Greetings, Elflings... here is the newest revised version of the Lament... I hope it is correct this time! Many thanks to those who kindly helped with it....
... I have consulted with my textbook of Classical Greek. I found we can consider such syllable (with stop + liquid after vowel) either long or short in Greek,...
In "The Shadow of the Past", Gandalf says "The letters are Elvish, of an ancient mode": does anyone have any ideas why this inscription is in "an ancient...
I am having some trouble translating a sentance into Sindarin... I have not been doing this long enough to know if I am even close to the right track and I...
-snip- ... Yes, sure, quanta is an adjective and a verb cd be derived from it. Perhaps _quat-_ was never used without the -n- infix (neither verbally nor...
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...
It took a lot of time to be at last made available... I would like to announce that my own web page is uploaded now. You can reach it via this url: ...
... I think that's perfect. I think you could use Oronnad for "birthday"; and reserve !Edinor for "anniversary" (of any kind). /\ WISTR LAG WIGS RAIHTS \/...
In the Spanish Lambenor list we were searching for an available translation into Sindarin of "birthday";. This word appears in Etym as "edinar", but it presents...
I see that we have an exceptionally active and articulate group of new subscribers lately. Welcome to you all! Please, if you have not already done so, take a...
... It could have been uiloth, but Sindarin also used -los as an element meaning "flower"; cf. the proper name Edhellos = Eldalóte "Elven-flower" in The...
I suppose I ought to give an introduction of myself also... I'm studying engineering at the University of Tasmania, and also studying Bulgarian, Old English,...
Since every one else is introducing themslevs, I will do so as well. My name is Christian Ambrose, my name in Quenya is Erundew (If anyone can tell me if this...
... 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 ...
Christopher Tolkien equated the flower-name _uilos_ with the mountain-name (Amon) Uilos "Ever-snow(white)", equivalent to Quenya Oiolosse (Unfinished Tales, p....
... You're right about _-rik_. Infact, it's the North Germanic reflex of PIE *_regs_ "king", cognate of words like _rex_ and _rajah_. There's also the masc...
Avari, -orum, Avares, -um, Graecis Aúaroi, Ábaroi, gens Asiatica, de qua cf. Tomaschek, PW. II 2264. nimin.: ADDIT. Prosp. Haun. chron. I p. 338, 10 Avari...
Hi. Did Tolkien ever tell us about insults in the elvish languages? By searching the archives of this mailing list i could find the sindarien word "Ego"...
Hi I just remembered that I have not yet introduced myself. My name is David Grimfors (surprise?), I´m 17 years old and I´m from Sweden. I began studying...
I apologize to the original author of this comment, as I can't find the ... Probably *imirê would never have syncoped in Quenya at all, and the cognate would...
... One elvish (Sindarin) word for "(young) woman" was gwen (-wen in compounds, like Morwen, Arwen). "wyn" doesn't occur. However, the Old English word for...
Hello to everybody! I have just joined the Elfling list, and I am very proud of it! First of all, I introduce myself: my name is Alberto, I'm an italian boy 22...
I have recently been attempting to study common Telerin. It seems to have been a dialect of Comon Eldarin mutually intelligible with the tongues of both the...
... HOWEVER, Latin has the "mutus cum liquida" exception, whereby a stop followed by "l" or "r" does not make the second syllable long by position, as this ...
Eureka ! Okay, I found sth. in the "Thesaurus Linguae Latinae": Avari, -orum, Avares, -um. So both are attested/possible ! They are sometimes written with "b"...
... In Czech this flower (tiny light light blue florets with yellow dot in the centre, grows along streams or on wet meadows) is called "pomnenka"; (pomne^nka),...
