It means Lovecraft made it.

wikionary lists unearthly, alien, supernatural, weird, spooky, eerie.

Yeah, lovecraft did it.

I used to think being an EA required Body Horror

So satisfying

I've always assumed it meant something that doesn't have a set corporeal form. Like it's made of energy or something we can't comprehend.

In Fallout Equestria the term Eldritch blade is used quite often to describe daggers that are made of magic

edited 13th Mar '12 7:03:35 AM by gingerninja666

It's quite an abused term because it's oddly-spelled and just sounds cool. I'm ure it should mean something like "really, really strange or unnatural in a surreal way that is exceedingly difficult to describe", or something like that.

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈɛldrɪtʃ/

Etymology

Middle English from earlier elrich, equivalent to Old English el- (“foreign, strange, uncanny”) (see else ) + rīċe "realm, kingdom" (see rich ); hence “of a strange country, pertaining to the Otherworld”; compare Old English ellende "in a foreign land, exiled" (compare German Elend "penury, distress"), Runic Norse alja-markir "foreigner".

Adjective

eldritch (comparative more eldritch, superlative most eldritch)

1.unearthly, alien, supernatural, weird, spooky, eerie

(I know I got ninja'd, but...)

Otherworldly would work...

edited 13th Mar '12 7:07:15 AM by crowlover

Mousa!

Look◊!

edited 13th Mar '12 7:08:09 AM by ApplelightLimited

Even by this... windigos? Come on!

Doesn't it say on the Fair Folks page that Eldritch originally meant Elven or Fairies or something?

Some more Mousa◊!

Well, the etymology for elf turns up something interesting...

From Middle English, from Old English ælf (“incubus, elf”), from Proto-Germanic *albiz.

@Crowlover: isn't language evolution/mutation fun?

First picture is good, second picture...no.

Second pic makes them look kinda scrawny, like they need a rich meal or two

RD and AJ are too feminine!

@Ace

Eeyup

And according to the etymology in the German word for "nightmare, " elves gave nightmares, too. My, how our perception of them has changed...

edited 13th Mar '12 7:16:13 AM by crowlover

Look at all these options I have!

@Applelight, yeesh, that's uh... yeesh, those clothes are tiny. And Fluttershy and AJ and Twi would never dress like that.

edited 13th Mar '12 7:16:26 AM by MousaThe14

I'd just think Mousas characters would look good in those midriff baring outfits.

The original is stupid though.

@crowlover: Well, back in the day the Fair Folk were people you did not want to anger or entice into trolling you for kicks. Along came good ol' Willy Shakespeare, who makes a mockery out of them with A Midsummer Night's Dream, and now they've been reduced like the Hogwarts House-elves, or all angsty like Tolkien's elves. it's nearly as bad as vampires, who've been reduced from a terror of the peasants into angsty sex-gods except for the Scarlet Sisters, good old Dracula, and that badass and terrifying Hellsing!Alucard.

edited 13th Mar '12 7:18:59 AM by AceOfScarabs

@ Mousa

It was worth a try.

Yeah, imagine what it would be like if Dobby, Kreecher, Legolas, or Elrond were like the elves described earlier

edited 13th Mar '12 7:23:55 AM by crowlover

@Applelight, make no mistake, I'm definitely going to try it, they're just not going to look happy about it. I mean they look ridiculous.

Because them not looking happy makes it ok! :D