Hello everyone! I'm so glad to find you! I'm an avid fan of Tolkien's world and language(s). I've never been able to find much useful information, other than...
1944
Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jan 1, 2000 11:08 pm
... Amen to that...I have already presented a Quenya version, _alassea vinya loa ilyain_...in Sindarin it would perhaps go something like _idhrin 'wain 'alu a...
1945
Ales Bican
bican@...
Jan 1, 2000 11:08 pm
Ales Bican wrote: **Time to fall into new year y2k panic and craziness and to do unordinary things - as to answer to my own reply... ; ) ... **Now I think that...
1946
Ales Bican
bican@...
Jan 1, 2000 11:09 pm
... **Awhile ago I've gotten another thought - shouldn't primitive adverbal ending be rather _-wa_, found maybe in the abverb and preposition _hequa_ as...
1947
Christian Zwarg
chris-zwarg@...
Jan 2, 2000 7:35 pm
Hello - I hope everyone (and every computer...) here has safely entered Y2K ;o) Sorry that I'll post answers to rather "old" (pre-Xmas) messages today, but I...
1948
Victor F. Antoine III
giladan@...
Jan 3, 2000 2:45 am
Hi Vicki, Victor here. Ty this site: http://move.to/Ardalambion . It contains a pretty good dictionary. Victor F. Antoine III II Cor. 5:17 I work for a jewish...
1949
Klaas Jan Sijsling
KlJan.Sijsling@...
Jan 4, 2000 12:27 am
Elflingi meldė nin! (melda in my previous letters, being singular, was of course a mistake) On the matter of the endings, I think Helge misunderstood me. I...
1950
Dominik Rabiej
heruo@...
Jan 4, 2000 11:40 pm
Hello Everyone, I've been an avid Tolkien reader for the past 3 years, ever since I read the Lord of the Rings. The languages that were spoken in the book ...
1951
Klaas Jan Sijsling
KlJan.Sijsling@...
Jan 4, 2000 11:40 pm
Sorry, there were some mistakes in the Quenya wish in the previous letter. It should have been: Nai i Ainur i questaron nar elven sinassė coronaressė...
1952
Vaire Meondur
kyberkiisu@...
Jan 4, 2000 11:40 pm
klaas jan sijsling <kljan.sijslin-@...> asked: original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/elfling/?start=1949 ... my ... other are ... Scandinavians,...
1953
exotec@...
Jan 4, 2000 11:40 pm
Hi Victor!~ Thanks for the link! I'll check it out. I read ... or tried to read - the "Languages of Tolkien's Middle Earth" many years ago, with little...
1954
Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jan 5, 2000 1:14 am
I suggested _lintaa-bee_ as an primitive adverb "quickly", assuming that ... ending be rather _-wa_, found maybe in the abverb and preposition _hequa_ as...
1955
air5@...
Jan 5, 2000 1:14 am
Hello! I am just getting in to this language stuff, and I was wondering where i could get an english to elvish dictionary. Any help would be greatly...
1956
Cirk Bejnar
Eluchil@...
Jan 5, 2000 2:21 am
... **As has been pointed out the appendix C to LotR says that consonants written twice are "long or 'doubled'". My impresion has been that the Roman...
1957
Markus Knitel
filiusdei@...
Jan 6, 2000 12:30 am
Hi My name is Markus knitel (called camgul, mithari[mith and istari] or valaraukar )and i am from austria so please understnad that i could make a few...
1958
Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jan 6, 2000 12:30 am
... of POLYSYLLABIC words were shortened in the transition from "Proto-Eldarin" to Quenya. Since _mį_ is monosyllabic, the long a survives there. Be careful...
1959
Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jan 6, 2000 12:31 am
... Um, I believe you're both right in a way; At least as I understand things, German is like Swedish at this point, so a /v/ PHONEME standing adjacent to a...
1960
Valistyar Hereno Isty...
cheyman@...
Jan 6, 2000 12:31 am
On a lingual note, there will be Elvish in the movies! with subtitles Ohhhhhoooohhhhh.......let's all keep our fingers crossed that they consult someone with...
1961
Dominik Rabiej
email@...
Jan 6, 2000 12:40 am
Hmm, where can we find some audio files of properly pronounced Quenya? Thanks, Dominik R. Rabiej email@... icq uin: 20278513 http://www.dominik.net/ ...
1962
G. A. Brand
gabrand@...
Jan 7, 2000 12:35 am
Hello all! I'm Gabriel from Salt Lake City, UT. I found the following info on a LotR movie site: "Tom Shippey, author of The Road To Middle-earth and a...
1963
Cirk Bejnar
Eluchil@...
Jan 7, 2000 12:35 am
... Try http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/misc/local/TolkLang/pronguide.html That's the only one I know of on the net. (yes I did steal the link form Ardalambion :) ...
1964
Christian Zwarg
chris-zwarg@...
Jan 7, 2000 12:35 am
... Yup, that's it I think - thanks for the accurate terminology, Andreas! You know one can easily distinguish German (and English) /v/ and /f/ in whispered...
1965
Matthias Bauerfeind
mbf@...
Jan 7, 2000 12:35 am
... Well, as far as I know there is at least one page: http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/misc/local/TolkLang/pronguide.html I heard someone said that the pronounciation...
1966
Bart Coppens
webmaster@...
Jan 7, 2000 12:35 am
... to Sindarin, and Sindarin to English dictionaries? I've already got a complete E to Q one (Quettaparma Quenyanna), and I'd like to have the other variants ...
1967
Rich Alderson
ALDERSON@...
Jan 7, 2000 4:02 am
... Estonian does not have a voicing contrast in obstruents, but rather a contrast of lax/tense/(tense) geminate. The data was presented to me in my very first...
1968
BP Jonsson
bpj@...
Jan 8, 2000 6:00 pm
... That was what I meant, yes! I guess I could have been more explicit on that point and maybe even used some special symbol (e.g. "F") to call attention to...
1969
BP Jonsson
bpj@...
Jan 8, 2000 6:00 pm
... I don't think Entish had "phonemes"; in the human sense at all, but that it was a musical language. It probably had minimal distinctive units similar to...
1970
BP Jonsson
bpj@...
Jan 8, 2000 6:00 pm
... You seem to be assuming, Helge, that if *-waa is a valid adverbial-forming suffix, then *-bee cannot be valid. I don't see how this would be that the one...
1971
BP Jonsson
bpj@...
Jan 8, 2000 6:00 pm
... I must say I like that mail-handle of yours -- it does mean "cyber-cat", right? ... IIANM it is actually the case that written Estonian {d} is...
1972
BP Jonsson
bpj@...
Jan 8, 2000 6:01 pm
... However the lax obstruents are, or at least may be, voiced when standing between two voiced sounds (VCV and NCV). I've seen it myself on sonagrams of...
