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Thanks. Geocaching dot com was really nice about his account there; we'll see about LinkedIn. Going to send a message after work.

The epithets thing ... if it's very occasional or an introductory sort of thing, I don't much notice. And the descriptive ones feel a lot more natural. But constant use of generic ones? *wince* I suppose in Tolkien fandom especially people are trying to be 'sensitive' by not using 'man' for dwarfs/dwarves/dwarrow/whatever-- though there is a perfectly good argument for 'Man' being the race and 'man' being the gender!-- and that's the reason they use 'dwarf' or 'elf' or even 'ellon' for the clever ones all the expletive-ing time. Heck, I could even forgive it as an alternative to constant use of 'the other male', because stick an arrow in my eye, that's even worse. It's the rest of the epithets! Being constantly used! In a context when the characters should know each other well enough to at least vary the way they refer to each other a little!

Like I said above, "Especially when it descends to the level of "the axe-ridden dwarf", regarding Bifur. Particularly when the POV character is another dwarf. I mean, what even. It would be like me looking at one of the other gals in my office and thinking 'the breastless white woman', it just feels like that level of tone-deaf tactlessness to me."

Call me out on it if I ever slip into that kind of epithet-ing, because seriously. :)