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Cosmar
Seeker
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 Posted - 29 Dec 2022 : 04:50:07
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Hi guys,
Just wondering if you guys know of any common sayings, phrases, or idioms in elven in Faerun? And if they're located in a certain source, what source? The core D&D 3.5 supplement Races of the Wild had a few, but I'm not sure generally how much of the racial information in that book applies to Faerun specifically.
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Edited by - Cosmar on 29 Dec 2022 04:51:16
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bloodtide_the_red
Learned Scribe
USA
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Posted - 29 Dec 2022 : 18:31:36
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First off the FR Wiki has some information. Dragon #279 has an article by Sean K. Reynolds An Elven Lexicon, though it's 'generic' D&D.
Candelkeep has at least a couple articles about elves, plus an elven dictionary and a couple elf ebooks. A search on the lore pages should be easy.
"Elves" are fairly standard in fantasy being nature related, so really you can use things from any fantasy novel, book or website. You can find a TON on the LotRs elves, and it can all be used. |
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
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Posted - 29 Dec 2022 : 20:42:28
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Dragonlance was very elf-happy. It modelled elven subraces/tribes along Middle Earth lines.
But it was a largely human-centric story. The elves were important but also set onto a distant stage away from the narrative. It sort of required the reader to translate a body of assumptions from Tolkien's lore.
Incidentally, elves weren't particularly significant in the famous and popular Lord of the Rings trilogy. But the less-famous and less-popular Silmarillion focussed on elven peoples, stories, culture, language, and history in extreme detail. |
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Edited by - Ayrik on 29 Dec 2022 20:47:58 |
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LordofBones
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 02 Jan 2023 : 08:11:04
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quote:
"Elves" are fairly standard in fantasy being nature related, so really you can use things from any fantasy novel, book or website. You can find a TON on the LotRs elves, and it can all be used.
*looks at Feanor*
*looks at Fingolfin*
*looks at Galadriel*
*looks at Finrod*
My guy, Tolkien's Eldar shit all over generic fantasy elves. Come back when generic fantasy elf walks up to the Gates of Hell and calls Satan a *****, daring him to come out and fight like a man or cower in the dark like the craven little worm he really is.
I mean, that's just Fingolfin. Ecthelion tackles the chief of all balrogs off a cliff and strangles him to death while drowning himself. |
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questing gm
Master of Realmslore
Malaysia
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Posted - 10 Jan 2023 : 02:56:48
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It's a big scroll, but we have one just for the words, sayings, idioms for all races here on the forum: https://candlekeep.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=13403&SearchTerms=sayings,glossary
I know it might be a lot to sift through, but using the search function on a browser for elven ones should help and the search might be worth the effort to the amount of work that is already put into the scroll (and annotated with sources too!) |
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Common elven sayings/slang?
