There are different kinds? Or are you referencing to my Elder Scrolls of M'aiq joke.

No reference of any kind, just more maddening obfuscation.

This is what happens when an Elder Scroll of M'aiq is destroyed.

So, your being evil for the heck of it?

He might be being facetious. But if he's not, the implication is that there are different kinds of elder scrolls.

Get your cap, pipe, and tweed jacket, it's time for some deductions, Watson.

Come on now. That's your shtick, sith, not mine.

Start here:

"A recent archaelogical study [of Direnni Tower], using the latest techniques of divination and sorcery, has pushed the Tower's construction date back to around ME2500, making it by far the oldest known structure in Tamriel. Although it has been much modified and added on to over the years, its core is a smooth cylinder of shining metal; the Tower is believed to extend at least as far beneath the surface as is now visible above, although its deepest bowels have never been systematically explored."

Sounds like a scroll case. A big one, mind you, but maybe that's because a spaceship, too.

http://www.imperial-library.info/content/nu-mantia-intercept-letter-4

Might we look at the Elder Scrolls as the pages of a divine contractual agreement?

Woah I didn't know there were more giant towers...White-Gold, Crystal-like-Law, Orichalc, Green-Sap, Walk-Brass, Snow Throat, and on and on.

Their identity has been speculated upon. For example, Green-Sap is probably Falinesti, the walking tree-city that if I remember right, settled down in one spot a few years before the Oblivion Crisis (as mentioned in the PGE 3rd). Walk-Brass is the Numidium, Snow Throat is Mount Hrothgar in Skyrim.

TES has an absolute ton of lore that, for some reason, is expanded on very little beyond books. Bethesda really should expand on some of the interesting points of lore.

if they locked the lore then the games would become very boring. because you would know what is coming. the vagueness gives it flexibility and is part of the magic.

That is funny how these four games of this series since 1992 have never really dealt with actual elder scrolls. I hope in TESV the writers shed more light on these scrolls because it's been a phenomenon since the first game came out.