (Reuters)]. I was unable to find specific details concerning the Academy, but I wish to thank Thorsten Renk, who presently resides in Finland, for helping me find what information there was to be had about the types of courses taught at the Academy.

Obviously, this is very AU, written for the pure fun of it, and it is not to be taken too seriously. Northern Lights Community College is purely fictional. There is, however, a Wiseman, Alaska, situated about 200 miles north of Fairbanks. I have altered its population and its environs to suit the story, so there is no real correlation between the actual town and the fictional one other than their location.

All the Elves in this story are canon and were chosen because there is much ambiguity as to their ultimate fates, so I have decided that they survived into the present age. The Glorfindel in this story has the same history as the one in my Elf, Interrupted story, the only difference being that Glorfindel does not return to Aman during the Fourth Age. Mithrellas’ history (such as it is) is described in Peoples of Middle-earth, HoME XII, ‘VII. The Heirs of Elendil: The Line of Amroth’.

A note on capitalization: Whenever the Mortals, who do not believe in the existence of the Eldar, speak of the Elves, I indicate this by not capitalizing ‘Elf’ or ‘Elves’.

Introduced
Glorfindel

Daeron

Elladan Elrondion

Elrohir Elrondion

Lady Nimrodel

Mithrellas

End Notes
Words are Eldarin.

Ellon: Male Elf. The plural is ellyn.

Ellith: Plural of elleth: Female Elf.