Why Do The Silver Elves Use the "Royal We"

"... to our minds when we write our books or in fact correspond with our kindred, we are writing not only for ours’elves but for our entire elven family and all those kindred of ours who happen to agree with us. ... In part, this tendency perhaps derives from our time when we were part of the Elf Queen’s Daughters (EQD) back in the mid 1970’s. ... The sisters used to say, “We are of One Heart and One Mind,” and they meant that rather literally, that they were so close psychically that it was in certain ways hard to tell them apart."

     When we use to post to Elven Listserves in the 90s, we often had individuals who would ask us, usually with a touch of hostility and a challenging tone, about why we used the Royal We when writing. We explained to them that we were not necessarily using the Royal We but were in fact a family of elves and thus were using the pronoun, we, correctly as far as we could tell, and honestly although we were raised, or is that reared, speaking English, it has always seemed a foreign language to us. But we are fairly certain that when a letter or correspondence, which for the most part our writings really are, a sort of love letter and correspondence with and to our kindred, is sent from more than one person that we is the proper pronoun to use.

      And to our minds when we write our books or in fact correspond with our kindred, we are writing not only for ours’elves but for our entire elven family and all those kindred of ours who happen to agree with us. In part, this tendency perhaps derives from our time when we were part of the Elf Queen’s Daughters (EQD) back in the mid 1970’s. In that sisterhood, who published three letters of the Elf Magic Mail (see our two books of that title that have the contents of those original letters) each week and sent them out by snail mail and also wrote to hundreds of elves and elf friends via personal correspondence around the United States and in Europe, it was quite common not only for various members to contribute a sentence or paragraph to one of the letters of the Elf Magic Mail, but to answer correspondence individually for and as the group.

      We remember when we first went to visit our sisters (and brothers, but in the EQD we were all considered sisters), Melryn and the other three elves of that vortex (elven coven) had to go off to work for the day and left us at the vortex to answer letters that had been sent to them. They had a metal filing cabinet full of correspondence both old and pending and Melryn said to us to just pick any that called to us and to write to them on their behalf. So we did. One of the letters we particularly liked was from a French magician with whom we continued correspondence from our own vortex in Southern Illinois, where we called ours’elves the Elves of the Southern Woodlands. A year or so later, he traveled from France to visit us.

      The sisters used to say, “We are of One Heart and One Mind,” and they meant that rather literally, that they were so close psychically that it was in certain ways hard to tell them apart. They functioned from their point of view like a flock of birds and had the psychic interconnection of porpoises and dolphins. Andruil once said to us: “We all write the Elf Magic Mail and no one can tell which of us wrote what.”

      We remember one particular personal letter these elves received from Arwen and Elanor, who founded the Elf Queen’s Daughters, in which they wrote to us saying, “Speak for us.” And they meant that quite literally. By those simple words they authorized us to represent them and the sisterhood, which is in part why a few years later in 1979, after they had relinquished writing The Elf Magic Mail, we began our own letters The Magical Elven Love Letters, which were essentially a continuation of those letters and which eventually evolved into our books (see our books The Magical Elven Love Letters, volume 1, 2, & 3).

      At the same time, it should be noted that all elves are royal and we could each and everyone of us use the Royal We if we so choose. However, it is important to understand that in Elfin, royalty is not a position of authority, except over one’s own s’elf, but a recognition of one’s essential value as a soulful spirit. Just as Aleister Crowley wrote in The Book of the Law that, “Every Man and Woman is a Star,” so too is every elf of royal heritage with the right/rite to rule hir own life and direct hir destiny as sHe see fit.

Fost Tae Lodver (Touch the Truth),

The Silver Elves

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"In paradise we wait for you upon the Elfin shore, 

and trust that you will join us soon to live forever more."

—The Silver Elves

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If you enjoyed this article, you may be interested in reading some of our Magical Elven Love Letters, of which some we have posted here .

We hope you enjoy our letters and you are welcome to reproduce these letters on your site as long as you give us due credit.

You may also purchase our The Magical Elven Love Letters, Volume 1, Volume 2 and also Volume 3, now available on Amazon, with a compilation of hundreds of letters we have sent to our Otherkin since 1979. Each of these three books is a collection of letters with dominate themes of what it means to be an elf and the elven way of life, the Shinning Ones, Elven magic and elven culture. These letters were written by The Silver Elves to encourage elves to awaken to their Elfin nature, to be true to their individual destiny, and to embrace their starry heritage. They are filled with Elven Philosophy and observe the world from the point of view of the Elves, which is often quite unique from how most people view and experience the world; and their unique Elven Philosophy of Magic that is often similar and yet distinct from traditional theories and methods of magic.

The Magical Elven Love Letters, Volume 1
This book contains our very first Magical Elven Love Letters and a few of our early internet letters.

