tone-deaf elves

From: Martin Crim <MCrim_at_erols.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 21:10:56 -0500


Scott Haney writes:
>About a year ago (or more...Loren was still our capable list maintainer),
>I proposed that the reason some elves become `rootless' was that they
>are essentially deaf to the Song. They can't hear it. They don't
>understand it. And thus they don't really fit in with the rest of
>the elves. (Actually, this might apply only to renegade elves rather
>than rootless.) This is why they leave elf society and moreover why
>they tend to behave in distinctly non-elfy ways.
>
>In all fairness, the idea was met with just about no enthusiasm. :)

Sorry abuot that. It just seemed so right and obvious that no comment was necessary. I don't mean "obvious" in the sense that someone must have said it before. I mean "obvious" in the sense that, once you grasp a mathematical principle, what you never suspected before becomes self-evident.

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