beachcryptid
Character languages, huh...
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so Maglor's dad is Feanor, who once, no joke, nearly started a civil war because he didn't like how people had started to say his mother's name
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MAGLOR IS A LANGUAGE NERD
Ghoulfish
XD
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He is also an excellent mimic
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his cradle tongue is quenya, and yes, he absolutely speaks it with what most modern quenyan speakers would consider a lisp
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because see, Feanor's mom's name was Miriel Threinde, but modern quenya pronounces it Miriel Serinde
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He also conversant with all the relevant dialects of pre-Darkening Valinor
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He speaks fluent First Age Sindarin, and he can manage all the relevant dialetcts that it has shifted to over the millenia. He speaks Taliska and Adunaic, and Westron all fluently
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(the only Sindarin he doesn't know is Doriathrim, because the Doriath people don't talk to any Noldor who aren't Arafinwean, and then there was Murder so uh yeah)
beachcryptid
He probably has a few scattered base phrases in old First Age Khuzdul from the times when they were allied with, and quite possibly even lived with Belegost during the wars
ʝєss
can it be called modern quenya if the shift happened that early in history though i mean come on Fëanor
beachcryptid
not enough to speak it, but enough to probably say hi
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ʝєss : ssh let Feanor be a snob it's his mom's name
ʝєss
drama king
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He probably has a bunch of different accents that he picks up and discards over the years depending on what is least likely to get him kicked out and most likely to earn him coin for meals and bed
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ʝєss : well yes
delatour
ah, the s-shift. the timing on that always confused me
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Turgon speaks Quenya, and High Valinorean Formal Proper Quenya Without That Stupid Lisp at that hilariously, locked away inside Gondolin as they were, he probably sounds really old-fashioned to everyone else
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he can sorta speak Sindarin
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he probably has a funny accent
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Tuor taught him all he knows about Sindarin slang
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Elladan speaks Third Age Sindarin as his cradle tongue, and Westron as his second. His Quenya is a distant third, and hilariously because dad was partially raised by Feanorians, he flips back and forth about the lisp
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He can muddle through old Rohirric, and he's not bad with Adunaic
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Erestor, well, my version of Erestor, speaks Sindarin as his first language, and Feanorian Quenya as his second, except when he's actually in formal situations rather than just speaking quenya informally, in which case he loses the lisp because it would not be politic to use it. He prefers Sindarin though.
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He is fluent in Talliska, Adunaic and now Westron. He can muddle through Rohirric.
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Vaire cheats, she's a goddess, y'all can understand her whatever she says
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she has a very slight bias preference for quenya to sindarin because quenya has more words for brighter colors
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Kaito speaks fluent Jap, high-school level English (possibly even a bit better than that, because he seems the sort to learn things that might be useful for funsies), and may have picked up bits and pieces of other languages as he goes
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Hakuba is bilingual, and speaks both Jap and English well. It would not surprise me if he learnt like. Latin. For funsies.
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Caranthir speaks Feanorian Quenya, and First Age Sindarin. He has a wee bit more first age Khuzdul than his brothers do, and less than Finrod, Friend to Everyone does. Mostly, he knows numbers /cough
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He also speaks the Haladin dialect. For. Reasons.
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Faramir speaks Westron as his first language, and somewhat bastardised Sindarin as his second. He wants to learn Rohirric the first phrase he learns will undoubtedly be I love you and Quenya
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ASK ME ABOUT ANYONE ELSE
𝔞𝔰𝔥 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔬𝔯𝔫
I had somehow missed Feanor almost starting a civil war over his mother's name
𝔞𝔰𝔥 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔬𝔯𝔫
seriously Feanor wtf is wrong with you
beachcryptid
XD
𝔞𝔰𝔥 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔬𝔯𝔫
Eowyn will be happy to teach Faramir Rohirric but suggests he finds another tutor as well as their lessons seem likely to get distracted
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this is indeed true. also, he wants to surprise her when he tells her he loves her in Rohirric
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spoiler: that will work brilliantly
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\o/
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