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----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Jones" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 9:21 AM Subject: Re: Elliott's peoples > Sally Caves wrote: > >How do elves get associated with pointy-ears, for instance? In some letter > >of his, IIRC, Tolkien inveighs indignantly against such interpretations of > >his elves, and insists that they have no such deformities in body or limb. > >And I think it was about things like pointy-ears, not the diminished size. > > But in the Etymologies, didn't Tolkien himself comment upon the > similarities of the roots for "leaf" and "ear" (both LAS-, IIRC), saying > that the Quendi's ears were "leaf-like"? Thus, "pointy"? > > Dan You can get round leaves. Not very common, though. He could have meant that they are thin.