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...If you want to make it look swoopier I can teach you cursive but that's basically two more entire versions of the alphabet. This is pretty much illegible.

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It needs to be pretty, though, it's my name!

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Well, these are the letters you've got to work with, in English, and your name doesn't invite a ton of spelling creativity... Mine looks like this. She writes, "Isabella". But I just go by the 'Bella' part.

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Yours is pretty.

Let me try again.

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So Bella does.

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She takes more care with the letters this time.

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I can read that one!

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Good! I'll keep trying.

And she does. They're all pretty. Only some are legible but they trend that way as she practices.

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Bella will give her feedback on the letters, and come up with more words for her to write, sticking as best she can to things with regular spelling ("nut" and "berry" yes, "salmon" no.)

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Nut! Berry! Melian? Doriath?

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Bella will invent spellings for these!

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Thingol? Daeron? Saeros? Beleg? Mablung?

Noldor? Maedhros?

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"Maedhros" is hard because English mostly doesn't mark the voiced and unvoiced "th" distinction but not marking it will make English speakers pronounce it wrong, but she can fudge it with a D, and then people would probably pronounce it wrong but differently?

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Okay! I could also be wrong about how it's pronounced, he's the leader of the Kinslayers and they communicate with Doriath through sending a letter and someone to read it at the border...

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I'd assume their letter-reader could pronounce his name.

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Yeah but I am not allowed to travel to the borders. So it's all undergone some retelling by the time it reaches me. My cousin's a Noldo and she is allowed in Doriath so I talk to her all the time, but she was nearly killed in the massacre and knew lots of people who were and she doesn't like talking about the people who did it, except to occasionally say mean things while sounding like she wants to cry, which I understand but don't take too literally.

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Makes sense. Who are the other people?

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Thingol is a title people started affectionately using for my father. It means 'grey cloak' because he wore one, before there was a Sun. We didn't bother coloring clothing back then, why would you? The Noldor call us the Thindar, which means 'grey people', because we were dressed all in grey. They were dressed all in purples. She giggles. Everyone else is people I know from back home.

Maedhros gave the rule of the whole east continent to his little brothers, I should remember their names too but I'm not sure I do. Maglor? Celegorm?

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Bella writes them down. (She spells the latter with a K.)

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Cirdan? Finrod? Galadriel? Fingolfin?

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Galadriel's a pretty name. Spell spell. Cirdan gets a K initial too.

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She's the friend I told you about who is a Noldo but lives in Doriath. They spared her in the massacre because even though she was fighting for the other side and trying to stop them, she was a Noldo herself.

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Wow, racist. I mean, sparing people because of racism is better than killing them for that reason but still.

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Yeah.

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If you can just infinitely power the wish generator - maybe your world has different rules and it won't work but maybe it will and it can do resurrection.

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