I think it's English being stupid, not you - silly Germanic language without the German order and reason :)

Your words, not mine! *g*
You know, I'm always surprised that I still got grief for my grammar from nitpicky readers while supposedly beta-ed supposedly native speakers disfugure the language a lot more. When I see "would of"s instead "would have", I could scream. Not to mention the unholy trinity of there/their/they're. I swear, I don't butcher my English homonymes half as much as the people whose mother tongue it is often do.

thank you for calling me nice names

Well, you deserve it. We pervy Thranduil-fanciers need to stick together. *g*