Re: CHAT: fantasy (was: Re: history of conlanging)

>Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
>> was also a small article in this booklet that went against the belief
>> that the Elves of Tolkien had pointed ears (by the way, do anyone knows
>> what they are doing for the movie? Will the elves have pointed ears?).
>
>IIRC there was a discussion a long time ago about this on
>rec.arts.books.tolkien or alt.fan.tolkien. The point (heh, heh)
>of the discussion was that the elves had leaf shaped ears. (Don't
>know where it said that, tho.) But that's all it says.
>So for all that we know they might have the pointy side pointing
>downwards, or the ears might be shaped like oak leaves...
>That'd be fun! :)
This sounds like over-interpretation of a typically Elvish metaphor. Not
all leaves have points in any case, so it can be at best suggestive, but
not final evidence.

  -- David
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