... Nánye hantala. ... Thomas Ferencz "Suddenly it strikes you that they're moving into range and Doctor Strange is always changing size." ...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Apr 28, 2003 2:37 pm
teithant "D. Daniel Andriës" ... i was talking about stop mutation... the contact of two stops produces spirants ...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Apr 28, 2003 2:34 pm
teithant amanibhavam ... it's 'Gnomish' ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? ÁðïêôÞóôå ôç äùñåÜí...
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Robert B Wilson
han_solo_55
Apr 28, 2003 2:30 pm
On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 05:10:33 -0000 "jeffreyalanhenning" ... <snip> ... well, since all the words we know from the avarin language*s* (six of them) are from the...
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D. Daniel Andriës
uialdil@...
Apr 28, 2003 2:22 pm
... Because in *_orotpen-_ there is no contact between a liquid and a stop; the liquid 'r' is separated from the stop 't' by a vowel. Cuio mae, Danny. ...
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amanibhavam
percival64
Apr 28, 2003 2:07 pm
Aiya, the name Gar Ainion, "place of Gods", in Gondolin, is peculiar. It looks Quenya, but how do we account for thr first element? Seems to come from GAR-,...
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amanibhavam
percival64
Apr 28, 2003 1:50 pm
... Ah. Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch, aber nicht so viel dass ich die Verbindung machen kenne. and do not remember Tolkien's ... Yes, I knew this. Now,...
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Lena
elena_s_g
Apr 28, 2003 11:23 am
... Tolkien mentioned in Quendi and Eldar that "pen" takes forms "ben" and "phen" within compounds (first lenition, second spirant mutation, I assume), so it ...
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Lena
elena_s_g
Apr 28, 2003 11:15 am
... i wonder about some of those inconsitencies.. eg. ... May be Gilgalad was reinterpreted from "star light" to "light of radience" because it didn't...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Apr 28, 2003 9:30 am
teithant Hans ... then another inconsistency: why orodben and not **orophen? the old word was *orotpen-, not **orotepen- ...
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Hans
gentlebeldin
Apr 28, 2003 7:26 am
... It may have the same origin as another difference mentioned in Q&E: _arphen_ (noble Elf) is the result of immediate contact between liquid and stop, while...
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jeffreyalanhenning
jeffreyalanh...
Apr 28, 2003 5:21 am
I'm trying to compile a chronology of Tolkien's linguistic invention. I maintain a chronology of constructed languages at: ...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Apr 28, 2003 12:14 am
teithant Lena ... i think 'bar' here has the meaning of 'world' which is the home for the elves.. the meaning 'land' is by extension ... i wonder about some of...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Apr 28, 2003 12:03 am
teithant ssjsalation ... Silmarillion it was.. LOTR was just the 'link' between the word of his (unpublished) Silmarillion and the bestselling Hobbit ... hmmm...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Apr 27, 2003 11:59 pm
teithant Val ... in the manner of 'any how'? maybe *aimanen as for the expression 'anyway, forget it', i don't think there is such 'anyway' ...
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Lena
elena_s_g
Apr 27, 2003 10:05 pm
Dear mellyn, I've met a very interesting word in Etym - _barthan_(Aule), meaning "Earth-builder", with the elements, obviously, (m-)bar(land) + tan (smith, ...
... Oh, sorry, maybe you don't speak German (as so many Hungarians - of my age - do) and do not remember Tolkien's letter #324, where the master writes in a...
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elimloth
Apr 27, 2003 7:11 pm
... Grelvish is a shorthand term used here to refer to Grey Company elvish (which is an ad hoc RPG language developed by those folks). Elimloth...
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beahelluin@...
Apr 27, 2003 7:07 pm
... i'm a bit curious : what is Grelvish ? henduluin...
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amanibhavam
percival64
Apr 27, 2003 6:43 pm
... I do not follow your line of thought here, I am afraid... Do you mean something like _Bold úr_? ... Thomas Ferencz "Suddenly it strikes you...
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A.W.T.
aolung
Apr 27, 2003 6:34 pm
... Sorry to say: Yet, your quotation looks pretty Quenya :) (A pretty off topic - nevertheless tolkienesque - thought came on my mind recently when reading in...
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D. Daniel Andriës
uialdil@...
Apr 27, 2003 6:05 pm
... I wouldn't refer to Grelvish as 'Grey Elven'; that gives the impression that you're talking about Sindarin. Grey Company does even a worse disservice to ...
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amanibhavam
percival64
Apr 27, 2003 5:29 pm
... You can duplicate the vowels to indicate they are long. ... - instead of masse I'd use manna - if lie is plural, then umea should be plural: umie; if lie...
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amanibhavam
percival64
Apr 27, 2003 4:23 pm
... Not bad, minor glitches. I would put it as _Nai Valaron cale varyuva ni moreo lúmesse._ varyuvan would mean "I will protect"; we usually put the object...
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amanibhavam
percival64
Apr 27, 2003 4:17 pm
... wrote: Before I could correct what I had said he ... Sorry to say, but he did not speak Quenya, only Grey Elven; that has rather little to do with Quenya...
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Lord Gulash
lordgulash@...
Apr 27, 2003 3:57 pm
OK, here is the rest of the song that I am trying to translate into Quenya. I hope you can help. There are some constructed words. _AILIN NARWA_ (I can't do...
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aquinasmojo
Apr 27, 2003 3:56 pm
Hi, I'm new to the list. I'm thinking about getting a tattoo in Quenya, but I want to make sure that my translation is correct before it's permanently...
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Kristen Mankowski
luthien_elf_87
Apr 27, 2003 3:56 pm
Aiya I think you did go on the poems though I can't speak quenya well at all and don't know the grammar,but I am learning. My sources say the quenya word...
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beahelluin@...
Apr 27, 2003 3:53 pm
... You explain it better than i can do ! thanks henduluin...
