A leader among the elven is not an elected official, and certainly not a bureaucrat, but rather a life artist whose work is so profoundly original and inspiring that it touches each of our lives. But alas, dear kin, this is no more likely to happen than every artist and musician and scientist in the world leaving their own country and going off and creating another. But these appointments are only ever temporary and only give one authority in the particular project with which one is dealing. Most literature, describes us as living in a magical realm of medieval kings and queens. And there is truth to this but not in the way that most people think.
All elves are of noble blood.
To be a king or queen of the elven is to set aside one's ego, to offer ones'elf and one's possessions wholely for the sake of our people. An Elven king never claims that title but rather lives it by doing everything they do for the betterment of the elfin. An elven noble is a personage that is so intune with their elfin soul and spirit that they are no longer concerned with the material world but instead spend their time and energy promoting the creative and unique nature of every individual elfin. Of course, we inevitably find those, particularly those who have recently awakened who, still smarting from the deprivation that they suffered among men, orcs and goblins, etc., are eager to grasp such titles to assuage and augment their flagging s'elf concepts. Often, we laugh at such folly, many of us shake our heads with sympathy for the pain we know that this stems from but ultimately we must accept such a pronouncement with respect to the noble aspiration and terrific courage that it denotes.