Re: Nur-ellen universes

On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:

> Certainly!  In any scenario where Tolkien's fiction is fact, it seems
> plausible that the Elves have declined during all that time, having
> become almost indistinguishable from normal humans.
Tolkien's own speculation is that (after cycles and cycles of reincarnation)
the Elves had become almost completely etherealized, and invisible
to mortal eyes most of the time.

> Nur-ellen *there* certainly has a different set of borrowings, including
> many from Brithenig.  How parallel is the history of continental Europe
> *there*?  Was there a Nazi Germany, for instance?
We don't really know.  There were First and Second World Wars in Europe,
but we don't know who fought in them.  There is also a European Union
at the present time.  Feel free to speculate.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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