At 13:08 -0800 2002-03-14, Michael \(michka\) Kaplan wrote: >My point was that the connotation of mystical, imaginary things, things not >of the real world, is inescapeable. Even *in* The Lord of th Rings, Sam and >Boromir are both shown as examples of Hobbits and Men who know little of >elves and they approach them with a bit of awe/wonder and skepticism.
Och, yes, but not because the Eldar are winky little Christmas sprites. Because they are deathless, powerful beings of a different order of creation then Men and Hobbits are -- within Tolkien's own literary universe. >If Tolkien had this mentioned in his BOOK, its not unreasonable to realize >people might be skeptical in the real world. I think we're well able to refute the scepticism of any of these mythical critics, with regard to the encoding of these scripts in Unicode. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
