Saw a post about grammatical gender and other languages than English, (the origin of the discussion begins with "what if alien languages didn't have gender information in their pronouns" and the fact that many people didn't know much of languages outside english (so I suppose they weren't very original in their what ifs..))
BUT ANYWAY
This is a tangent to talk about grammatical gender in "Faunish" which doesn't ever appear in Spellworth or won't be ever mentioned but is still canon in my mind.
Here are the grammatical genders:
Faun
Inanimate-1 (small related)
Inanimate-2 (big related)
Animate pronouns (almost all of animals, some plants and some concepts like the sun)
... still interested ? I have to say there is light spoiler ahead about where the fauns come from, which is kinda a big question in Spellworth, but if you're not afraid, you can go on
Other people (non fauns) : "displaced" (aka they are in the fauns world)
Other people (non fauns) : the rest, who are in their own worlds and interacts with fauns through portals/spell circles
Now... they still have social genders, and they're not perfect, some fauns may not identify with any of them or several, but this is not the norm. Here they are:
those who birthed a child (1st gender)
those who didn't (2nd gender)
those who didn't but extensively care for them (3rd gender)
First gender are usually those in power (yeah, kinda "matriarchal" society, even if the concept is not a 1-1 from english).
Fun fact, in Spellworth, the people usually interacting with fauns traditionally use she/her for fauns of the first gender and he/him for fauns of the second gender, regardless of their phenotype (also... they don't interact much with fauns of the 3rd gender... they don't even know it exists). The fauns could not care less how they are referred to in english.
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thank you to spellworth on AO3 for participating in Tolkien Gen Week! I could find some of your works on @ao3feed-silmarillion, but not all. here is the first!
