Talk:Elder Thing

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message: The article is mistitled.  It should be "The Old Ones," since the term "Elder Things" refers to the flying polyps.
:In At the Mountains of Madness, the term "Elder Things" is clearly used synonymously with "Old Ones". In the story, Mr. Lake relates: "Dyer and Pabodie have read Necronomicon ... and will understand when I speak of Elder Things supposed to have created all earth life as jest or mistake". This sounds like Old Ones to me. SpectrumDT 20:55, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Mistitled

message: This article states the Elder Things where the first alien race to came to earth, and that they arrived during the Cambrian, which began 542 MYA - but the article on the Flying Polyps says they arrived 750 MYA. So who did Lovecraft actually say got here first, the polyps or the elder thingies? --Krsont 22:41, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  first alien race to come to earth? 

message: On the Old Ones (plural) page I have posted a recommendation to change it so that instead of redirecting straight to this page (Elder Thing) it would provide links to both this page and the Old One (singular) page.
The rationale is that the term Old One/Old Ones has more meanings than Elder Thing. These other meanings are currently described in the Old One page. For example, both singular and plural Old Ones appear throughout Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising series.
It doesn't seem to make sense to try to cover the gap by adding a link from this page (Elder Thing) to the Old One page, so instead I'm posting this note.
Salliesatt 16:42, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old Ones / Old One / Elder Thing 

message: The Elder Things technically made their first appearance in "The Dreams in the Witch House," three years before "At the Mountains of Madness," though they were not identified by name.  The article states the latter story as their first appearance.  Shouldn't this be changed? Eridani (talk) 02:53, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  first appearance? 

message: The article originally stated that the Old ones were around 6ft tall. This is incorrect. In the book the torso section is stated to be 6ft. a complete body is stated to be about 8ft. Omega2064 (talk) 11:05, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corrected entry mention of height. 

message: I googled for images and there are a number of good ones.  I've never tried to put a picture in wikipedia before and I apologize, I'm just taking a quick break from work and can't research it now.  When I get back to it, I'll do it, but for now I just want to suggest that there should be a picture.  Oh, and by the way, regarding the Old-Elder discussion, I think that Lovecraft was inconsistent.  Since Cthulhu and his kind are the Old Ones, but these were here first, they are the Elder Things. Wastrel Way (talk) 01:04, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture? 

message: The article says that they first appeared in the witch house, and later (under the picture) that they first appeared in at the mountains of madness. Changing to witch house. 192.176.237.2 (talk) 10:09, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two first appearances?