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26149 K. R. Harris
aawid_hnec Send Email
Jul 29, 2003
3:51 pm
Good Afternoon. I have a question regarding the word 'Narsil&#39;. In LOTR/Silm, 'Narsil&#39; is the name of Elendil's sword, reforged and renamed Anduril. In Silm,...
26150 Patrick VanDusen
patquackssb Send Email
Jul 29, 2003
3:52 pm
The filmmakers were very in-depth with their work. They probably read through the etymologies as well. I haven't read them yet, but if i'm not mistaken, the...
26151 Gildor Inglorion
elfiness Send Email
Jul 29, 2003
5:17 pm
teithant "K. R. Harris" ... yes.. and yet Silmarillion means '(tale) of the Silmarils' :) ____________________________________________________________ Do You...
26152 mtcpost2001 Send Email Jul 29, 2003
7:49 pm
You did look at Amanye Tenceli? http://hem.passagen.se/mansb/at/teng_beleriand.htm has a whole article on the tengwar Mode of Beleriand, which is considered a...
26153 Kai MacTane
kmactane Send Email
Jul 29, 2003
7:59 pm
... Of course, that's because its full name is _Quenta Silmarillion_. --Kai MacTane ... "When nothing's sacred any more, When the demon's knocking on your...
26154 michiru
michiru_benson Send Email
Jul 30, 2003
12:03 am
Hi! Everybody :) I have another question for Sindarin! Many prepositions or prefixes in Sindarin would trigger different mutation. And I notice the prefix...
26155 Jessica Yu
JecaMeca21@... Send Email
Jul 30, 2003
12:32 am
Hi! Does anyone know where I can learn elvish calligraphy online, or some other source? Thank you for your time! Please email me back!...
26156 Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@... Send Email
Jul 30, 2003
12:32 am
... hence _Ergaun_. This would be the Middle Sindarin form. In the kind of Sindarin that was supposedly spoken in Frodo's day, -gaun would have been reduced to...
26157 DDanielA@...
uialdil Send Email
Jul 30, 2003
3:02 am
... Try Måns Björkman's Tengwar Calligraphy article at his site, Amanye Tenceli: http://hem.passagen.se/mansb/at/teng_calligraphy.htm To see examples of...
26158 Gildor Inglorion
elfiness Send Email
Jul 30, 2003
8:32 am
teithant michiru ... i think it's in the Ardalambion list as athra- ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? ...
26159 Gildor Inglorion
elfiness Send Email
Jul 30, 2003
8:43 am
... the site Amanye Tenceli.. link 'Tengwar Calligraphy&#39; where to find Amanye Tenceli? but it's mentioned everywhere.. try to look in olod posts or in ...
26160 michiru
michiru_benson Send Email
Jul 30, 2003
12:26 pm
Teithant Gildor Inglorion > > Many prepositions or prefixes in Sindarin would > > trigger > > different mutation. And I notice the prefix _thar-_ > >...
26161 Jessica Yu
JecaMeca21@... Send Email
Jul 30, 2003
3:09 pm
Thank you so much! I appreciate both your reply and your time! ~Jessica~ P.S. What is "Cuio mae"? I am very much ashamed to ask but I just wanted to know. hehe...
26162 Gildor Inglorion
elfiness Send Email
Jul 30, 2003
3:48 pm
teithant michiru ... yes ... no.. i think athra- is a more or less alteration of thar- ____________________________________________________________ Do You...
26163 Gildor Inglorion
elfiness Send Email
Jul 30, 2003
3:50 pm
teithant Jessica Yu ... supposed to mean 'live well'.. first invented as a greeting by Danny, and uses it in all his posts, subsequently adopted by others and...
26164 chris01230123 Send Email Jul 30, 2003
7:11 pm
... some other source? In addition to what's already been suggested, you might try the Tengwar Textbook... http://www.geocities.com/tengwar2001/ You don't need...
26165 cinnamoons Send Email Jul 30, 2003
7:12 pm
Hi as I was trying to tell you , I'm new. I read LOTR about 10 years ago but only recently have I been interested in elvish languages and particularly...
26166 Aaron Shaw
maethorgalad Send Email
Jul 30, 2003
7:12 pm
... Could be although their differing derivation seems not to point in such a direction (thouhg their meaning might be inherently the same). I would probably...
26167 DDanielA@...
uialdil Send Email
Jul 30, 2003
7:25 pm
... If you want to see more striking similarities between Sindarin and a real world language, acquaint yourself with Welsh (gallois). It is the language that...
26168 cinnamoons Send Email Jul 31, 2003
2:26 am
Hey I have been working on a birthday card for my twin sis for some time and since I am a novice I have a few questions. I want to use 'days' in 'may our days...
26169 Andrew Belisle
andrew_belisle Send Email
Jul 31, 2003
2:29 am
Greetings wise ones! I need some help on exactly when and when not use the genitive vs. the so-called "possesive adjectival" case. Mr Fauskanger&#39;s course...
26170 Gildor Inglorion
elfiness Send Email
Jul 31, 2003
7:22 am
teithant cinnamoons ... cool, if you want you canlater have itintengwar and thenpublish it on my tengwar site :) ... i understand that arad means strictly...
26171 matli1977 Send Email Jul 31, 2003
3:47 pm
I want to write the text "Gift of God" and I know the single words for it but I need some help with grammar and syntax. I know the following: gift is anna of...
26172 chris01230123 Send Email Jul 31, 2003
3:47 pm
... Helge's wordlist includes a Quenya word for twin: "TWIN onóna (also = adj "twinborn";, the primary meaning of the word), pl. ónoni (surprisingly, a dual...
26173 K. R. Harris
aawid_hnec Send Email
Jul 31, 2003
3:48 pm
Gildor Inglorion wrote: yes.. and yet Silmarillion means '(tale) of the Silmarils' :) Kai MacTane replied: Of course, that's because its full name is _Quenta...
26174 michiru
michiru_benson Send Email
Jul 31, 2003
4:01 pm
Teithant Mellyn ... But sometimes I have to choose a better one while taking the rhythm into consideration for poems. ... point in ... the ... a rough ... ...
26175 Ghibaudo Luca
lucaemauro@... Send Email
Jul 31, 2003
4:06 pm
From: "matli1977&quot; <mattias_h_lind@...> ... This is Quenya, "Elfish" is vague :o) Anyway, it should be _Eruo Anna_; Quenya is a case language, and, in...
26176 Hans
gentlebeldin Send Email
Jul 31, 2003
4:06 pm
... _gwanún_ (written with a macron there, not with an accent) IS derived from the same root, it's the Sindarin cognate, and it's glossed "a pair of twins"...
26177 Gildor Inglorion
elfiness Send Email
Jul 31, 2003
9:06 pm
teithant chris01230123 ... onoona is the Quenya form of gwanun, both derived from *gonoonaa ____________________________________________________________ Do You...
26178 Gildor Inglorion
elfiness Send Email
Jul 31, 2003
9:12 pm
teithant "K. R. Harris" ... maybe, but in general have in mind that thing present at least in Greek, Latin and English, which in greek is called 'genitive of...
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