#Tag Suggestions –(if you’re wondering where the heck we got “angbang” or “silverfisting” or “feanope” as ship names, you can blame this awful tag and my addiction to puns…)
In my mind the Noldor all have a sort of Castilian accent.
more costume design doodles! now onto dwarwen style: main inspirations are Cirassian peoples’ clothing/assesories (mainly Georgian, Abazin & Armenian) & also i think abt female identifying dwarves most time that’s why they get all the nice things 😀
+ a random piece of hadcanon abt jewelry: being monogamous by nature, dwarves pierce their ears only once (or not at all) in their lives & one an easily pinpoint a dwarf’s marriage status by their earrings. no matter if the pair wealthy or skilled in jewelry making, it’s the important part of the wedding ritual to make the earrings themselves, working together blah blah w/e i think it’d be cute
I for one as a newbie find your tags very amusing. And also the stuff in the #things Sauron likes tag are gorgeous and your roleplays are hilarious and perfect and awesome.
There’s a lot that goes into accents but a good starting point is to identify all of the phonemes that exist in the learned language that don’t exist in the speaker’s native language. Those are ones a language-learner is likely to have trouble with.
As best as I can tell, the phonemes that exist in English but not Quenya are tʃ, dʒ, ʃ, ð and ʒ (and θ, obviously, if we’re talking Exiles, but Tolkien says that they’d have been familiar with the sound anyway from Vanyarin and Telerin Quenya.)
(For people who don’t work with IPA much, those sounds are ‘ch’ like in chip, ‘j’ like in ‘jump’, ‘sh’ like in ‘ship’, ‘th’ like in ‘them’, and ‘zj’ like measure.)
So I’d write a Quenya speaker trying to learn English as having a hard time with those sounds. Often when learning a language with unfamiliar phonemes, speakers will round to the nearest one they are familiar with, which is why lots of non-native English speakers say ‘z’ for ‘ð’ (voiced ‘th’ is relatively uncommon in languages).
Sindarin has both ð and θ, is missing tʃ, dʒ, ʃ and ʒ like Quenya, and is additionally missing z.
So if you’re talking to an Elf in English, and they have an accent, you could easily guess whether they’re a native speaker of Quenya or Sindarin by how they pronounce the sentence ‘They zoomed chartered ships to the jump.’ Quenya-speaker will hit the ‘z’ but have a terrible time with ‘they’, Sindarin speaker can say ‘they’ just fine but might try ‘soomed’ or ‘thoomed’ for ‘zoomed’, and both of them will have a miserable time with the rest of the words.
This is a comedy sketch waiting to happen
ALSO SORRY FOR TAKING SO LONG ON MEMES/DRAFTS/ARTS this flu hit me with a surprise knock-out combo in round two
I’m kind of really excited to see people going through my old tags?? *w* This makes me feel validated for all the hours and hours and hours of tag fixing and archiving I went through in order to make this blog browsable. TwT
My otp: I feel morally compelled to say Míriel/Finwë but it would not be the truth. I don’t think there’s a ship I count as an OTP for her. My most hated pairing: …Again, not sure I have one. I can’t think of anything that prompts such a strong reaction. Except for, I don’t know, incest with Fëanor, but thankfully that is not something I ever found. My unusual otp: Unusual… that might be Finwë/Míriel/Ingwë. It’s one of those things that I don’t even try to include in my general idea of “what actually happened”, but I won’t scroll past fics of this threesome. My crossover otp: …Míriel/Arachne? My brotp/friendship otp: I enjoy certain versions of the relationship between Míriel and Indis. But also people from Cuiviénen, some OCs of mine who are nobles and were friends of hers, and Rúmil. Character headcanon: I fear all of my most interesting headcanons about her are actually borrowed from other people (like Syrisa and Clara), because I unfortunately tend to concentrate on Fëanor’s view of the situation and how it affects him— which leaves me less space to think about her specifically. However, a headcanon I like (and I think it’s syrisa’s) is that she used a lot of make-up and particular headpieces to cover the fact that she felt her body was decaying. Another (and this one should be Clara’s) is that she rarely indulges in small talk and pleasantries, she is unlikely to use common phrases to greet people or say goodbye (like “I wish you a good day” and such), and while that might seem rude at first that is actually just how she rolls. If she ever says it, she actually means it. A Gif that shows how I feel about the character:
*gets to the headcanon portion and begins weeping*
Quick question for those who KNOW. It’s probably in The Silmarillion but I would have no clue on where to start looking, and wikis are failing me. Haleth and her people were granted leave to settle in Brethil in exchange for the promise that they would guard the Crossings of…
I thought it was caranthir that was like here take this.. O_O I guess wrong
Caranthir offered Haleth’s people land in northern Thargelion, in East Beleriand, after he saw them fend off an orc seige. Haleth said no to him and took her people west, where they eventually settled in Brethil.
Basically, lots of hot elves people wanted to give Haleth vast tracts of land.
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