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32845 Gollum Smeagol
dolenrod Send Email
Jan 2, 2006
12:59 pm
I disagree, Although Treebeard claims the title of eldest as well as Tom Bombadil the Dwarves were made by Aule then Yavanna pleaded with Illuvatar because the...
32846 alyssahousethomas
alyssahouset... Send Email
Jan 2, 2006
12:59 pm
Hello! I'd like to take this opprtunity to introduce myself.My name is Alyssa House-Thomas. I'm seventeen years old and a senior at a Northern California high...
32847 Palatinus
elfiness Send Email
Jan 3, 2006
11:22 pm
Ents are biological entities, ceated after the Dwarves Tom is a sprite that existed with the Arda and is a part of it, and was there before the Valar came. PS....
32848 LukᚠNovαk
lukas.novak@... Send Email
Jan 4, 2006
12:00 am
... tolkien@... Lukas...
32849 Atwe
percival64 Send Email
Jan 4, 2006
10:36 am
... Hi There, comments to the "Appearance&quot; section: - I strongly believe that names tend to 'simplify themselves&#39; if you get what I mean. They are not just ...
32850 elhath *
elenyona Send Email
Jan 4, 2006
5:20 pm
Aiya termardi i vinya loava. After searching through the entire message archive, I was wondering if someone could freshen up my memory on a possibly old...
32851 Atwe
percival64 Send Email
Jan 4, 2006
6:51 pm
... Dear Elhath, VIII:216-18 Shine on Thomas Ferencz Let's discuss Eldarin languages - http://aglardh.middangeard.hu Footprints - the Middangeard blog -...
32852 elhath *
elenyona Send Email
Jan 4, 2006
9:23 pm
... This means War, and I'm all out. So is the store. The local major city library network has -- one (free) copy! But thanks, and dush goi. (maybe a little...
32853 ipsi
ipsi@... Send Email
Jan 5, 2006
6:21 am
Though the Dwarves may have been first, I do not think they claim the title of "Eldest". I tend to assume that something must have actually "lived" for that...
32854 roberthahl Send Email Jan 5, 2006
6:22 am
... for my ... halfway ... Sindarin. ... their ... I took a look at it, just perusing the ones I though most applicable to myself out of curiosity, and I found...
32855 Gollum Smeagol
dolenrod Send Email
Jan 5, 2006
6:22 am
Hi, I also recently joined and found Ardalambion to be good I also recommend Gwaith I Pethdain which is linked from Ardalambion because It has a downloadable...
32856 roberthahl Send Email Jan 5, 2006
6:23 am
I'm writing (actually translating an English version of) another poem and I need a word (or circumlocation) for a noun meaning 'surrender/giving up'. I have...
32857 GreenElfMom@...
greenelfmom Send Email
Jan 5, 2006
6:23 am
I'm Denise; I grew up in North Carolina, but have lived in the Panhandle of Florida (hurricane country!) for the past twenty years. I recently turned 53....
32858 balroghead Send Email Jan 5, 2006
6:23 am
Hello, I'm sure you guys get these questions all the time, but I'm looking for help with a translation and yes it will be for a tattoo :) I was referred over...
32859 roberthahl Send Email Jan 5, 2006
6:25 am
I'm sure some of you are aware of me. I'm a recent discoverer of the beauties of Tolkiens Quenya, and one who has ventured to write his own Quenya poem, which...
32860 Dana
ocecolt Send Email
Jan 5, 2006
6:27 am
I found an early post that gave a link to a Quenya translation of the Riddle of Strider, but later posts in which users were needing help with the first two...
32861 Palatinus
elfiness Send Email
Jan 5, 2006
1:42 pm
... which is more correct of the following? 'all that is gold does not glitter' or 'everything that is gold does not shine', or 'everything that is golden does...
32862 Melroch 'Aestan
melroch Send Email
Jan 5, 2006
9:14 pm
Dear friends, I'm looking for a Quenya word for "reputation, renown, honor". I believe I've seen a word for "renown", but now I can find only Qenya Lexicon...
32863 elhath *
elenyona Send Email
Jan 5, 2006
11:52 pm
... Yes, if there is such an (early?) attestation, I'd like to know it too. But let's also not forget the root GWETH 'report, give account of' (PM:395). My...
32864 lsgallant Send Email Jan 6, 2006
8:11 am
Welcome, Denise. I too am an old fan of JRRT. I 1st met LoTR in 1969, in college, so I have a few years on you. I have also long had a desire to learn the...
32865 Thorsten Renk
trenk@... Send Email
Jan 6, 2006
11:00 am
Not much is known about this form of the Sindarin adjective, but based on the small passage spoken by Elrond in LOTR "Iarwain Ben-adar we called him, oldest...
32866 Thorsten Renk
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Jan 7, 2006
11:34 am
The "Reader&#39;s Companion" continues to help solving a few riddles of Sindarin: According to RC:195, _noro lim_ translates as "run swift". _noro_ thus does not...
32867 Melroch 'Aestan
melroch Send Email
Jan 7, 2006
12:28 pm
... Qenya Lexicon under _AYA_ p. 34. ... That may give _wése*_ in Quenya. Thanks! ... I came up with some of them too, but hey I have to compound it with...
32868 Terry Dock
melhael Send Email
Jan 7, 2006
12:50 pm
... I'm not a native speaker but the Merraim-Webster Online (http://www.m-w.com/) states that both "swift" and "swiftly" are (or, rather, can be) adverbs,...
32869 Lukáš Novák
lukas.novak@... Send Email
Jan 7, 2006
1:12 pm
... Did has anyone thought of the possibility that "lim" is connected with "linte" in Namárie? Lukas...
32870 Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin Send Email
Jan 7, 2006
3:15 pm
Thorsten Renk <trenk@...> wrote: I'd be obliged if some native English speaker could comment on the fact that we don't see "run swiftly" (which is...
32871 Noam Bonneau
gatowhite2000 Send Email
Jan 8, 2006
7:20 am
I thought of this possibility; but on the other hand, in one of the versions for the Sindarin name for the Limlight, Tolkien mentioned a form _limlint_, and as...
32872 maeglhaw Send Email Jan 8, 2006
7:20 am
Hello,everybody! I actually joined this list some time ago, but the introduction comes now... Well, I'm a 21 year old Norwegian music student, mostly ...
32873 Sharon Henderson
jastaelf Send Email
Jan 8, 2006
7:21 am
That struck me as a little odd too... Granted, at need swift can be either a noun, adverb or adjective, but 'noro lim' to me just about begs to be translated ...
32874 tyrhael_idhraen Send Email Jan 8, 2006
7:21 am
It seems that some of the Qenya words I used have been invalidated by later Quenya; their meanings no longer fit....
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