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{{quote|''Elves should be making toys, not casting spells.''
[[Santa Claus]]'s little helpers. They vary from story to story, but they have a tendency to be short. How short and the reason for shortness varies. Some are so short they live in a [[Mouse World]], or they may just be 3 feet tall. They may simply be dwarfs (of the real life variety, [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|not that kind]]), or they can be slow-aging and resemble children despite being [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]. They are cheerful and love working for Santa, and are great with kids.
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An especially common, consistent version of [[Our Elves Are Better]]. A type of [[Little People]].
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== Advertising ==
* The Keebler elves.
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* ''[[Berserk]]'''s Elves are little pixie-ish creatures that fly around with wings and have the power to heal people. We have only seen Puck and Evarella so far, but we may be seeing how varied they can be when Guts and crew arrive in Elfland to see the King about Casca's madness.
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* ''[[Elf Quest]]'' had an [[Omake]] sketch of Santa offering tools to Skywise and Cutter, who respond with "You want us to do what?"
** Santa's elves (wearing the traditional Santa Elf gear) are in the background, working happily under a sign that says, 'A Busy Elf is a Happy Elf.'
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* Okay - Tolkien used to write Letters from Santa (and occasionally, his elves) each Christmas to his children. There, he used his elven script and language. And given that [[The History of Middle Earth|Middle Earth]] is supposed to be mythic past of our Earth, it means that the only surviving Firstborn are now living around the North Pole.▼
** It makes more sense in the context of his contemporary version of the Silmarillion (The Book of Lost Tales) in which the little fairies of popular legend were inspired by the wasted remnant spirits of Elves who had been left behind (not by choice) and diminished over time due to the rule of Men.▼
* The romance novel ''[[Christmas Elf]]'' by Tielle St. Clare. They're more or less human height, are very perky and have pointed ears. They have some magic, and they can grant Christmas wishes, but seem to lack the ability to materialize anything from thin air.▼
* The tie-in storybook based on ''[[Cars]]'' called ''Mater Saves Christmas'' features elf microcars.▼
* Some of the Hogfather's Little Helpers—called "pixies", because ''[[Discworld]]'' elves would sooner unwrap your liver than wrap your presents—worked at the shopping mall in ''[[Discworld/Hogfather|Hogfather]]'', helping direct shoppers' children to the guy-with-a-pillow-up-his-robe's throne. Whether or not the actual Hogfather has pixie assistants was never established.▼
** Based on a conversation between Mr Crumley and Albert, there's apparently a ''belief'' that the Hogfather's toys are made by elves, but in reality no-one would be daft enough to give [[The Fair Folk|a Discworld elf]] a hammer for any reason.▼
{{quote|'''"Uncle Heavy" (Albert):''' "You'd have to be a maniac to even think of giving an elf a chisel, less'n you want their initials carved on your forehead."}}▼
* ''[[The Santa Clause (film series)|The Santa Clause]]'' trilogy featured child-like elves who were [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]. Bernard was the oldest one and resembled a teenager.
** The film's interpretation of slow aging would appear to agree with Tolkien: the word ''yen'' can mean 100 or 144 solar years in various dialects of Quenya, yet the Eldar speak of those as men speak of years.
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* [[Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday|Christmas Horror]] film ''Elves'' featured the titular creatures in cahoots with [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazis]].
* Rather than use dwarfs, 1985's ''Santa Claus -- The Movie'' cast performers 5'2" and under as its elves and used terraced sets to make Santa and Mrs. Claus appear taller than them. These elves are friendly immortals and very slow-aging; all of them are adults. One of them, Patch (Dudley Moore), becomes central to the film when his attempt to introduce mechanized mass production of toys to the North Pole goes wrong, and he subsequently travels to the ordinary world to prove to Santa he can still be a great assistant—and falls in with an evil toy manufacturer (John Lithgow) who intends to use his talents to take over Christmas.
== Literature ==
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▲** It makes more sense in the context of his contemporary version of
▲* The romance novel ''[[Christmas Elf]]'' by Tielle St. Clare. They're more or less human height, are very perky and have pointed ears. They have some magic, and they can grant Christmas wishes, but seem to lack the ability to materialize anything from thin air.
▲* The tie-in storybook based on ''[[Cars]]'' called ''Mater Saves Christmas'' features elf microcars.
▲* Some of the Hogfather's Little Helpers—called "pixies", because ''[[Discworld]]'' elves would sooner unwrap your liver than wrap your presents—worked at the shopping mall in ''[[Discworld/Hogfather|Hogfather]]'', helping direct shoppers' children to the guy-with-a-pillow-up-his-robe's throne. Whether or not the actual Hogfather has pixie assistants was never established.
▲** Based on a conversation between Mr Crumley and Albert, there's apparently a ''belief'' that the Hogfather's toys are made by elves, but in reality no-one would be daft enough to give [[The Fair Folk|a Discworld elf]] a hammer for any reason.
▲{{quote|'''"Uncle Heavy" (Albert):''' "You'd have to be a maniac to even think of giving an elf a chisel, less'n you want their initials carved on your forehead."}}
== Live-Action Television ==
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== Music ==
* [[Barenaked Ladies]]' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qixiv080feg "Elf's Lament"], a song about how Santa's elves are mistreated and how they want to unionize.
* [[Bob Rivers]]
== Video Games ==
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*** It should be noted that Santa himself, usually described as a "jolly old elf", subverts the trope; he's a cantankerous old sod who despises children. He even points out the [[Fridge Logic]] of assuming he likes children with his usual setup: He lives in the one place on Earth where there are no children, doing a job where he's only exposed to children one day out of the year, and they're not allowed to see him.
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* The ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' elves are split between these and [[Brand X|Neebler elves]], which are pretty much the same, but they make cookies. The Christmas version has a black ops division (to find out who's naughty and who's nice)
* The webcomic ''[http://iperyys.net/ssos/ Otter Soldiers]'' has the Finnish version of Santa {{spoiler|dead for some decades before the comic begins}} living in Lappland, and his Elves are anything but nice. Nowadays they mainly plot world domination with crows {{spoiler|and they killed one protagonist's sister for not wanting anything. So they put her in a box without any air in it.}} There are also killer raisins, evil worms and [[Our Fairies Are Different|horse spirits]] who are mostly out to keep the world from going to shit, not so much for helping humans.
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