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32979 Eddin Najetovic
eldin_of_cui... Send Email
Feb 11, 2006
1:46 pm
I posted a drinking song not too long ago, in just its text format. However, Kris Kowal with his magical touch has improved on it, transliterated it to tengwar...
32980 Isaac Penzev
yitzik_ua Send Email
Feb 12, 2006
7:35 pm
Aiya! As far I was able to understand, two different systems of 1pl pronouns are circulating in the Neo-Quenya speaking/writing community. One is based on ...
32981 Palatinus
elfiness Send Email
Feb 12, 2006
7:52 pm
... that's why some say that Quenya was not made for understanding and can't be standardized ___________________________________________________________ ...
32982 Thorsten Renk
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Feb 13, 2006
7:41 am
... It is certainly incorrect that one system is based on Helge's course and the other on mine - they are both based on Tolkien's ideas about the pronominal...
32983 Helge K. Fauskanger
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Feb 14, 2006
2:20 pm
... duodecimal Hm. Actually I wonder if it the duodecimal forms would not rather incorporate _rasta_ as the word for "twelve" (compare the stem RĮSAT in the ...
32984 Palatinus
elfiness Send Email
Feb 14, 2006
4:46 pm
In two of my (secondary) sources, ciuran is glossed as 'new sun' or 'new moon after solstice'. Which is right? AFAIK it occurs in VT48:18 ...
32985 Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin Send Email
Feb 14, 2006
11:18 pm
... You can't (but of course you can be aware of Tolkien's Quenya and check from there every possibility...) Or, do what I do and place a note in the beginning...
32986 promenadeofthedeer
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Feb 18, 2006
6:16 am
Well, I'm back! After a long hiatus, I feel able to tackle my translation project once more. My original post is somewhere in the bowels of the archives. To...
32987 Atwe
percival64 Send Email
Feb 18, 2006
9:17 am
Hello, an interesting piece for translation (I confess I've not known it before) and certainly worth looking at. ... menta ninna ... ...wretched refuse......
32988 Evenstar
evenstar62 Send Email
Feb 18, 2006
12:41 pm
I wish to know how we could say in Quenya grid (perhaps _natsė_, _raimė_ but I intend something solid, like in metal...) answer (vb and name) soluce... I've...
32989 roberthahl Send Email Feb 19, 2006
7:04 am
... into ... and ... A very noble task indeed, and a well chosen piece. ... Whatever works! ... the ... The only things with the Quenya itself that I would...
32990 Helge K. Fauskanger
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Feb 19, 2006
2:02 pm
Thorsten Renk recently presented an article on "The Q(u)enya Past Tense": http://www.phy.duke.edu/~trenk/elvish/quenya_past_tense.html As Thorsten noted, he...
32991 Helge K. Fauskanger
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Feb 19, 2006
2:56 pm
... grid (perhaps _natsė_, _raimė_ but I intend something solid, like in metal...) _Tinconatse_? :) ... If we start from Sindarin _dangweth_, the Q cognate...
32992 Evenstar
evenstar62 Send Email
Feb 19, 2006
3:27 pm
... No, I think it's not the word I whished to say, I'm afraid ;-) ... I intended "solution";, when one resolves an enigma... ... And how can we conjugate such...
32993 Thorsten Renk
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Feb 20, 2006
9:35 am
... That is of course true, and I did not mean to object to this particular usage of 'irregular&#39; as examplified by _rer- > rende_. One could say that there are...
32994 Helge K. Fauskanger
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Feb 21, 2006
6:51 pm
I've added a new appendix to my Quenya course (and revised some of the other appendices just a little). The new section, titled "Words We Don't Quite Know How...
32995 Arthur Boccaccio
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Feb 21, 2006
11:09 pm
You must've been reading my mind! I was about to post a question about the possible genitive form of _hroa_ myself because I'd come across it in a translation...
32996 Giel van Schijndel
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Feb 24, 2006
8:39 am
I've done an attempt for translating the ring-inscription into Quenya, please give me your comments on it. Ash nazg durbatulūk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg...
32997 Helge K. Fauskanger
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Feb 24, 2006
8:14 pm
Arthur Boccaccio wrote, regarding my new Quenya course appendix ... the possible genitive form of _hroa_ myself because I'd come across it in a translation and...
32998 Helge K. Fauskanger
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Feb 24, 2006
10:07 pm
... something very much like _nangwes-_ (older _nangweth-). Adding the abstract/gerundial ending _-ie_ could give *_nangwesie_ "answer" as a noun. ... -s. ... ...
32999 rumour_nz Send Email Feb 26, 2006
6:11 pm
Hello, I am new here and thought I should introduce myself a little bit. I've been meaning to have a go at learning either Sindarin or Quenya for some time,...
33000 Rinji HalfElf
julia_rose_us Send Email
Feb 28, 2006
6:47 am
I saw this word on a website while I was studying plurals.. "tyellė", the author said that it was irregular and comes out as. "tyeller" and that meaning of...
33001 Jussi Hattara
jjhattara Send Email
Feb 28, 2006
7:23 am
... Tyellė is attested in Appendix E of LotR. It is related to the tengwar. ... By the end of the Third Age it had become the custom to display the primary...
33002 Matthew Dinse
tyrhael_idhraen Send Email
Feb 28, 2006
11:28 pm
This may seem like a no-brainer question, but I'm not as aware in the phonological shifts with vowels as with consonants. If I were to try and say something...
33003 Evenstar
evenstar62 Send Email
Mar 1, 2006
4:35 pm
Just for fun, a little booklet with 7 Sudoku (Sundoku in Quenya ;-)) grids with solutions!!! http://www.ambar-eldaron.com/sudoku_eng.htm Enjoy! Evenstar ...
33004 Helge K. Fauskanger
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Mar 1, 2006
8:20 pm
I have updated my Quenya wordlists: http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/quen-eng.rtf http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/eng-quen.rtf Both lists now include material as...
33005 Helge K. Fauskanger
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Mar 1, 2006
8:24 pm
... the inside of my wedding band. And it is to read "I love to see your eyes shine when you laugh". Nice. ... According to current thinking about Sindarin,...
33006 Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin Send Email
Mar 1, 2006
10:56 pm
Why would you use the associative/possessive case? Why not use the genitive? In that case _yomenie_ would become _yomeniėo_ (singular) and _yomenieron_...
33007 elhath *
elenyona Send Email
Mar 1, 2006
11:29 pm
... Noldorin _lhoda_ is also "to float" in Etym:370, yet the present tense 3 sg. was revealed to be _lhōd_ in VT45:29. Perhaps this is also not too dissimilar...
33008 elhath *
elenyona Send Email
Mar 1, 2006
11:48 pm
... Since those forms contain four or more non-stress attracting syllables, the coranar/coranįri phenomenon* would likely take effect, hence ending in at ...
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