This is a fairly straight forward translation, but I'm checking with you guys to see if it's correct before my wife has it permanently written in Tengwar to...
Aiya, I sincerely appreciate everyones' advice. I've learned a little bit from this little exercise. Thank you. I will give these options to my wife and let...
Aiya. I have a completly unattested theory about the Quenya interrogtives in ma-: The attested ones (which I know of) are: "man" (who), "mana" (what) and...
I was thinking about how translate "Land of Four Seas"; "Land of Seas" could be *_Eardor_ or *_Earnor; being _can-_ an affix for "four", it would be right...
Yet another post from a poor newbie who's asking for help.. sorry ! I've wanted to learn Elven for a good number of years - I actually transcribed some script...
I'm starting to try my hand at reconstucting words, and I would like everyone to pick and preen over the way I did this so I can learn from it. ES- from the...
Dear Friends, I am happy to announce that we have started a new place for discussingTolkienian languages. It is called Aglardh, and can be reached throughour...
This will probably be like shooting myself in the foot, but I've got to post some time :-) Here is the first part of a poem I wrote (and set to song) for a...
I just uploaded an updated version of my article about Primitive Elvish: http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/primelv.htm I have tried to incorporate information...
... the evidence. But let's do one thing at a time. For one thing, the verbs I would ascribe to this "mixed conjugation" are not at all numerous, so this is...
Aiya! Here's a Quenya poem I just wrote... It's called _Mana? Man? Masse? _ "What? Who? Where?". - Vanime úhánima ea andúnesse. San i vilya luine ná, aldar...
Mae govannen, mellyn nín phain! I composed this Sindarin poem a long time ago (May 2002). For some reason I have never posted it here. But I do like it, so...
Hello all! All of these questions about stress and pronunciation have gotten me thinking. Quoting Appendix E on Stress: "In longer words it falls on the last...
Well, I started studying Quenya again, and after taking a couple years of Spanish at college, and practicing Japanese on my own. I have come across some...
I have a question about the pronunciation of some sounds in q; generaly consonants followed by y, either at the beginning or in the middle of the word. So,...
This is strictly thinking off-topic. But perhaps it might interest you. I just came up with a nonsense poem that sounds like Qenya but appears to have no...
Aiya! With the permission of the author, I have posted a new version of Andreas Andreou's essay "Quenya: The Influence of the Greek Language" on my website Men...
Thorsten Renk wrote, referring to past-tense verbs in Noldorin as appearing ... verb system, but it seems there is still a good measure of confusion around -...
Greetings, all... I am in the process of translating the sacreligious mantra of Yogi Bear, "Smarter than the average bear", into Sindarin. The beginnings of...
This is just a reminder that if you haven't answered the Elvish Language Questionnaire, and would still like to, please do so. The deadline for sending it in...
Here's my NS translation. Originally, I had tried to preserve the number of syllables per line, but the meter was wrong (I was getting trochees rather than...
Hi, I have been looking for the word "forget" but there does not seem to be one. Therefore I took "recall" "enyal-" and added the suffix al- for not = alenyal-...
Greetings, I've started on a daunting but exciting project to familiarise myself with Anglo-Saxon (as if I didn't have enough trouble already). Well, I just...
My website, http://realelvish.125mb.com/ is in need of someone who is really good at Quenya and has a lot of spare time on his or her hands. (It also needs its...
Quenya translation of Psalm 121: Airelinde 121 1 (Linwe ortaleo.) Ortanye hendunyat i orontinnar. Mallo tule sámenya? 2 Sámenya i Hérullo i carne menel ar...
Thank you Terry and Thorsten for your suggestions and also for the useful link (etymonline). I thought a bit naively that prefixes could be used quite freely...
ESSI ELDANYANDARON QUENYAQUETSE: I Caparcundu Carnetelmelle I Quilina Simpetar Hamelino I Maltina Vaan I Meoi Arwa Saiporon Vanime ar i Verco I Vaaniselde ...
Greetings, First, thanks Mornon that definitely helped! I am feeling that tuia-(to sprout) is describing a new sprout something sprung up for the first time...
