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...
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AragorntheRanger@...
Jan 6, 1999 6:25 pm
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 ...
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Didier Willis
dwillis@...
Jan 6, 1999 6:25 pm
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 ...
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Didier Willis
dwillis@...
Jan 6, 1999 6:25 pm
... 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...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jan 6, 1999 6:25 pm
As everyone knows or should know, Quenya case endings can be added to pronouns like _ni_ "I", _le_ "you", _ta_ "that, it" or _me_ *"we". The dative form _nin_,...
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Dorothea Salo
dmrovner@...
Jan 6, 1999 6:42 pm
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...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jan 6, 1999 10:22 pm
... If I've got things right, the Sindar simply took the quenya name Ondolindë and played around a little so it sounded like Sindarin. This gave Gondolin,...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jan 6, 1999 10:23 pm
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...
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Edward Kloczko
106065.2071@...
Jan 7, 1999 1:14 am
... You can get a French-Quenya Dictionnary with a Grammar that I made : Le Dictionnaire des Langues elfiques. [ Désolé pour l'auto-promotion. :-) ] ... ...
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Marcus Smith
smithma@...
Jan 7, 1999 6:25 pm
... -li in early Qenya is a group plural rather than a partitive plural. There are four other words in BoLT1 which take this marker. Two of them are race ...
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Marcus Smith
smithma@...
Jan 7, 1999 6:25 pm
... Likewise, there are nouns that are plural but lack any morphological markings, e.g. "wheat". These collective nouns behave as if they were singular....
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Vicente Velasco
tatyanehtar@...
Jan 7, 1999 6:25 pm
I've seen that a lot of you are writing Namarië at the end of your texts. Is Namarië really usable as a simple "goodbye"? I know it is translated by...
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Didier Willis
dwillis@...
Jan 7, 1999 6:25 pm
Hello, First of all, I'll correct a few mistakes I made in my previous post. ... Read 'natsesse' instead of 'mi natsesse' (the preposition 'mi' doesn't seem to...
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Didier Willis
dwillis@...
Jan 7, 1999 6:25 pm
... I guess that "namarie" really means farewell (fr. "adieu") and that it is not suitable, strictly speaking, for "goodbye" (fr. "au revoir"). Unfortunately...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jan 7, 1999 6:25 pm
... 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...
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Didier Willis
dwillis@...
Jan 7, 1999 6:41 pm
... Following the example of "imbe met", I believe that "me" belongs to the same class as "lasse" (dual "lasset") and that it is syntactically a singular,...
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Dorothea Salo
dmrovner@...
Jan 7, 1999 6:49 pm
(This message was approved, but got lost in the shuffle somehow. I can't get eGroups to admit it exists or existed, so I'm reposting it in its entirety....
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Barulich, Robert
rb08259@...
Jan 8, 1999 11:05 pm
... That would be like Modern Greek _sto kalo'_ for goodbye, lit. 'to (the) good(ness)'. ... eGroup home: http://www.eGroups.com/list/elfling Free Web-based...
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Didier Willis
dwillis@...
Jan 8, 1999 11:06 pm
Yesterday I mentioned the Noldorin [i.e. Sindarin] sentence written on the draft of Thror's map (published in _Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator_ by Hammond and...
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David Kiltz
kiltzd@...
Jan 8, 1999 11:07 pm
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...
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stonefeather@...
Jan 9, 1999 2:51 am
... Another use of namarie, besides in Galadriel's lament and JT's tengwar signature to a letter is Aragorn's use of it to address Arwen (not physically...
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Josu Gomez
josu@...
Jan 9, 1999 2:51 am
I have just subscribed to Elfling (though I dont know what is the difference between this one and Tolklang :?). I'm a linguist and Tolkien fan from the Basque...
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BP.Jonsson
bpj@...
Jan 9, 1999 9:53 pm
... Perhaps Namaarie could also mean "good luck" in Aman? (Not really serious...) It is notable that the French "adieu" was borrowed into Swedish, and ...
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BP.Jonsson
bpj@...
Jan 9, 1999 9:53 pm
... Which of course is just how Italian "tutto:tutti", Spanish "todo:todos", Latin "omnis:omnes" and French <however-it-is-spelled:(> are used. I think you...
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Sune Foldager
cryo@...
Jan 9, 1999 9:53 pm
... Maybe it means 'place', like in Losgar = place of flowers, from earlier (Quenya) gar lossion. -- Sune Foldager ... eGroup home:...
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Lisa Star
amlug@...
Jan 9, 1999 9:53 pm
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...
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Sune Foldager
cryo@...
Jan 9, 1999 9:53 pm
... Actually the danish name for red is rød, or - for you ascii users out there - rød. And the danish name for denmark is Danmark. -- Sune Foldager ... ...
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David Kiltz
kiltzd@...
Jan 9, 1999 9:53 pm
There is another occurrence of the word 'gar' in a Sindarin text I know of. I think it was published in the essay 'A secret vice'. In this essay there figures...
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jag@...
Jan 11, 1999 7:40 pm
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jan 11, 1999 7:40 pm
Is the word _aiya_ really meant to be pronunced [aija]? I find it very difficult not to pronunce it like [aia] or [aja] or similar. In my experience, greetings...
