Re: Elvish ideas ...

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, JS Bangs wrote:

> Andreas Johansson sikyal:
>
> > I mentioned, last week I think, that I've begun to work on an Elvish language
> > for the same coniverse that hosts Yargish. Most aspects still remain quite
> > hazy, but some things are settling down, in particular phonology and spelling.
> > I thought I'd present some of it here, in the hope of attracting some feedback.
> >
> > The Elves we're speaking of are essentially just skinny, long-lived humans
> > with pointy ears - they are not immortal, not in possession of any inherent
> > superior wisdom or anything like that. Were they to be found in our world,
> > biologists would, little doubt, conclude they were another species within the
> > Homo genus.
>
> This is quite similar to what Yivrindi are: humans w/ a natural lifespan
> of ~400 years.
In the World of the Intercosmic Collapse (where Meridonian comes from),
the otherwise perfectly human people seem to live indefinitely unless thy
are killed violently.  However, as the world was created originally for
D&D gaming and the people are, in effect, NPCs, most of them die violently
at an early age. There are a few (mostly powerful clerics) who are
centuries old. As one of the worlds that collapsed to form the WIC
was a Tolkienian world, there are regular elves and orcs, but they only
exist in a relatively small wilderness area. They speak languages derived
from Tolkien's elvish (a mix of Quendi and Sindarin) and Black Speech
respectively, but these languages are not very developed.
John Leland