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- From: mcconnel@mcs.kent.edu (Mike McConnell)
- Subject: Re: Elven Anatomy
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 22:35:17 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan1.064511.27715@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, mozart@coos.dartmouth.edu (Sting) writes:
- |> In <92366.102452IO10407@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> ROB <IO10407@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
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- |> > This past weekend a friend and I had an argument over whether or not
- |> >Tolkien's Eldar had pointed ears or not
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- |> I have noticed that in Tolkien's glossary of the elven language (which occurs
- |> in the Silmarillion, as well as various further works by other authors), the
- |> words for "ear" and "leaf" are closely related in Elven, which would suggest
- |> that they probably had something of a leaf-shaped ear.
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- |> -Sting
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- But just what leaf shape are you talking about? After all, a begonia has a rather
- round leaf. Or perhaps the elves have ears shaped like maple leaves ;-).
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- Mike McConnell
- Dept of Mathematics
- Kent State University
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