"Holiness" seemed a bit too lofty, to my mind, given the context. I welcome opinions on that point.
The DM heartily approves of the use of "holiness." In the Pandë!verse, there are plenty of blatant religious references similar to that(cf. Downfallen and Into This Wild Abyss). Prior to writing those, I had read not a few fics that addressed Sauron in Numenor that also played on the religious angle but these heavily (and quite uncomfortably) alluded to Islam in certain imagery. My knee jerk response was to incorporate, ummmm, little nods to another Abrahamic religion that the original author of the source texts embraced. So "your holiness" is spot-on. Mairon is, after all, the high priest.
DM: You could say I was darker version of Elmer Gantry.
All righty then...the DM and I must return to our "doom and gloom" documents. ;^)
p.s. Love the snippet. I now hear Aidan Gillen whenever your Mairon speaks, and I CLEARLY hear that voice here!
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Date: 2014-06-18 04:41 pm (UTC)The DM heartily approves of the use of "holiness." In the Pandë!verse, there are plenty of blatant religious references similar to that(cf. Downfallen and Into This Wild Abyss). Prior to writing those, I had read not a few fics that addressed Sauron in Numenor that also played on the religious angle but these heavily (and quite uncomfortably) alluded to Islam in certain imagery. My knee jerk response was to incorporate, ummmm, little nods to another Abrahamic religion that the original author of the source texts embraced. So "your holiness" is spot-on. Mairon is, after all, the high priest.
DM: You could say I was darker version of Elmer Gantry.
All righty then...the DM and I must return to our "doom and gloom" documents. ;^)
p.s. Love the snippet. I now hear Aidan Gillen whenever your Mairon speaks, and I CLEARLY hear that voice here!