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We have had lots of folks wanting a print version, so for a very very limited time, in September 2017, we are publishing a special release of the Amazon KDP Print/Paperback version and make sure with the print purchase you grab the Ebook FREE while you are there, or even AFTER purchase, as long as you have a valid Amazon receipt!! (And – who knows? Maybe it will become a collector’s item! Contact us to find out how to get a signed copy for a small amount extra)!
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Blessed are the Geeks, for they shall inherit Middle-Earth
AIYA and Greetings Eldalië (Elfkind) and Elendili (Elf Friends)! Since we did some recent changes here, click HERE or on “Blog” above if you are looking for our articles and updates.
Thank you so much for visiting the home of Elven Spirituality! This is Tië eldaliéva, meaning the Elven Path, or the Path of the Star-people.
The co-founders came together online for the purpose of creating a spiritual path that is based on the Elven viewpoint put forth in Professor JRR Tolkien‘s Middle-Earth stories, collectively known as the “Legendarium” and include The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. However, most of the materials used for the creation and practice of the Elven Path are the posthumous publications, which would be considered the origins or the historical back-stories. These especially include The Silmarillion, the Lost Tales I and II, Unfinished Tales, and Morgoth’s Ring (Vol. X of the History of Middle-Earth, or HoME, series).
The reasons for doing so are varying due to the individual, but overall, there is a prevalent understanding that Tolkien’s stories, which he began writing in 1917, are a valid mytho-history and after applying this deep and touching material to our current spiritual understandings, it has been discovered the materials do indeed relay all one needs – and if there are outside ideas present already that help fill it in, so much the better. A great explanation can be found by reading Calantirniel’s Interview with Author Emily Carding, of which most is published in her book published through Llewellyn, Faerie Craft!
This is not a Role-Playing Game (RPG), but a genuine spiritual practice that although best practiced as a standalone, it can enhance certain understandings of any and all spiritual backgrounds that is based on love, balance and the flow of nature.
While we welcome those who are on an identity discovery path (i.e. types that are exploring “elvenness” through the otherkin paradigm), the actual intentions of the Elven Path are toward the PATH itself, rather than the identity of the traverser.
Tië eldaliéva is all about education and outreach, to bring awareness to the spiritual seeker of the existence of this deep and beautiful spiritual path that will speak to the hearts of the right people that wish to follow such a path. Please explore our blog/articles, calendar and resource pages, which also include Elvish linguistic learning sources.
Thank you for stopping by! Feel free to grab two gifts from us JUST for joining our Email List to stay updated with news on the highly-anticipated Elven Spirituality book!
Calantirniel has had the wonderful pleasure to be (this far) interviewed THREE times with Joe Rupe and The Fringe FM Radio and it was just so much fun!! She’s talking about Elven Spirituality, and you can check out the archives directly at Lighting the Void for June 20, 2018, on July 18, 2018 (with a surprise guest) and on April 2, 2019. We then returned (all 4 of us co-founders!) with our special announcement to the “Voidwalker” audience on April 3, 2020! A lot changed this year, as you will see when you continue reading…
While you are at it – you can watch the September 13, 2018 YouTube Live Interview with Kimberel Eventide, of the High Elven Wisdom and Magic YouTube Channel! We were going to perform the Ritual of Enderi from the book, and then Calantirniel’s tech cut out! However, it is still a great interview to share! Calantirniel was interviewed again on Kimberel’s channel on December 6, 2018 (linked below), and then, we had an important announcement on June 3, 2019 at 6:22pm Pacific Time with regard to our joining efforts and merging together to form a more cohesive path, stronger together than alone! We are so excited to bring all of you even more Elven “goodness” – stay tuned!
More Videos with Kimberel:
The Truth about Elven Bloodlines
Thank you for watching! The Elven Spiritual Path’s YouTube will be up and running shortly!
Now – For the Elven Spirituality “Way Back Machine” so to speak:
**There is an interview of Dave/Aikanar and I (Lisa/Calantirniel) at the now-defunct Eclectic Pagans Podcast in August 2007, originally posted online in September 2007. We luckily have an MP3 recording of Episode #26, entitled “The Elven Path.” We hope to have this available for listening on our own Tië eldaliéva YouTube Channel very soon! Note: If you wish to “skip” the tunes and other stuff, we start interviewing around 12 minutes into the podcast.**
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Anyone here? It doesn’t seem here to be much of active page. I hope it isn’t abandoned here for it is very beautifull page.
I’m here. 🙂 I comment more on Facebook than here.
I’m here!
At least someone…
I am here as well
There’re a lot more people looking than commenting
yes but I do both.
I’m so glad this site exists!
I should comment more. I sure have a lot of opinions! 🙂
I am curious to know what they are.
