From:	Nexx nexx@********.net
Subject:	Sperithiel
Date:	Mon, 16 Oct 2000 18:17:29 -0500

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From: "Florian Schaetz (Irian)" <iryan@********.de>

> > Also, hey, if you happen to know an elf from the year 205x, then by
> all means
> > get Sperethiel lessons from him. Until then, keep in mind that the
> writers at
> > FASA are JUST AS MUCH mortal as Tolkien was. Elves didn't actually
> create the
> > language...humans with incredible imagination did.
>
> What the hell are you writing??? I'm talking about Shadowrun... A
> GAME... Perhaps you don't understand the concept of a GAME :-). Again:
> In SR, in this fictional world, is the "real" elven language NOT
> Tolkien's Sperethiel. That's all I wanted to say.

How do you know? Perhaps Tolkien (who, IIRC, was fairly long-lived and a
truly revolutionary scholar in some respects) was actually an IE, and he
used his knowledge of the real elven language to write his books... just
slightly modified, so as to not piss off the other IEs. When coming up with
book-Sperethiel, he simply mixed in some Old English and Irish, and maybe
worked some Old Norse into the dwarven to mix that up a bit. He then faked
his own death, and moved onto his next life.

I think it's a perfectly reasonable explanation, in light of the other
information we have about IEs... :-)