Does anyone know where I can find a site dealing with Khuzdul or another form of expanded Black Speech? I'm trying to design a language based on this, with a...
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Mark
nocturnile@...
Aug 9, 1999 1:01 am
... Tolkien's Literature doesn't seem to have given too much information out on the Ringwraiths, aside from the Witch King. But from MERP (Middle-earth Role ...
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Irene A Gates
112321.3163@...
Aug 9, 1999 2:03 am
... You will find it much easier to write Quenya poetry in a metre which does not require a line-final stressed syllable, since Quenya has few one-syllable...
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Lisa Star
amlug2@...
Aug 9, 1999 11:21 pm
brian@... (Or something like that, attribution lost) had ... **Well, speaking as a person who went out and got a legal opinion in response to all the...
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Robert Brady
robert@...
Aug 9, 1999 11:21 pm
... I think that is from "UNFINISHED TALES". ... Yeah. The problem with the information above is that ICE made it up. Anything they make up has as much...
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Paul Curran
psmc@...
Aug 10, 1999 11:24 pm
... I am not a lawyer either, but unless the threats come from JRRTolkien's estate I would think they would be more bark than bite. After all it is hard,...
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Brian J. Ackermann
brianj@...
Aug 10, 1999 11:24 pm
**A question that I had, would be how would you deal with the diacritics? In order to be searchable, people would have to be able to key in the diacritics in...
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Marcus Smith
smithma@...
Aug 11, 1999 11:40 pm
... I have much of the Qenya Lexicon databased with Notes, providing information such as English translations, alternative forms, Part of Speech, stem ...
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Boris Shapiro
elenhil@...
Aug 11, 1999 11:40 pm
Aiya! Does anybody know a word for "garden" in Quenya? Preferably meaning a place for cultivating flowers, not vegetables etc. Namaarie! S.Y., Elenhil...
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Lisa Star
amlug2@...
Aug 11, 1999 11:41 pm
... **The estate has never made any statement that I know of on the subject of languages or alphabets. All threats came from third parties. ... **I'll try to...
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Lisa Star
amlug2@...
Aug 11, 1999 11:41 pm
... **Oh, it's Brian Ackerman... ... hm, that seems a bit difficult for quenya which is relatively limited in consonants, especially in comparison to English...
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Ales Bican
bican@...
Aug 11, 1999 11:41 pm
... **It's interesting idea to make online dictionary. Question is whether it isn't in a contradiction with law. I think it isn't difficult for a programmer. ...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Aug 12, 1999 10:37 pm
... The Qenya lexicon has "tarwa", but this is from an obsolete root TAD with no parallels in the later Quenya; it is close in meaning to PEL, however. Peler,...
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Brian J. Ackermann
brianj@...
Aug 12, 1999 10:37 pm
Here are the workings for SOUNDEX: `0 = a, e, h, i, o, u, y, w `1 = b, p, f, v `2 = c, s, k, g, j, q, x, z `3 = d, t `4 = l `5 = m, n `6 = r Case 0 are vowels...
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Brian J. Ackermann
brianj@...
Aug 12, 1999 10:37 pm
**I'm not trying to bore everyone with a technical discussion, but if we could find a way to work this out it would be of great use to everyone. From my view,...
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Brian J. Ackermann
brianj@...
Aug 12, 1999 10:37 pm
**[snip] But what words to use? From which sources? Any source at all will 'work' Your arguments are very good, but at present, my data is not as good as all...
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Brian J. Ackermann
brianj@...
Aug 12, 1999 10:37 pm
Hrm...a text export of that lotus DB you have could perhaps be useful to me.... For entry into the online quenya db... BJA ... From: Marcus Smith...
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Brian J. Ackermann
brianj@...
Aug 12, 1999 10:38 pm
Well, since there seems to be a good deal of interest in this database of mine, I thought prudent to come up with a name for it. So, now lets open up the...
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Brian J. Ackermann
brianj@...
Aug 12, 1999 10:38 pm
Hrm.... Well, if lassė = leaf and olassiė = collection of leaves perhaps you can create a collection of flowers? olotsiė ?? ... From: Boris Shapiro...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Aug 12, 1999 10:38 pm
Just two random ideas of mine: 1) Tolkien may have decided on _lįve_ (_la've_) as the past tense of _lav-_ since the expected nasal-infictioned form would've...
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obsidian@...
Aug 12, 1999 11:36 pm
I'm new to this whole Tolkien languages thing...And I'm actualy printing stuff out about Quenya right now. I have a few questions, (well duh, I'm new.) They...
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Dorothea Salo
dorothea@...
Aug 13, 1999 12:22 am
... Hoom hom... if I were to express an opinion, I would say not to make it public UNTIL ideas such as Ales's are taken into account. I like your ideas for...
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Boris Shapiro
elenhil@...
Aug 14, 1999 12:01 am
Aiya! ... I don't want to be capricious, but it looks like "a bunch of flowers", not a garden of them ;) David Salo's _pelloote_ sounds better, although it...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Aug 14, 1999 12:01 am
... No, that's a bouquet. Actually, it's a very probable cognate to Sindarin gwaloth "blossom, collection of flowers." Nice work. /\ WISTR LAG WIGS...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Aug 14, 1999 12:01 am
... Neither. In Sindarin words lenit in composition, so you would get Thindaur; or, if you used two words, the adjective would have to _follow_ the noun (as...
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David Kiltz
kiltzd@...
Aug 14, 1999 12:01 am
... Maybe one could use _peler_ or _tarwa_ as general terms for garden. "Enclosure" wd fit perfectly since "garden" is etymologically "enclosure" (typical...
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David Kiltz
kiltzd@...
Aug 14, 1999 12:01 am
... I've tried hexameters in Quenya and found Quenya v e r y suitable for that meter. Dacid Kiltz...
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David Kiltz
kiltzd@...
Aug 14, 1999 12:01 am
_Quanta_ can easily be a factitive verb derived from an adjectival formation. There are other examples of that sort: Q. _cuuna_ "bowed, bent" - "to bow, bent"...
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David Kiltz
kiltzd@...
Aug 14, 1999 12:01 am
... This is -I believe- historically incorrect. _tarkil_ would go back to an original _tar_+ _khil_ not _hil_.. It wd therefore be correct to say that KH > K...
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Lisa Star
amlug2@...
Aug 14, 1999 12:01 am
... **There is the specific form lotarwa for a flower garden, said to be from lootetarwa, in Qenya of the Lexicons.(p. 55, Qq, under the root LO'O). ... **I...
