... I'd like to state that there's an obvious danger in compiling a phrasebook. Quoting myself discussing the rather popular forms _hennaid_ and _suilaid_ may...
30312
Katya
squidonfire
Sep 10, 2004 4:23 pm
... [snip] ... represent ... compared ... That's a possibility that I didn't think of, thanks for pointing out the larger context of these phrases. It seems...
30311
Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Sep 10, 2004 3:18 pm
... This is an interesting idea - but then I would like to know your thoughts about _i eneth lín_ and _i innas lin_ (VT44:21). Is the idea not relevant in the...
30310
A.W.T.
aolung
Sep 10, 2004 7:34 am
I find Katya's idea (see below) pretty interesting and appealing, and ... Apart from the conlang Lojban (which - of course! - differentiates the different...
30309
320082509922-0001@...
Sep 10, 2004 6:36 am
Hi, ... Sure :-) That's what I already supposed. ... Thanks :-) ... Well, in your English version you write : '> Among all men I am the best.' I was just...
30308
lambendil
Sep 10, 2004 1:06 am
I'd like to react to the post #30306 of Katya, about the supposed Sindarin possessive suffix _-en_, and to the next post in which Thorsten Renk disagreed with...
30307
Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Sep 9, 2004 5:26 pm
... I disagree with the identification of _-en_ as a possessive suffix. The context of _guren będ enni_ (it is compared with the Quenya _orenya quete nin_ and...
30306
Katya
squidonfire
Sep 9, 2004 4:53 pm
... Great idea! Here are some things that I noticed: Phrases like "[you] go into exile from my land" should be conjugated in the imperative rather than second...
30305
ithilrin
Sep 9, 2004 4:48 pm
Hello Elfling, does anybody know if participles are lenited in sentences such as 'the white gulls call' -- would it be, for example, 'i maew fain canel', or 'i...
30304
Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Sep 9, 2004 2:24 pm
... I think the general assumption is that a gerund can take the role of an infinitive and is unlenited if this is so, hence 'desires to greet' and not...
30303
Atwe
percival64
Sep 9, 2004 1:49 pm
Dear Friends, sorry if this has been discussed to death before but I cannot find any reference at the moment to these 2 questions: - as KL shows in the...
30302
Atwe
percival64
Sep 9, 2004 9:31 am
... Yes, but: - orchal is elsewhere in the poem, I did not want repeated words - I had rhyming and rhythm to consider ... the original poem has to do more with...
30301
Vicente Velasco
rashbold
Sep 9, 2004 3:33 am
I received this email and I would like to forward it for everyone's best interest. It's another correction ... [...copy of lambengolmor posting snipped and...
30300
Navaer Lalaith
elvenswordsmith
Sep 8, 2004 4:10 pm
I have made one of the largest Sindarin phrase books on the web, with 766(and counting!) possible phrases. So far, it has gone unedited. I know that I have...
30299
Atwe
percival64
Sep 8, 2004 10:08 am
... Hi Sébastien, I see your reasoning, and agree with it. do not know of any other attested forms of pronominal suffixes attached to imperative verbs. Maybe...
30298
lambendil
Sep 8, 2004 9:05 am
... The case of the "imperative exclamation" (as this form is qualified by Tolkien in Q&E, XI:364) _heka!_ may not be wholly representative of imperatives,...
30297
Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Sep 8, 2004 8:52 am
... the verb system. First, past tenses in the Sindarin corpus do not exactly abound. Indeed they don't. The verbal system can only be tentatively...
30296
Atwe
percival64
Sep 8, 2004 7:51 am
... Well, we have _hecat_ and _hecal_ in Quendi and Eldar, Tolkien demonstrating that pronominal endings _can_ be attached to imperatives, but as the Cormallen...
30295
Eugenio M. Vigo
imaglang
Sep 8, 2004 3:57 am
Aiya! I'm back here with another question. In Gwaith-i-Phethdain, in the Silmarillion project page, there's the following phrase: _A cendal Quenta Silmarillion...
30294
Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Sep 6, 2004 3:15 pm
... The combination _iea_ does look somewhat weird. It doesn't occur in any word in the wordlists I have compiled, anyway. But in this case, there is a very...
30293
320082509922-0001@...
Sep 4, 2004 6:08 pm
Suil, I venn amrand Maybe _I venn orchal_ ... bain..._ ... might not fit the rhyme ... This is a very impressive work. I really enjoyed...
30292
"Beregond. Ander...
j_beregond
Sep 4, 2004 8:10 am
CALL FOR PAPERS The First International Conference on J.R.R. Tolkien's Invented Languages ("Omentielva Minya") August 4 to 8, 2005 University of Stockholm,...
30291
A.R. Veldhuis
nerdanel14
Sep 3, 2004 3:21 pm
Thank you, all, for your help. I will do my best to use the most correct form I can. Alisson [...]...
30290
lambendil
Sep 3, 2004 10:08 am
... peoples. ... less ... It is even possible to use the verb #_termar-_ "stand, last" as in Cirion's Oath in UT (_vanda sina termaruva..._ "This oath shall ...
30289
Atwe
percival64
Sep 3, 2004 9:57 am
Dear Friends, please find below a Neo-Sindarin translation of a poem by Endre Ady, titled "The Best Man" (A legjobb ember). Please note that the English...
30288
hirifeo
Sep 3, 2004 7:11 am
... I think in order to make it more understood, somewhere in the Quenya it has to include "to you" or "for you" instead of being merely implied. "Good forture...
30287
hirifeo
Sep 3, 2004 7:08 am
Tomasz: my _nostele / nostale_ goof was me being too hasty. Thanks for pointing it out... ... I like that solution better, something to the effect of: May it...
30286
hirifeo
Sep 3, 2004 7:07 am
Thanks, Eddin for clarifying this!! H ... [...]...
30285
Ryszard Derdzinski
galadhorn
Sep 2, 2004 7:40 pm
Gwaith-i-Phethdain update from September 2, 2004: Information about a new website concerning the LotR movie lyrics in the languages of Middle-earth: Magpie's...
30284
lambendil
Sep 1, 2004 9:39 am
Hi, ... Another possibility according to the context might be the use of the well known "nai formula" + future ("may it be that...", "be it that..."). ... It...
