In Letters (letter 25) Tolkien states that Many Dwarves had been given scandinavian names because too many names in their own language " would be alarming". ...
In a letter about the customs of Hobbits (#214 in Carpenter's _Letters_) Tolkien coins a word for "a person celebrating his/her birthday": the word in what...
... Sorry, no words for "whether" or "if" occur in the published material. This is one of the most annoying gaps in our knowledge. - Helge Fauskanger ... ...
I'm seeing enough posts on this that it seems worth asking the larger group in a reasonably anonymous context. So I've re-enabled polls, and set one up to ask...
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... HMMM. I guess I intended to say 'genitive dual', and the text should have read 'quameto'... I am no so sure about what I originally meant, though. ... "Did...
CALENDAR OF IMLADRIS I made some researshes and by crossing datas from the lord of the ring apendixes, i got this: the elvish year (loa) is composed this way: ...
Well, guess what, folks -- Yahoo seems to have caved. Their current TOS reads (from http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/geoterms.html): 7. CONTENT SUBMITTED TO...
Hi, I've just popped in to collect my mail, (yes yes from Yahoo!), when I noticed all this stuff about GeoCities/Yahoo.. This is all very off-topic but I...
... **could you please give a context for these? Quenya and Sindarin are actual languages, not just code systems for shifting one set of sounds to another set...
yello' it's so cool i finally reach people that could be as found as i am of middle earth lands and quendya. i'm whish to exchange short texts, poems, etc......
... **In my opinion, you should move to another site. They have been having other problems also, which I think is an indication of an overall problem not just...
This is a long post. Today, some important pieces of the murder mistery will be unveiled... But not yet the whole story. ... I'll first translate what 'Ainon'...
The name _Ecthelion_ made it into both LotR and Quenta Silmarillion, but it can't be what we'd call "pure mature" Sindarin. For a start, the element _ecthel_...
In a message dated 99-07-01 19:30:28 EDT, you write: << If Yahoo were to enforce such a policy it would result in loosing most of the customers that Geocities...
... **Considering the reports that Yahoo just did a site grab in which it is trying to lay claim to all intellectual property on all formerly geocities web...
With the thinking I've been doing about the possible objective in Khuzdul, I've noticed something that I would think would cause problems. I don't think we...
Alright, here's my first attempt to write something in Quenya. It's a poem, or will be when it's finished, but for now I just have a few lines. I wanted to get...
Suilad! Some of you may have seen this before, but there is a Yahoo! club for Tolkienian languages, with links, and a chat room, if you have a Yahoo! account...
Quoting David Kiltz from quite a while ago: "Though 'mazarb' can of course be interpreted as: place of records, I'd prefer the 'thing' meaning; thus: thing(s)...
I have been giving much thought lately to the -u in Khuzdul, as in "felak-gundu". I have posted before that I felt it acted like an 's. However, I have read...
Aiya ilye I haven't been a student of Quenya for long so I'm not quite sure I should be doing this, but... <-Elfling member profile-> Esse: Gregory Victor Dyke...
**This is not exactly on topic for a linguistics list, but in the interest of the free flow of information, I thought people might want to know about this call...
This will be my last posting for a while.. I'm not going to have net access until I get to UMIST in september, so this is farewell.. "See you on the flip...
Suilad ui Galadorn Ai, Mae govannen! Help, help, help! Who knows what does _Rerir_ means (Mt Rerir in _The Silmarillion_)? I'm looking for any idea about the...
... Imaginary languages built on a word-per-word translation (i.e. where a given English word matches with exactly one word in the invented language) are...
Aiya! I'm stopped by the lack of a logical word pair for "one [thing] - another [thing]" in Quenya. Could you help me, please? Namaarie! S.Y., Elenhil...
Aiya! I need to know how strong early mannish languages were influenced by elven ones. Is it correct to say that primitive human dialects were almost replaced...
