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A Heavy Thought In a Deep Wood by Kindra Nikole on Flickr.
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You’re probably thinking of the Silver Elves and the Elf Queen’s Daughters, two groups who considered themselves elves prior to getting on the internet but who did not use the term otherkin at that time. They were around since the 1970s. The Elf Queen’s Daughters are gone, but the Silver Elves are still around and have become part of the online otherkin community.
More info on community history can be found here: http://orion.kitsunet.net/time.pdf
Jarandhel’s got all the facts straight, except for this one: The Elf Queen’s Daughters aren’t gone. They just got out of touch for a while. Some of the newer books by the Silver Elves are collaborations with them.
I wouldn’t call them collaborations. They are transcripts of correspondence between the Silver Elves and the folks who were once the Elf Queen’s Daughters (so, more like “printed with permission” I think, than collaboration as such). My understanding is that this is recent correspondence, not historical, and only occasionally touches on “elfish” topics. I seem to remember asking the Silver Elves and being told that they had laid down the elven banner quite some time ago and gone on to other magical things in general. (Rather frustrating for me since they are in fact still in the Bay Area - I think they are the Susie and Elanor in La Honda Films.)
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New song! This is the song that Legolas sings at the end of The Return of the King when he first starts to long for the sea. Thank you to anyone who listens! :) Also, I tag all my music with ‘songs from the lord of the rings’ if anyone is interested.
Music is mine, the text is from The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
To the Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are crying,
The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying.
West, west away, the round sun is falling.
Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling,
The voices of my people that have gone before me?
I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me;
For our days are ending and our years failing.
I will pass the wide waters lonely sailing.
Long are the waves on the Last Shore falling,
Sweet are the voices in the Lost Isle calling,
In Eressëa, in Elvenhome that no man can discover,
Where the leaves fall not: land of my people for ever!Well, that took me about half a second to reblog, haha. Seriously, though, if you guys haven’t heard this girl sing - check out her blog, listen to all of her music! So beautiful! Almost always her compositions and her voice make me tear up…
Do I really need to add anything to this post? Perfect, as always! Keep up the awesome work!
This is beautiful.
OMG wow.
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[Video description: A still image, and music. The image is a scan of a long-play (LP) record album cover, which depicts a rainbow-colored acute septagram, with a gull superimposed on it. The album label reads, “Aeron: The trans-rock elven band – Paltareon: The Far Memory of the Elves.” The music is a song titled “Dolphine.” I don’t have a transcript of the lyrics. I don’t hear any explicit lyrics in there, so consider it work-safe, as far as music goes.]
As documented in the Otherkin Timeline, the earliest known otherkin group called itself the Elf Queen’s Daughters (est. circa 1972), who published their environmentalist elven prose in Tim Zell’s (Oberon Zell-Ravenheart’s) Green Egg Magazine. In 1978 [edit: or 1979?], the Elf Queen’s Daughters published the album Paltareon: The Far Memory of the Elves as the band Aeron.
Here, kids, enjoy some music by some otherkin in the Seventies.
[Edited on 2012-12-28 to correct some spelling errors on my part.]
I still have an alert out on eBay for this. I think I’ve been outbid on, like, three copies of it now, lol.
ARGH. Why is that vid private?
Anyway, here’s “Celebrimbor” from the same album, which is public.
My next task is to find this in some digital format.
Oh, that’s too bad. It wasn’t at the time frameacloud originally posted, obviously.
I’m not sure they’re out there in digital format, unless someone captured the record in MP3s and is now sharing them on bittorrent or something. (Capturing it as MP3 is part of my motivation for trying to buy a copy.)
[Video description: A still image, and music. The image is a scan of a long-play (LP) record album cover, which depicts a rainbow-colored acute septagram, with a gull superimposed on it. The album label reads, “Aeron: The trans-rock elven band – Paltareon: The Far Memory of the Elves.” The music is a song titled “Dolphine.” I don’t have a transcript of the lyrics. I don’t hear any explicit lyrics in there, so consider it work-safe, as far as music goes.]
As documented in the Otherkin Timeline, the earliest known otherkin group called itself the Elf Queen’s Daughters (est. circa 1972), who published their environmentalist elven prose in Tim Zell’s (Oberon Zell-Ravenheart’s) Green Egg Magazine. In 1978 [edit: or 1979?], the Elf Queen’s Daughters published the album Paltareon: The Far Memory of the Elves as the band Aeron.
Here, kids, enjoy some music by some otherkin in the Seventies.
[Edited on 2012-12-28 to correct some spelling errors on my part.]
I still have an alert out on eBay for this. I think I’ve been outbid on, like, three copies of it now, lol.
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We have no strict definition as to who is or what precisely constitutes an elf. There are those things we feel are elfin […] Yet for those who come to us and ask, “Am I an Elf?” We can only respond, “Are you?
