... This is actually very simple. The word is pronounced /nev/ and is so spelt in Tengwar (and cirth too for that matter). But JRRT wanted to avoid final ...
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...
Aiya! Yesterday I complete a translation of Helge K. Fauskanger's article about Khuzdul (without wordlist at this moment) and put it on my site "Tolkien's...
... 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...
Hi Going over a linguistic journal, I noticed that the arabic for I, You, and Who is -Ni, -Ka (like Helge's suggestion -cca?) and Man. sound familiar? What's...
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...
... Net- is in the etymologies, HoME 5 ... ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN...
... 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...
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...
... 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...
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...
... Ah, but there are some beautiful names that can be made with quenya phonology, like Mait (in french it sounds great anyway). I can't think of any others,...
... 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...
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...
... 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 ...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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 ...
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...
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:...
... 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...
... 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...
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...
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....
... 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...
... 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....
