I think you would like knowing this—a week or two after I first read The Goblin Emperor, we did Come Thou Fount at church and I started tearing up because…because…I got to sing to my Lord in the personal form of address! It was so intimate! He invites me to be His child and speak to my father!! (I don’t think that was how it was intended when it was written but I was enjoying how it would be implied in The Goblin Emperor-verse, lol. Because that WOULD be very meaningful! I am His child by adoption.)
That is really neat! And thou actually is the old second person informal that English ditched along the way (you used to be formal), so by a very interesting twist of linguistics, you are probably experiencing the hymn in the same way that the writers intended it to be experienced, which we have lost along the way! Now, I'm not sure English was ever as formal as Ethuverazin, but you're at least in the right ballpark in a way that I think few modern people ever are.
