I'll let you know how it stacks up with Pax. She plops her crystal ball on her lap for notetaking. What do the letters look like?

She flips one of the green notebooks open to a blank page and sketches out the alphabet, uppercase and lowercase.

And Bella etherscapes it all down. Okay, is it so on drugs that there's barely even rules about what letters make which sounds...?

Not quite. Um, so these are uppercase and lowercase versions of the same letter, I know Quenya doesn't do that, I don't know about Pax.

Pax does!

Okay, cool, that's one less thing to explain. So A makes this sound, except when it doesn't, and B makes this sound, and C makes this sound except when it makes this other sound instead, and...

Bella turns out to have all the consonant phonemes except hard "th" and G as in "genre", and most of the vowels; she pronounces some sample words to determine what substitutions she should use while she's working on getting those out unmangled. Pax has stupid letters and stupid letter combinations too, although not the same ones.

There really is something to be said for Quenya.

There really is - Although I think the Pax background is helping me not be too exasperated by the English...

I would not want to be the first one to explain one of these languages to a Quendi, no.

Fëanáro was delighted to learn Pax!

It's a language and he's Feanaro. I don't think that counts.

Fair enough.

He ended up building his house about an hour's walk away from Tirion, and when Imliss went to live in the city to learn things better they corresponded in order for her to keep teaching him the language, and when she said she'd start corresponding when her tengwar penmanship was good enough and he said not to bother waiting she suggested she might just write to him in Kilaiuossari characters and he apparently looked like a puppy who'd just been offered a biscuit.

I can definitely see that.

By all accounts it was utterly adorable.

I'm glad he doesn't outgrow being adorable. It'd be a pity.

Yeah.

Tiny Fëanáro clinging to her textbook as someone tries to take it away! Tiny Fëanáro asleep at his typewriter in Miriel's tapestry!

!!!!!!

You need to show these to Idaia. And Imliss, when she comes to visit.

Will do. When will Imliss visit?

Couple weeks.

Does she know I exist yet?

Probably. I didn't see Idaia call her but she probably has.

Science magic mirrors too?