elves: Indic counterpart?

Wed May 18 21:45:07 UTC 2005

Some people might be interested in the fact that the Library of Congress's Hindi supplier has investigated and replies that there is no Hindi translation of The Lord of the Rings.  So I can't tell you how the translation of "elf" was handled.

Allen

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