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<blockquote data-quote="lutecius" data-source="post: 4383640" data-attributes="member: 60332"><p>I think that's what dnd races stand for, or at least that's how i understand them.</p><p></p><p>for example:</p><p>- the Sidhe or Tuatha De Danann (and other races preceding the Celts in the Book of Conquests) have a lot in common with Tolkien's elves.</p><p>- the duergar and alfar of Norse mythology are sometimes interpreted as the spirits of long dead people. Some authors think the myth of short people living underground arose from the remains of pre-germanic people whose bodies were hunched or sometimes chopped to fit in burial mounds (many dwarf names were actually related to death and corpses)</p><p>More generally, shorter pre-indoeuropean people like the Sami were considered by the Norse like a separate, magically gifted race.</p><p>- According to Hesiod, the men of the Golden Age died out and were reborn as daimones living in caves.</p><p></p><p>All these lost "human" civilisations and antediluvian "ages of man" in fantasy litterature have the same mythological sources as the ancient dwarven and elven empires in tolkien and dnd. dnd just added some pointy ears.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lutecius, post: 4383640, member: 60332"] I think that's what dnd races stand for, or at least that's how i understand them. for example: - the Sidhe or Tuatha De Danann (and other races preceding the Celts in the Book of Conquests) have a lot in common with Tolkien's elves. - the duergar and alfar of Norse mythology are sometimes interpreted as the spirits of long dead people. Some authors think the myth of short people living underground arose from the remains of pre-germanic people whose bodies were hunched or sometimes chopped to fit in burial mounds (many dwarf names were actually related to death and corpses) More generally, shorter pre-indoeuropean people like the Sami were considered by the Norse like a separate, magically gifted race. - According to Hesiod, the men of the Golden Age died out and were reborn as daimones living in caves. All these lost "human" civilisations and antediluvian "ages of man" in fantasy litterature have the same mythological sources as the ancient dwarven and elven empires in tolkien and dnd. dnd just added some pointy ears. [/QUOTE]
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