A/n it's the weekend finally! This week has been full of coursework and mountains of homework. I'm so tired! It doesn't help that I have to compete with an idiot of a brother to get on this, big deal if I'll be on the computer till 1am, think of all the time he gets during the week! Stupid siblings
Little Elf
Chapter Ten
28th December 3016
Elle was sitting quietly in the library reading a child's book. She had picked up the language quite easily but the writing in the Angerthas had to be changed into the characters she recognised. Then these letters had to be sorted into Sindarin words, which were then turned into English.
This took quite a long time and with the combined effort of Elle's memory and a table with the Angerthas Elle had read a total of ten pages in the last two hours.
It didn't help that whoever had written this book hadn't the best hand writing in the world and the occasional word was smudged.
Elle frowned looking at a letter *is it an à or an é?*
"It's an é."
Elle looked up, surprised to see Lady Galadriel there "Hi."
"How has your study in the language of Sindarin gone?"
"It would be easier if you used an alphabet, but I don't mind. It's nice to use my brain after two hours of tedious sword play."
"Alphabet?" Galadriel asked
"It's an order of letters. They're taught in the same order in practically every country of my world."
"But what does this order mean?"
"Nothing, it just helps for learning pronunciation of letters. It also helps for dictionaries when looking for the spelling of words. All dictionaries are in the same order."
"What order does this alphabet go?"
Elle smiled briefly "a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z. My language is so much easier. We actually include the vowels when we write words down. You lot just omit them, then I have to add them and work out if it's a, e, i, o, u or y. Then there's the pronunciation thing. I read the words differently. A 'C' is pronounced as a 'K', so when I try and say the words I have to compensate for that and I'm generally confused.
"I'd have thought with millennia to work out all of this stuff that you'd have a language that someone can work out, or do you make it so complicated purposely so that only those with a lot of time on their hands can learn? I'm not even going to start on your screwed up calendar."
"So you're having fun then?" Galadriel murmured dryly
"Yeah, apart from the sword fighting. But I know that's important that I learn it if I want to explore the big, bad world."
"I'm glad to see that you're humouring my husband. You'll be glad to know that you will be having a shorter sword play lesson. We said that you were here for healing. So you would need to know the healing that a normal elf" Elle grimaced "would know. So you're going to have your first lesson with me next week."
"As in next 6 day week, or a normal seven day week?"
"Six. You'll have three hours with me a day. Two hours sword play and one of archery."
"Joy, when are these…erm lessons going to start each day?"
"Six, not two early. You'll have breakfast at about five."
"Five?" Elle whispered two herself weakly *Well at least I'm an elf*
"Indeed it is. I'll now leave you to read or at least try to read the book."
Elle smiled a goodbye and Galadriel left.
A/n I'm trying to remember why I wrote this chapter originally. I can't work it out for the life of me.
You may be interested to know that in the hour it has taken me I've already had a fight over surprise, surprise the computer. He turned it off by the switch just as I was about to finish the chapter and I lost all of it! So I had to retype it all again.
Wells seeing as I couldn't reply to the reviews for chapter eight I'll start with them:
Fang: You like Mithglin? Well thank you! I like him too, hard getting his character from my head to paper though. Maddy and I are really similar? Never really thought about it that way. I dunno what she's been saying to you, only nice things I hope!
KindCalypso: Italian? I wish they'd but Sindarin on the school syllabus! It's much more useful!
Lady Sorcha of seven waters: Because I'd of put both the French version and the translation, imagine! All 12 verses!
Cassie-bear-01: It's funny? I should hope so makes face I'm generally a funny person (I'm sure my friends beg to differ!) and I'm glad that come through in the story.
Wizardess girl: I'm glad (as said b4) that it's funny!
Larissa: Don't worry I'm sure there's dignity somewhere lol. A Mithglin/Elle or Haldir/Elle? You'll just have to wait in see, everyone has to hehe, well apart from my beta no correction editor as she likes to be called hi mads!
Grim and evil: Thank you, I'm glad I got hold of it too! Unfortunately* grimaces* I haven't got very far, I believe most people would generally call it chapter one of the Quenya Silmarillion. I have read the two before it and the letters from Chris Tolkien. I know I'm really bad! I've been reading the amber spy glass instead 'Bad Gwil, bad gwil!' You like the new 'elfy' guy? Lol, it's Mithglin! It means grey eyes!
Lucy: I'm glad you're loving it"
Answers to reviews from Chapter nine:
Fang: As always? I'm glad that you think all my chapters are good, I personally don't like this chapter (10). Elle and Haldir would be a sweet couple? I suppose they could be but then again so could Elle/Mithglin! No I'm not going to give anything away! Maddy's right, not sorta we're sorta in the beginning of the middle of the beginning if that made any sense at all?
Cassie-bear-01: Well you'll be glad that I'm continuing!
…: Yeah! Finally I've been told the story is a Mary Sue! I've been waiting so long for someone to say that! I was actually expecting someone to tell me that a lot earlier! Being natural at archery doesn't come over night? Yes I'll agree with that, but who said she wasn't born with the potential? Also, just for the record my first ever archery lesson I got a bulls eye for my first shot. Does that make me a Mary Sue? I suppose that does make it a Mary Sue if I'm comparing her to me, or am I getting dredged down in Harry Potter Mary Sues now?. Though the only thing that Elle and me have in common is well nothing and well maybe a hatred of brothers.
Justagirl: You're confused? He could speak English! If you read to the end of ch1 you'd have seen that he talks to Elle in English! The brushing hair thing was a bit odd I will admit, I suppose the reason I put it in there was to show that Elle was at ease with them even though they didn't know who she was. 'They would probably kill an intruder, especially if they thought she was a human at first.' Well I don't, personally, think that elves are cold-hearted killers that kill anything that moves in their forests. But that's my personal opinion. Why didn't they kill the fellowship when they arrived in Lorien? Because Galadriel was expecting, how do you know that the lady of the wood was not expecting Elle? I also think that Elves wouldn't just kill a women walking through a forest, human or not. She was after defenceless and wasn't exactly acting suspiciously, just… walking.
Wells I believe I've answered everything that was written in all the reviews in any shape or form!
So please read and review!
Gwilwileth