[Dominique]

Can someone please answer the following questions. It is for a story that i will write in the future and i do not know what someone things are called. I may have more questions later on. Thanx!

1. Do she elves have bras or panties?
2. What do you call a dress, back in ME?
3.What do you call the rooms, the dining room, and other places when in ME?

[daw]

Tolkien doesn't tell us about his characters' underwear, but if you see ME as analogous to England in the Middle Ages, you can spectulate based on that. Here's a web site from the Society for Creative Anachronism that will tell you more than you ever wanted to know about medieval underwear.


http://www.florilegium.org/files/CLOTHING/underwear-msg.html

Opinions vary, but the most common answer is that women did not wear panties. However, sometimes chemises (a sort of slip) did seem to have cups sewn in them. Moreover, pictures sometimes show women with a band like thing that could flatten or support breasts, depending on what the style was.

The names of room vary depending on whether you're talking about a hobbit hole or a palace or a flet in Lorien. Hobbits seem to use pretty mundane words: parlor, for instance. The mightier folks seem to use terms like the Great Hall, for the space where court was held and then everyone dined when tables were moved in later. But you can probably adjust that. Maybe families had private spaces too.

Hope this helps.

daw

[Silreth]

The bedrooms could be called chambers and I believe dresses are called dresses, gowns or robes.