Subject: #SuperiorInSindarin
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Posted on: 2018-01-31 13:44:00 UTC

LOL: Lam Orchall 'Ladha [echoing voice of superior laughter]

This phrase invokes the haughty laugh of, say, Feanor, preferably right before his comeuppance. It's a twofold acronym: it both describes the laugh, but also describes something worth laughing at (Sindarin speakers being quite happy to see Noldorin pride come before Noldorin fall).

Oh, and...

#AwesomeInAdunaic

LOL: Lôkhî Ob Lômi [crooked before nightfall]

This is a Numenorean idiom. It describes the practice of getting a little tipsy (or 'crooked') before night comes, which was viewed as preferable to getting blind drunk after it got dark. So it means 'drunk, but in a good, friendly way'. (Look, there's only two L- words in Adunaic, I'm struggling here.)

#OwfulInOrcish

LOL: Lug, Olog, Lug [tower, troll, tower]

Or, as the old story goes, "Bagronk the Uruk was caught between an enemy tower and an angry troll. So what does old Bagronk do? He fights the troll! He kills it! But what does he find? There's another tower right behind him! Har har har!"

(This story, and others like it, is extremely popular among the smaller breeds of Orc. It is distinctly less popular among the larger Uruks, who have a tendency to tear off the heads of those they hear telling it.)

And Agent Râmwê would never forgive me if I didn't include:

#ProperInPrimitiveQuendian

LOL: Lindâ Oijâ Lauka [sweet, endless warmth]

The only true description of laughter, as he would say, if he was willing to speak any language other than Primitive Quendian, which he isn't.

hS

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