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Post by Enelya on Jun 7, 2004 5:54:17 GMT -5
What do we think of them? apart from being very cool! How do they compare with other depictions of elves...apart from santas!
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Post by piñata on Jun 7, 2004 11:17:15 GMT -5
I think I'd probably say that they're the definitive depiction of Elves. I haven't seen that many differing depicitions, though... even in my own work, when writing about Elves I try to make them as Tolkienish as possible without actually ripping him off.
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Post by Enelya on Jun 9, 2004 5:02:51 GMT -5
hmmm well apparently tolkiend elves were based on the medievel depiction of Elves, Shakespeares elves where always tall beautiful superhumans (Midsummer nihts dream)
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Post by ereinion on Jun 10, 2004 21:04:41 GMT -5
The Celtic elves had some kind of thing where iron (or any form of it, like steel) was poisonous to them
D&D elves are pretty much the same, with the exception of having a limited lifespan
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Post by Enelya on Jun 11, 2004 9:07:27 GMT -5
are you sure? which cycle was that in?
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Post by ereinion on Jun 11, 2004 11:14:47 GMT -5
I'm not sure exactly... I know I've read it in a bunch of different books.
As for D&D... wel that's just D&D, so... MAGIC MISSILE!!
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Post by Enelya on Jun 18, 2004 4:40:45 GMT -5
hmm will bring that up in next meeting, but what is this D&D thingy?
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Post by Avathar on Jun 18, 2004 18:30:38 GMT -5
Dungeons and Dragons.
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Post by ereinion on Jun 18, 2004 22:21:29 GMT -5
an old (rather, out before I was born) pen and paper d20 based RPG game
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Post by Wren on Jun 21, 2004 13:04:46 GMT -5
I prefer the Tolkien version of elves to the one's in fairy tales which were childlike imps to evil pranksters.
I haven't yet read, "Midsummer Nights dream" but I have seen some of the movie. Those fairys were wonderful too, quite different from the ones in children's stories such as Peter Pan's Tinkerbell.
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Post by Enelya on Jul 26, 2004 5:20:43 GMT -5
Personally i think if all the male elves look like orli then theya re th best (wow just lowered whole tone of the convo!)
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Post by Wren on Sept 18, 2004 1:58:06 GMT -5
Something I was wondering about, did elves have horses of their own?... stables and such?
I know they had a particular method of riding their animals such as without saddle or bridle, but so far that's all I've come across.
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Post by piñata on Sept 22, 2004 9:27:39 GMT -5
Good question, Wren. I haven't ever heard of such a thing, but I think that some elves kept their horses permanently (didn't Legolas hold on to Arod?), so they had to keep them somewhere.  |
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Post by Enelya on Sept 29, 2004 8:45:25 GMT -5
I always got the impression that they lived like equals wiht them. I know that in Irish lore Elves didn't ride horses, they rode Polkas, a kind of animalistic sprite.
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Post by piñata on Sept 30, 2004 8:00:37 GMT -5
*brings the topic right back down into the gutter*
Well, that gives a whole new meaning to "doing the polka". ;D
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