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29393 Texasshuffle@...
fincaron Send Email
Apr 5, 2004
12:37 am
You can name your new family member anything you want. Even a compound word. for example....I have a Greyhound. His actual name is Sayer (the racing kennel ...
29392 A.W.T.
aolung Send Email
Apr 4, 2004
9:58 am
... Thomas, it's always been my feel that the first versions are slightly "more Hungarian" than the second. Remember everyday's terms like "esik az esö" (it's...
29391 Aaron Shaw
maethorgalad Send Email
Apr 4, 2004
5:09 am
Greetings everyone: A new article has been posted on I-Lam Arth - Imparisyllabic Nouns in Sindarin written by Bertrand Bellet. This is a _very_ interesting ...
29390 Melroch 'Aestan
melroch Send Email
Apr 3, 2004
7:58 pm
The Younger Edda by Snorri Sturluson and "Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altnordischen" by de Vries. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
29389 William Womack
quildarener Send Email
Apr 3, 2004
6:20 pm
Thank you, sir. Source, please? Melroch 'Aestan <melroch@...> wrote:At 06:12 31.3.2004 -0800, William Womack wrote: [Gimli] ... Actually the palace in...
29388 Petri Tikka
petristikka Send Email
Apr 3, 2004
12:46 pm
... Similarly in Finnish both _Väistyy yö!_ 'The night passes!' and _Yö väistyy!_ are grammatical. The word order in Finnish is highly free, ie. it makes...
29387 morwen_eledhwen@... Send Email Apr 3, 2004
11:56 am
Suilad! I was wondering, have you all checked out the LOTR movie pages on http://www.elvish.org/gwaith ? They have this completely translated (accurately) and...
29386 psalm19us Send Email Apr 3, 2004
4:49 am
... Who ... and ... It is indeed a troublesome matter! ;) And quite possibly one that may never have a definitive answer, like so many others. Thank you for...
29385 Anuska
house_of_feanor Send Email
Apr 2, 2004
7:13 pm
Lucy, I have indeed read HFK's work on stop mutations, but I'm trying to gather as much information as possible... that's why I've posted my query here. ... Do...
29384 Aaron Morse
diarenye Send Email
Apr 2, 2004
6:53 pm
Another site with lyrics and translations from the movies is www.arwen-undomiel.com . Click on "Elvish" and there will be a series of links. I have no idea how...
29382 Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin Send Email
Apr 2, 2004
5:54 pm
Suilië, ... Now most people would just name their pet Frodo or Pippin...:) Sildor has no meaning in Quenya (this is the specific Elvish language from which...
29381 Atwe
percival64 Send Email
Apr 2, 2004
12:54 pm
... Aia Petri, my take on this question is, that Quenya, being a highly inflected/agglutinating language, does not put strict rules on word order in a...
29380 Eddin Najetovic
eldin_of_cui... Send Email
Apr 2, 2004
12:30 pm
... You make a fair point, but I wonder how this works syntactically and whether there are parallels like this in other languages... I do not know much of it ...
29379 Petri Tikka
petristikka Send Email
Apr 2, 2004
12:07 pm
Aiya! It seems that a subject with the article follows its verb in Quenya: _Auta i lóme!_ 'The night is passing!' (Silm ch. 20), _Utúlie 'n aure!_ 'The day...
29378 Petri Tikka
petristikka Send Email
Apr 2, 2004
9:48 am
... _qilda_ 'quiet, hushed, still' (PE12:78). Ondo...
29377 calwen76 Send Email Apr 2, 2004
8:41 am
... this ... First, why odn't you read Helge's hypotheses in his Sindarin the Noble Tongue article, Stop mutation? :) The only examples I know are: -o...
29376 Atwe
percival64 Send Email
Apr 2, 2004
8:37 am
... As a matter of fact, I think _quilda_ "silent" is attested in QL. Could somebody confirm this, please? ===== Thomas Ferencz "Manuel!!! Que? I'm so sorry,...
29375 Melroch 'Aestan
melroch Send Email
Apr 2, 2004
5:47 am
At 06:12 31.3.2004 -0800, William Womack wrote: [Gimli] ... Actually the palace in question is the one where the gods live after Ragnarök and its name is...
29374 merowen
merowen004 Send Email
Apr 2, 2004
5:39 am
Sub-note...the lyrics mentioned in previous post are vastly incomplete; e.g. "O Queen Beyond the West" from the Fellowship. Still, it's the most complete I've...
29373 merowen
merowen004 Send Email
Apr 2, 2004
5:38 am
While I cannot attest to any or all for complete accuracy, there is a site that lists most of the lyrics (in either Sindarin or Quenya, as composed) from LOTR:...
29372 house_of_feanor Send Email Apr 2, 2004
5:37 am
Suilaid! I've found myself in the middle of a discussion regarding the prep. _o(d)_ "of, from" and the mutation it causes in words beginning with 'h'. I've...
29371 Estel
nadine_saeed Send Email
Apr 2, 2004
5:37 am
Aiya eveyone, How are you all? This is a request for help and for opinions...My family and i are getting a kitten very soon (April 16) and we need a name for...
29370 purpleshooz@...
purpleshooz001 Send Email
Apr 2, 2004
5:37 am
Hello. I'm afraid my previous post was lost... but my question or rant which ever you may call it, is. I do like the language, but I find for myself that...
29369 Walt Sheasby
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Apr 2, 2004
5:36 am
Frodo Lives! Join him at Tolkien_Ecology@yahoogroups.com J. R. R. Tolkien: Saving the Ecosystems of Middle Earth by Walt Contreras Sheasby In J.R.R. Tolkien's...
29368 Annalinde Celebelen
annalindecel... Send Email
Apr 2, 2004
5:35 am
Sorry if this is a little late, I just read it. 1. Elvish 2. Elvish 3. Yiddish 4. Elvish 5. Elvish 6. Elvish 7. Yiddish 8. Yiddish 9. Elvish 10. Yiddish 11....
29367 purpleshooz@...
purpleshooz001 Send Email
Apr 2, 2004
5:34 am
Hello... I just want to know if there is anyone in the upper east Tennessee or south west Virginia area with whom I may speak with. To read the spoken word is...
29366 sandra vlahovic
svlahovic Send Email
Apr 2, 2004
5:34 am
This is from dictionary i got on internet on Ardalambion site so i hope this helps a little WISDOM nolwë (secret lore, obsoleting nólemë in LT1:263), nólë...
29365 Hirifëo
hirifeo Send Email
Apr 2, 2004
5:23 am
Aiya, Yes you did, thanks. I was incorrect that the common adjectival ending is _-nya_; another post I found here suggested _-ya_ And you suggest *_quildëa_,...
29364 William Womack
quildarener Send Email
Apr 1, 2004
2:34 pm
... Jerome Colburn wrote: Sorry I didn't come back sooner on this. It had been a long time since I'd looked at the Markirya poems, and in the last one the -la...
29363 William Womack
quildarener Send Email
Apr 1, 2004
2:31 pm
Eddin Najetovic <enajetovic@...> wrote: I was understating of course (hence the smiley) ... but thanks for the analysis of its Nordic form, I never dug...
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