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

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".)

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body,
   moc.oi @ rellimh <-/  there would be very little printed." -Ben =
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