How do you change tone without changing the use of language? That doesn't make any sense to me. Gondor is the last remnant of an ancient people. If someone is writing about, say, Romans and Celts, they use different expressions and turns of phrase when people from those two groups are talking. This is a common literary device. Perhaps it is more pronounced because Tolkien was a philologist and, as such, relied on that device more than others would. Still, it makes sense, at least to me, that people from different areas speak differently. Using archaisms is one way to indicate that the area is older and more formal and traditional, that is all.
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But then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.
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