Eruanna
Joined: 11 Jan 2005
Posts: 426
Location: Dor-Cuarthol, betwixt the Bow and the Helm...
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 Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 12:01 am Post subject: I love "porcupine" formation! |
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| SpaceWeavil wrote: | Hopefully it'll come out in the UK as well. I only have one proper book on elvish, which is by J Allen I think, and I'm not altogether impressed by it. Not that it's inaccurate or anything like that, but it really just is a collection of essays on different languages, and not much use for us fan fic writers who want to use the stuff  |
Weevil:
I LOVED your thought on "porcupine" as a military formation! 
My elves, esp. the ones from Lorien, are very much in touch with flowers, and language dealing with them. Each flower or leaf has a symbolic meaning (a la Japanese!)
The Japanese (like the elves), with their love of nature, often used terms like this: tiger's paw formation, crane's wing attack, etc.
Very poetic ways of describing means of military strategy. Sun Tzu, author of "The Art of War," was also like this in his military treatise.
I might call upon your extensive knowledge of elvish at some point. I understand some of the words and word roots, gleaned mostly from the appendices of the Silmarillion, but I look to learn more. (BTW, my epithet for one of my charactersis "Angaloth," the Iron Flower.)
--Eruanna
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Eruanna
Joined: 11 Jan 2005
Posts: 426
Location: Dor-Cuarthol, betwixt the Bow and the Helm...
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[quote="inglor"]Sind... I'm a guy... did you really think I was going to write about a combat formation and NOT describe it in intimate detail??? I will have trouble losing readers to too much detail. 
Thanks, ladies. Again this is a great place.
Inglor the Terrible[/quote]
Inglor:
Glad to have a guy in the forum! Please DO write more on your battle! I am a woman, but people are surprised to find I know so much about military history, firearms and armour!
(I was really pissed when The Noble Collection of LOTR collectibles only had the Second Age warrior helm as a keychain and not as a necklace! My husband bought it for me for Christmas and I cut it off the key ring and slid it on to a neck chain!)
I know I lose a lot of readers with my "Silmarillion-esque" language! LOL!
Have you checked out Chris Smith's Lord of the Rings: Weapons and Warfare?
--Eruanna
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