The ballot for Tyalië Tyelelliéva's Elvish Poetry prize reached me too late, and unfortunately I haven't been able to vote. However, all these beautiful ...
In the Book of Lost Tales I find Noldoli for later Noldor. Was the "partitve plural" ending -li more common in early qenya than in later/mature quenya? Or is...
... Right... I had ignored these indications in Etymologies until now, but they really appear to be important if one wants to create new compounds [*]. Within...
I was reading a dictionnary elvish-french I had made this summer and I noticed a strange thing. Gondolin (Gond-dolen) is a Sindarin word and the Quenya ...
... I myself sometimes react when people sign off with a "namaarie";. I think Benoit is right; the meaning of this word should hardly be watered down to a...
Some questions I should have answered days ago... ... _Ni_ by its own is attested in the Arctic Sentence in the "Father Christmas Letters". Though these...
( this is a bilingual posting ; tiu dulingva afi^so estas ) Hi elflings , I'd like to inform myself and maybe to compile all the unpublished works you've done...
... Right, I had overlooked that one (hey, another tricky one !) ... Perhaps I am wrong, but I do not think it is a verb, and I would better regard it as a...
Dear friends, I have completed this week-end the short prose text I was written in Quenya and Sindarin, and of which I gave a short extract in one of my...
First I want to announce the winners of the Elvish Language Poetry Prizes, and then report on the Elvish Linguistic Conference. The winners were voted on this...
Hello ! I've just subscribed to the elfling list and would like to introduce myself. My name is David Kiltz. I'm from Muenster/Germany. I've been interested...
Hi everyone! I'm a new suscriber so let me be presented: I live in Québec (the only french province of Canada) and I'm a 14 years old Tolkien fan. I've always...
I'm late getting back to moderate Elfling. I sincerely apologize. We were originally scheduled to return home last Sunday, but the snows over Cara -- er, the...
Mae Govannen! My name is Mathias Hellsten, and I live in Stockholm, Sweden. 19 yrs old and a student of Society Politics at a union school. My interest was...
... Thanks for this clear explanation, which seems very probable. Is there any textual evidence of this process ? (I do not have all the books at hand...
First of all, this is my first post to this group. Regards to everyone and a private hello to the people I already know. In the Quenya corpus, several compound...
Andreas Johansson recently called to my attention what must be an error in Tolkien's discussion of the etymology of the element _aika_, _aeg_. In PM:347,...
Regarding this topic, I was somewhat involved in the initial discussion mentioned by E. Kloczko, and I feel compelled to defend the theory that 'Onyalie...
I had a very interesting discussing with David Salo about Anaxartaron Onyalie a few months ago. First with onyalie. I think it is onya + lie, but "lie" is here...
Tolkien's Elvish languages are, of course, properly spelled using the alphabets (e.g. cirth, tengwar, Rúmilian sarati and other alphabets which remain...
... Yes, final M does become N, if that is what you mean. Cf. a word like _talan_ "floor", pl. _talami_ because the stem is TALAM. ... _Atan_ must be assumed...
In article <v03130301b28a3daeb722@[144.92.180.113]> Dorothea Salo ... Just for information, about half the membership of Elfling is also on TolkLang (and...
Hello to all on this list. I am Jerry Caveney, and am introducing myself in accordance with the invitation to do so that I received upon subscribing. I have...
In mature Quenya, the ending denoting an active participle is _-la_, frequently occurring in the last version of the Markirya poem (e.g. _falastala_ "foaming,...
Elfling Con An Elvish Linguistic Conference On the study of Tolkien's invented languages and alphabets EVERYONE IS WELCOME! The Elvish Language Poetry Prizes...
In the chapter "Treebeard" of The Two Towers, the Ent Treebeard utters two lines of Quenya verse, which run as follows: Laurelindoorenan lindelorendor...
Hey, Elflings! I am just introducing myself as a new subscriber, since the welcome mail encouraged it. Don't worry, I'll be brief. My name is Marie, or more...
Elfling now has over 100 members! Beyond my wildest imaginings. Thanks for joining, all. I'd like to invite Elfling members whose first language is not English...
