Here's an odd topic I've been thinking on lately. Martin Bernal, in his controversial book BLACK ATHENA (Vol I, 1987), points out that roughly 50% to 60% of...
Márë arilli (arineli) - hyviä huomenia // can I use ll insted of eli? I just wanted to introduce myself and ask some questions, since I just joined this...
Someone recently asked what the Sindarin word for "gift" was. The Etymologies and Didier Wilis' excellent online Dictionary give 'ant'. Later i was told that...
Hi, I'll introduce myslef since I'm new arounf here. I'm Mike from the US, and just decided to start learning quenya. I've already gathere a lot of online...
Hello again. I read Helge's article "Now we have all got elvish names", and I decided that I wanted to try too. My real name is Fidel (yes, like Castro), and I...
Here is something from http://www.stuff.co.nz/inl/index/0,1008,222224a2202,FF.html Hollywood star Cate Blanchett found one thing tough while in Wellington ...
Hello, Yesterday I found an old book of mine with an unsuccesful attempt to find out what the metre and rhytm of Namaarie is. I wrote it down, marked the long...
A while back (November) I posted the first page of a short quenya story to the net. It has now been joined by its pals, pages 2, 3, and 4, at the following...
... Icelandic did, but nowadays the old long vowels have turned into diphthongs (so for example /a:/, written "á", has become /au/, but still spelt the same ...
Hello, Just a question: Has the "Kynjä translation" of Namaarie some sense in Finnish? Or it is just a demonstration how little fonetical changes are needed...
... Perhaps mostly re: the small amount I know about either language. :) So here it is: Ai! Laurije tantar lassi suhinen, jieni uunuottime pe raamar kaltaron!...
Greetings, Last night, instead of sleeping, I was wondering why some Quenya words have a "strange" plural form: _urco_ --> _urqui_, _telco_ --> _telqui_... ...
... I'd imagine that _parmatir_ is also equally likely to be "accountant" if pushed into modern context. Or, possibly, even (*shudder*) "auditor" ... Well, if...
... I feel highly concerned by this issue, as I have experienced further problems with Yahoo even after the intellectual property claim was withdrawn from...
... Well, Sindarin has _gwaloth_, so olootie seems to match that nicely. Lootesse is already in existence as the Sindarin name of May. I was thinking of such...
... u-gernim: if this is based on "gar", then being lenited after u- it should be 'ernim nestad: I would used the true infinitive (rather than gerund) form,...
... A few comments: Fast: is specifically tangled, shaggy hair; _find_ is a bit more general din: I'd use diin (with lengthened vowel) fuindaur: why reverse...
In a message dated 6/19/00 7:37:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time, profesorr@... writes: << I don't know the terminus in English -I mean the Greek and Roman...
Well, I am not too well informed about the activities of Yahoo, so I cant judge what the danger is. However, if there shall be agreement that Elfling should ...
Hello to everybody, I'm a Spanish boy who don't talk English too well, but I understand almost everything I read. :-) A friend of mine, Ozelin, told me about...
... cite ... Well if we take darling Professor Tolkien general behaviour as an indicator. we must therefore suppose he "intellectually plagiarized" a large...
Greetings, all, I found out today that Yahoo is in the process of buying eGroups.com, the service that hosts Elfling. Those of you who have been here a while...
... -rm- is very rare in Sindarin! Where it occurs, it either comes from: r+ an unlenited m in quasi-compounds (e.g. Or-menel = Aur Menel); or from rn+m (e.g....
I forget the title of the work, but it was a book on Elvish, with a green cover. Like in the middle of the book. I lost it some years ago, so memory is serving...
... The Goidelic languages are the Gaelic branch of the Celtic languages. (The other branch is called Brythonic or Brittanic or something in-between.) Matt...
... **I guess _parmasse_ should be Q cognate of _parvas_, right? Please, can you, David, tell my why you chose the ending _-sse_ which derives abstracts, e.g....
I've been trying to make a list of Sindarin titles and professions. Considering that my grasp of Sindarin is minimal at best, this is proving to be very...
... Thank you - I have never heard of this book - in the CR it is not sold, although all the other volumes of HoME are available... One will have to wait, it ...
... Found it. Francis Lodwick's "Universal Alphabet" of 1673. Described in pages 276 through 279 of Jim Allan's AN INTRODUCTION TO ELVISH (1978). The examples...
... 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...
