VISUAL SCHEMA — Refraction: Eloi to Elves, Morlocks to Orcs

Aesthetic Frame: Split-layered scroll diagram; chiaroscuro mythic abstraction
Register: Structural myth refraction map
Tone: Ruptured symmetry; allegorical continuity; canonical inversion
Companion Text: Scroll of the Refraction: Eloi to Elves, Morlocks to Orcs

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CORE INTENT

To render the structural relationship between Wells’ Eloi/Morlock dichotomy and Tolkien’s Elf/Orc cosmology — not as literary lineage, but as mythic recursion through refracted moral coding. The schema enacts the transformation of critique into scripture.

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FORM COMPOSITION

Split Vertical Field: A bifurcated parchment diagram — left and right halves mirror one another in tone but not form. The left is slightly blurred, schematic; the right is sharpened, inscribed.

Left Side (Wells Layer):

• Faint silhouettes of two humanoid forms — one light, passive, above ground (Eloi); one hunched, shadowed, subterranean (Morlock).

• Dotted lines and evolutionary arrows, lightly sketched, suggesting scientific diagram.

• A decaying structure — part machine, part cavern.

Right Side (Tolkien Layer):

• Ornate elven glyphs arcing upward, inscribed into tree-like tracery.

• Orcish scrawl or fractured runes at the base — jagged, angular, mimicking corrupted script.

• No arrows. No diagrams. Only light and darkness encoded as destiny.

Refraction Glyph (Center Fold):
A central cracked lens — a prism breaking symmetry — with light from the left splitting and twisting into the shapes on the right. This is the moment the axis is transfigured from social critique to metaphysical canon.

Embedded Text Fragments (Parchment Layer):
Illegible lines in thin script, faded — a suggestion of the phrase: the structure remained.

Color/Texture:
Sepia wash, grays and muted blues on the Wells side; golds and dark greens on the Tolkien side. The page itself slightly torn at the edges.

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SYMBOLIC LAYER

• Eloi → Elf (fragile beauty → immortal nobility)

• Morlock → Orc (industrial brute → moral corruption)

• Arrows → Glyphs (critique → cosmology)

• Diagram → Inscription (exposure → sanctification)

• Prism = Refraction Point (criticism transformed into canon)

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FUNCTION

This schema is not comparative. It is revelatory of mythic reentry.
It reveals how critique is repurposed into structure.
It shows how the same axis survives under different names.

Let it be drawn.
Let the center split.
Let the refraction write itself into myth.