... **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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
1943
Vicki
exotec@...
Jan 1, 2000 5:00 pm
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...
1942
Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jan 1, 2000 12:34 am
Someone asked awhile whether the Eldar might have used sounds outside the human hearing range. The concensus was that they most likely didn't. But other...
1941
despayre@...
Jan 1, 2000 12:34 am
... 1)Gimli's battle-cry 'baruk khazād!'. Would he reveal his kinfather's real name? According to Tolkien, he probably wouldn't. Besides, Tolkien always...
1940
Ales Bican
bican@...
Jan 1, 2000 12:34 am
... **Ok. ... **Ok. ... **Though this seems right constructed, I'm not sure whether so many vowels could be together. ... **_ķrė_ (_iire_) is correct...
1939
Juan Alberto Gonzį...
jag@...
Jan 1, 2000 12:34 am
Feliz Ańo Nuevo para todos!!!! Happy New Year for everyone!!!! FIREWORKS* It's New Year's Day; Looking up to tje sky We all await for the fireworks to fly And...
1938
Jerome S. Colburn
jscolbur@...
Jan 1, 2000 12:34 am
... Stress on the first element of the compound, on the syllable that would be stressed if the element were an independent word, can't be the mark of a late...
1937
Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Dec 31, 1999 3:53 am
... Quenya? The relevant words have not been published. _Intya_ "suppose" (as an imperative) or _intyala sa..._ "supposing that..." can in some contexts ...
1936
Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Dec 31, 1999 3:53 am
... plural of a singular **tyelle, whereas in fact it is probably a singular with plural "tyelleri"; The wording in Appendix E goes: "The [Tengwar] system...
1935
Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Dec 30, 1999 10:41 pm
... Well, if Q and English (but not German) inflect adjectives used as nouns like they were proper nouns, why couldn't T inflect verbs used as nouns like ...
1934
Josu Gomez
josugp@...
Dec 30, 1999 10:41 pm
... I have always felt worried about that... I understand that "te" can be the plural form of "ta", "that"... in fact, "bless those", better than "bless them",...
1933
Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Dec 30, 1999 10:41 pm
... words, specifically the penultimate and antepenultimate syllables. My question relates to compound words. Do the original words hold their stresses...
1932
Cirk Bejnar
Eluchil@...
Dec 30, 1999 10:41 pm
A few questions that arose out of my recent poem. 1.) Is there a known way to form conditional (if/then) statements in Quenya? 2.) Is there a conjunction...
1931
Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Dec 30, 1999 1:14 am
... Good point. I'll change that. Of course, in Q&E Tolkien says the second plural ending -n (presumably < *m) was added only later. Hence only _maamaai-ho_ in...
1930
Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Dec 30, 1999 12:55 am
... consonant, like -ssė, -nna, and -llo. What difference in pronunciation does this make? "Note that consonants written twice, as _tt_, _ll_, _ss_, _nn_,...
1929
abrigon
abrigon@...
Dec 30, 1999 12:55 am
Dum in the example given "Khazaddum" seems to be related somewhat
to the English "Doom"as in Kingdom. Or Domain..
Mike ...
1928
abrigon
abrigon@...
Dec 30, 1999 12:55 am
I think that Khazad the name of the Dwarves, and seen in
Khazaddum, is not the total name for all Dwarved, but just a name
for the lineage of Durin.
Maybe...
1927
Cirk Bejnar
Eluchil@...
Dec 30, 1999 12:55 am
Heres my first original composition in Quenya: Kuile ar nuru ónoni nar oi oeante. Ire vanyilye quenello, tuvilye nai tatya nan nai la. Nuru tule ilye atani ve...
