They’ve got to either fight them or let them drain the very youth out of them…which you just know doesn’t sound good.
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They’ve got to either fight them or let them drain the very youth out of them…which you just know doesn’t sound good.
C’mon, Múinteoir. DRAGON SLAVE! 😛
@Azreal: I’m pretty sure she’s got some kind of move in mind ;D
I love how you can make the same noise they make all the time sound different Aroo?? lol ughh typing me email and stuff every time is getting old I am just gonna have to break down and get a Gravatar lol
@Howard: Ever lived with a cat? Think about how different “meow” can sound. Or, yanno, just go watch funny cat videos on Youtube or something. LOL
@Howard: Thanks 🙂 The whole “AROO” noise also sort of came by accident. As far as I know the Fomorians of legend could actually speak and even intermarried with some human legendary figures, but for some reason I wanted them to sound a bit more animalistic and haunting.
@Kessy: For some reason your cat reference reminded me of Magnu. I guess I have a thing for one-word characters…. 😀
@Rawr: Hey, it’s a long standing tradition for fantasy authors to do violence to folk beliefs and legendary creatures. LOL
Of course with a statement like that, it’s almost obligatory to mention Tolkien’s elves. The funny thing is I was doing some reading about elves not so long ago and it turns out the the case against Tolkien isn’t as clear cut as is generally assumed. the thing is that what exactly people thought an elf is varied a lot over time and distance. In the 19th century there was a sort of literary idea of an elf as a small magical being, more like what we’d call a fairy. This idea was widespread in a sort of middle and upper class semi-intellecutal culture that egarded elves as purely mythological. This is actually quite different from many folk beliefs of the middle ages when people thought of elves as being very real. Those Elves tended to actually be a lot like Tolkien’s elves – human like beings with magical powers who lived in their own villages and settlements parallel to human society.
@Kessy: It always seemed to be (at least in Ireland), when we referred to “Fairies”, we were actually talking about the old gods…or more often than not An Tuatha de Danann. Around Ireland it is not unusual to encounter what a local might refer to as a “Fairy Ring”. These are a simple arrangement of stones in a circle which tend to be from pre-Christian Ireland, but can also be a naturally occurring ring of flowers or mushrooms. I’m going to guess that Fairy Rings once had religious significance, mostly because as a child you were warned away from them with stories. Enter their ring, and the fairies would “get you”.
These fairies might very well be the origin of “Elves”…especially if the fairies are based on Tuatha de Danann, who I personally tend to imagine in a similar way to Tolken’s Elves.