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Originally Posted by LostOnTheLine
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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I'm familiar with Tolkien's writing on why he did what he did. Elves mostly are unrelated to Celtic Sidhe (shee) and continental and there a kind of dwarf called an elf in Europe mainland. I was suggesting that Tolkien because of wanting to recreate "lost" legends (See Beowulf) he picked the oldest kind of Fay (Sidhe) called Elves in later stories in boarder of Scotland and England like in "Thomas the Rhymer" and another one I forget. They are not the little people of later stories.
Norse tradition has light elves (maybe small and associated with flowers), murky elves and dark elves (seem like dwarves), all of which may be different sorts of dwarves. Some tales do have dwarves like Tolkien's ones. See making and giving of the Brísingamen.
Gnomes and Trolls are also imported to English from the continent and Scandinavia. That's the origin of the actually not really Irish at all Leprechaun. Those are really late stories.
I agree that with how the author has conceived the story the different fonts are needed. It's a valid opinion held by many writers over the last 100+ years that such an typological artefact is stupid.
Blind, partially sighted, dyslectic people?
Audio books & radio drama?
I've attempted to read such a book and it was cute but I couldn't finish it. Too exhausting to read.
Also many reading platforms (many Android apps) will not support such formatting.
Kindle Publishing of ebooks has about 92% of the English Language market and it won't support it.