CnD #71
In which I do that annoying fantasy thing where I have creatures speaking in a strange* language and don't even translate it.
Greetings comics enthusiasts, and happy belated Valentine’s Day — one of the truly weirdest holidays on the capitalist calendar (and yet, one I don’t really mind, since if you have to spend your hard-earned $$ on something to keep the beast sated, why not spend it on chocolates and flowers and on people you love?). There IS kissing in this week’s episodes
HOLD IT, HOLD IT, GRANDPA
but not THAT kind of kissing. It’s more of the «SMEK!» variety.
Someday you might not mind so much.
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*If you were to google translate the supposedly “strange” language, you might find that it resembles very badly written FINNISH. No disrespect meant to any Finns, and in retrospect, maybe I shouldn’t have used a real modern language. Besides being too lazy to become a constructed language guy ala J.R.R., my thinking was that if I was going to use bad Anglo-Saxon English for the hobs and bad Frisian for the humans to show how close those peoples really are (Frisian is English’s closest relative), I wanted to choose something different for the Elves. Different, and yet historically connected. Dark Ages Vikings and Saxons and Geats, etc., all thought Finns were all half-sorcerers and probably crazy (even though the Finns were not the ones marauding around the seas, pillaging and murdering innocent people — so who are really the crazy ones?). That seemed to make it a good choice for Elvish.
ALSO, okay, fine, I knew that Tolkien based some of his Elvish (Quenya) on Finnish, so it’s a bit of a tribute / theft.
Well, what can I say? Sorry any Finnish readers of the future, but I think your language is beautiful, especially to look at, which is my chief concern as a comics-maker.
That’s all for this week — I’ll be taking a pause when we reach the end of this chapter. I need to spend some time catching up. But more on that when we get there.
Fare thee well, or as google says they say in Finland, and these blue-looking Elves certainly say:
The language is lovely. You could feel what she was saying. ❤️