The Elf Lobby

There really is one -- in Iceland:

In this land of fire and ice, where the fog-shrouded lava fields offer a spooky landscape in which anything might lurk, stories abound of the "hidden folk" — thousands of elves, making their homes in Iceland's wilderness.

So perhaps it was only a matter of time before 21st-century elves got political representation.

Elf advocates have joined forces with environmentalists to urge the Icelandic Road and Coastal Commission and local authorities to abandon a highway project building a direct route from to the tip of the Alftanes peninsula, where the president has a home, to the Reykjavik suburb of Gardabaer. They fear disturbing elf habitat and claim the area is particularly important because it contains an elf church.

Somehow, it's only in Iceland that I could envision an elf church.

Don't tell Bryan Fischer and Tony Perkins -- they'll really get bent out of shape.

Iceland was the location for Svartalfheim, land of the Dark Elves, in Thor: The Dark World.