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  • Category: Tolkien, J.R.R.
  • Founded: Sep 5, 1998
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... to ... and ... it ... there, ... I don't agree so as to discuss in this mailing list new Elvish would "cool". If you wish to start such a scheme it is fine...
5 May 2, 2000
9:26 pm

Greg Dyke
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I am writing a little poem in Quenya, and I found that I need a word for "to protest". It could be formed by "complaint-say", but there's no word for...
1 May 2, 2000
9:26 pm

Shihali Ramichu
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... Ah, but there are some beautiful names that can be made with quenya phonology, like Maitë (in french it sounds great anyway). I can't think of any others,...
3 May 2, 2000
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Shihali Ramichu
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... Yes, I understood that when I read the various replies. The problem is perhaps a lgc one: in Swedish we say _namnbok_, without reference to babies. Also...
1 May 1, 2000
10:56 pm

BP Jonsson
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Aiya Quenyandure ar Sinarindili, After putting Tolkien and Elvish Linguistics to a rest for a couple of years, I'm getting interested in them again (due in...
1 Apr 30, 2000
8:12 pm

Robert J. Carignan
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... And the relation may not even exist; Dawidh suggests a root DWD, but the W in _dwd_ (so written) "beloved, uncle" is not a root-letter, but merely ...
1 Apr 30, 2000
7:16 pm

David Salo
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... There was a debate about this subject a while back. I forgot the messages where it occurred, but the debate was never resolved. I *personally* feel that...
1 Apr 30, 2000
7:15 pm

Shihali Ramichu
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... The Etymologies gives no Q forms for this root, so presumably it doesn't exist in Q. If it did the noun for "path" could perhaps be _ratta_. /BP B.Philip...
2 Apr 30, 2000
7:15 pm

Andreas Johansson
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... The word was _not_ rejected as _such_ (Tolkien never crossed it over in his Qenyaqeytsa) mavar is part of the Qenya or better _Eldarissa_ tongue of the ...
3 Apr 30, 2000
7:15 pm

David Kiltz
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Dear Mary Ellen, Please let me see this crossover when you've done it-I just can't imagine this at all! Glorielin ... From: "Mary Ellen Curtin"...
4 Apr 28, 2000
9:01 pm

David Kiltz
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... Surely here doesn't need a locative? Or could you form sinomello and sinomenna? Greg ...
1 Apr 28, 2000
9:01 pm

Greg Dyke
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Aiya, Is there anywhere that we could chat completely in Quenya, or even, about quenya? It has probably been said before, (before I joined?), but I think that...
1 Apr 28, 2000
9:01 pm

John Wordsworth
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I got this private mail from an Elfling lurker* who apparently wants to appear with his name publicly: (*I use the word "lurker" without any judgment whatever:...
1 Apr 28, 2000
9:01 pm

BP Jonsson
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... If the words _Emerie_ and _Emerwen_ contain the same element (which I do not doubt), then _emer-_ must be Quenya, as _Emerie_ cannot possibly be Sindarin...
1 Apr 28, 2000
1:40 am

David Salo
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... I'm not quite sure what it is that you want to do: to collect a list of translations of first names into Quenya (and Sindarin?), or collect a list of names...
4 Apr 27, 2000
11:41 am

John Wordsworth
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Aiya! Ok, I have decided to start a web page for the Quenya Name Baby-Book. I can write HTML and all the special Java & Perl stuff etc. I would like to think...
1 Apr 27, 2000
11:41 am

John Wordsworth
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Did you know that the alphabet used for writing English has been influenced by Elvish? Check out http://www.geocities.com/ghalett/ for more information....
1 Apr 27, 2000
11:41 am

Andrew Durdin
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... Never thought of that, but you are on to something there, surely! I must add this one to my list of puns/loans from ethnic languages. Maybe a human named...
2 Apr 27, 2000
11:41 am

Jerome S. Colburn
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... Hmm... But there are some *lovely* Tolkienian names. I suggest Smeagol for a boy or Beruthiel for a girl. <<GRIN>> (My classical answer to such requests....
1 Apr 26, 2000
2:07 am

Didier Willis
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Of special interest for french-reading members: A new edition(*) in two volumes of some of my articles, slightly revised and corrected, is available for free ...
1 Apr 26, 2000
2:07 am

Didier Willis
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In The Book of Lost Tales 1, and the Qenya Lexicon, we found _mavar_ as the Quenya word ford 'shepher&#39;, but later material seems to indicate that this term was...
1 Apr 26, 2000
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Javier Lorenzo
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You're welcome here. There are surely more lurkers than posters. And if you ever need to post and don't trust your English, Dorothea Salo (the moderator) has...
1 Apr 26, 2000
2:06 am

Shihali Ramichu
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... So does Appendix E of "The Return of the King"; a much more authoritative source, ... Ouch! A tad better than having the computer that works with the...
2 Apr 26, 2000
2:06 am

S. SinClaire
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Aiya! Once upon a time there was a song 'Straffad Moder och Dotter' by swedish group Garmarna (www.cabal.se/massproduktion/garmarna/, album "Vittrad"). Nice...
1 Apr 24, 2000
11:32 pm

Boris Shapiro
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... I don't think you know *that* little! ;-) ... The Quenya cognate is _litse_ (< LIT) but it means "sand". IIRC there is a word for "embers", but I cant find...
1 Apr 24, 2000
11:32 pm

BP Jonsson
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OK, I have tried this on a number of other mailing-lists and other places :) I greatly hope you can come up with more sensible suggestions than some I have...
1 Apr 24, 2000
11:17 pm

James O'Connell
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Hi THANK YOU A LOT. Hannad (or is it hanned? never mind) The counter shows you've been pretty interested in the research I've done, but alas! there's something...
1 Apr 24, 2000
11:17 pm

Pavel Iosad
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... We just discussed that this week, but here goes: ÓRE: used for _r_ when no vowel follows it, i.e. before a consonant or at the end of a word. ARDA: in...
1 Apr 24, 2000
11:17 pm

BP Jonsson
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Hi all!! I'm spanish, so my english it is not as pure as I'll desire!! I'm here to learn as much as possible about Tolkien languages and your essays. So, i'll...
1 Apr 24, 2000
11:17 pm

Ozelin plinplin
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... Then yura it is! ... But if there's nothing better... ... Then I'll use capa (btw, any special reason to mention that 'kampe&#39; is the past? It's the regular...
7 Apr 24, 2000
11:17 pm

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