Chen G.
Mithlond
Dec 2, 8:50am
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"Arcane" was in reference to my other point
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That rather than Rings of Power conforming to the style and sentiments of the various Silmarillion drafts, it should conform to the style of The Lord of the Rings because that's the work Tolkien actually brought to a finish as a novel. So all this rhetoric of "But look at History of Middle Earth, volume 12., pp. 120 ff" is a flawed line of thinking.
And I'd hazard about reading too much into quirks of pronounciation, and least of all to attribute that directly to the showrunners, given that they didn't write that episode: Glenise Mullins did. And even Mullins is unlikely to have put that detail - if it's really there at all - into the Elvish: that would have been the show's linguist, in cahoots with dialect coach Leith McPherson.
Yes, I know McPayne had regaled fans in early events with their knowledge of, in particular, Tolkien's letters. But there's a difference between that and digging up some footnote from War of the Jewels. Especially when they have a show to write.
(This post was edited by Chen G. on Dec 2, 8:57am)
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