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  • Category: Tolkien, J.R.R.
  • Founded: Sep 5, 1998
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Greetings, I had written last week regarding the correct pronunciation of Quenya, specifically the short vowel 'a'. Kai was kind enough to point out Julian ...
2 Jun 2, 2003
7:31 am

Gildor Inglorion
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Here are the (hopefully final) modifications to the writing i posted a while earlier: Through lands of fire and water Under leaves of trees Beyond the mountain...
7 Jun 2, 2003
6:31 am

amanibhavam
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Hello, I'm trying to translate my personal motto into Sindarin. It's 'From others nothing, from myself nothing less' (in Latin I put it as 'nil de aliis...
2 Jun 1, 2003
5:12 pm

elhath *
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... Wouldn't that be the Dwarvish sign language? It was only reluctantly taught to other races. At least according to the Khuzdul page on Ardalambion, which...
1 May 31, 2003
9:53 pm

Ester Fjellander
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Thank you, Corintur Linyacelu, for your answers regarding "Olos imbė litsė" earlier! It helped me a lot. I've incorperated all but one of your suggestions...
14 May 31, 2003
9:53 pm

ErunƔmoLondƫo...
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Hi, I know that the most of you have a lack of interest in this, but please, review this third and last stanza of my poem and comment like hell if (when) you...
11 May 31, 2003
9:52 pm

ErunƔmoLondƫo...
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Someone commented that 'blind&#39; is not a very attractive name. In and of itself, I'd agree, but you must realize that the name was not originally thought of as...
1 May 31, 2003
8:26 pm

Jerry Aurand(Fillan)
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... **I see I should have explained in the Lapseparma how I arrived at _Ścenite_. It is not meant to be _ś-cenita+e_ "not-seeing-feminine". Actually, it is...
1 May 31, 2003
7:16 pm

Ales Bican
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"Cecilia (Blind)" Etymologically, English "blind" means 'cloudy (sight/vision)'. So perhaps, Fanuicene? -- ...
7 May 31, 2003
5:25 pm

Jerry Aurand(Fillan)
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... publication rate, priorities in the selection of material, and so forth, the decisions are Christopher Tolkien's, though often taken in consultation with...
10 May 31, 2003
1:14 pm

Mornon
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Aiya! Well, spending most of the day looking through the word lists and through the lessons, I have been trying to put together a sentance. With my life and...
10 May 30, 2003
6:54 pm

Gildor Inglorion
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Hello Everybody, I was wondering if anyone knew of a Sindarin/Quenya surname translation site. I have been looking for my name (Hamilton) for a while, but...
4 May 30, 2003
4:27 pm

Jerry Aurand(Fillan)
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"Well, Cecilia means "Blind" (Latin I think) and Quenya Lapseparma has Ścenitė for Cecilia (feminin name)." Yes, I have seen this QL coinage. Personally, it...
1 May 30, 2003
4:27 pm

Jerry Aurand(Fillan)
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... express indirect object, not only "to", but I've to search for attestation, so I don't say anything other: Fauskanger will explain his choise better than...
4 May 30, 2003
10:17 am

Vendis
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Aiya, I didn't find an answer to this by searching the archives so I am going to ask. Quote from Meldon: "The Ardalambion dictionary quotes the plural of...
2 May 30, 2003
7:00 am

Gildor Inglorion
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Aiya! I am trying to put the word vigilance together from what I see on the boards and in the word lists. However, as my english skills are fairly poor its...
13 May 30, 2003
6:30 am

amanibhavam
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... dative ... I agree, Dative could not be used to express something like your "for the food" since this "for" here is rather "on behalf of" than "to the...
6 May 30, 2003
2:33 am

Kai MacTane
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... Why these squares and extra spaces and symbols whenever someone tries to place an accent or a diaeresis above a vowel? Let me write some names and words:...
2 May 30, 2003
12:33 am

Kai MacTane
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From Vendis ... And why create _na_, if allative exist yet? I don't know, but they both exist, and can exprime the same meaning. The same thing could be for...
1 May 29, 2003
9:22 pm

Mornon
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Carl F. Hostetter has asked that I post the following message to Elfling on his behalf -- his response to the recent flurry of posts regarding plans for...
2 May 29, 2003
7:44 pm

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Karyn Traphagen mentioned in message #21406 on Jan. 16, 2003 that she found a copy of PE#12 in the U.S. Library of Congress. I talked to a librarian where I...
2 May 29, 2003
5:16 pm

Karyn Traphagen
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From Vendis ... But it qould be argument, too; so, I cant see why this shouldn't be possible (though I don't say "IS so"). ... But also "Silmaril&#39;s story" is...
1 May 29, 2003
11:22 am

Mornon
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... Alex de Castro's website, some others) tend to be sketchy about object pronouns, and in particular about their various permutations. ... Tolkien material...
2 May 29, 2003
8:39 am

elhath *
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Suilaid mellyn!! I just joined this group. I'm really interested in learning elvish. I've started (somewhat) on Sindarin and I've looked at Quenya a bit. Which...
8 May 29, 2003
8:06 am

Gildor Inglorion
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http://www.sumerian.org/prot-sum.htm Just looking for ideas on projects to create a Tengwar for Sumerian, also to see if Prof Tolkien used some Sumerian or...
2 May 29, 2003
6:10 am

Jerome Colburn
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Written using either cuniform (wedge writing, modern name and later writing form), or characters drawn in clay.. ...
3 May 29, 2003
6:10 am

Jerome Colburn
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... Neo-Elvish nonsense *smirk*. This, it would seem, refers to my Suggested Conjugation of Sindarin verbs. Dismissing this as _nonsense_, with or without an...
5 May 28, 2003
5:50 pm

Helge K. Fauskanger
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Aiya ilquen, The Elvish days of the week can be controversial at best because the Elven weekday was only a 6 day week not 7. Earenya is a Numenorean...
12 May 27, 2003
3:27 pm

sootica
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I'm happy to announce a thing I've been brewing for a while. Note that some of you might get their puristic juices flowing and try to hunt me down, holding...
1 May 27, 2003
3:26 pm

baelrogue
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By the way... Should _cala_ be in plural here? Calyaina atta eleninen tittė... Illuminated two stars-by small... Yaiva _cala_ tompė ilya telpessė Whose...
7 May 27, 2003
3:25 pm

ErunƔmoLondƫo...
londeoronti
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