I thought I would begin by taking Soltakss' ideas posted in the Peoples of the Green wiki entry. I believe that this is a good starting place for races, but as they are, I find they are a just a little too cookie cutter d+d (for a while I was not sure whether the whole thing was a bit of a lampoon.
I was not to sure about sun mountain either until I read the myths and saw what Soltakks really had in mind). Anyway,
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Forest Elves awoke within the Green one day under a hot sun and made their homes here. Some Forest Elves live in villages high among the forkings, moulding the trees as men might mould clay. Others move from place to place, visiting their brethren. Still others live in the deep, dark Green, away from anyone else and killing all who would contact them. They were forced here by the raids of the Grey Elves and they have withdrawn from all who are not kin.
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I had originally planned on keeping elves conspicuously absent from the Green; maybe because everyone expects them to be there and partly because they have been so overdone. Evidence that they were once there is all around particularly in the bough-roads. I also planned on having a mysterious, incredibly powerful and old sorcerer (or perhaps a couple) at certain places in the Green kind of like Shelba. One may be the wise man of a village or temple who is always veiled, mysterious, and occasionally acts as an advisor or oracle. There would be non-to-subtle hints that these are actually surviving elves.
To fill the traditional elf-role, I planned on using the Karee, which are goblins but have sort of elven features. Goblins would not always be bad-guys, just a little different and distrustful (lots can be done with the Trogod races).
I would also use a race of men who like soltakss' elves were driven here (through the gate) years ago (only a couple hundred) and had to learn to survive the dangers of the green. I was thinking of calling these men the Freelings, but that is just a placeholder. The Freelings would be the basic tree people of the upper green (kind of elf or ranger like).
If we are going to use elves as a basic race, I would like to see something unique and very different.