Weekly English Words with Alisha Fantasy Words
Welcome back to Weekly Words. My name is Alisha,
and today we’re going to talk about fantasy
words. Ooh, let’s get started. Sounds interesting.
“Dwarf” is the first word.
A dwarf, in fantasy stories, refers to someone
who is very short, often rather beardy. In
‘The Lord of the Rings’ for example, there
are many dwarf characters. So in a sentence,
“Dwarves are well known for their mining
skills”.
Okay. The next word is “unicorn”.
A unicorn is a mystical horse, usually white
and it has a giant horn coming out of its
head. I was really into unicorns when I was
little. If there’s a book in the store that
had a unicorn on it I was like “I’m getting
that book”. A unicorn, uni meaning one,
corn, not really corn. I imagine historically
maybe corn was horn. In a sentence, “I loved
unicorns when I was a little girl”.
“Dragon” is the next word.
A dragon is a giant, giant reptile-like creature
that can fly and breathe fire. How awesome
is that? Dragons are notoriously difficult
for heroes to defeat.
“Vampire”.
I feel like vampires have long histories in
a few different cultures. They are human-like
and, depending on the story, they can change
into a bat. They cannot go out during the
day, they only come out at night, and they
drink the blood of humans to stay alive, that’s
the only thing that they can consume. They
live for hundreds of years. The sunlight will
kill them. What is that called? The Twilights—
Twilight, that’s right, I haven’t seen Twilight,
I haven’t read the Twilight books. It seems
he can go out in the sun, doesn’t he glitter?
I heard that he glittered. Vampire is a really
cool Halloween costume.
The next word is “elf”.
Elf. Elves are the coolest, clearly. They
have, at least in the context of this sort
of fantasy thing, they have pointy ears, they’re
really tall, they’re so beautiful, they live
forever, they’re really, really good at everything
they do. Elves, come on, like. They have kind
of magical powers it seems, too. They can
make bread that will keep you full for a long
time. They can make swords that have special
powers when you use them. I once thought elves
were so cool that I tried to learn the language
that was made by J. R. R. Tolkien. He actually
made an Elves language, and for a brief period
in high school I tried to learn it myself
too, I would write it everywhere. I thought
it was really beautiful. But then I moved
on to an actual language.
Alright. Okay the next word is the end. The
end is a mystical creature that— now you
know. Thanks very much for joining us this
week and we’ll see you again next time for
something else. Bye. Next is Hobbit. Hobbit—