Re: ELVES: was: Elliott's peoples

From: "Herman Miller" <hmiller@...>

> I have to admit that I liked Tolkien's idea of Elves being the original
> speakers, and "borrowed" that idea in my version of elves. These elves had
> extraordinarily long lives (hundreds or thousands of years), but they
> weren't actually immortal. They also had pointed ears, and my early
> conception of them was that they were related to cats and dragons. I still
> draw them with vertical slit pupils like cats. In the early years, when I
> was running an AD&D* campaign and used Elvish names like "Selganor" for my
> own characters, the AD&D versions of Elves were probably a bigger
influence
> than Tolkien.
I'm stealing people's ideas and not even knowing it! :-] My
Techians/Elves/Djinn are like cat people, and were Dragons before the Flood
(and the Trolls were the Nephilim or Giants, descendants of Cain). Satan, or
Tlet'an in Tech, is King of the City of Dragons, capital of Hell (obvious
ripoff from Dante), but he can take the form of an Elf, or a cat.

And I just realized that Tlet'an looks kinda like Thetan.

> The inspiration for my Elvish languages was mainly from Slavic languages,
> in particular Serbo-Croatian. But I did borrow the Welsh "ll" sound, the
> initial consonant mutations, and possibly a couple of other things from
> Welsh although it's been a long time since I looked at my Elvish
linguistic
> notes.
I think I started long ago with Irish and Russian and went from there.

~Danny~ (I think my cat is an elf...)

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