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So we can assume that a lot of this space elf trope comes from depictions of exotic utopian societies, right?

Well, the archetypical space elves play the same role as the elves in LOTR did, but in science fiction. They were a race treated as superior in almost every way to man (especially morally). Peter Kreeft, a Catholic philosopher that studied Tolkien, noted that Tolkien's depiction of elves was an...

Were there any Space Elves stories being written before the 1930s?