I beg your pardon, friends, for having forgotten to add the English version of the message I had sent to the group two days ago. Now I am correcting my...
Hey All, In rereading Vinyar Tenngwar issue 50, I noticed an apparent discrepancy between a form found therein and our assumptions regarding lenition in...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Mar 21, 2013 3:55 am
... ** Tecilyes mai! ... molie. ** Cé _anda_ molie ... lavuvan hyane quenin name qui nas túra! ... Quenyanna. ** Mára ná! I queni hentala ya etécien uar...
It seems to me that he intended _Palurin_ to be a parallel of the word _Catholic_, which carries the sense of universality ("all around the world")....
I was taught the word "Catholic"; is Greek for Universal. So when one speaks of the "Catholic Church," you are referring to the "Universal Body of Christ."...
Sorry for my slow reply. Faelach got it right in how I was using Palurin, even though it was a stretch. If anyone understands how the word is formed (and how...
Hi Sam, p> Menelion, thanks for all the feedback. On "herulva", I was simply p> combining "heru" for "lord" with a first person plural possessive. Is there...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Mar 25, 2013 9:04 pm
... How to Quenyarize names of the kind that (in the nominative) end in -us in Latin and -os in Greek? I have worked my way through various approaches, but I...
Petri Tikka also has sung a number of songs (some he composed himself) in Quenya, that can be found on Youtube. Kind greetings, Harm...
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Mike Adams
abrigon@...
Mar 26, 2013 2:29 pm
Pontius Pilátus, is not his real name but more a title or yes or ... Julius Gaius Caesar is his name and became the title? Gaius - his patrynome/tribal name...
Excuse me ... wrong way round: Gaius Julius Caesar. Gaius was his personal (or first) name, Julius his `nomen gentile' or clan-name, Caesar his family name....
There seems to be a discussion ongoing with regard to this topic on Mellyn Lammath (http://www.sindarin.de/tolkienforum/viewtopic.php?t=1609), though I cannot...
As comments seem to have ended, I have here a new version taking into account what everyone has said. Savinyë Eru, Illúvatar Antaura, i ontaro menelo ar...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Apr 3, 2013 12:14 pm
_ I glinn_ rather than *_i 'linn_ is indeed surprising, unless the basic form is supposed to be *_clinn_, which seems out of the question. Initial G in such...
The Fifth International Conference on J.R.R. Tolkiens Invented Languages, Omentielva Lempea, takes place in Helsinki, Finland, on 8 - 11 August 2013. For...
Hi everyone :-) Please don't kill me with my questions. Firstly how many languages did Tolkien create for Middle Earth and secondly which of these can be...
Dear all, "For Tolkien, the word came before the world. Yet his claim that he created Middle-earth to house his invented languages has served mainly to raise...
This is a tricky question. I suggest you read Helge Fauskanger's answer here: http://folk.uib.no/hnohf/howmany.htm On Apr 27, 2013, at 5:49 AM, Marty Tengco...
Very nice. I only wish now that I had a copy of PM 13. Maybe the republication of your review will inspire the editors to reprint it. ... [Non-text portions of...
Thank you very much for your responses Paul Strack, Palatinus and Mike Adams. I'm checking that article right away [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Hey, I've been looking into writing my name in Tengwar Elvish (common mode, because it is a name I wish for it to duplicate English spelling more or less,...
Nice going! The only definite mistake is your use of Ore for "th" in Beth. You should use the letter Thule which is the tall version of Ore. Also, I noticed...
... Just so. To clarify: the double consonant "ck" can be written as one <quesse> (the last of your two K signs) with a horizontal line written below the bow -...
Mai omentaina, illi! Actually, I need more than two words :-), but now I'm asking your help for the two of them. The first one is "actor" as a theater...
Hi, for 'actor': Tolkien created several compounds with _-maitar_ 'artist' like _lindimaitar_, _nyarnamaitar', so that could be a starting point (I have no...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
May 17, 2013 2:30 am
... you like. The word _tyaro_ is glossed "doer, actor, agent" (Etym, entry KAR). I don't know whether we must insist that the additional glosses "doer" and ...
