From: Alex Ferguson (abf@cs.ucc.ie)
Date: Fri 04 Aug 2000 - 03:55:03 EEST
Chris Lemens:
> Well, some sorts of elf don't have a mummy elf. They have dryads. Like the
> trolls, elves seem to see daddy elf as expendable where he exists.
I concur that the yellow elves are going to worship their dryad
mothers, though given they'll likely be alive at the time, this isn't
ancestor worship in the most familiar sense. How they regard their
fathers is an interesting question. I don't see the situation as
being very troll-like, since here, there are no female( elve)s at all...
Green elves are totally different, though. They don't mate with
dryads, and given their prejudices on other matters, probably
give more attention to patrilineal descent than matrilinineal, if
they bother about such things at all. Maybe this is important
for reasons like determining who gets to the High King Elf, rather
than religiously per se?
Brown elves, as is their wont, are going to be 'a little in column
A, a little in column B', I would imagine.
Cheers,
Alex.
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