“The way to Elfin is found on the path

That weaves through the Misty Forest

That lives between the Mountain of Vision

And the River of Reality”

― The Silver Elves, The Magical Elven Love Letters, Volume 1  

The Magical Elven Love Letters, Volume 2

The continuation of our internet letters with a few early letters that were not in the first book. You can find samples of these letters on various sites all over the web, for they were some of our most popular letters and have been copied and spread around frequently. It is not necessary to read Volume 1 before reading and enjoying Volume 2. These letters give the reader an experiential understanding of what it is to be an elf and enter the realm of Faerie and Magick.

The Magical Elven Love Letters, Volume 3

This book is the continuation of our internet letters from before 2000 and the majority are letters we wrote in the process of our journey to relocate to Hawaii and also all the letters upon moving to paradise, with accounts of our encounters with the Menehuni and the unfolding magic of the isles.  This volume 3 completes the trilogy.

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THE MAGICAL REALMS OF ELFIN: Answers to Questions About Being an Elf and Following the Elven Path contains questions and answers about being elven that many people who are exploring the Elven Way have posed to The Silver Elves throughout the 40 + years that they have been living and sharing the Elven Way. The Silver Elves have put them all in this one book for all those who need a convenient, yet thorough and easy-to-read, resource to explore their questions about who the modern elves are and about the Elven Way or elven spiritual path — past, present and future. If you are curious about elves and want to learn more about modern elves and the Elven Path, then you will surely find this book to contain many of your questions answered and it will be a great comfort and help in finding your way home to the Magical Realms of Elfin.

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"When elves say that every elf is a star, we not only mean it in a Cosmic way that each elf is a unique manifestation of the Light of the Universe but we also mean it in a Hollywood way that every elf is a radiant personality manifesting enchantment in the world."

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Elf Witches of the Mystic Moon — https://www.facebook.com/groups/806583242768352 

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Elven Life and Magic — https://www.facebook.com/groups/629491797123886

Elvish Magical Chat — https://www.facebook.com/groups/307775362744491

The Faerie Circle — https://www.facebook.com/groups/1025483294180077

Faerie Craft — https://www.facebook.com/groups/395403367195312 — This is a group to share your elven and fae creations.

I Heart Elven Magic — https://www.facebook.com/groups/2215672296

United Otherkin Alliance — https://www.facebook.com/groups/328253710566869 This is an alliance for Otherkin/ Therians, where elves, faeries, dragons, kitsune, gnomes, hobbits, merkin, pixies, brownies, nymphs, driads, niaids, valkyrie, vampires, devas, fauns, unicorns, animal kin and all manner of Faerie Folk gather and come together! This group is open to anyone who wishes to be part of a congenial group of Otherkin.

The Elven Way and Friends — https://www.facebook.com/groups/165938637423212

United Otherkin Friends — https://www.facebook.com/groups/UnitedOtherkinFriends

Feasting with the Elves — https://www.facebook.com/groups/746786689029044

Nature & the Unseen Realms with the Elves & otherkin. A spiritual journey — https://www.facebook.com/groups/196916350335537

Why Do We Call Ourselves The Silver Elves?

"....we decided to take on another name, this time choosing the Silver Elves, a name that seemed particularly appropriate as we saw ours'elves as the Elves of the Silvery Moon, the Silver Stars, and the Silver Forest all rolled into one.... unlike many elves, we don't see our tribe as being descended by blood from a particular set of elven folk but are a tribe composed of various folk from a number of different tribes."

     People sometimes ask us why we call ours'elves the Silver Elves and like many things having to do with elves and our culture there is more than one answer to that question. We could say we call ours'elves the Silver Elves because we are the Silver Elves, which while true is hardly likely to satisfy the inquiring minds of those who approach us and wish and expect definite answers, rather than elven circle talk, in reply. After all, they are actually looking for something that brings understanding to their own approach to Elfin and something that they can attach thems'elves to or that helps them gain greater understanding of their own elven natures. They sometimes feel that they are awash in the sea of normality and they are looking to us to throw them a life preserver.

     And we could as well, and this is really the deep and primal truth, say that we call ours'elves the Silver Elves because we really like the name. As some may know we first started calling ours'elves the Elves of the Southern Woodlands when we were a vortex of the Elf Queen's Daughters in the 70s, associated intimately with those elves who lived farther north of us that we've come to refer to as the Fox River Elves, mainly because they lived in a house on the banks of the Fox River in Aurora, Il. Each vortex of the EQD had a name and there were a dozen or so worldwide.

     Later, they moved west to California to join with other kindred there and we moved to Florida, after living with the founders of the sisterhood. And while we could have gone on calling ours'elves by our EQD vortex name, the Elves of the Southern Woodlands, and that surely would have made sense, we decided that a migration deserved a new name as well and so we began calling ours'elves the Sylvan Elves or sometimes the Sylvyn Elves. But then after a couple of years we migrated again, this time to California and we decided to take on another name, this time choosing the Silver Elves, a name that seemed particularly appropriate as we saw ours'elves as the Elves of the Silvery Moon, the Silver Stars, and the Silver Forest all rolled into one.

