I posted this on the NaNo forum, since that's why I'm doing this story, but I figured that since this is a Christian forum, I should see what you guys thought.
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I originally thought of having Nicole find the Elf in the woods behind her house, and finding an entire world of Elves, but then I thought of something. It's very unlikely that something this large (two entire Elven "kingdoms", for lack of better words. One normal, one of Dark Elves) will be hidden in a forest of any size in America and not be found. So I'm thinking I need to make another world. But would it make sense for Nicole to live in the village? I want it to seem REALLY unlikely to her that she's an Elf.
When she was a baby, the Dark Elves attacked the Elves and she was hidden near a house. Her mother died, and her father found his other three children (her twin sister and two brothers... who may or may not be twins, I haven't decided), but the family living in the house found Nicole and brought her in.
If she lives in a village near the forest, does it still sound nearly impossible? I thought about having the kids at school laugh because her ears look weird, but I can easily change that so that the villagers do things like that. It gives me another excuse for her never having a boyfriend :P
Seriously, though. Now that I'm done rambling, the main question is... I can change this easily, but does it work? Any other ideas if this doesn't work? I don't want her to go through some portal or anything. Just walk right out her back door into this world she never knew existed, basically (not literally JUST out the back door, but you get it).

I'm a little confused... but is this right?
Nicole was an elf who was found by humans, and raised by them, but she gets made fun of because of her ears. She finds the elves, and they tell her that she's also an elf, but she doesn't believe them.
That's what I got out of it, and I think it sounds really good!
I think it would work to put it in another world. I tried to put elves in Ireland in one of my stories, and I ran into a lot of problems. But you might be more creative than me! But it would be pretty easy to put it in another world, and I think it would be just as good!

Here's a question: Are the elves virtually unknown to anyone? Just wondering!

Yup, that's right.

I was planning on making the Elves unknown, but if she's going to live in the village, then I'm sure more people will know about them.

I'm not sure how this would work, but maybe it's like this village secret and because she wasn't born there she was never told, and then one day she stumbles upon it. I like the village idea.

Maybe... it sounds like it could work.
But I was thinking that her adoptive parents don't know where she came from, only that she was lying near their house with no one around. They thought the Elves must have cared for her, because of the cloth she was wrapped in, but she looked human otherwise, so they didn't think that she was an Elf. She was always different, somewhat, but not enough to notice.

And is it weird that the guy Elves in my story have short hair? :P
Not short short, but just over their ears short.

And I was thinking yesterday... I guess it's not weird for the Elves to get saved, is it? She tells them about God, because that's the only way the two races can ever get over their differences.

What if the world was "magically" concealed? The Bible talks about spiritual battles going on all around us, and maybe they could have been there all the time! Just couldn't be seen.

That's a really neat idea, Mindy!

Yes, Dark Elves can be good, but they don't consider themselves evil in the first place. And the other Elves can be bad.
Both races are good and bad in their own ways. The Dark Elves experiment with fire and shadow, but they usually treat people better than some Elves do. The Elves appear less evil, but don't treat people that they deem lower than them well. I wrote a post about my Dark Elves... I'll see if I can find it.

Here it is: viewtopic.php?f=14&t=103

I'm going to move this topic to the archives, since I seem to have gotten the answers I needed.