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Drow (Dungeons & Dragons)
The drow (〔Williams, Skip. "Sage Advice" ''Dragon'' #142 (TSR, 1989)〕 or )〔Mentzer, Frank. "Ay pronunseeAYshun gyd." ''Dragon'' #93 (TSR, 1985)〕 or dark elves are a generally evil, dark-skinned subrace of elves in the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy roleplaying game.〔
==Publication history==
The word "drow" is from the Orcadian and Shetlandic dialects of Scots,〔http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/getent4.php?plen=11075&startset=44442733&query=TROW&fhit=trowe&dregion=entry&dtext=snd#fhit〕 an alternative form of "trow",〔 which is a cognate with "troll". The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' gives no entry for "drow", but two of the citations under "trow" name it as an alternative form of the word. Trow/drow was used to refer to a wide variety of evil sprites. Except for the basic concept of "dark elves", everything else about the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' drow was invented by Gary Gygax.〔(Literary Sources of D&D, compiled by Aardy R. DeVarque )〕 However, in the Prose Edda Snorri Sturluson wrote about the black elves: "() the dark elves however live down below the ground. () while the dark elves are blacker than pitch."
''Dungeons & Dragons'' co-creator Gary Gygax stated that "Drow are mentioned in Keightley's ''The Fairy Mythology'', as I recall (it might have been ''The Secret Commonwealth''--neither book is before me, and it is not all that important anyway), and as Dark Elves of evil nature, they served as an ideal basis for the creation of a unique new mythos designed especially for the AD&D game."〔"Books Are Books, Games Are Games" in ''Dragon Magazine'', Nov. 1979, #31〕 The form "drow" can be found in neither work. Gygax later stated that he took the term from a "listing in the ''Funk & Wagnall's Unexpurgated Dictionary'', and no other source at all. "I wanted a most unusual race as the main power in the Underdark, so used the reference to 'dark elves' from the dictionary to create the Drow."〔http://www.enworld.org/forum/3813928-post34.html〕 There seems to be no work with this title. However, the following entry can be found in abridged editions of Funk & Wagnall's ''Standard Dictionary of the English Language'', such as ''The Desk Standard Dictionary of the English Language'': "() In folk-lore, one of a race of underground elves represented as skilful workers in metal. Compare TROLL. (of TROLL. ) trow"
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