Howard Brazee wrote:
> On 3/2/08 Dan Goodman wrote:
>> > Traditional elves were very fa****on conscious. They copied the
>> > > fa****ons of the rich humans of their time.
>>
>> Traditional elves (aka fairies, pharisees, pharoahs, the Gentry, Them,
>> the Hidden Folk, etc.) varied considerably. You're doing the
>> equivalent of saying "Comics protagonists always wear capes and have
>> secret identities."
>>
>>
>
> Give me some examples of traditional elves who did not copy human
> fa****ons - what did they wear?
Really depends on the tradition you're drawing from. Some Celtic and
Norse myths say the Elf/Fairy races wear leather and cloth of bark and
spidersilk in patterns and designs drawn from the natural world they
inhabit the garments themselves very utilitarian. These guys also
aren't ethereally tall, but quite petite. Other traditions from the
same broad groups don't differentiate between Dwarves and Elves, so
whatever the Dwarves are having, the Elves are having too, and they're
basically the size of small humans--often child sized. As far as I can
tell the tall, thin, ethereal elf is a Tolkein invention, but I'm not
certain of that.
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