Elvish languages

Yeah.

Okay, so, Commander Elrond leads the charge with High King Gil-galad and the cavalry, but the sight of a caged Galadriel with a knife at her neck causes them all to halt abruptly, probably thanks to Osanwe and good Elvish communication with their horses.

Adar welcomes Elrond in English to a parley.

Elrond believes that Adar is doing Sauron's bidding by laying siege to Eregion, but Adar insists that Eregion has already fallen under the shadow, and that he and Elrond should join forces together to defeat the deceiver.

But despite this, there's still loss there.

grievous loss and you know even the elves need to recognize that so it's been interesting watching how the showrunners have presented these different cultures via their rituals around death

yeah Tolkien says in some one of his writings that might have been the nature of Middle Earth that the separation of the Hróa from the Féa itself was an intense pain because it was not natural And I think that's been in the back of their minds whenever they do depict Elvish death.

Think again, the first episode, I think, of the first season.

And a million years later, when Peter Jackson died, decided to make the film The Lord of the Rings, my favorite book, into a movie practically on my doorstep in Wellington, I thought, you know, what the heck? I'll give them a call.

What I did is I made a sample piece of Elvish calligraphy and sent it to them in the post.

And my phone rang immediately.

Mr. Reeve, this is Three Foot Six Film Company on the line.

So a hobby level, entry level kind of familiarity with calligraphy, and a fledgling art career where I had already become tired of the rat race of working in a bank and suits and ties and what have you.

so it was in my head there was an art career ahead of me but um the Lord of the Rings connection kind of kicked it into gear and um it took off from there so the threads were there but it all came together at that point

yeah yeah it was the thing that nudged you forward and In terms of scripts, I'd love to dig into this a little bit more, but was Elvish was the kind of, I was going to say the audition, that's not the right, the sample, the example that you use, but was that the sort of start of then deciding what other scripts were needed? And did that kind of just spin off from there?

The Elvish I assumed was what I would be doing all along.

We do also have some notes in Beren and Lúthien from Christopher Tolkien where he does explain that Thu was eventually changed to Sauron.

It says here, Thu the necromancer, greatest of the servants of Morgoth, dwelling in the elvish watchtower on Tol Sirion, later named Sauron.

And if we look at his chapter, or his mention, his first mention as Tevildo, we've got here.

Therefore, now he gave orders for Beren and made a thrall of Tevildo, prince of cats.

Atticop comes from the Old English.

Attocop.

which roughly means poison head which is a pretty good name for for a spider actually and lob and cob are old words for spider too so cob is where we get cobweb and then when tolkien named shelob he didn't invent some you know complicated elvish name he took she and lob she spider and that's it the man invented entire languages and he basically called her lady spider And he did it on purpose.

So he explains in a letter to his son Christopher, and it's the letter where he basically reports the chapters that he's just finished.

So you've got Gandalf and Aragorn, and an elf looking with a kind of whimsical look.

You know, the fleeting signs of whimsy, the only beautiful, sad, you know, the sort of Elvish look.

It's like this kind of amazing sort of...

Yeah, it's all there.