On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Howard Brazee wrote: #Steve has started off with existing fantasies of elves and played with #them in a realistic way. It is interesting that Tolkein has elves #basically dying out as humans replace them - despite their immortality. Please! Tolk<ie>n. And it rhymes with "sign", not with "seen". [very nice stuff snipped] -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel http://cracksandshards.com a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website -- Mark A. Mandel