Wow! I missed this on my first drive-by. It's great! I loved the re-telling of the stories (the canon details and the vocabulary); the whole framing is terrific.
I have a terrible soft spot for little boys at the moment and I recognize authenticity when I hear it:
“You really call them yauli?” he asked, in delight. “Like, because they yowl?”
“That’s a good way to remember it,” said Elrond.
“That’s weird,” said Estel.
You nailed the bright little boy in this exchange (well, throughout the whole story). I can hear my grandson saying something exactly like that. I can even hear the cadence. We had a funny similar exchange this very morning.
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Date: 2014-03-31 08:02 pm (UTC)I have a terrible soft spot for little boys at the moment and I recognize authenticity when I hear it:
“You really call them yauli?” he asked, in delight. “Like, because they yowl?”
“That’s a good way to remember it,” said Elrond.
“That’s weird,” said Estel.
You nailed the bright little boy in this exchange (well, throughout the whole story). I can hear my grandson saying something exactly like that. I can even hear the cadence. We had a funny similar exchange this very morning.