[HairOfTheDog]

How do you figure that the elves are socialist? They seem to me to have more of a figurehead monarchy.... who don't seem to do a lot of governing that I can see.

[Wordsmith]

Elves as socialists was tongue in cheek, but I was thinking of an ordered society of equals run by the intelligentsia. Not very ostentatious, the leaders on equal footing with the "laborers" and such. But I bet Galadriel never had to sleep in a flet.