Re: Elliott's peoples
| From: | Dan Jones <devobratus@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 22, 2003, 17:21 |
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Sally Caves wrote:
>How do elves get associated with pointy-ears, for instance? In some letter
>of his, IIRC, Tolkien inveighs indignantly against such interpretations of
>his elves, and insists that they have no such deformities in body or limb.
>And I think it was about things like pointy-ears, not the diminished size.
But in the Etymologies, didn't Tolkien himself comment upon the
similarities of the roots for "leaf" and "ear" (both LAS-, IIRC), saying
that the Quendi's ears were "leaf-like"? Thus, "pointy"?
Dan
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