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18157 Hans
gentlebeldin Send Email
Oct 1, 2002
7:04 am
... Well, the meaning of "pray" is very close, obviously. :-) There are two words for that: _arca_ (presumably derived from RAK, "stretch out, reach"),...
18158 Thomas Ferencz
percival64 Send Email
Oct 1, 2002
7:12 am
... Wishful thinking... ... The passive simply wouldn't fit here in Hungarian. ... Wait for the chopping axe of the lambengolmor...:-P ... I cannot translate...
18159 Thomas Ferencz
percival64 Send Email
Oct 1, 2002
7:41 am
... Gothmog? He was the chief of Balrogs AFAIK. Thomas __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC &...
18160 Thomas Ferencz
percival64 Send Email
Oct 1, 2002
7:50 am
... Well, _hyam-_ seems to be a bit too solemn for an everyday verb "ask for something"; _arca-_, I do not know if it fits, either. Have to think about it. In...
18161 elhath *
sp12@... Send Email
Oct 1, 2002
8:42 am
... Interesting. ... Andatienya tulyuva Yahuhotsennar... ... *coughs* Relocation of the ai-, at 1 a.m. I thought it would look better there... *_naquet-_ ~ 'to...
18162 elhath *
sp12@... Send Email
Oct 1, 2002
9:09 am
Thank you for commenting! ... Don't own it, yet don't shrug at it, either (I tend to utilize the available web sources besides my books, however). My tendence ...
18163 Thomas Ferencz
percival64 Send Email
Oct 1, 2002
9:29 am
... _Eru_ is said to be a name ... Well, _my_ opinion is that a name-giving is an occasion solemn enough, since a name determines a person for the whole life,...
18164 Thomas Ferencz
percival64 Send Email
Oct 1, 2002
9:55 am
Aiya, what I would like to present now is the first verse of a poem called "At the End of September", written by the XIX. century Hungarian poet Sándor...
18165 jamielcyoung Send Email Oct 1, 2002
4:44 pm
Presumably the Nazgul did once have names, since they were once high- status human beings. Perhaps, like the Lieutenant of Barad-Dur, they had forgotten them....
18166 legolas2032 Send Email Oct 1, 2002
4:44 pm
In middle earth which one would be more useful to know. And with combining to words to make new nouns (kinda cheep but helps vocab) which one is more complete...
18167 Andrew Carson
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Oct 1, 2002
4:45 pm
sorry to have to do this but i have researched all lists and cannot find a translation so i was wondering if someone, anyone could give me a translation of the...
18168 Andrew Carson
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Oct 1, 2002
4:45 pm
Sorry bout this, but regarding my earlier message i now know that "Corma" is "ring", but could anyone help me out by telling me what the Quenya for "spell"...
18169 Petri Tikka
petristikka Send Email
Oct 1, 2002
4:48 pm
And now the full translation of "A Walkind Song": VANTA-LÍRE By J.R.R. Tolkien (LotR: book 1: chapter 3) Translation by Petri Tikka I hónesse náre culda, Nu...
18170 Sam Morales
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Oct 1, 2002
4:48 pm
Teithant Balthazar I have found this site on the internet but I do not know if it's their real names or just the invented post-tolkienian names. ...
18171 Gildor Inglorion
elfiness Send Email
Oct 1, 2002
7:19 pm
teithant legolas2032 ... westron ... all ... quenya ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? ÁðïêôÞóôå ôç...
18172 Gildor Inglorion
elfiness Send Email
Oct 1, 2002
7:23 pm
teithant Andrew Carson ... i dont think that magic in middle-earth works the same like in D&D and i can't think of a Quenya word for it... the closest i would...
18173 Gildor Inglorion
elfiness Send Email
Oct 1, 2002
7:30 pm
teithant Emilio Pisanty Alatorre ... Gothmog is mentioned there, but i don't know why they assume it's the Witch King himself ...
18174 Thomas Ferencz
percival64 Send Email
Oct 1, 2002
8:07 pm
... As I already pointed out in another message, Gothmog is originally the Lord of Balrogs, who wounded Feanor mortally in Dagor-nui-Ngiliath, and was later...
18175 Thomas Ferencz
percival64 Send Email
Oct 1, 2002
8:14 pm
Aiya, in Etymologies the root LUK- is glossed "magic, enchantment", with derivatives as Noldorin lhuth "spell, charm", Quenya luhta- "enchant" lúce ...
18176 Gildor Inglorion
elfiness Send Email
Oct 1, 2002
8:25 pm
teithant Thomas Ferencz ... someone with this name is mentioned in the battle of Pelennor too :) ____________________________________________________________ ...
18177 Mornon
lucaemauro@... Send Email
Oct 1, 2002
10:35 pm
From: "elhath *" <sp12@...> ... What is _sie_? I never heard it... Mornon....
18178 Mornon
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Oct 1, 2002
10:36 pm
From: "Thomas Ferencz" <percival64@...> ... For "to ask" I know _maquet-_. Mornon....
18179 Míriel
kyoki_sama Send Email
Oct 1, 2002
10:37 pm
... On the risk of sounding dumb, who is this Aragon fellow? Do you mean Aragorn (son of Arathorn) or is this a new person I'm not aware of? If it is ...
18180 gatowhite2000 Send Email Oct 1, 2002
10:37 pm
This is intended for my own personal understading. I am not sure what are the Sindarin 2nd person sg./pl. endings? I have used -ch for a long long time, but I...
18181 Mornon
lucaemauro@... Send Email
Oct 1, 2002
10:37 pm
From: "Gildor Inglorion" <elfiness@...> ... The magic in Middle Earth doesn't work as in D&D; in the game is more used than in Middle Earth, as far as I...
18182 Mornon
lucaemauro@... Send Email
Oct 1, 2002
10:38 pm
From: "Thomas Ferencz" <percival64@...> ... But are _luhta-_ and _lúcë_ attested? Maybe, we can translate "Ringspell&quot; as _Cormalúce_,...
18183 Lukas Novak
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Oct 1, 2002
10:56 pm
... Err - I thought there is a difference between, say "book" and "tool" in quantity, or between "sick" and "seek", "list" and "least", "walk" and "Watt",...
18184 Cirk R. Bejnar
eluchil404 Send Email
Oct 1, 2002
11:13 pm
... poetic ... quite ... and "least", "walk" ... Not really. That is the length (in time) it takes to pronounce the vowel sounds is very similar and of little...
18185 Cirk R. Bejnar
eluchil404 Send Email
Oct 1, 2002
11:16 pm
... what ... that ... In a word, no. The published material is incomplete and sometimes obscure or open to multiple interpretations. While, in the course of ...
18186 Bill Welden
williamwelden Send Email
Oct 2, 2002
12:01 am
... There is a difference in length among the vowels in _bit_, _bin_, and _bid_ (short -- medium -- long). Although this difference is non- phonemic, it still...
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