The Silver Elves, “Magic Candles,” originally posted in 1982 or 1983. Republished in The Magical Elven Love Letters (Sebastopol, CA: Silver Elves Publications, 2001), p. 90. (via frameacloud)(via otherkinquestions)
also, I know this girl who’s getting a tattoo soon, and it’s like Lord of the Rings kinda, and she was talking about how much she was into elves and stuff, so she’s getting a tattoo in an elf language…but she called the language “Elven”… and I’m like isn’t it “Elvish”? I didn’t correct her or anything but I was really confused and like. ohno. is my life a lie? Or is the self-proclaiming-mega-fan mistaken? CAN THAT EVEN HAPPEN?
I am so confused with life.
It could go either way. My recollection is that most characters say “Elvish” when referring to written or spoken language of the Elves, but it could be an artifact of how Tolkien wanted his English-as-translation-of-Westron to “feel” to the reader. The term “Elven” does occur, such as in “Quenya, or High-Elven”, “Sindarin, or Grey-Elven”, and of course the phrase “Half-Elven” (Elrond, etc.). So it’s not totally incorrect but somehow the phrase “Elven languages” just sounds weird to me in the Tolkien context; I want to say “Elvish languages” (and so I normally do).
[biggus snippus]
The screen in front of me turned on and it showed our galaxy with lit up areas all across it. He pointed out where we were as well as a few lit up areas. I’m trying to find a map of the milky way to compare for shiggles. I’m not finding any maps that make enough sense for me to point out where… :/
They called themselves the Elenari and they said some other name too, but I’ve seen it before. The word they used was incarnate, but it might have meant a little different from what we usually think of the word, incarnate in worlds to complete their purpose and them move on. Each one of them was on an individual journey. I think the words Shiri and Sidhe came up too. I have heard the word Elenari before as well as Sidhe. Shiri was new. There’s a possibility that I heard Shiri, but because I hadn’t heard it before confused it with Sidhe.
Shiri is a thing. They are Elenari who moved to Faerie, so they are more like fae than most other elves or Elenari. There’s no relationship between Elenari and the sidhe - sidhe are from here, while Elenari are from various worlds out in space (hence the tongue in cheek term “space elves”).
When the Bordertown books first came out, in the 1980s, readers used to throw Borderland dance-and-music events, turning warehouses and other spaces into the Dancing Ferret for a night. (‘Kind of like the pop-up city raves of today. Bordertown lovers are pioneers, as always!)
Here’s a picture taken at a Dancing Ferret night in Los Angeles, sometime in the ’80s.
So who’s game to do this now…?
Anyone wants to put on a Bordertown party in Seattle, contact me. I have my finger on the pulse of alt.folk in this town, and I have always railed against the fact that I was too young/too unaware of Bordertown/too far from LA when these parties took place. Christ, what a time that must have been.
I made the Elvish Memory Drink tonight.
(Non-alcoholic and with milk instead of water since I figured it’d come out tasting like hot chocolate.)
It tastes a really chocolatey, but not as sweet as normal hot chocolate (and the cinnamon and nutmeg have hinted flavors since the…
I agree — Rialian’s drink never did anything for me in that regard, although nutmeg has psychotropic properties, and it works fairly well if you’re feeling like you’re an insomniac. Also, it’s tasty!
Short of an unusual sensitivity, you have to swallow quite a lot of nutmeg (like ca. an ounce) before it really has chemically psychoactive effect. Pinches in a recipe like this would hardly have even a magical energetic effect, I’d think (although tasty). I think overall, unless invested with some strong enchantment, this is basically as psychoactive as chocolate is to begin with — which is nonzero, but not a big deal (IME) and not particularly elven unless it happens to resemble a drink you remember from Back Home.
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I made the Elvish Memory Drink tonight.
(Non-alcoholic and with milk instead of water since I figured it’d come out tasting like hot chocolate.)
It tastes a really chocolatey, but not as sweet as normal hot chocolate (and the cinnamon and nutmeg have hinted flavors since the recipe only called for a pinch of each).
After the first sip I felt really light headed for a moment and slightly dizzy (even though I’m sitting down).
I’m not sure if that’s just my body screaming at me for not watching my sugar levels and suddenly drinking something extremely chocolatey or…if it’s actually triggering something in my head. (I haven’t been tested yet, but my mom and I think I have hypoglycemia fun times right?)
So not sure if that’s it or…if this stuff is really attempting to trigger something…
or if I’m thinking into it way too much.If anything, I half expect something to happen in my sleep via dreaming…but who knows?
I’ll have to see in the morning and try this recipe again later.
[Otherwise, it’s really yummy and easy to make, and doesn’t taste as sweet as normal hot chocolate brands like Swiss Miss or Ovaltine.]
11:17 Note: Started feeling really drowsy due to cocoa + milk, though it went away when I stood up to change into pajamas. Felt a prickly hot sensation in my forehead that’s now gone, but has been replaced by a fading in and out headache. Probably heading to bed soon.
Morning Note: Didn’t dream last night, or at least I can’t remember it. I think I slept too heavily to dream…
You might be interested in this post of mine on “Elven Memory Drink” here, after it came up on kinfood a few months ago.
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