by Týsköll » Sun Jun 18, 2023 12:08 am
Alias wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 8:31 pm
I like your point of view about etymology, but also with mythological connotations. That's different, i can only think about the slang and the stories they spoke on medieval times, endless tales of mysterious gods by the fireplace in the cold. Imagination sparks, flies, cultivates the mind with endless stories and fantasies.
Maybe their own experience about the elves made it conflictive the difference of dark elves and black
, i heard pale on a few occasions, but the variety are huge to percieve.
Unless Grimm had a very perceptive eye for the colors he could have called some color white pastel pale or something, and we couldn't see the difference, i think it depends on the way both of them see colors and how detailed they see things.
did i understand your post?
You did.
Whilst I was having a wee joke regarding a particular Company of Grey Elves important to me on a personal level, I think that the "colourless" part could well be applicable. Colourless as in invisible or transparent, where light reflecting off an object is what causes it to appear as a particular colour:
"For example, a red wagon looks red because it reflects red light and absorbs blue and green light. A yellow banana reflects red and green light, and absorbs the rest."
We might then understand "dark", "pale", "colourless", "transparent", etc. as something that doesn't reflect light. So rather than "dark" as in shadow, which would be more applicable to black elves, we'd be "looking at"
Elves that are "dark" because of the absence of reflected light. It would make them particular stealthy.
This could be applied directly to Dark Matter and we can circle around to my theory of Dark Matter being the "realm" of potentiality/void.
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I like your point of view about etymology, but also with mythological connotations. That's different, i can only think about the slang and the stories they spoke on medieval times, endless tales of mysterious gods by the fireplace in the cold. Imagination sparks, flies, cultivates the mind with endless stories and fantasies.
Maybe their own experience about the elves made it conflictive the difference of dark elves and black :ponder: , i heard pale on a few occasions, but the variety are huge to percieve.
Unless Grimm had a very perceptive eye for the colors he could have called some color white pastel pale or something, and we couldn't see the difference, i think it depends on the way both of them see colors and how detailed they see things. :ponder: did i understand your post?
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You did.
Whilst I was having a wee joke regarding a particular Company of Grey Elves important to me on a personal level, I think that the "colourless" part could well be applicable. Colourless as in invisible or transparent, where light reflecting off an object is what causes it to appear as a particular colour:
"For example, a red wagon looks red because it reflects red light and absorbs blue and green light. A yellow banana reflects red and green light, and absorbs the rest."
We might then understand "dark", "pale", "colourless", "transparent", etc. as something that doesn't reflect light. So rather than "dark" as in shadow, which would be more applicable to black elves, we'd be "looking at" :D Elves that are "dark" because of the absence of reflected light. It would make them particular stealthy. ;P
This could be applied directly to Dark Matter and we can circle around to my theory of Dark Matter being the "realm" of potentiality/void.
