... If I'm not mistaken, both óre and rómen indicate trilled r (although they didn't originally, and that's why there is two of them), óre should be used...
... list ... language. There is no "proper usage" for Sindarin, so to speak. ... And there is no "Standard Mode" either. You could write Sindarin using many...
What is the difference between the letters: 21(óre) and 25(rómen)? So far I have understood that rómen is trilled r, but what I want to know is when to use...
Dear friends There is a new 32-page booklet in French available on my web site in PDF format. As the two previous volumes, it gathers some of my articles, that...
I have two more questions. I wonder what is the real Quenya stem equivalent to Sindarin "gal(ad)". Is it "cala-" or "al(a)ta-"? I've read somewhere that ...
Greetings, This is my first attempt at translating a song into Sindarin... many thanks to Didier Willis and Helge K. Fauskanger for their very helpful...
... **It is Quenya, namely Vanyarin dialect of Quenya. Vanyar adopted it from Valarin, the language of Valar. Let me explain it further: Quenya had two...
Hello all, Well, I one more question I always wanted to ask someone has just come to my mind: To what language belongs the word "Ezellohar"? It looks really...
... at the Ardalambion (thank you so much for all your work, Helge!), Thank you. I have to add that "my" analysis is to a large extent based on the research of...
Hi Lambendili ! I'm working on the french translation of Helge's Ardalambion (http://ardalambion.fr.free.fr/), and I need a little help : In Helge's articles,...
Dear friends, First, we have David Ondzes wondering how to say "to summon" ... For various reasons, Ardalambion is not complete as far as vocabulary is...
Hello everybody! I´ve just recently started my education on Quenya and Sindarin. And I´m not so good at it at the time, so I hope noone will be annoyed of ...
Hello, friends, Hope this question is not off topic: I have noticed that JRRT very often uses "try and find" instead of "try to find" and similarly with other...
... No, the word that is translated 'to greet' is _suilannad_, whilst _suilad_ is translated 'greeting'. ... Well, _suilannad_ appears to be a gerund of a verb...
try and find: it's mostly likely an archaic English usage. Just read the King James Bible and you'll find many stylistic similarities with Tolkien's. Steve...
To translate _the halls of Valinor_ into Quenya, would I need to use the genitive _i mardi Valinooro_ or the possessive _i mardi valinooreva_ or doesn't it...
... As you say, "try to" is logical, "try and" is not (and does not mean anything, when you think about it). The first point one can make is that there must be...
... As to the "living quenya" idea, maybe _qi_ became our "current" (what are those terms: middle ancient etc.) _si_ or _ni_? or... ... _ya_ is declinable, but...
after thinking for a while and gathering datas about the present tenses problem, I came up to consider two options: A. JRR Tolkien have been reel unconsistent...
Dear Lambengolmor, I am surprised there is no reaction to the relevant Edward Kloczko's message. In my opinion these two Tolkien's texts (I mean 'Verb Chart'...
... In the grammar that I have discovered at Marquette, and that I described it in a past e-mail message, there is not only a full page of pronouns of Qenya***...
"There are Ents and Ents, you know; or there are Ents and things that look like Ents but ain't, as you might say." The Sindarin word for Ent is _Onod_, plurals...
... Unfortunately no, because _lasto_ "listen" stands in the LotR in Gandalf's Sindarin invocations (lasto beth lammen...), not **lhasto. A possible workaround...
... **What you wrote is the allative. The locative is _ingolesse_ "in/on knowledge". I think the allative would be good, though I personally would write _mir...
Aiya! Today I've finished a Russian translation of Helge Fauskanger's article about Entish. You may look it at http://drauger.chat.ru/entish.htm. Best regards,...
... translate same sentences and I`v found, that certain errors comes from a misinterpretation of the word position. Has been written anywhere something about...
... In a decimal (10-based) system like ours, there are ten digits. Also, the place-value system is based on 10. The "ones' place" is 10^0 (I mean 10 with a...
