Like Men and Dwarves, Elves did sleep. In The Two Towers, it says of Legolas, "[He] already lay motionless, his fair hands folded upon his breast, his eyes unclosed, blending living night and deep dream, as is the way with Elves." Also, unlike Men, Elves were ambidextrous.
Tolkien writes, "He [Legolas] could sleep, if sleep it could be called by Men, resting his mind in the strange paths of Elvish dreams, even as he walked open-eyed in the light of this world." Elves do, therefore, get tired to some extent, but because they can recover whilst awake, outsiders might assume they never grow ...
Elves were sometimes able to sleep if they desired, though they almost always rested in a state of reverie, which took half the time for the same benefits of sleep, and also acted as a memory tool. As such, elves very rarely slept, and usually only did so when they were severely ill, wounded, or exhausted.
An Elf's Trance specifically says they can trance for 4 hours and get the same benefit as a human does with 8 hours sleep. Since 8 hours sleep would constitute a complete long rest for a human - an Elf can get a complete long rest in 4 hours.
Why Are There No Elf Children in the Lord of the Rings?
How long are elves pregnant?
They live for millennia, so being pregnant for one hundred years is actually not that bad when you look at it that way. Both parents are also aware of the baby elf growing in the womb the whole time.
And as fun as it is to imagine the Elves of Rivendell mischievously hiding meat dishes from the Dwarves, the implication of the scene is pretty clear. Dwarves are slobby, uncultured meat-eaters, whereas Elves are snobby, cultured, vegetarians.
Apparently, beards, though rare, were the only sign of further natural physical ageing beyond maturity. Elves did not physically age after they reached maturity, but they did age in a different sense than Men.
Elves are immortal but can be killed in battle, in which case they go to the Halls of Mandos in Aman for an afterlife. They may be restored by the Will of the Valar, and then go to live with the Valar in Valinor, like an Earthly Paradise, though just being in the place does not confer immortality, as Men supposed.
Elves in Lord of the Rings have three major stages of life: childhood and adolescence, adulthood, and old age. Elves are immortal and immune to disease and illness, but they can be killed by mortal means or die of weariness or heartbreak.
In the "official movie guide" for The Lord of the Rings, a birthdate for Legolas is set to 87 of the Third Age. This would make him 2931 years old at the time of the War of the Ring. This date for Legolas' birth was made up by the movie writers.
In the films, Bloom wore contacts to make his eyes blue, probably to distinguish him from the Silvan elves of Mirkwood, Legolas, the son of Thranduil, is a Sindarin, often treated as nobility by elves of less distinguished lineage.
Legolas does not marry or have any children, based on the appendix of The Lord of the Rings. Regardless of who his mother was, Legolas is the last of his line. When he sails into the West at the beginning of the Fourth Age, he leaves no family members behind.
Elves view the sexual act as special and intimate, for it leads to the birth of children. Elves who are married cannot be forced by other Elves to have sex; before that they will lose the will to endure and go to Mandos. Elves have few children, and there are long intervals between each child.
Only Legolas still stepped as lightly as ever, his feet hardly seeming to press the grass, leaving no footprints as he passed; but in the waybread of the Elves he found all the sustenance that he needed, and he could sleep, if sleep it could be called by Men, resting his mind in the strange paths of elvish dreams, even ...
This was because Elves considered ears and leaves to be of a similar shape. Tolkien made this even clearer in one of his definitions from The Lost Road and Other Writings, which described Elven ears as "more pointed and leaf-shaped" in comparison to human ears.
The Lord of the Rings films showed Arwen (Liv Tyler) dying due to her connection to the One Ring. The closer Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) and Samwise Gamgee (Sean Astin) get to Mount Doom, the closer she gets to death.
Only Elves and those deemed worthy (like Gandalf and Frodo) could sail to the Undying Lands. And by choosing to stay with Aragorn, she was forgoing her place on the boats and binding herself to the realm of men, thus becoming mortal.
Celeborn was the Lord of Lothlórien and husband of Galadriel, Lady of the Golden Wood. He was said to be one of the wisest Elves in Middle-earth at the end of the Third Age. He played an important role in many battles in the First and Second Age.
Elves take their time doing things because of their long life span. So to them 100 years feels like what 20 years feels like to a Human. In most of the D&D editions a level 1 starting elf is between 100 to 120 years old.
Santa advises that no family member touch their Elf on the Shelf, but he does describe a few rare instances when an adult may use tongs or potholders to help an elf in an urgent situation. Parents: read on to learn about special, few and far between cases where emergency help will be required.
Elves are depicted as being resistant to alcohol not immune. It is of course possible that Legolas has become tolerant to alcohol. Thranduil and Legolas was Sindar elves but rules mostly over Silvan elves.
We never see elves smoke. We do see elves drink wine and get drunk off it (in The Hobbit). Given elven immunity to disease and general toughness, I don't think they can get physically addicted, though I have to say Tolkien never addresses the issue directly.
