Mordor is where most of the elves came from. Later they go to Valinor.

I think to use the work 'Mordor' for the place of elven origin may be misleading for people who have only read LOTR. The Silmarillion recounts how the first elves awoke by the shores of Lake Cuivienen in eastern Middle Earth in the Ages of Starlight (after the destruction of the Two Lamps). Cuivienen itself was merely a bay of the inland sea of Helcar, which occupied the site of the pillar of Illuin, the northernmost of the Two Lamps. Helcar was situated on the far north eastern shore of Middle Earth. Don't bother looking for this place on any maps, it doesn't appear. Briefly, from here it is known that the Elves were divided into two groups - The Eldar, who undertook a great westerly migration called the Great Journey at the behest of the Valar, to travel to live with them in Aman, and The Avari, or unwilling, who refused the call of the Valar and became the Silvan elves, settling in various areas of Middle Earth during the Ages of Starlight. Mordor covers only a small part of Middle Earth and is well away from the areas proposed for the Two Lamps (legends of Tolkien's lands found them often subject to cataclysm, and perhaps the earliest was the destruction of the Two Lamps. A second would be the destruction of Utumno, the first home of Melkor/Morgoth and situated far to the North of where the LOTR map ends). While always a harsh land, Mordor only took on it's mantle of evil when Sauron took up residence there around year 1000 of the Second Age, but I'm afraid it is too central and southerly to be the the land of elven origins.

Ellesméra ...ooops wrong book! Mordor is where they came from.

The Irish of not too many years ago believed in the reality of "the fair folk." (Cultures tended to give pleasant names to scary beings so as not to make them mad.) My great-grandmother definitely believed in them. Some students of cultural history think that the non-humans in Celtic folklore (elves, fairies, sprites, call them what you will) were the few remaining members of the tribes who preceded the Celts in the British Isles - the Fir Bolg - driven into hiding and inimical toward the Celts. For instance, there were folk-tales about child-stealing and "changelings." These could be retaliatory measures by a conquered people striking (from hiding) against the conquerors.

Elvia

The keebler cookie factory!

They prefer to be called "little people."

Santa and Mrs. Santa

Storybooks

Figroll factory, have you not seen the adverts?

North Pole, typically :D

they come from holes in the ground. out of holes in the ground.

Keebler's house of cookies.

J.R.R. Tolkien's imagination.

From the North Pole? :P

the norse "vikings" believed them to be spirits of the forest and earth. legends say they were human like . not like santas helpers, they are more like pixies

The word "Elves" was actually used for the first time in "The Hobbit". So, I have to agree with Jerv.

well in lord of the rings they come from either mirkwood of lothlorien i think and btw they done prefere to be called liltle people

The elves were placed on Arda by Illuvitar, the one. They were orignally place in they western continent know to men as The Undying Lands and to the elves as Valinor. The founded, on the western continent, the cities of Lindon and The Grey Havens in year one of the second age (this is the deffinition of the beginning on the second age). The moved eastward as far as Mordor which sauron founded about second age year 1000 and about second age year 1500 with Sauron forged the rings of power. Suaron alone, with knowledge he learned from the elves, forged the One ring around second age year 1600. Most of this information is contained in The Silmarilion, but, some comes from the tail, poems and songs from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.