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

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 24, 1999, 6:26
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 23:06:06 +0100, Daniel Andreasson
<noldo@...> wrote:

>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.=20 >So for all that we know they might have the pointy side pointing=20 >downwards, or the ears might be shaped like oak leaves...=20 >That'd be fun! :)
Yes, but what kind of oak leaves? There's a lot of variation in that genus.... (I suppose you could say that humans have leaf-shaped hands, if the kind = of leaves you have in mind are sassafras leaves. The Jarrda word for sassafras, ghogshafeo, means "thumb-leaf".) --=20 languages of Kolagia---> = +---<http://www.io.com/~hmiller/languages.html>--- Thryomanes /"If all Printers were determin'd not to print = any (Herman Miller) / thing till they were sure it would offend no = body, moc.oi @ rellimh <-/ there would be very little printed." -Ben = Franklin