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Old 03-07-2016, 09:24 PM   #34
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Default Re: [Spoilers?] Blue and Orange Morality: Adapting the Faerie Courts

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Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2 View Post
True...but the begs the question of whether Dwarves are or should be seen in the same category as elves. (I use Tolkien's preferred spellings deliberately, for the same reason he did.) The Summer/Winter Court are elves, or Sidhe if you prefer, Dwarves are different, or at least seem to be looked at differently, in the old folklore.
Alright, let's go Celtic. Brigid of the Tuatha De Danann. A goddess-elf of poetry, arts, crafts, and smithing. To quite from Wikipedia "Cormac's Glossary, written in the 10th century by Christian monks, says that Brigid was 'the goddess whom poets adored'". She was said to have invented the whistle.

Also Celtic: When Lugh traveled to join king Nuada, he was asked what he add to offer to the king's service. Lugh replied, in turn, of his skill as a wright, a smith, a champion, a swordsman, a harpist, a hero, a poet and historian, a sorcerer, and a craftsman. Since Nuada's court already had one of each, Lugh was turned away.

Now the Tuatha de Danann are about as elfish as you can get. Magical people from the before time who live in hidden places under the hills; whose world sometimes intersects our own in the lost and wild places of the world, or at the turning of the seasons when the boundaries of reality are weak. And they were apparently expert harpists and poets, artists and craftsmen (and craftswomen, in the case of Brigid).

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