... I know someone prior to Prof Tolkien did a ... While I know plenty of people have made up their own scripts before Tolkien (a "secret vice" of a different...
... I've always thought that you add the suffix -ne whole. This is the past tense, as I understand it (correct me, please): In Primitive Quendian, ALL past...
... Errr. This sound has *nothing* to do with the french "y" which is mostly /i/. It is however more like german "y" than french "y" or german "ü". Greg ...
The past-tense is given with the suffix -në, if the last consonants are r, n or m. Otherwise the n is placed before the last consonant. So far I have...
... of _lind_ "song" (_*lindod_ naturally becoming _linnod_ since Sindarin phonology does not permit intervocalic -nd-)." ... _Baranduin_, the S. name for the...
... Hi Nathan, The big problem, of which you might not be aware is that there are two *main* elvish languages: Quenya and Sindarin. These are rather...
May I declare this Be Kind To Newbies Week? I'm seeing a couple of trends that irk me slightly. There's nothing that I can call flamage, or even rudeness,...
Hello, I think the recent discussion of the matter of the pronounciation of Sindarin "y" was somewhat confusing. I tried to produce a table showing the ...
... interesting and contains some clever guesses. In presenting such a material, however, one has to remind that all the suggested forms do not have the same...
I have loved Tolkien's books for ages, and i'm starting to use the Sindarian Dictoinary that appears in the back of THE SILMARILLION to learn Elvish, and i'm...
... Sorry to disagree, but in French "y" doesn't sound very different from "i". "u" on the other hand sounds like the german "ü". And I do speak both French...
In trying to translate "Varda's Domes" into Tengwar text I have deduced the following. (unfortunately these text area boxes are not rich text format friendly ...
Didier wrote ... Thanks, Didier. I appreciate the additions and corrections. I did not compose the list with any extensive botanical knowledge; and where a ...
... There are two roots, KAL and GAL (the latter replaced at a late date by ÑAL, whose first letter represents a velar nasal consonant), both meaning light;...
Hi, Another silly question from out there. We have _palan-diriel_ "gazing afar" in Sam's invocation and _palan-diiriel_ "having gazed afar" in Song to...
I decided it was time to add something new to Ardalambion (it's been half a year since the last time). There seems to be some interest in Sindarin these days,...
Dear friends, I found it very interesting to work on David Salo's "Qenya botany" (on Ardalambion) and to translate it into French. As a matter of facts, I...
... equivalent to ... Tolkien was always changing his mind about the etymologies of PE roots. ... whereas in ... develepment ... of ... "alata-" ... Yes and no...
Aiya! Now i realised how silly the question actually was. Of course _palantir_ is Quenya. Sindarin *palandir, pl. **pelendir i think. Sorry. Regards Pavel ... ...
... It must be strongly emphasised that we do *not* know Quenya or Sindarin. What we know are only scraps and lose parts. The above text is no near a ...
The large list of Sindarin verb inflection posted by Helge is very interesting and contains some clever guesses. In presenting such a material, however, one...
The Q. word _Nuumerraamar_, "West-wings", is formed from _Nuumen_, "west", and _raamar_, "wings". *_Nuumenraamar_ becomes _Nuumerraamar_ because of the...
I quote from Helge Fauskanger's Ardalambion article on Sindarin, where he discusses the origin of the word _linnod_: "..._linnod_ can be recognized as such a...
... I found the Ring-Verse translated thus on the Mellonath Daeron site: Nelde Cormar Eldataarin nu Tarmenel, Otso Herunaucoin mardessen ondova, Nerte Firye...
Hi! I also have got a question about tengwar (for writing Quenya). The letters i,u,o,a and y (I think they are called 'vowels' in English) can be written in 2...
... First of all, you seem to be confused about 'Quenya', Quenya is the language called High Elvish, but there is also Sindarin (normally called 'elvish' in...
