“Where Art is life, Lore is thought, and Song is beauty; HithGûl or High Elven Magic is all three in their immaculate forms yet combined into a new, purer whole. No human can conceive of achieving such a union with life, thought, and beauty to weave such wonders, for only the Elves can touch the Source in this way. I realize some of the Elves and even some savant humans seem to cast the same magics, but these are mere effigies of the true magics they mime. The humans have copied the replica spells, but they have never felt the Art sing in their breath, their pulse, and their heart as the Eldar do. This I must learn, or forever know the loss of such resplendence in Art.” To understand High Magic, one must fully understand the elves. From birth, they are part of a communal tribe, community, and race that shares a subconscious mental link. They can boost this link through magic and other rituals to actually become of one mind and spirit with other elves of like attitudes. In fact, elven reverie is both a reflection on one elf’s life and likewise a meditation on all the lives of the elves of a tribe or community. All elves also feel a pull toward the elven homeland of Aman, the home of the Elves, and this pull grows stronger with the passing centuries. It is not so much a call by the gods to pull elves to their sides but a yearning for all elves to journey to Eldemar, the hidden homeland realm of the elves. In Eldemar, according to belief, all elves become of one mind and one spirit with the gods. In all, this ability to be part of a greater whole and link one mind with many is discretely elven. High Magic both interferes with and fulfills the needs of exceptional elves by allowing them to touch the Source and become part of its greater whole while still in mortal realms. Given the length of time involved in learning High Magic for the defence of the elven realms, an elf must ignore the call of Aman and remain on the world far beyond the years when many elves move beyond. In essence, High Magic and its learning is a conscious decision to delay one’s movement to Aman by relegating the need and longing for the mental communion of the Eldar into High Magic workings. On a basic level, elven High Magic illustrates the most fundamental difference between humanity and elvenkind. The magic that humanity is capable of mastering without the gods decree is individual in nature, and the wizard has only to rely on himself and his knowledge for this power, in only exceedingly rare cases can human’s magic be worked among more than one caster, and this requires trust and cooperation, things the elves believe humans have in only limited amounts. Elven magic, on the other hand, relies on cooperation and community, and High Magic depends on that unequivocally. Culturally, humans stress every man for him self, while the elves culture embraces the idea of all for one and one for all their magic’s reflect those very same ideals.