#i like the cringefail/hick twink legolas headcanon

[tathrin]

What's your idea on spoken Silvan? With multiple sources, depending on what's read it could be a language shift happened and it's no longer a spoken language. Or that the language spoken in Mirkwood is not Sindarin but related to it, implying Silvan but also could be a creole. With Tolkien's writing there's probably another version somewhere.

omg I love that you think that *I* am somehow the sort of Tolkien Expert who should be asked questions like this, no. No my friend, alas, I am soooo far from the right choice here. (But I'm flattered that I've posted enough LotR stuff to somehow trick you. Also, sorry.)

(You want original SW minutia, old EU canon stuff? I will stack myself up against pretty much anybody, sure. I can say "I have forgotten more about Star Wars than you will ever know" to folks and just actually be lamenting details that I'm fuzzy on rather than gatekeeping, I'm not kidding. But Tolkien? Oh my stars friend, no, I am so very much an unread novice in these waters.)

That said...my COMPLETELY unfounded off-the-cuff answer, based entirely on the Lórien scene of Fellowship and meta that I've read other people post, is that the language spoken in Mirkwood is Sindarin, but with such heavy Silvan influence and accent that it's almost unrecognizable to those who don't speak Sindarin as a first/primary language themselves or who've never heard that dialect before.

That said: somebody who actually knows what they're talking about instead of just pulling nonsense out of their ass, please share your ideas with the anon here thank you.