Re: [DISC] Is Language Creation Art?

On 03/17 13:53  Michael Poxon wrote:
> El- for the good guys and mor- for the bad guys. Ring any bells? In fact, I
> think JRRT mentions these two races in his "On Fairy-stories" essay as an
> example of how not to divide the human race into opposite types.
> Mike
<quote>The tales of Gulliver have no more right of entry than the yarns
of Baron Munchausen; or than, say, _The First Men in the Moon_ or _The
Time Machine_.  Indeed, for the Eloi and the Morlocks there would be a
better claim than for the Lilliputians.  Lilliputians are merely men
peered down at, sardonically, from just above the house-tops.  Eloi and
Morlocks live far away in an abyss of time so deep as to work an
enchantment upon them; and if they are descended from ourselves, it may
be remembered taht an ancient English thinker once derived the _ylfe_,
the very elves, through Cain from Adam (Beowulf 111-12).  This
enchantment of distance, especially of distant time, is weakened only by
the preposterous Time Machine itself...</quote>

JRR Tolkien, Tree and Leaf, p 17, London: Unwin (1964)

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