Elves are also often the most empathic, due to their depth of experience, their value of those things which do not change, and their direct connection to the natural, the spontaneous, the unrestricted. There is much in Tolkien and others, that I think worthwhile regarding elven magick. I've been studying it for some time and think it will be a lifetime study. There is no end to the self for the self. Elven magick is too complex to encompass.
Most people focus on simply the physical characteristics of mythical beings.
They do not see the incredible depth which these beings make available to our experience through our identification. Fantasy and reality may be mixed in a pleasant and valuable way. The leaves were long, the grass was green, the hemlock-umbels tall and fair, and in the glade a light was seen of stars in shadow shimmering. Tinuviel was dancing there to music of a pipe unseen, And light of stars was in her hair, and in her raiment glimmering. And where the Elven-river rolled he walked alone and sorrowing.