From:	Florian Schaetz (Irian) iryan@********.de
Subject:	Sperithiel
Date:	Tue, 17 Oct 2000 01:57:59 +0200

> 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... :-)

It could be an explanation... But all other Informations in his Books,
all things about elves, orcs and humans are so different from
earthdawn - and it would have been no risk to write the truth, because
no human would know it. I think, an IE would have used his knowledge to
write something, that decribes the old earthdawn-times...

Irian