"bleh! What have you done to the beautiful dialect of the smilarilion? You've trashed it and made it modern! That is a travesty, and no true fan of tolkein would do this. I reject this work."
-- an unregistered user on archiveofourown
I love this comment so much that I am seriously considering getting it printed on a t-shirt. I keep reading it again and it makes me fall over laughing again.
-- an unregistered user on archiveofourown
I love this comment so much that I am seriously considering getting it printed on a t-shirt. I keep reading it again and it makes me fall over laughing again.
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And everyone is gutted, LOL. I had a great one once: "'in whole France' would be more correct than 'in the whole of France'. Just a tip."
Also: SMILARILION. Definitely trust the opinion of anyone who knows the true and secret spelling that Tolkien wisely intended.
Honestly, if it had been from anyone I knew, I would have assumed it was a joke, but because it's unregistered username 'geek', I think it was intended genuinely.
It is a thing of purest shining accidental gold that I shall treasure long.
~ Nonni
It was Nerdanel and Fëanor : Messages: https://archiveofourown.org/works/10491684
which by some way is probably the most colloquial and modern-language-y thing I've written -- because it's a silly story about Nerdanel and Fëanor text messaging each other when Fëanor was in the Halls of Mandos.
Obviously Grumpy Commenter would read that one, not anything else I've written where I was trying for more lyrical language! :-D
it is indeed.
It was Nerdanel and Fëanor : Messages: https://archiveofourown.org/works/10491684 about First Age Nerdanel and Fëanor text messaging one another. Not one of the more serious and Silmarilliony things I have written!
Yes, that's a good one!
My personal favourite was someone derailing me for writing Captain Hook as a very unpleasant way, because he wouldn't behave like that because he was a PIRATE!
Oh, silly me, I hadn't realised pirates were mainly known as fluffy romantic bunnies...
I must admit I always want to check whether these tolkein fans are members of the Tolkein Society.
Edited at 2017-10-16 16:58 (UTC)
(And I haven't time still to tell you that despite language and despite me seeing the elves in an entirely different way, I love "Mereth Aderthad". It was absolutely great. I never imagined a guilty feanorion get angered - and still be right. Thank you.)
I'm glad you liked the Mereth Aderthad though. (I do dislike the Amrod burned at Losgar thing, so Maglor's fury was easy to write!)
How is your conception of Elves different? I think I've made them perhaps rather solid and ordinary recently, which I hadn't quite intended but probably arose from the very closeup view and having lots of dialogue (very un-silmarilliony that, I am sure my angry commenter would be furious!)