Re: Elliott's peoples

I will answer this when I'm back on my own computer
tomorrow night :)

Elliott


--- Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote:
> Hello, Elliott!  I too, like Rob Haden, am
> interested in your various
> languages and dialects.  You answered my survey
> publically, so I hope you
> won't mind this public question.  You were one of
> the few to name Tolkien as
> a direct source of inspiration for you, so I hope
> you can clarify your reply
> a little bit.   I asked: "How many of you have a
> constructed world, and, if
> so, does it include some of the races we associate
> with Celtic or
> Scandinavian mythology?  (Elves, Dwarves, medieval
> societies of humans,
> Faeries or Fays, Selkies? Wizards?)"  You answered:
>
> >  Hm, well...I have the Neste who speak most of my
> > languages...and they were originally kind of
> > 'Elf-like'...but I dont know if that's the case
> > anymore. They've changed alot in the past year or
> so.
> > There's also the occasional dragon. :)
>
> On your website, you call your languages "Elvish."
> What exactly do you, or
> anybody, mean by "Elvish"?  This word is so
> Tolkienesque in its
> connotations--a beautiful, mysterious, and immortal
> people destined for the
> Undying Lands, who are one of a number of races
> Tolkien drew from Old Norse
> and Celtic.  He even modified the spelling (i.e.,
> not "dwarfish," not
> "elfish," which connote diminution and frivolity).
> So what exactly do you
> mean by "Elvish"?   Are your people immortal?  Are
> they different from
> humans in some way?  Are there different races in
> your world?  Who are the
> Neste?  What do they look like?  Why the word
> "Elvish"?  Tolkien's influence
> on conworlds is something I'm trying to figure out.
>
> Sally Caves
> scaves@frontiernet.net
> Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem
> bomai nakuo.
> "My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses
> into the world."

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