Awoke some three ages (very roughly 4,300 years) before the rising of the
Moon and
Sun
Many subdivisions, but primarily divided into
Eldar, who began the
Great Journey, and
Avari, who did not
A reference to the
Elves as the first of the
Children of Ilúvatar to awaken in the world, as opposed to the
Afterborn, the race of
Men