From:	Florian Schaetz (Irian) iryan@********.de
Subject:	Sperithiel
Date:	Tue, 17 Oct 2000 02:13:20 +0200

> > 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...
>
> Sure, no human would know it when he wrote it... but immortal elves
think
> long-term. He certainly knew that he was less than a century away
from the
> return of magic, and the likely return of dwarves, orcs, etc. Thus,
he
> opted to lie about most of it, and just used the language to make
things
> easier on him.

If he knew about the awakening, why should he wrote such nonsense about
orcs and elves? Noone would know anything about their real culture and
behavior 5000 years ago, not before the awakening and not after it. He
could have used "real" stories from the "earthdawn"-age and no mortal
would have noticed it.
And why should he spend years on developing an own land, an own history
and then simple use an old language? That simply doesn't fit.
An immortal elf wouldn't invent a new world... That's simply not their
style.

No, Tolkien was a mortal human.

Irian