Well, Elves have a rather strange idea of nobility, anyway. It seems to lean heavily toward stabbing.

In the Language Construction Kit, Mark Rosenfelder notes that the Elves must have been "tormented by dyslexia." His point was that the Tengwar letters are all way too similar to each other. Although it also got me thinking of dyslexic fairies and elves, which may explain a few scenes in Scatterstone.

You could be right about the dialect, but I am really not sure ...