Hi ! I am very glad to have found this blog. My search is new however and I am standing in the beginning of my journey. Blessings 🙂
Hi friends, I created web and I want to dedicate it to the Valar, so I call, if there is someone who has serious not the fan relationship with the gods of Middlearth, I need you. I have good informations about Melkor, some about Manwe and feanturi, but the rest is missing and that needs to change. I have enough of Tolkien’s informations but I need informations of those, who really know th the Valar.
Contact me, if you can help with the webpage “temple of the Valar”
use message to author: http://bila-hvezda.blog.cz/en
Hi Morell! I will contact you about possible resources for your project, but I do wish to mention that we do not celebrate the dark one once called Melkor (and later became Morgoth), as he is not of the Valar after this happened. We do remember him though, if for nothing else than to learn from the stories. Thanks for stopping by this page today! Calantirniel
Hi, sorry for so late reply, I missed your message. A lot of work, but still I’m eager to cooperate. Good think is that bigger part of page is done, at least in matter of webcode. I keep continuing no matter the dark magic atacks. No matter who the enemy is, it can’t stop us.
I must also make one thing clear: no interest in christian texts. I work for the Valar, not for the church of christianity. I also do have problem with description of Maiar and Valar as the angles. The reason is that who compares them so is in danger of working with angels instead of these beings, and that has it’s affects.
What can be contributed: original immages, texts to honot the Valar prayments, rituals, myths and legends, etc., texts about the elves, also links to music on youtube, which allows to feel energy of specific Vala.
also anything else, which is usable and fits.
You can visit the already working part of the temple.
http://temple-of-the-valar.wz.cz/
You can check my progress on my DA page. I keep my followers informed on this page.
http://morellagrysis.deviantart.com/
my e-mail
LegolasTM@seznam.cz
Thank you for your post Morrell, it appears you have a good start! While we encourage those of any faith to participate, including Christianity, we can certainly understand and appreciate your offering will match others’ connections with Tolkien’s amazing Middle-Earth body of work called the Legendarium! Hope you have some visitors come your way!
Thanks for your kind words, friend.
I have my reasons for that. I’m not enemy, but after some speeches with archangel Azrael I know enough to be aware of this.
Christianity wants everyone. I only those, who I know will be helped this way, But to some it may cause damage. That is something I must be aware of!
I hope to help many, but the truth is, that I’ll be lucky to find few beings and I’m very unique.
Also one small request. Can I please place your freebies from this web to this temple as free downloads?The files will be of course credited.
I can give permission with my document, which is the Varda story. However, I do not own solely the copyright. I would need to ask permission of the others who helped. But in any case, I have an idea 🙂 Look in your email box soon, okay?
Aiya!! Looking for Elves….so glad this is still here!! I rarely get to the internet but want it known I am alive and hope you are all also!! Things have been rough this year-if the Swan boats or wandering Elves come by I am outta here!
namarie,
Delfynasa
Yes indeed, thanks for stopping by! Hope all is well in your neck of the woods! 🙂
Hello dear Elves! I’m from Russia! I’m glad I found this site! I hope that I will be with you! I wish you prosperity! Anna
Thanks for visiting us at the new year Anna – well, the non-elven new year anyway! 😉 We very much appreciate your comment about your visit!
I am still here I am the ole Silvan Elf lol. Still remeber this path and seek to get back on it. What is the best way to do so?
I’m but a lurker, because I get lost in technology and can’t seem to use my time properly. I found you just today and am delighted you are here. There’s a flame burning in my heart for a calendar that is more in harmony with our natural world. I have also come to understand that my soul is an elven one (am so happy not to be alone – God bless our beautiful elven sojourners on earth!), so I found you while searching out the elven loa. I would like to know how it is that our people at Home determine the first day of the new year. In my explorations I found you. I very rarely get online so you may not hear from me again, but you have already blessed me – thanks so much for being. I just wanted to let you know that yes, we are out there.
Aiya – welcome to the Elven Spirituality website! 🙂 The calendar is actually configured by Professor JRR Tolkien himself, with the Elven New Year beginning March 28th on the current Gregorian calendar! More calendar info can be found by clicking on the “Calendar” link above, or just go here: https://elvenspirituality.wordpress.com/calendar/ – Hope you like exploring!
I LOVE the caption – just was directed here by a recommendation in a social network, so looking around right now, but the more I read the more I smile 🙂
Aiya and welcome! Thank you so much Willow! Nice to see you here, and check out our Facebook or Google Plus page for keeping up with the Elven Holidays!
Already found you on G+. Looking forward to new posts 🙂
Testing – it looks like the new Elven Spirituality Gravatar AND WP Profile are finally operational!! So – when contacting us using the “contact” link here, or using the Facebook message area – ONE of us will get to help you so it isn’t just up to only one person! Phew!! Many blessings unto all eldalie and elendili this new moon Yavie – the Elven harvest (literally “fruit”)! Calantirniel
Hello my friends!
How could I forget about you? Shame on me! I have to invite you all! Come and visit the temple of the Valar!
