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...
... No, it is pronounced as one consonant: "Adunaic, like Avallonian [Quenya], does not tolerate more than a single basic consonant initially in any word"...
Melin Rainalcar, l, n, r, m, h and t + y = palatalized sound, like in the Slavic languages. Then ly = Italian gli, ny = French gn, hy = German ch (after i,...
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...
... Could *_ened-dalathren_ or *_enedbathui_ mean 'of middle-level > average'? ... The root STAN (which yielded Quenya _sanya_) came to stand for 'be real, ...
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 -...
Helge K. Fauskanger
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Jul 2, 2005 9:26 pm
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Melin Saruman, thanks for the reply, just to clarify something: are you sure that the letter r in Dvorak represents ry in quenya? Becuase, in czech ...
I would like to thank Helge for the reply - it was indeed quite helpful to ... they are indeed incorporated into David's "Gateway"? I am referring to a larger...
Thorsten Renk
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Jul 3, 2005 11:44 pm
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... [...massive redundant quote snipped, mod...] ... _no_)? ... _hann, ... Many thanks to Elhath for the invaluable advice. After reading through the Sindarin...
... Well, I suppose you forgot to mention the r before the ž - it is usually presented as _rzh_ in English. So the pronunciation could be expressed as...
... It seems some correction is necessary here. First, "ř" (r hacek) is not pronounced like "ž" in Croatian, but by little children :-) (both ř and ž exist...
Lukáš Novák
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Jul 4, 2005 7:00 am
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... From: rainalcar [...] are you sure that the letter r in Dvorak represents ry in quenya? Becuase, in czech pronunciation, Dvorak is pronounced with the...
... This is indeed a very poor approximation... "rZ" and "r hacek" ("ř") are different phonemes in Czech (rather, a phoneme and a cluster of 2 phonemes),...
Lukáš Novák
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Jul 4, 2005 5:59 pm
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Regarding my previous remarks about trisyllabic verbs and the mixed conjugation: I assume what I have written can still be misinterpreted, as some of my ...
Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Jul 5, 2005 1:40 pm
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Aiya, I don't quite manage the update schedule I would like to, but I finally got around to go over my Quenya course with a few revisions. It can be found on...
Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Jul 6, 2005 7:08 pm
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First of all: Many thanks for the revisions! Just one small question: In the added section 20.2.3 (p.129) you give the example sentence _Aa mara oonisse!_ ...
... This nonsense Qenya - it just suddenly appeared from the depths of my immagination, of having been exposed to Q(u)enya for so long. It reflects a certain...
... Indeed, it seems I have been sleeping again - my mistake, thanks for the pointer. I'll correct it in the file. * Thorsten...
Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Jul 7, 2005 7:24 pm
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... depths of my immagination, of having been exposed to Q(u)enya for so long. Now, it might be interesting to note some phonological traits, which would shed...
... The famous linguist Roman Jakobson claimed that consonant clusters like _ld, rd, ldr, ndr_ are favored by glossolalia and children's nonsense talk....
... Of course, you are referring here to Tolkien's poem "Mythopoeia": "...these each are duly registered and print / the brain's contortions with a separate...
Suil! While reading up verbs, I recently stumbled across an interesting article 'The Many Ways of Intensifying Words in Sindarin' on the Council of Elrond ...
Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Jul 9, 2005 12:59 pm
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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...
... [...] ... From what I know, it's like Latin (one syllable accented). In small words (1-2 syllables) it's the first one, of course. But in bigger words,...
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...
ethuilbereth@...
Jul 13, 2005 4:31 am
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Yes, nd, mb, mp and the like, are considered double consonants....
... [...] ... In Appendix E, there is also written (in the very end of the part Consonants) [in my own words]: in Sindarin, _ng, nd, mb_ changed, _mb_ became...
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...
... [--because otherwise "the stress might be in doubt"!] _Nd_ often became _nn_, mainly when standing ... to- ... [What about _galadhremmin_? Tolkien clearly...
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