     Now these elves associate ours'elves mainly with the fourth ray of manifestation, which traditionally has green as an associative color. But for us silver, which is a form of gray, thus a blending of black and white, and also rainbow, which is to say all the colors together and blended, is better suited to this ray. For this is a ray of synthesis and creativity and unlike many elves, we don't see our tribe as being descended by blood from a particular set of elven folk but are a tribe composed of various folk from a number of different tribes.

     We are a synthesis of elfin folk and like those who awakened us, the Elf Queen's Daughters, and nurtured our elven identity, we are a frasority of elfin dedicated to helping, awakening and aiding our people in their own search for their true natures. Thus anyone who wishes to join us and is genuine and sincere in hir devotion to that mission and quest may very well be adopted into our tribe no matter what tribe hir ancestors may have been.

     At the same time, having become the authors of 45+ books on elfin magic and philosophy, and using the name The Silver Elves as our nom-de-plume, the name has become a signal to our kindred of the reality of Elfin and our manifestation in this world. In a certain sense, you may say the name stuck and we have kept it ever since and are unlikely to change it for any migration save that of death. What we shall call ours'elves in our next life, we haven't decided as yet.

Kyela,

The Silver Elves
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Through The Mists of Faerie:
A Magical Guide to the Wisdom Teachings of the Ancient Elven

"Elfin, Faerie, Elfland or the Sacred Realm or Dimension of Magic that lives at the heart of the Universe, is an incredibly attractive power. It draws all true souls to it. It calls to the Elfin nature in each and every soul. This is the power that arouses the imagination of those who see or read the Lord of the Rings and say, I’m an Elf or I’m a Dwarf, or even I’m an Orc. The power calls to us through Urban Fantasy stories and the fantasy novels of old, as well as, faery tales and movies of magic and enchantment. But it also calls to us from the trees, the wild places of Nature, and sometimes most of all from magic memories of our childhood, which is really our ancient past, our past incarnations, calling to us. It can also be aroused, and quite strongly, perhaps most strongly, by others of our kind manifesting in the world. There is something magical about these beings and they arouse our own hunger for magic in our own lives and souls. These Elfae radiate starlight. They glimmer with love, kindness and compassion; and they reach out and touch our souls. Some might suppose this to be a glamor, a magic they have wrapped thems’elves within to enchant us; but while they are truly enchanting, the magic arises from the fact that they are genuine and real. They don’t need to glamor us. They just need to be their very own s’elves, for that is the most impressive magic of all. They are not trying, they are simply being: being thems’elves, being elves."

—Excerpt from page 26 of Through The Mists of Faerie by The Silver Elves.

Faerie Ethers Strong and Bright

Faerie ethers strong and bright

Do weave together realms of light

And from our minds dimensions born

The dawn’s rays whisper to the morn

And like a child about to sleep

We trust our magic spells will keep

The wicked ones afar at bay

But read it again, again we say

Oh, one more time, be sure to tell

The things we already know so well

We’ll go to sleep without a peep

Until the morning light does seep

And wake us up with morning dew

Remembering dreams of what is true

As elves do leap about and prance

Magic, life’s eternal dance.

—From An Elven Game of Rhymes: Book Two of Magical Poems of Zardoa Silverstar by the Silver Elves

The Elven Tree of Life Eternal: A Magical Quest for One's True S'Elf is set up like a choose your own adventure book for those who wish to undertake the challenge to discover their true magical s'elves. It will help one understand if one is a wyzard or a sorcerer, a healer or a warrior, an elf of wood, snow, hill, ocean, starlight, or a sprite, a faerie, a gnome, a dwarf, a changeling, a dragon, or some other magical folk. If you wonder about your true magical nature, explore the ever-flowering branches of The Tree of Life Eternal.

And to go with the Elven Tree of Life Eternal are our short stories:

ELVEN SILVER: The Irreverent Faery Tales of Zardoa Silverstar

These are a collection of short stories by Zardoa Silverstar, one of the Silver Elves. You will find within this book a western, a detective story, parodies of popular movie and television characters, and re-imaginings of traditional fairy tales all told from an elven point of view in Zardoa’s wry irreverent pixie style. We trust you will enjoy them as much as we do.

The stories in Elven Silver were originally written to go along with The Elven Tree of Life Eternal to explore your magical being. In The Elven Tree of Life Eternal, there are different types of elves and faeries that you can come out to be and the bottom has choices of what kind of magic you wield. So these stories in Elven Silver were originally written to go with those. 

ELVEN SILVER: The Irreverent Faery Tales of Zardoa Silverstar