two questions of word choice

[swan_tower]

I have two questions to put to you, my faithful readers, regarding Midnight Never Come. Both are issues of word choice, but on a broad scale.

[Poll #1010219]

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[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

That's why I'm trying to keep it to one word here, another word a page or so later, and only a few words in the entire scene. I'm no more a fan than you are of entire sentences in a foreign language, even when I speak it. (Tolkien can keep his "A Elbereth gilthoniel" or whatever it is, frankly.)