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Originally Posted by LostOnTheLine
When there's dialogue the dialogue is formatted properly as dialogue, but these aren't those instances. The series is set like a family telling the tales of their epic adventures. The first few are just with the same narrator but eventually he marries & has kids & other people join them. The voice of each narrator is different & reflects their personality. It's not a 3rd person perspective where you can be inside different people's heads, each narrator narrates in 1st person. Which you'd think would be juxtaposed & unpleasant but it is done very well & actually enriches the story. Some of the characters English is not their 1st language & the author does a great job of making the way their think & write sound (at least to someone who doesn't speak the languages) like a foreigner. & I'd guess that translated versions would have a similar "Native" sound to the English characters & foreign sound to the others.
So while I understand what you are saying, & agree that there are definitely instances where what you say makes sense, In this instance I think you are completely wrong.
I was quoting the Author's reason for spelling them differently than the, at the time, accepted "correct" way. He said that they were both usually associated with "Silly tales" & that wasn't the characters he wanted.
As far as Faeries being the same as elves... That's a stretch. But they do have similar & common origins but this isn't the place for that discussion. But Dwarves from my understanding of the lore, which comes mostly from Wales, Scottland, England, & Norse, are much more similar to how gnomes are portrayed modernly & completely dissimilar to how Tolkien wrote them. The only thing that comes even close to Tolkienian Dwarves would be the 4 who hold up the sky, but I can't really say that's because of how they were written & not because when I read about them I assumed things because they were called Dwarfs.
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May I ask-what's the name of this book with all the various personae appearing in different fonts????
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