It is now long since I read that part (re-reading LotR at the moment, but am currently in Lothlórien), I don't think I ever thought of it when I last read it.
However, when you mentioned it I also started to think of it in the same way as Galadel did: they (/Tolkien) were trying to make the very grave and hopeless situation lighter (both for themselves and for the reader).
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Auta i lomë! Aurë entuluva!
"Take no heed! We speak as is right, and as King Finwë himself did before he was led astray. We are his heirs by right and the elder house. Let them sá-sí, if they can speak no better."
-Son of the Therindë
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