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)
  • Elves in Middle-earth, in JRR Tolkien's work
  • Elves in Discworld, in Terry Pratchett's work inspired by Tolkien's Elves
  • 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
  • Epithelial lining fluid, a type of mucus in the respiratory system, also called airway surface liquid (ASL)
  • 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
  • e.l.f. (acronym of Eyes Lips Face), an international cosmetics brand
  • Earth Liberation Front

Other uses

  • English as a lingua franca
  • Elf Cafe, American restaurant

See also

  • ALF (disambiguation)
  • Elfin (disambiguation)
  • Elph (disambiguation)