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I started reading On Fairy Stories again, and I don't know why it never occurred to me before that the concept of "alien" and "elf" overlap. The way Tolkien talks about Faerie and its inhabitants is not unlike some portrayals of aliens; the species removed from our own, with its own morality and interests, possessing powers we don't have and don't understand, aware of our existence but not necessarily concerned with us, and dangerous to know. It doesn't matter whether they haunt the forests of our planet or another one entirely.
Huh.
Orson Scott Card's Enderverse Buggers and Piggies. E.T. Time Lords. Heinlein's Martians. C.S. Lewis' eldila. There was even that episode of Stargate SG-1 where our heroes got called "elves" by the natives.
Though I think the closest Star Trek got was either the Q or the Borg. I think the pointy-eared Vulcans were probably too "known" and too involved as good guys to really count.
Had a doctor's appointment this afternoon. Ate lunch at one of the more magnificent city parks, which was on the way there. Took a long walk among many-colored trees. Crunched in the leaves. Smelled roses. It's been heavy and gray all day, which isn't bad really when you're out in a park among many-colored trees.
Huh.
Orson Scott Card's Enderverse Buggers and Piggies. E.T. Time Lords. Heinlein's Martians. C.S. Lewis' eldila. There was even that episode of Stargate SG-1 where our heroes got called "elves" by the natives.
Though I think the closest Star Trek got was either the Q or the Borg. I think the pointy-eared Vulcans were probably too "known" and too involved as good guys to really count.
Had a doctor's appointment this afternoon. Ate lunch at one of the more magnificent city parks, which was on the way there. Took a long walk among many-colored trees. Crunched in the leaves. Smelled roses. It's been heavy and gray all day, which isn't bad really when you're out in a park among many-colored trees.