Baralier wrote: > From: "Mark A Mandel" <mam at theworld.com> >> But now I see "elfs" all over POTD, and my tentative conclusion is >> that Steve is deliberately trying to distance the Easterner view of >> Dragaerans from the Disney-type or even Tolkien-type view of "elves". >> Maybe this wasn't what he meant to do when he first used "elfs", but >> it's the effect I see in POTD. > > I generally refer to "elfs" as the ones Santa has (to distinguish > them from the Tolkien variety). > > Now I have a mental image of Morrolon with stripey tights and a tall > pointy green hat.... > Right.... the Lord of Present Sacks (don't laugh he just might kill you, of course since he's a nice widdle elf he'll revive your ass)