(ŠAl Stewart 1966)</p>

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<b><u>Comments</u></b><br>
"Al -- 'I'd sat in my bedsit in Lisle Street reading Lord of the Rings and that book is a monster that does you in for at least a year and you walk around seeing elves everywhere!  I had to do something so I wrote 'The Elf' but I though that it sounded too much like a singalong Mitch Miller thing at the time.'... (Al Stewart: The True Life Adventures of a Folk Rock Troubadour, by Neville Judd, p. 91) The somewhat unusual subject matter was picked up by the musical press at once, though such headlines as 'A Fairy Tale Folk Singer' in the review columns failed to turn it into a hit.  Based on the character Legolas in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, it told the tale of a folk singer that meets an elf in a wood one night.  An interview of the time included this characteristically, tongue-in-cheek response by Al -- 'This is of course quite impossible, as elves don't show themselves!'"</p>