Read and listen about it here:
http://elvenworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/invitation-to-the-temple-of-the-valar
Thanks so much Morrell for the link! I am sure you will get some visitors 🙂
Hi everyone! Just noticing you that Temple of the Valar got through update, including a lot of texts for download.
And most important, there are now symbols for all the Valar, that was very important for it grounds them among humans, allowing much more connection here.
Blessings to you all.
Update info: https://morellagrysis.deviantart.com/journal/BIG-Valar-temple-update-699143124
Temple: http://www.temple-of-the-valar.cz
Morell, you were not kidding! Calantirniel checked out some of your new downloads, and we are sure that others out there will want to see what you have provided. Nice to hear from you! Laita and many blessings to you!
Of course I was serious ad I’m being serious again.
I dared to make a copy of two comments from your facebook mentioning life experience with the Valar. I decided to collect the stories and tales of real people/elves/whoever, so people whoever wish to share their tale, e-mail me them, Facebook will loose them in moths I fear, but in the Temple of the Valar they will be for long years and included in the pdf files I’ll later create they can last for generations, especialy if they get printed, but that is outside my hands. Let us all make the legend real and told for long.
Please people, I dont do it for myself, I do it for us all.
Legolasyeneldar@gmail.com
Aiya!
I really really love this book! I am pleased to have received it in time. Also it is quite awesome
Namarie
Delfynasa
Aiya, again
It would be cool if your book on Elentari was also available in hard copy. Thought of you a couple days ago when we re-watched the Star Trek that reminds me of Morgoth the nasty.
Hugs
Delfynasa
Dear Calantirniel,
I wrote a message to you through the contact form, did you receive it ?
My email address is ereinion.gil.galad22@gmail.com .
Thank you in advance for your attention and congratulations for your work: it seems to me that it might bring light into this world more than many religions actually do.
We never did receive your contact there, but Calantirniel just tried emailing you. Must have been spam filters.
Greetings to all here! I have been away on a very long journey but still have beautiful memories of elves and the spiritual path they are on! I wish all here peace and love! Resandre.
We remember you Resandre! 🙂
erehte, antan analye formnya
Aiya! Awesome to see you here Rodger, Laita!
Greetings, lovely souls who sustain this site. Cathrea introduced me to it years ago, but when I explored here, it seemed almost as though it had been abandoned. I’m very happy to see it so alive! I’m yet another elven soul, akin to Cathrea and those for whom she has channeled. Ever have I felt the pull of this being so, yet for most of my life did not understand what these yearnings were nor why I experienced them. Awakening to myself was a very healing time for me and I appreciate Cathrea very much for standing by me while it was happening. Now I am an awakened elven soul. It is good for elven folk to come together. I am happy to have found you here. Regarding connecting via webs – I get overwhelmed. Usually I just stick to my email. But I’m here. Sometimes in meditation things are shared. I’m looking for ways to be more elven in my living. I understand that the keys are buried in our hearts – so I look too for ways to be more me. I am here. Can I help? Can I share? I am here.
We are indeed alive and kicking Julie! We remember Cathrea and hope she is doing awesome! I hope you have downloaded some of our resources that we have available to our email list, which you can click on “Free Updates” above, or just click http://eepurl.com/cbc5mH to grab those! Stay tuned for the September ritual of Enderi, which you have likely seen here on the home page already! Laita and blessings to you!
I did try both ways that you recommended – each one took me to the same page (with blessings for geeks). I tried signing up, whereupon I was informed that I was signed up already. But I never heard from you after signing up – not until June 15th (a fine birthday present for me, only two days late). So let’s fix whatever went awry, as staying tuned is something I would like to do.
“Geeks will inherit Middle Earth”. Don’t geeks know all details right about their favorite movie, book, etc? Means whoever admins this blog and the social media pages and want to start an official elven spirituality organization, need to actually start reading Tolkien’s books because you guys are making fools out of yourselves. You get so many details and so many points wrong. Tolkien is twisting and turning in his grave…
Aiya and greetings Anlinn – With regard to accuracy of Tolkien’s Legendarium, you might be referring to this thread after your comment here? https://elvenspirituality.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/tarnin-austa-the-gates-of-summer/#comment-1169
We are so glad you are concerned for Professor Tolkien after leaving Arda, but we are not the only ones feeling the way we do from his writings. See the Tolkien Society’s publishing of their 2018 presentation, in the Peter Roe Series XIX – in print: https://www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page/tolkien-the-pagan-reading-middle-earth-through-a-spiritual-lens or in Ebook form: https://www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page/tolkien-the-pagan-reading-middle-earth-through-a-spiritual-lens-1
Or, you can for yourself check out the work of the esteemed Dr. Markus Davidsen, both his 13-page summary https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/29078/summary.pdf?sequence=26 or the entire doctoral thesis here, 524 pages: https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/29078 – we hope this helps!