Elfthreads!

[DanielH]

Yeah, I think so. I wasn’t disagreeing with him; I was saying that in addition to the Gemino curse being relevant, Hermione’s spell might also be relevant.

[Nemo]

The wiki agrees it was the Gringotts people who cast it on the cup. It also claims it's the same spell as the one Hermione used on the locket and that the copies deteriorate relatively quickly. (This last bit seems not to be sandbox canon, and the source for both of the last two isn't the books.)

I guess it's possible for Voldemort to have guessed ten years in advance what Gringotts employees might do to protect a threatened vault, and then given the Lestranges the Horcrux that'd be historically appropriate, but that seems really tenuous. He's not that smart.

[pedromvilar]

I'm pretty sure "gay" did not exist as a synonym for homosexual in 1802.

[MaggieoftheOwls]

Chalk it up to Milliways translation, maybe?

[lintamande]

Michael, too, looked up future sex stuff! They don't use it in straight 1802 threads.

[DanielH]

If he looked up enough future sex stuff to know that word, how did he not realize that it could apply to girls as well? Also I think Cam should have made him a sex ed book for twelve-year-olds as they left, instead of just remarking on it.

Why did Plez want to die? He hasn’t said (and it looks like he won’t), assuming it isn’t just the voice thing, and I bet there’s a good chance space elves or magic elves or magic wixen can fix it.

[Alicorn]

Plez is in a superposition of tragic backstories until someone asks IC.

[Unbitwise]

Is there a reason-other-than-arbitrary-choice why many of the Elf characters have their names entered in the {S,Th}indarin form even though most of the stories are in times and places that use the Quenya names?

(If I haven't gotten them mixed up myself, anyway; IANATolkienFan.)

[DanielH]

IANATF either, but I think that's how the Silmarillion has them all. It's only later that the Quendi versions were published. The Oath and Doom in the Silmarillion even say Fëanor, I believe.

[lintamande]

Yeah, Chris Tolkien used the Sindarin everywhere when putting the Silm together so lots of fans only know them by those names. I have been inconsistent because laziness.