Alan Lee © 2007 |
One of the strangest sidelights on the long dark tale of Túrin Turambar is perhaps the following:
[F]or indeed the speech of Doriath, whether of the king or others, was even in the days of Túrin more antique than that used elsewhere. One thing (as Mîm observed) of which Túrin never rid himself, despite his grievance against Doriath, was the speech he had acquired during his fostering. Though a Man, he spoke like an Elf of the Hidden Kingdom, which is as though a Man should now appear, whose speech and schooling until manhood had been that of some secluded country where the English had remained nearer that of the court of Elizabeth I than of Elizabeth II.
Tybalt wouldn't stand a chance, but then again no one near Túrin did.(Jewels 312)
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