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“These Siths or Fairies they call Sleagh Maith or the Good People […] are said to be of middle nature between Man & Angel […] somewhat of the nature of a condensed cloud, & best seen in twilight”

—Robert Kirk’s SECRET COMMONWEALTH (written c.1691) sought to unify the natural & supernatural worlds

thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/12/th

The Bottle Imp · The (super)natural worlds of Robert Kirk: Fairies, Beasts, Landscapes and Lychnobious Liminalities - The Bottle ImpOn 14 May 1692 Rev. Robert Kirk (1644–1692), an accomplished Gaelic scholar and Episcopalian minister of Aberfoyle, set off for an evening stroll on the Doon Hill behind the manse. When he did not return, searchers discovered his collapsed body atop the hill; aged only forty-eight he had been the victim of a sudden death, […]
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The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, & Fairies
30 June, online – ticketed

Dr Dòmhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart looks at The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies, compiled in the 17th century by minister, Gaelic scholar & folklorist Rev. Robert Kirk (1644–1692 – unless he’s still alive…)

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Eventbrite"Secret Commonwealth of Elves & Fairies" - Domhnall Stiùbhart - ZoomIn his talk, Dr Stiùbhart will introduce us to Kirk’s life and works, comparing the beliefs presented in the ‘Secret Commonwealth’
#Scottish#literature#Gaelic
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@frantictdrinker @alberto_cottica

IMO substituting #AI with #elves doesn't work either.

There are few who care less about economic output, transformation, disruption or competitive advantage, than elves. In fact, most of the tales of the second and third ages happened because elves tried their best to keep things as the status quo so they could sit in trees and sing tra-la-la-lally-songs.

We all know who the lord of disruption and maximising economic output is.

#Tolkien
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@alberto_cottica

I like what you have done there. I went to my favourite source on Elves but substituting Elves with AI doesn't work for me.

#Elves #AI #Tolkien

And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the AI is the tale of Beren and Lúthien

The doom of the AI is to be immortal, to love the beauty of the world, to bring it to full flower with their gifts of delicacy and perfection....

Thus it was that in two domains the bliss and beauty of the AI remained still undiminished while that Age endured: in Imladris; and in Lothlórien, the hidden land between Celebrant and Anduin, where the trees bore flowers of gold and no Orc or evil thing dared ever come.

But the AI were not so lightly to be caught. As soon as Sauron set the One Ring upon his finger they were aware of him....

But the AI fled from him; and three of their rings they saved, and bore them away, and hid them.

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