Thread: “Thee” and “thou” in “The Lord of the Rings”
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Old 08-18-2011, 10:15 AM   #1
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Originally Posted by Selmo View Post
I live just a little to the north of Birmingham, where Tolkien grew up, and my local dialect is similar to the language of that area. In conversation between family and friends we still use familiar pronouns, though when I speak, "thee" sounds more like "thay" and "thine" comes out as "tharn".
That's interesting!

And I don't remember my German well enough at the moment: is it Sie (polite) along with Du familiar?
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