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To: little jeremiah

I agree! Her smile and the sparkle in her eyes fit Tolkein elves to a T


1,111 posted on 08/22/2020 9:23:40 PM PDT by Wneighbor (Weaponize your cell phone! Call your legislators every week.)
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To: Wneighbor
The only thing which keeps her from being elvish, is that she is too buxom to look ethereal -- cf Tolkien in On Fairy Stories:

It is perhaps not unnatural that in England, the land where the love of the delicate and fine has often reappeared in art, fancy should in this matter turn towards the dainty and diminutive, as in France it went to court and put on powder and diamonds.

Yet I suspect that this flower-and-butterfly minuteness was also a product of “rationalization,” which transformed the glamour of Elfland into mere finesse, and invisibility into a fragility that could hide in a cowslip or shrink behind a blade of grass.

1,118 posted on 08/22/2020 9:30:37 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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