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

Grandsire, C.A. <grandsir@...> comunu:

> I know, Tolkien himself said that the word "Elves" was only a way (and
> maybe not the best way) to translate in English the word "Quendi" that
> they used to refer to themselves, and that they had nothing in common
> with the "Elves" of the popular view.
In fact, in the original draft of The Book Of Lost Tales he called them
Gnomes.

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Jeffrey Henning
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