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littlemanpoet · 08-12-2002, 10:33 AM

Naaramare: Isn't lios alfar what Guy Gavriel Kay calls his elvish race in The Fionavar Tapestry? By the way, do you have any idea what the derivation of "fionavar" is? I see a feminine Celtic first syllable combined with a second syllable denoting an indo-european tribe of the Russian steppes over 1,000 years ago...

08-12-2002, 10:33 AM	#11
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Naaramare: Isn't lios alfar what Guy Gavriel Kay calls his elvish race in The Fionavar Tapestry? By the way, do you have any idea what the derivation of "fionavar" is? I see a feminine Celtic first syllable combined with a second syllable denoting an indo-european tribe of the Russian steppes over 1,000 years ago...