At 09:39 21.6.2000 +0000, Greg Dyke wrote:
>Quenya
>is modeled on Finnish phonology

More like Finnish and Spanish, with a helping of Greek.

>while Sindarin has
>a distinctly welsh sound to it.

Again with a heavy spicing of Old and Middle English.

Finno-Quenya:

Aija eltalie ar atanatari. Auta i luome, utuulien aure.



/BP

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