Posted: February 08, 2000 at 13:02:14: by Forkbeard
: Whatever you can find will be of interest to many of us, I'm sure.I did just a quick check in a lexicon, but haven't looked up anything in the OED or in actual texts. In addition to aelfscinu, there is aelfadle- elf adled usually translated as having a nightmare, aelflich-elf like, and a few other compounds. My quick check confirms what someone else said, and really what Tolkien says about Faerie in On Faerie Stories--the "elf" is other-neither good nor bad, perhaps both, but in any case other than what we are, higher if you will. That's my quick check anyway. I'll try and post more later in the week when I've a bit more time.
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