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Well, the subject pretty much says it. Nothing seemed particularly obvious, so I thought I'd ask here. This is part of my first try at writing anything in...
1 Aug 5, 2000
4:40 pm

Nicholas Taylor
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... **It is. Writers usually use *_-re_ for "she", *_-ro_ for "he". Also there is _-s_ probably covering all "he", "she" and "it". *_meliro_ "he loves" ...
1 Aug 5, 2000
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... **_Anwa_ is adj. "true", not n. "truth". What about _neer anwa naanye_ "true man I am"? ... **You mean _lire_. Acc. of "the tales" would be _i nyaarii_,...
1 Aug 5, 2000
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Ales Bican
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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...
3 Aug 5, 2000
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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...
3 Aug 5, 2000
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John Rateliff
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I believe their is a dictionary of known Khazad words, where? Looking for ideas on how to expand it and like.. It is a wide open subject, and less defined...
1 Aug 5, 2000
1:30 am

Mike Adams
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... 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...
2 Aug 5, 2000
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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...
9 Aug 5, 2000
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(If this is too much off topic, I won't be offended if it's kept from going out to Elfling. :) ) I most often just lurk, but once in a while I can't resist...
2 Aug 3, 2000
1:35 am

Andreas Johansson
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... I rather dobt this. "posse" is very wide in its meaning, although its primary meaning is just "be able to" (potis="able" + esse="to be"), regardless to...
1 Aug 3, 2000
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Lukas Novak
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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...
1 Jul 31, 2000
11:01 pm

Lukas Novak
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... 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...
1 Jul 31, 2000
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Andreas Johansson
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... 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...
1 Jul 31, 2000
11:00 pm

Lukas Novak
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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...
1 Jul 31, 2000
11:00 pm

Mike Adams
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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...
1 Jul 31, 2000
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Lukas Novak
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... 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...
3 Jul 30, 2000
7:38 pm

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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...
1 Jul 30, 2000
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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...
1 Jul 30, 2000
5:28 pm

Helge K. Fauskanger
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... 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...
2 Jul 30, 2000
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Andreas Johansson
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... **Thanks for your interest. I know about it. But the book I looked to said that the meaning of 'Dionysos&#39; is not known for sure, maybe that it contains a...
4 Jul 30, 2000
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Lukas Novak
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... As far as I know ringmail and chainmail are the same (plate mail was invented by AD&D and is senseless, for all I know), for what I've read, in medieval...
2 Jul 30, 2000
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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...
1 Jul 30, 2000
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Dear Lambendili, Thanks for your help in the 'gobeth = dictionary&#39; question. Another problem. Can we treat _thoniel_ in _Gilthoniel_ (or _Gil-thoniel_ ...
2 Jul 29, 2000
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Javier Lorenzo
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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....
1 Jul 29, 2000
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Dan Jones
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I've looked around on the internet and am not sure on one point on the writing of Quenya. The Thetar (non consonents) go over the preceeding consonent. What...
1 Jul 29, 2000
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Mike Perkins
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Great thanks to Helge Fauskanger for his interesting review of the newest, July issue of "Vinyar Tengwar" !!! Greatest thanks to all the VT stuff for their...
1 Jul 28, 2000
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Ryszard Derdzinski
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A _collection of words_ would be known as a Lexicon, if I am not mistaken... Correct me if I am wrong Eruanno - Tenn' Ambar-Metta - ...
3 Jul 27, 2000
11:32 pm

Peter Cole
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Can someone translate "The Bringer of Death" into Quenya and sindarin for me. PS. By the way if you have any questions about anything from Lord of the ring's...
1 Jul 27, 2000
11:32 pm

Marc MacArthur
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Three Adunaic roots beginning in NI all seem somehow related to light. There is NIMIR "shining one" (=elf); NIL "moon"; and NITIR "kindler". NIMIR could...
1 Jul 27, 2000
11:32 pm

David Salo
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... Well, well, well...it seems that I shall finally have to renew my VT subscription. Last time I did was in 1994. Six years, six issues: How time flies! ...
1 Jul 27, 2000
12:48 am

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