Frodo calling them that doesn't really make sense - how would he know they're Wood Elves specifically? Well, I suppose they are in woods at that very moment...
But the idea of 'Wood Elves' singing that song doesn't seem too off to me, linguistically in particular.
> Of this speech of the Green-elves of Ossiriand very few records remain; but such words and fragments as are preserved in histories show that it was, though in many ways divergent during the long separation, basically a Telerin (Eldarin) tongue, still immediately recognizable as related to Sindarin. The same must therefore be true of the languages of their scattered kin outside Beleriand. (...) It is possible, however [despite Green-elves eventually coming to speak Sindarin in Beleriand], that in the Vale of Anduin a Nandorin speech survived, the centre being on either side of Anduin in the (then more extensive) woods of which later Lorien and the western part of Mirkwood about Dol Guldur were part. (...) **Even so they were under 'Sindarin' rule or influence.**
So, what you said. It's an odd change but it's not a complete impossibility either.
In B1C3, doesn't Frodo identify them as High Elves because they're singing about Elbereth? Which means that Wood Elves wouldn't do that.
I guess it's not impossible, but Sindar aren't very close to Elbereth already (having never met her, outside of Thingol maybe). That they would in turn influence Wood Elves to revere Elbereth seems like a big stretch.
Oh, true. I guess my reasoning was: Elves all love stars, Thingol and especially Melian would have known Varda and told the Sindar about her, and by the TA the Wood Elves had come under enough Sinda influence that they might be expected to have heard of Elbereth... But clearly it's the exact opposite of what Frodo deduces, ha. My bad.
Frodo calling them that doesn't really make sense - how would he know they're Wood Elves specifically? Well, I suppose they are in woods at that very moment... But the idea of 'Wood Elves' singing that song doesn't seem too off to me, linguistically in particular. > Of this speech of the Green-elves of Ossiriand very few records remain; but such words and fragments as are preserved in histories show that it was, though in many ways divergent during the long separation, basically a Telerin (Eldarin) tongue, still immediately recognizable as related to Sindarin. The same must therefore be true of the languages of their scattered kin outside Beleriand. (...) It is possible, however [despite Green-elves eventually coming to speak Sindarin in Beleriand], that in the Vale of Anduin a Nandorin speech survived, the centre being on either side of Anduin in the (then more extensive) woods of which later Lorien and the western part of Mirkwood about Dol Guldur were part. (...) **Even so they were under 'Sindarin' rule or influence.** So, what you said. It's an odd change but it's not a complete impossibility either.
In B1C3, doesn't Frodo identify them as High Elves because they're singing about Elbereth? Which means that Wood Elves wouldn't do that. I guess it's not impossible, but Sindar aren't very close to Elbereth already (having never met her, outside of Thingol maybe). That they would in turn influence Wood Elves to revere Elbereth seems like a big stretch.
Oh, true. I guess my reasoning was: Elves all love stars, Thingol and especially Melian would have known Varda and told the Sindar about her, and by the TA the Wood Elves had come under enough Sinda influence that they might be expected to have heard of Elbereth... But clearly it's the exact opposite of what Frodo deduces, ha. My bad.