In a Tyelkormo moment, it seems I replied too hastily, without rereading your original posting and hence not answering all of the questions. ::sigh::

I meant for the languages to which Carnistir refers to be Elvish languages, as he has no reason to know Valarin. (Although my Nelyo and my Feanor do....) My Ubermost Beta juno_magic has taken issue with this, though, arguing that they are more akin to dialects than separate languages. It seems I have some thinking and some researching to do.

Any thoughts on this? :D