Hello Very interesting posting. I find it doubly interesting as EA are the first two letters of my surname. A surname who's origin is proving very difficult to...
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mckastro
mckastro@...
Sep 1, 2000 11:51 pm
Hello ! I'll be glad to know your opinion of some undermentioned fabrications. The Quenya verb system seems to have a kind of symmetry, for there are: 1) an...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Sep 1, 2000 11:52 pm
... way to express the preposition 'about...' or 'concerning...' in mature Quenya, if, of course, there is one. You can probably use the genitive case, as...
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Ryszard Derdzinski
galadhorn@...
Sep 1, 2000 11:52 pm
Dear Lambendili and Lambengolmor, Welcome to my linguistic website - Gwaith-i-Pheddain (http://go.to/galadhorn) - where you can find some new items: new...
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Ales Bican
bican@...
Sep 1, 2000 11:52 pm
... **I would say _Quenta silmarilleo_... (as _silmarille_ is full sg. form). Ales Bican -- **Varför älskar jag Elin? (from Agnes' diary; _Fucking Amal_)...
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Tony Spurlock
aspurloc@...
Sep 2, 2000 12:34 pm
... You know, the original poster (Myrtheos@...) gave no particular hint of how this info is to be used. There are nuances which govern how we pick and...
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Matt Gozo
gozomj@...
Sep 2, 2000 4:37 pm
In my copy of _The Silmarillion_, the section title "Quenta Silmarillion" is actually followed by the translation "The History of the Silmarils."...
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Deniz
denizakhan@...
Sep 3, 2000 1:22 pm
I have just got the Qenya-lexicon. But I´ve got a little problem with it. Of course, the words in the lexicon is not identical to LotR- style or mature...
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Lukas Novak
profesorr@...
Sep 4, 2000 2:13 pm
... Well, I just can't get rid of the thought that we maybe could employ the RESPECTIVE here. Yes, we don't know etc., but is there any more probable ...
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Lukas Novak
profesorr@...
Sep 4, 2000 2:13 pm
... I too have thought of it, but we have also "maruvan" "I shall abide" (RK, Aragorn's coronation) and it cannot be a subjunctive. Or it should mean rather ...
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Edward J. Kloczko
ejk@...
Sep 4, 2000 9:56 pm
... <snip> The Q. gen.case ending _io-n_ and -ion suffx. meaning "son of" are unrelated. The Q. -ion suffix comes from the PQ root *jon(d)-, the gen. case...
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Edward J. Kloczko
ejk@...
Sep 4, 2000 9:56 pm
... I guess many (or some) will give you the "go ahead" signal! ;) It is Helge who initiate the notion of "mature" Qenya and ever since I have been trying to...
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Jiri Kopecky
jiri.kopecky@...
Sep 4, 2000 9:56 pm
It`s an interesting stuff. I wonder what Helge or the other experts suppose. Merely, I cannot find any possible logic relationship between the lefthand and the...
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Yan Bulgak
bulgaky@...
Sep 4, 2000 11:21 pm
Can anyone remember/find/recommend a place to look for the derivation of the name "Eowyn"? I've been trying to find it, but "Languages of Tolkien's...
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Cirk Bejnar
eluchil@...
Sep 4, 2000 11:52 pm
... <snip> And what I wonder is: How can i transform the ... Tolkien's languages changed over time. It seems to me to use a word designed to fit the system of...
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Rich Alderson
ALDERSON@...
Sep 5, 2000 12:30 am
Presumably you are asking about the Real World etymology of the formant "E'o-" in the names of several Riders of Rohan. The Anglo-Saxon (Old English) word...
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Yan Bulgak
bulgaky@...
Sep 5, 2000 10:49 pm
... formant "E'o-" ... Skt. _as'va_, ... "horse". Fitting ... Yes, very appropriate. I actually meant more along the lines of the derivation in Tolkien's...
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Andrew Durdin
andy@...
Sep 5, 2000 10:49 pm
... The names of all the people of Rohan are Anglo-Saxon (as a matter of fact, the name 'Eomer' occurs in Beowulf). The 'Eo' prefix is from the AS 'eoh' ...
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Greg Dyke
g_dyke@...
Sep 5, 2000 10:49 pm
Tony wrote ... Although this has very little to do with this subject, I was wondering whether the **possessive-adjectival etc. case would not translate...
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John Rateliff
sacnoth@...
Sep 5, 2000 10:49 pm
... Eo = horse wyn = joy Hence Tolkien's belief that "Unwin", the name of his publisher, derived from an old word for the devil (un + wyn) -- or so he told...
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Lisa Star
lepedop@...
Sep 6, 2000 2:06 am
... [snipping much] ... **We really don't have this option because 1) there are no native speakers to ask and 2) we have so few texts to study there aren't...
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Lisa Star
lepedop@...
Sep 6, 2000 2:06 am
... [snip] ... **I basically agree with this last paragraph, though I write poetry in both Qenya of the early texts and in Quenya of the later texts. I am...
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John Rateliff
sacnoth@...
Sep 6, 2000 2:06 am
From: Andrew Durdin <andy@...> ... Actually, it doesn't. The manuscript reads "geomer", which a 19th century editor decided was a mistake for...
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Mike Adams
abrigon@...
Sep 6, 2000 11:49 pm
I know there was old DOS program that could translate from text file to
text file, and even learn sort of if prompted.
Any Java or like programs to the same...
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Cirk Bejnar
eluchil@...
Sep 6, 2000 11:49 pm
... Really. The translation of Beowulf I had to read (Raffel) had Eomer, "modernized" to Emer actually. ... Just a random thought. Tolkien was especiaally...
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Greg Dyke
g_dyke@...
Sep 6, 2000 11:49 pm
... It would be the most likely possibility if tolkien had himself referred to this case as RESPECTIVE. Unfortunately he didn't even name it, which might just...
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Lukas Novak
profesorr@...
Sep 6, 2000 11:49 pm
... I am sorry not to agree with you. You are right that "in themselves" there really is nothing wrong with them - they are as good as words of any of ...
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Lukas Novak
profesorr@...
Sep 6, 2000 11:49 pm
Please, can anybody tell me, to what language the word "simbelmyne" belongs (and what it means)? Thank you! Lukas...
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Felienne @ satansvrie...
felienne_feex@...
Sep 6, 2000 11:49 pm
Hi! I'm trying to translated some lyrics from "Mellon Collie and the infinate sadness" into Quenya. I'm having some problems with that, and I'm hoping someone...
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Eleder
josugp@...
Sep 6, 2000 11:49 pm
... I also agree with the opinion that, if we want to create a "coloquial Quenya", we must to "modernize" words from old Qenya to an "standard"; form; and I...
