... Is that space in _oore nia_ really supposed to be there? The element _nia_ is obviously related to the Q ending _-nya_, and _cavaria_ "his/her house" from...
3005
Ice Pick
icepick3000@...
Jul 29, 2000 2:10 am
Wow, thank you very much. Seeing as how my friend just wanted to see what one of his online roleplaying names was in Quenya ( I got him interested by having...
3006
Dan Jones
yl-ruil@...
Jul 29, 2000 2:10 am
I can´t remember if I ever introduced myself to the list, but those of you from CONLANG will recognise me. This is my first stab at some poetry in Quenya....
3007
Mike Adams
abrigon@...
Jul 29, 2000 2:10 am
Does Quenya and like have any contractions, basically words that are not
the full translation, but are a short form of it..
So you don't have the long words...
3008
Mike Adams
abrigon@...
Jul 29, 2000 2:11 am
I know in a lingo like Arabic, you have constonant roots, namely words
like
Islam, and Muslim are the same basic word root, but basically depending
on where...
3009
Didier Willis
didier.willis@...
Jul 29, 2000 2:11 am
Dear friends, [The text just below is typed in ISO-8859-1 characters, refer to the interlinear text if you can't handle them.] Lathron ben ned eryn, glamor o...
3010
Javier Lorenzo
javi_lorenzo@...
Jul 29, 2000 2:11 am
... thoniel_ ... Sindarin ... This seems to be Tolkien's intention, as we can read in his translation of Sam's invocation in Cirith Ungol (Letters:278). But at...
3011
Angasule
angasule@...
Jul 29, 2000 3:29 am
... When two vowels that don't form a diphthong are together one of them is written over the previous tengwa (if available, a short carrier if not), and the...
3012
Myrtheos@...
Jul 30, 2000 12:46 am
In a message dated 7/28/00 10:11:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time, abrigon@... writes: << I know in a lingo like Arabic, you have constonant roots, namely...
3013
Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jul 30, 2000 12:46 am
... I'm not entirely sure if this answer blongs to your question, if you wanted to translate "Dark Man" you'd get _More Atan_ or something similar (there's of...
3014
Javier Lorenzo
javi_lorenzo@...
Jul 30, 2000 12:46 am
At first, congratulations to Didier Willis for this fine piece of Sindarin prose. But I have some doubts about mutation use: _annathon le chên, a mbar milui_ ...
3015
Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jul 30, 2000 12:46 am
... me. Q Nurutultar, S Gurdolthor = "Death-fetcher". It may be a slight problem that after VT41, Sindarin _gu^r_ (gur-) does no longer mean "death" only, but...
3016
John Rateliff
sacnoth@...
Jul 30, 2000 12:46 am
... Ringmail is rings sewn onto a leather jerkin, like Farmer Giles wore. In chainmail, the rings are actually linked together to form a mesh. It takes a lot...
3017
Lukas Novak
profesorr@...
Jul 30, 2000 5:27 pm
... Exactly, Denis is the French form of the name Dionysios (note: -ios; meaning, I think, something like "that of Dionysos", not directly "Dionysos";), the...
3018
Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jul 30, 2000 5:27 pm
... With the apparent change of "3" to "h" in PQ words, then either _guuur_ "inner mind" should become _uuur_ (clashing with a word for fire if I remember...
3019
Mike Adams
abrigon@...
Jul 30, 2000 5:28 pm
Maybe someone could use their knowledge of Arabic and like, and based on
the limited knowledge of Khazad to recreate it? Or would it be just to
difficult, I...
3020
Lukas Novak
profesorr@...
Jul 30, 2000 5:28 pm
Hello, Browsing through some one hundred of elfling submissions when having returned after a four-week camping, I awoke to my not having introduced myself...
3021
Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jul 30, 2000 5:28 pm
In VT41:11, the Sindarin form _pe^d_ "speaks" (incidentally in lenited form _be^d_) is seen to correspond to the Quenya aorist _quete_. Both of these would...
3022
Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jul 30, 2000 5:28 pm
Aglar an Nidier! (glory to #Didier). His "Sindarin prose" is a nice little Grey-elven piece, demonstrating that it is indeed possible to write in ... an echo...
3023
Jerry Dunham
jerry@...
Jul 30, 2000 7:38 pm
... I suppose I've been guilty, too. I can't imagine why anyone here would care, but for anyone who hasn't already hit "delete" I'll delurk for a bit.... I'm...
3024
David Salo
dsalo@...
Jul 30, 2000 7:38 pm
... This would not actually occur. The element thon- comes from a root THAN, with lengthening of the root-vowel: in Sindarin, *â > au (merging with original...
3025
David Salo
dsalo@...
Jul 30, 2000 7:38 pm
Mike Perkins wrote ... The tehta for the _first_ vowel goes over a tengwa representing the _second_ vowel. The tengwar used are yanta (for i) and úre (for...
3026
David Salo
dsalo@...
Jul 30, 2000 7:38 pm
Didier Willis wrote ... The draft text is found in The War of the Ring, p. 293. I have looked at the original text in Marquette, and my reading is...
3027
Lukas Novak
profesorr@...
Jul 31, 2000 11:00 pm
Hello, I am coming to you experts with three more questions. Thank you for bothering with me... 1) In Helge's review of the new VT there is several times...
3028
Ice Pick
icepick3000@...
Jul 31, 2000 11:00 pm
Well, since we should stick to Tolkien related stuff ( well, whatever ), I have a question with two parts: what is _aorist_ mean ( I feel like I missed out on...
3029
Mike Adams
abrigon@...
Jul 31, 2000 11:00 pm
I believe their is a symbol for double, so if the vowel is a doubled
then might that work? I know in my mode I often put the vowel find over
the previous...
3030
Lukas Novak
profesorr@...
Jul 31, 2000 11:00 pm
... and a possible solution to the problem of two infinitives came to my mind. Excuse me please, if it is a nonsense, I am just an amateur. Could it be so that...
3031
Nicholas Taylor
nicholas.taylor@...
Jul 31, 2000 11:01 pm
... Despite having posted only about one relevant message here, I suppose I should introduce myself to anyone who still cares. I'm 18, between school and...
3032
Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jul 31, 2000 11:01 pm
... Um, a lost pronominal ending here would presumably be something containing an "s", cognate of the Q endings _-s, -ro, -re_ "it, he, she", that disappeared...
3033
Lukas Novak
profesorr@...
Jul 31, 2000 11:01 pm
Hello, Excuse me for bothering all of you unceasingly, but four more questions have arisen to me when trying to penetrate into the Quenya verb. Firstly: What...
