Well, they were both multi-lingual, or at least bilingual. Aragorn, who was the heir to the throne of Gondor, was fostered by Elrond the Half-Elven and grew up speaking Elvish. There is Sindarin Elvish, which is what Legolas spoke among his own people; and there is Quenya, ancient Elvish. Quenya was mostly out of use by the time that the 'Lord of the Rings' stories took place, although the nobler families still spoke it from time to time. I can't remember what the language of Gondor was called... Gondorian, maybe? :P But Legolas and Aragorn, of course, were able to communicate fluenty with the elves, humans, dwarves, and hobbits that they knew in the Common Tongue.
Also, one of the things that gets thrown around among the fans is a scene in 'The Fellowship of the Ring' when a dwarf, Gimli, insults an elf in the dwarvish tongue and Aragorn tells him, "That was not very nice!" In the original text, this never happened. Even though he was highly educated, Aragorn would probably have been more likely to get hit by lightning three different times than to have been able to understand what Gimli said. Almost nobody other than dwarves would ever learn more than a few words of the dwarves' language simply because the dwarves simply would not teach it to other races.
2007-02-18 17:28:48
·
answer #1
·
answered by Anonymous
·
0⤊
0⤋
Legolas In Elvish
2016-12-18 16:53:32
·
answer #2
·
answered by ? 4
·
0⤊
0⤋
Legolas for writing. Aragorn for reading. Aragorn is such a deep character with interesting past and personal struggles that capture the attention and hold it. Legolas' past is empty and unknown witch give him a different, almost mysterious appeal.
2016-03-18 02:40:13
·
answer #3
·
answered by Anonymous
·
0⤊
0⤋
Aragorn was brought up in the house of Elrond Half-Elven, who was Galadriel's son-in law. Galadriel was one of the Noldor who had rebelled against the Valar to make war on Morgoth after he stole the Silmarils from Feanor, thousands of years before Aragorn was born and hundreds of years before Elrond was born.
Elrond was born in Beleriand, of Sindarin, Maian and human ancestry but was captured as a child and raised by the brothers of Feanor who were very definitely Noldor. The Eldarin languages of Beleriand were have been Noldorin and Sindarin.
So Aragorn would have been familiar with Noldorin.
Legolas was Sindarin from Mirkwood - Greenwood the Great. Legolas' dad was from Doriath in Beleriand and he was Sindarin. So Legolas weould have used Sindarin at home but probably knew Noldorin and obviously Westron.
Aragorn most likely could speak Noldorin, Sindarin and the Westron and the language of the Khazad.
Aragorn and Legolas probably conversed in Sindarin, but possibly Noldorin. Arwen and Aragorn probably spoke Noldorin together.
2007-02-18 23:18:44
·
answer #4
·
answered by Anonymous
·
0⤊
1⤋
If you have bothered to read the book, you can see that Tokien
created not just the story itself, but created an entire Elvish language as well. J.R.R.Tolkien was a professor of English and as such was eminently capable and up to the task.
2007-02-18 18:03:32
·
answer #5
·
answered by charliecizarny 5
·
0⤊
0⤋
The language of the common folk. Different from Elvin or Orc or even Hobbit, although the common folk, like men and Hobbits, understood each other.
2007-02-18 17:17:46
·
answer #6
·
answered by Anonymous
·
0⤊
0⤋
Elvish.
2007-02-18 17:22:05
·
answer #7
·
answered by Nikki :) 3
·
0⤊
0⤋
Elvish.
2007-02-18 17:16:53
·
answer #8
·
answered by Aimie 1
·
0⤊
0⤋
I do believe it is Quenya, the oldest form of Elvish
2007-02-18 17:18:14
·
answer #9
·
answered by Anonymous
·
0⤊
0⤋
the language the elves speak!
2007-02-19 09:24:03
·
answer #10
·
answered by ? 5
·
0⤊
0⤋