title: Elf (disambiguation)
text: # Elf (disambiguation)
  
  An elf is a mythological creature, originally from Germanic mythology.
  
  Elf or Elves may also refer to:
  
  ## Entertainment
  
  ### Fictional entities
  
  * Christmas elf
  * Elves in fiction, of the fantasy genre:
     * Elf (Dungeons & Dragons)
     * Elf (Middle-earth), in J. R. R. Tolkien's work
     * Elves (Discworld), in Terry Pratchett's work
     * House-elf, a magical creature in Harry Potter
  
  ### Film, television and media
  
  * Elf (film), a 2003 American Christmas comedy film
     * Elf (musical), based on the film
  * Elf (band), an American band
     * Elf (album), their 1972 album
  * Elves (film), a 1989 American horror film
  * Lego Elves, a toy line and media franchise that began in 2015
  * Elves (TV series) a 2021 Danish television series
  
  ## Politics
  
  * Earth Liberation Front, an international environmentalist political group
  * Environmental Life Force, an American radical environmental group
  * Eritrean Liberation Front, a main independence movement in Eritrea
  * Essential Living Fund, an English welfare assistance scheme
  * European Liberal Forum, a think-tank
  * European Liberation Front, a neo-fascist group
  
  ## Science and technology
  
  * Electron localization function
  * ELVES, a type of upper atmospheric lightning
  * Enceladus Life Finder, a proposed NASA astrobiology mission to Saturn's moon Enceladus
  * Extremely low frequency, electromagnetic radiation (radio waves) with frequencies from 3 to 30 Hz
  * Eretis, a genus of butterfly
  * Microtia elva, a species of butterfly
  
  ### Computing
  
  * COSMAC ELF, a single-board computer kit based on the RCA 1802 microprocessor
  * Executable and Linkable Format (.elf), a file format for executable files
  * Extended Log Format, a text format for web server log files
  * Elf, a tablet in the NOVO7 series
  
  ## Vehicles
  
  * Ekolot JK 01A Elf, a Polish motorglider
  * Isuzu Elf, a truck model
  * Riley Elf, an automobile
  * USS Elf (SP-81), a United States Navy patrol boat
  * Elf (yacht), an American racing yacht
  * Pesa Elf, a Polish electric multiple unit
  * Elf, a tugboat taken into British Empire service as Empire Belle
  
  ## Organisations
  
  * Elf Aquitaine, a French oil company
  * ELF Corporation, a Japanese eroge game studio
  * Elvish Linguistic Fellowship, an organization that studies the invented languages of J. R. R. Tolkien
  * Endangered Language Fund, an American linguistic group
  * Environmental Law Foundation, a British charity
  * Estonian Nature Fund, an environmental organization
  * European Lacrosse Federation
  * European League of Football, a professional American football league based in Europe
  * Eyes Lips Face, an international cosmetics brand
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * English as a lingua franca
  