The advice contained in Helge's post was good enough that I'd be happy to see it printed in TT or VT. I hope he'll also make it a permanent part of his...
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Maciej Zenczykowski
maze@...
May 5, 2000 8:50 pm
I have been trying to "decipher"; Sindarin tengwar with tehta mode, I have access to LOTR, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion. And to Dan Smiths fonts + help...
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Greg Dyke
g_dyke@...
May 5, 2000 8:50 pm
... Sorry, it isn't, I thought I found it there but it must have been somewhere else Greg ... ...
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Didier Willis
didier.willis@...
May 5, 2000 8:50 pm
... You are welcome. But please keep in mind that when one reads ELFING, he/she does not always have all the books and dictionary at hand. As Helge wrote in a...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
May 4, 2000 7:39 pm
... "to protest". It could be formed by "complaint-say", but there's no word for "complaint" either. Can anyone help with this? Perhaps _vquet-_ = "to say...
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Greg Dyke
g_dyke@...
May 4, 2000 7:38 pm
... I think an uvular r is the one you often get in German or french (or are they different. what is apical r? Take bergen: you could pronounce it like the...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
May 4, 2000 7:37 pm
From time to time, people send actual Elvish texts to Elfling to have them reviewed. Often there is some fumbling introduction along the lines of "this is my...
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LAICOLAS
laicalasse@...
May 4, 2000 7:36 pm
Since I didn't received any one single comment from the schoolars about this issue, I post it back, leaving it to the hope that one joyfull wind may bring it...
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Greg Dyke
g_dyke@...
May 4, 2000 7:36 pm
... Net- is in the etymologies, HoME 5 ... ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN...
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S. SinClaire
lynsin357@...
May 4, 2000 7:34 pm
Anthony Burgess used lots of Russian words in "A Clockwork Orange" and "droog" spelt that way-was a slang for "friend". Sin ... From: ...
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Mister Gang
m.gang@...
May 4, 2000 7:33 pm
Hi Elflingers !!! This message is for french speaking people : You can visit my translation of Helge Fauskanger's Ardalambion (at least a little part of it) at...
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David Kiltz
kiltzd@...
May 4, 2000 7:33 pm
... IMO he didn't care about it. Some words look like borrowings from other languages, e.g. Q. _tuula-_ and Finnish _tulla_ "to come" or _loiko_ "corpse" wich...
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Greg Dyke
g_dyke@...
May 2, 2000 9:26 pm
Perhaps we could make a new mailling list, with only messages ... Great minds think alike: quenya@egroups.com already exists Greg ...
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Greg Dyke
g_dyke@...
May 2, 2000 9:26 pm
... I agree that the discussion finds no place on Elfling, however I don't think that's what he meant. The crme de la crme of tolkiendilis is to be found ...
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Ïàâåë È...
pavel_iosad@...
May 2, 2000 9:26 pm
Greg Dyke wrote ... Yeah. Remember the word for the Druuedain : druug. In Russian there's a word "drug", meaning friend... Regards Pavel...
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Shihali Ramichu
ramichu@...
May 2, 2000 9:26 pm
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...
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Shihali Ramichu
ramichu@...
May 2, 2000 9:26 pm
... For special circumstances, yes. How is one supposed to publish news in Quenya, for instance, without Quenya versions of the names? Affix case endings...
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BP Jonsson
bpj@...
May 1, 2000 10:56 pm
... 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...
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David Kiltz
kiltzd@...
Apr 30, 2000 8:12 pm
am 27.04.2000 23:26 Uhr schrieb Edward Kloczko unter ... Because this is the very essence of the joy of (secondary) creation. Translating is sometimes...
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Robert J. Carignan
kimble@...
Apr 30, 2000 8:12 pm
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...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Apr 30, 2000 7:16 pm
... 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 ...
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Shihali Ramichu
ramichu@...
Apr 30, 2000 7:15 pm
... 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...
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Ïàâåë È...
pavel_iosad@...
Apr 30, 2000 7:15 pm
Yeah In Hebrew (that's another Semitic one) the root r-h-s (remember Helge K. Fauskanger's R-Kh-S Khuzdul stem for Orcs?) means mountain, cave.Fits for the...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Apr 30, 2000 7:15 pm
... Or perhaps more likely something like _rata_ or _rta_ with a single "t", since primitive *_ratt-_ would yield _rth_ in Sindarin. Andreas ...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Apr 30, 2000 7:15 pm
... and Who is -Ni, -Ka (like Helge's suggestion -cca?) and Man. sound familiar? ** They surely do. ... ** He knew some Hebrew, at least, since he translated...
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David Kiltz
kiltzd@...
Apr 30, 2000 7:15 pm
am 26.04.00 14:32 Uhr schrieb Edward Kloczko unter ... But _emerie_ is Quenya. So _emer_ must be present in Quenya too. On formal grounds, I think, _emerwen_...
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Boris Shapiro
elenhil@...
Apr 30, 2000 7:15 pm
Aiya! Friday, April 28, 2000, 1:26:09 AM, Edward Kloczko wrote: [skipped] EK> A 1000 (or more, I don't knwo) have been made by JRR Tolkien himself. If EK>...
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Dorothea Salo
dorothea@...
Apr 28, 2000 9:16 pm
... I have no problem with it at all. Creating novel words from existing roots is a commonplace in natural language, and it is also valuable practice in...
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David Kiltz
kiltzd@...
Apr 28, 2000 9:01 pm
am 25.04.2000 23:35 Uhr schrieb amanda england unter ... (It's _ereg_, I guess) ... A common way to feminize names in Sindarin is to add the endings -wen or ...
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Javier Lorenzo
javi_lorenzo@...
Apr 28, 2000 9:01 pm
... over in his ... tongue of the ... close but ... Rings. Perhaps it would be better to say _mavar_ seems not to be quite appropiate in mature Quenya...
