On the other hand, my readers, you come from a world (fantasy-web), in which the reality does not talk much. He is afraid, you feel boredom and disgust against him. Perhaps you prefer to be interested
War of the Ring that the global economic crisis or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
So, my friends, forget about my story so strange to Aesop and start something more simple and concrete: the Elves.
They are fantastic creatures that cause reactions among the readers more mixed.
Basically you love them or want to be in all respects like them or hate them as such.
The reasons of love at first sight or visceral hatred are the same:
- The Elves are beautiful;
- The E. are immortal;
- I am eternally young;
- I learned more than any other creature;
- They live in close contact with nature and talk with the birds and the wolves as San Francisco;
- While living in the woods and jumping between branches always have fresh clean clothes and a fresh haircut hairdresser;
- Using magic with excellent craftsmanship;
- Using the weapons with unerring skill;
- They speak a language all their own, ancient, and written with runes melodiosissima elegant;
Obviously there are variations. The description above can be applied to so-called Luminous. The blond pig ears from which we all love, in fact. With the Dark things change, but only slightly. Just substitute "spiders and bats to birds, take St. Francis, put" in the depths of the earth "instead of" in woods "and" rocks and spider webs "in place of fresh branches.
However, given that, the elves are always perfect. So adorable and obnoxious, according to points of view.
There are readers who can not read a fantasy without elves, others throw in the novel trash collection on the first of them meet.
There is the view that without them is not such a work of fantasy, but also that no work where they appear to be truly original.
But
quest'ammirazione and this hatred is justified? In truth, behind all this perfection, who is hiding?
I am told the elves as we know them are figures of Norse mythology. Bales. The prissy elves of fantasy novels and those of the Norse myths are two totally different things.
In ancient sagas of elves are said very little and often the lover of those creatures that addresses the myths Germany remains very disappointed, coming to know that the ancestors of the Norwegian tourists who bathe in October in Lake Iseo, the Elves were the souls of the dead ... the spirits of the dead.
Swedish laws, Icelanders, Danes are rather reticent about them.
Li is defined in a contradictory manner ... for an author living in heaven, next to the gods, another tells them in the South of Sweden (with a little history of their kingdom, whose last king was to be called Gandalf), for some are benign, for other malicious ...
are particularly fans of the Dark to remain bad, when they realize that their heroes would be beautiful and treacherous relatives of the dwarves from Snow White.
The fact is that the Elves that the modern reader viscerally loves fantasy (or viscerally hates) are creatures enough ... hybrid, mestizo. The
Eldalie Tolkien, with all their claims of primogeniture with regard to all anthropomorphic creatures, and the exaltation of their pure blood, the stench in the nose from here to eternity beings are more mixed with the blood that exist in the world literature . In addition to their Germanic ancestors, the definition of their most perfect figure contributed:
- The nymphs of classical mythology;
- The spirits of the forests of the Finnish tradition;
- Fairies fairy modern literature;
- the fairies of the Anglo-Saxon literary tradition, from medieval times to Victorianism;
- The Sons of the Goddess Danu;
- The spirits of the elemental Slavic tradition ...
and so on and so forth.
Because among other things our beloved Oxonia Prufesur apparently had also studied the legends Trentino No wonder some Salvan Galadriel was related with the Val di Fassa.
After what was written above allow me to say that since there is no literary tradition in a real standard figure Elf, and Things such complexity can not be the subject of a cliche provided herein.
CAMPAIGN AGAINST CLICHE 'ABOUT THE ELVES-
What are the rules? I will hear very soon.
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