The Elves of The Lord of the Rings are some of the most important characters in the lore of Tolkien's vast universe. They inhabited Middle-earth before Men and Dwarves, and their exploits were the ...

The latter notably happens to the Elf-lord Glorfindel, who honorably dies in battle with a balrog in the First Age and is sent back with a new body to fight against Sauron at a later date.