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Originally Posted by Guinevere
When reading "The Children of Húrin" I noticed that Christopher Tolkien had changed all the "thou"s to "you"! (in the conversations with Glaurung and Gurthang) Why do you think he did that?
Personally I (and my sons) relished thosed quotes from the Silmarillion (e.g. "die now and the darkness have thee!!")
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Perhaps it was in the (unnecessary, to me at least) interest of "modernisation". though that's a mere guess.
I agree that the "archaic" language is in fact a point in favour of the
UT and
Silm versions.