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求<Races of the Wild>中精灵神话起源的翻译。
我们不能听信卓尔的一面之词，应该给地表精灵发言的权利。
那么谁来翻译柯瑞隆，罗丝和格乌什三者之间发生的说不清道不明的故事？
以下英文源自<Races of the Wild>P26
MYTHIC ORIGINS
In the time before time, the gods sprang fully formed
from the primeval void. All these first gods were equally
endowed with the power of the cosmos, and each claimed
jurisdiction over certain aspects of the universe. In a spirit
of cooperation that has not been seen since, they built the
worlds together, separating matter from energy, land from
sea, and sky from earth.
The wiser gods banded together and called themselves
the Seldarine, or Brothers and Sisters of the Wood. While
the other gods squabbled over custody of the various aspects
of the worlds they had jointly created, the Seldarine used
their power to cover the barren lands of the world with lush
forests, tall grasses, flowers of incredible beauty, and animals
of every kind. Moradin, Yondalla, and Garl Glittergold allied
with the Seldarine, claiming the mountains, plains, hills,
and underground areas of the new world as their own. When
Gruumsh, the evil god who later fathered the orc race, realized
that there was no good portion of the world left for him, he
grew black with rage. Seizing
the caves, rocky cliffs, and
sections of the darkness
below that no one else
wanted, he began to
plot his revenge.
Gruumsh decided
to build for himself
a magnificent fortress
directly on the surface
of the world that
the other gods had
claimed. One by one,
he tore out of the
ground the towering
trees that graced the
forests. One by one,
he stripped them of
their branches and laid
them atop one another
to build a vast, crude
structure to house the
armies he intended
to create. Gruumsh
cleared miles upon
miles of forested land
in this way, leaving behind
barren deserts
upon which nothing
would grow. Corellon
Larethian, lord and creator
of the earth’s vast
forests, ordered him to cease—
and the orc god’s reply was to seize
Araushnee, a darkly beautiful goddess who was Corellon’s
consort, and imprison her within his crude fortress.
Corellon would not be goaded so easily into fury.
Choosing a tall, perfect tree, he fashioned its trunk into a
magnificent longbow and made from its branches a set of
true-flying arrows. From atop a mountain many miles away
he nocked an arrow to his bow and fired upon Gruumsh’s
fortress. Again and again he fired, and each of his arrows
flew through some chink between the logs and found its
mark, piercing the orc god’s body until his blood ran like
a river, undermining the sandy base upon which he had
built. Down crashed the fortress around Gruumsh’s ears,
allowing Araushnee to escape.
Enraged, Gruumsh seized his morningstar and ran across
the land to confront his enemy, all the while with Corellon’s
arrows raining down upon him. The two gods clashed with a
fury that rocked the newly born world. Furiously they fought
for a day and a night. Araushnee, who hoped that Corellon’s
death might give her the opportunity to rise as queen over the
Seldarine, secretly aided the orc god. Other gods joined the
fight on both sides, and fire rained down from the heavens.
On and on went the divine battle thereafter known as the
First War.
At last, the other gods began to withdraw, their strength
and their fury spent. Gruumsh and Corellon fought on, the
orc lord’s power waxing in the dark of night while Corellon
gained in strength during the day. At last, Gruumsh’s
greater physical strength and endurance began to prevail
over Corellon’s dancing blade, and the orc god pressed his
advantage. Corellon turned his stricken, bleeding face to
the sky, and the tears of Sehanine Moonbow, another of
the Seldarine, fell upon it, giving him the strength for a
final strike. Turning back to his foe, Corellon plucked out
Gruumsh’s eye with a single, well-placed sword stroke.
The orc lord howled with pain and ran from the field of
battle. Known as One-Eye forever after, he nurses his
hatred of the Seldarine in the dark recesses of the world,
plotting revenge.
Corellon gathered up the soil that had soaked up his blood
and Sehanine’s tears and formed it into mortal beings of
unearthly beauty, which he called elves. Corellon fashioned
elves in the image of each member of the Seldarine, then
set them upon the earth to be its stewards. Infused with the
divine power of gods’ blood and tears, the elves took control
of earth’s forested lands, seas, and skies.
Araushnee’s treachery did not go unpunished. For her
betrayal, Araushnee was cast out of the Seldarine and transformed
into a demonic spider-form. Renaming herself Lolth,
she called to the elves created in her image, the drow, and
retreated with them beneath the earth. Sehanine Moonbow,
whose tears had given Corellon strength in his time of need
and whose silver light had revealed Araushnee’s evil, became
Corellon’s new consort.
Seeing the creations of the Seldarine, the other gods
scrambled to emulate them. However, their hurry was too
great, and each of their creations was but a flawed, forlorn
imitation of the magnificent elves. Because of these flaws, the
other races could not live as long as elves or reach the same
heights of civilization. Still, the elves were kind to those races
that had good hearts and helped them to establish themselves.
The orcs, however, seek always to avenge themselves on the
elves for their god’s mutilation, and the two races have nursed
a deep-seated enmity ever since.
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发表于 2007-7-11 21:54:29