The political memoirs of Lord Úron
My lord and his lady think they are being very discreet.
Literally everyone knows what they are up to. Queen Arwen remarked that the flow of notes passed between the two of them seemed never ending. Prince Legolas, with his keen Elven hearing, remarked that Lady Éowyn seemed to have acquired quite an extensive and highly colloquial grasp of Sindarin. It is always hard to tell with Elves, but I swear he and the queen exchanged what I can only describe as a "knowing look" at this point.
I am so glad I took Princess Ivriniel's advice and learned some Rohirric. She told me that language was the key to diplomacy, and without an understanding of one's ally's language (or that of one's foes, for that matter) one could not understand them.
It means I overhear all manner of things because no-one thinks to lower their voice in my company.
And it turns out that not only the Gondorian contingent, but the whole of Edoras have a pretty good idea of what they are up to. I heard Lady Hilde say to Lord Erkenbrand's wife "Best listen at the door to the solar for a moment before you go in – you wouldn't want to interrupt anything."
And I heard one of the stable hands say to his comrades "Bloody hell, I thought all those Gondy bastards were right poofs, but they were at it hard in the hay loft, and he can keep it up for bloody ages. Made her come two or three times."
Mind you, it transpired later that the stable hand's dismissive reference to poofs was a case of a man who doth protest too much. In fact he turned out to have no objection whatsoever to Gondy poofs. A saucy young man indeed. And very comely. Such beautiful blond hair. Not just on his head, either, which I found excitingly exotic. And I was able to show him that Gondy poofs could also keep it up for bloody ages. As indeed (so it turns out) can Rohirric poofs.
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AN – I think of this headcanon as having a lot of social attitudes in common with Britain circa 1950, and therefore the language Úron chooses to use of himself is a "reclamation" of a slur, used knowingly and ironically, as it would have been by men of that generation.