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For frodo meme tumblr post1/16/2024 there’s a lot of canon material! he actually initially developed the history of middle-earth specifically to ground the linguistic development of the various Elvish languages! This is elvish dialects and tolkien, okay. Which would be extra hilarious when he and gimli fetch up in Valinor in his little homemade skiff, if the first elves he meets have never been to Middle Earth and they’re just standing there on the beach reduced to miming about what is the short beard person, and who are you, and why. With some level of accent, but knows approximately zero Quenya outside of loanwords into Sindarin, and even those he mostly didn’t learn as a kid. or both!Ĭonsidering legolas’ moderately complicated political position, i expect he can code-switch.Īlso fairly likely considering the linguistic politics involved that Legolas is reasonably articulate in Sindarin, though Obscure colloquial Avari dialect when he’s being casual. Sindarin that reflect a more purely Doriathrin dialect rather than the Doriathrin-influenced Western Sindarin that became the most widely spoken Sindarin long before he was born, or he might have a School Voiceįrom having been taught how to Speak Proper and then lapse into really Upbringing (and Oropher in his), Legolas may have some weird stilted old-fashioned speaking tics in his So depending on how much of a role Thranduil took in his ![]() Somewhat different, higher-status ethnic background than their subjects. Was from linguistically stubborn Doriath and their family is actually from a To over-analyse this awesome and hilarious post even more, legolas’ grandfather So Frodo might sound hilariously formal for conversational use (though considering how most Elves use Westron he’s probably safe there) and kind of old-fashioned, but he’s not in any danger of being incomprehensible, because elves live on such a ridiculous timescale. and Elrond isn’t the type to intentionally help Bilbo learn the wrong dialect and sound sillier than can be helped, even if everyone was humoring him more than a little. Plus a lot of Bilbo’s materials were probably directly from Elrond, whose library dates largely from the Third Age, probably, because he didn’t establish Imladris until after the Last Alliance. So like, three to six thousand years old, maybe, which is probably a drop in the bucket of Elvish history judging by all the ethnic differentiation that had time to develop before Ungoliant came along, even if we can’t really tell because there weren’t years to count, before the Trees were destroyed. seven generations since the sun happened, max.įrodo’s books are old to him, but outside any very old poetry copied down exactly, the dialect represented in them isn’t likely to be older than the Second Age, wherein Aragorn’s foster-father Elrond started out as a very young adult and grew into himself, and Legolas’ father was born. I mean, honestly it’s amazing the Elves had as many languages and dialects as they did, considering Galadriel (for example) is over seven thousand years old.Įnglish would probably have changed less since Chaucer’s time, if a lot of our cultural leaders from the thirteenth century were still alive and running things.
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