Meadow elves?

[palmer]

In my copy of Greyhawk,(12th printing, nov,79), on page 5, in the section on elves, it says,

",and are also of various types (wood, high elves, meadow elves) (fairies), wood elves being the darkest."

I've got alot of D&D stuff, and this is the only time I can recall running into that specific term, meadow elf. So, my question is this. Do any of you guys know of any other instances of the term showing up in D&D material?

If not, what, if anything, did you make of it?

Is it meaning to say that meadow elves and fairies are the same?
Fairie also came to refer to the grey elves later in AD&D. Is this just a term that fell out of use?

The first think that came to mind when I read that was a race of elves devoted to animal husbandry or herding rather than forestry. I think you could build an interesting elf variant race if you started from a group that lives in the meadows and grasslands instead of the deep forrests.

They might breed all sorts of specialized steeds or cattle or war goats or whatever.

I'm just guessing this is the right forum for this question. If I'm wrong, I'm sure the kindly moderators will right my error.

[geoffrey]

In the Monster Manual, gray elves are noted as living in meadows. Thus I think Greyhawk's meadow elves were renamed gray elves in AD&D.

Fairies in the Monster Manual are gray elves with rare eye and hair color. Thus, all fairies are gray/meadow elves, but not all gray/meadow elves are fairies.

[Falconer]

The division into High Elves (Elrond, Glorfindel, Galadriel, Gildor Inglorion), Gray Elves (Legolas, the Elvenking, Celeborn, Cirdan), and Wood Elves (most [non-royalty] in Mirkwood and Lorien) is straight from Tolkien, for what it's worth.

For what it's worth, it sounds to me like the term "meadow elves" was an attempt to describe non-Tolkien, fairytale style elves. The sort that dance on dandelions. Either that or the "Tra-la-la-lally" frolicky valley elves of The Hobbit.