Aug 4 - Using Her Words

[jerseyfabulous]

Title: Using Her Words
Author: Grundy
Rating: FR13
Crossover: LotR/Silmarillion
Disclaimer: All belongs to Whedon & Tolkien. No money is being made here, it's all in good fun.
Summary: The whole point was to make it clear she wouldn't make trouble in Tirion. At least, not of the political variety...
Word Count: 1100

Comments

Hoping this works…

[ext_5082676]

I LOVE it! Seeing this from so many perspectives is great, and I’m glad you didn’t not share them all. Anairë finally gets to see the back of the dress! I’m going to see if this will finally let me post before I write a bunch.

Re: Hoping this works…

[jerseyfabulous]

Looks like it's working!
Thank you!

Day 4 - Accepted!

[avamclean]

Accents can be tricksey.

Re: Day 4 - Accepted!

[jerseyfabulous]

Indeed!

[acswatwst]

Buffy's will be Buffy's, especially when they are Anariel. She's always going to have a unique way of speaking. Everyone else will just have to live with it.

[curiouswombat]

Would you like some advice from those more practiced in politics and diplomacy?

Good thinking Elladan :)

And I can see that turning up at, for example, the court of Elizabeth 1 as a close relative coming to affirm allegiance, everyone expecting you to have a courtly English accent, and then having a distinct Scottish or Spanish accent, might have caused a few heads to turn :)

But I'm curious - why don't Elrond and the twins, or Tindomiel when she first arrived, have the same accent, and so have caused a similar stir?

[jerseyfabulous]

Tindomiel doesn't actually have the Feanorian accent or use Þ regularly. Erestor was her language instructor, and as he wasn't raised among Feanorians, he never picked it up - his Quenya is Exilic. And after a few days around her Noldorin grandmothers, Tindomiel sounded like she was Tirion born and raised.

Elrond does have the accent, but also has enough experience in the language that he can tone it down if he wants to. (Also, his first public appearance in Tirion was properly scripted...)

But Anariel had no idea - she learned from Maglor and only used Quenya occasionally with him or with her immediate family. Elrond didn't see any issue, and Galadriel let it go rather than risk Anariel giving up on Quenya after the trouble they had getting her speaking elven languages in the first place. (She did not foresee that the clothes would match the accent, making it considerably more of a thing than it would have been in and of itself...)

[tvashti]

In all the fuss around singing, crazy family ties, and lines of succession I totally forgot about the back of the dress! LOL!

[jerseyfabulous]

*grins*
There is a lot going on...