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  • Category: Tolkien, J.R.R.
  • Founded: Sep 5, 1998
  • Language: English
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Hi All, Just wanted to do a small introduction (as well as possibly answer a question or two). I've searched through the archives for an answer as well as read...
2 Dec 30, 2003
1:53 am

Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin
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Suilad, I'm working on translating a few phrases into Sindarin for a - please don't hurt me! - fictional backstory of the Stewards of Gondor. (Specifically,...
3 Dec 30, 2003
1:52 am

Arthur Boccaccio
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Aiya ilquen, I was wondering if there is a quenya-verb to translate 'to smile'. It is not in the wordlist I have and I could not find anything in the ...
3 Dec 29, 2003
6:19 pm

eruantalisse
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This is a translation I'm working on. It's of one of my own works. This is also my first MAJOR translation. So I'll apologize ahead of time for my "green"...
17 Dec 29, 2003
6:14 pm

Baksai Karoly
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I'm writing a poem and I want to put the word loved in but I don't know what suffixe to add to _mel- _ to make it past tense. Any help would be greatly...
3 Dec 29, 2003
6:13 pm

Ohtarwen Elenn€  Ăˇr€...
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Suilad! Recently I was looking for a Sindarin word for feel (as in "How do you feel?" and such of the similar sort) and was unable to find one. I did find...
2 Dec 29, 2003
1:30 pm

elhath *
elenyona
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Thanks to everyone who replied to my post. I will certianly look into the links that were provided (espcially councilofelrond.com ) and will see if I can't...
1 Dec 29, 2003
2:39 am

Shauna Mulligan
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Hello everyone! This is the first time I write in this group and I already arrive with questions. I'm studying Helge's course and I have no words to express my...
3 Dec 29, 2003
12:42 am

Lukas Novak
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Greetings, I have been a great fan of Tolkien's for many years now... well at least for my life it has been a great many years (8 out of 18-almost 19) and have...
4 Dec 29, 2003
12:36 am

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I've recently been running through the Quenya course from Ardalambion for the first time. This is a poem I wrote to put on a friend's Christmas card, but...
2 Dec 29, 2003
12:34 am

Celene Estelle
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Hi. I'm Maria Blackrose and I've just joined this mailing list. I was hoping that I would find some help concerning the translation of my name into Quenya. I...
1 Dec 29, 2003
12:32 am

Maria Blackrose
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Hi there. Hope I said Good Morning right. :) Just thought I'd introduce myself and ask a couple of questions, as I am hoping to learn Sindarin. I know my...
4 Dec 27, 2003
6:23 pm

Arthur Boccaccio
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Hello, I just joined this group yesterday, as I've rediscovered a strong interest in Tolkein's languages recently. I like Quenya a good deal, but like the...
7 Dec 27, 2003
6:21 pm

eruantalisse
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There was a wonderful page of links for this list that seems to have disappeared. While not all of them were relevant, many of them were both relevant and...
3 Dec 27, 2003
8:43 am

Hans
gentlebeldin
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Hello, I just discovered your group from Taramiluiel&#39;s site (it's a terrific one)! I would very much like to begin to study Sindarin. I was an english major...
1 Dec 27, 2003
4:12 am

eruthiadwenn
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... **What? You must be kidding, Patrick, right? Why can we not provide links to mails from other mailing lists and from other people if these mails happen to...
1 Dec 26, 2003
8:04 pm

Ales Bican
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For the Sindarin compound which is composed of the _h_ initiated word. How would the _h_ here behave? Say, _edhel_ + _sarn_ => _edhelharn_. Is the _h_ here...
3 Dec 26, 2003
5:53 am

Panya
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... I had in my mind something like PIK-ME > PINGWE - but I surmise this pattern is a freature of much later stages of the language...? I think you have...
1 Dec 26, 2003
12:57 am

Lukas Novak
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Aiya could any one tell me what keys to press to get the symbol (u with an arrow above it) thankyou...
15 Dec 26, 2003
12:32 am

elhath *
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Aiya ilquen, somebody on an other list posted a question about the tenses of 'tuia- ', the perfect tense, to be precisely. It made me very curious about all...
4 Dec 25, 2003
11:43 am

Atwe
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Dear Elflings all; I just discovered your site. It is quite intriguing! I'm very good with linguistics---but have always concentrated on authentic tongues. One...
2 Dec 25, 2003
1:04 am

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I attempted to translate some verses from the Gospel of Matthew, the story of the birth of Jesus, into (Neo-)Quenya. Goes with the season and all: ...
1 Dec 24, 2003
11:48 pm

Helge K. Fauskanger
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I guess that many of you have seen RotK by now. I personally was very interested to hear Elvish dialogs (as most of you were too). Now, I have seen on...
1 Dec 24, 2003
8:04 pm

Erufailon
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... yeah, i was looking at _si^r_ for the prefix... i wonder if something like _gwaith_ could be used for the suffix, rather than _rim_ ??? Le hannon! Rodwen...
2 Dec 24, 2003
10:21 am

Benct Philip Jonsson
melroch
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Aiya, The first verse of a Finnish Christmas hymn by Wilhelmi Malmivaara from 1898, Quenya translation by me: "Valo syttyi, Jeesus syntyi, enkeli sen tiedon...
1 Dec 23, 2003
11:13 pm

Petri Tikka
petristikka
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Mae govannen pân; I'm shy to ask that, but I really do not know how and where to look for this. I'm seeking everythink I can about Rohan. The language and the...
4 Dec 23, 2003
10:25 pm

Aranelle E Labigni
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Although a Quenya word for "insect" is not desperately needed, it is a gap in our fragmentary vocabulary that can be quite frustrating at times. In his...
6 Dec 23, 2003
6:56 pm

chris_friederich
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... my site are confirmed: that "khelelia"; should be _kheleha_ (KHYELES), that "leuka" should be _lenka_ (LEK), and so on. No little nod of acknowledgement...
3 Dec 23, 2003
3:01 am

Helge K. Fauskanger
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Suilad, Now that we're getting into the holiday season, I was wondering how to say certain holiday greetings in Sindarin. I know that in Quenya "Merry/Happy...
10 Dec 23, 2003
2:57 am

Arthur Boccaccio
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Aiya ilquen, I was making flashcards with nouns, but now, I am confused: will nouns 'normally&#39; ending in 'ie' receive the 'o' or do they also loose the 'e'....
3 Dec 23, 2003
2:46 am

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