Re: ELVES: was: Elliott's peoples

Sally Caves sekalge
>What I want to know from
>those of you who use the term "Elvish" to describe your own languages or
>peoples (that means you, Elliott, and you Joerg) is what you mean by this
>term.
I have two conworlds with elves. One's a subdivision of Tolkien's world,
and the other is insane. The "insane" elves are divided between the Hansu
and the Qeltiath /kjEr&:d/; the Hansu have two points or spikes on their
ears, whereas the Qeltiath have five.

>If you mean something else, why have you co-opted this word, which is now
so
>deeply associated with Tolkieniana?
Because there's a guy from England--a lazy lexicographer--who calls them
elves. He wanders into the wrong house, and a slightly vexed sorcerer
sends him to a faraway world from whence he never returns.

>And finally, are Elves associated, in some way, with "Celticity"?
Not with me.

~Wright