Dear Rinji, I am afraid you are mixing apples with oranges here. *len hantanye is a NeoQuenya phrase, while *hannon le is NeoSindarin; two distinct languages. ...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Mar 7, 2006 10:58 am
In the recent months, I have come across a few statements which are (to my mind) kind of 'new' in the Neo-Elvish community, because they do not deal with the...
... A Gateway to Sindarin (§15.17/.24) lists _Duin-hir_ "Lord of the river" (LotR*) and _Dorn-hoth_ (WJ:388) without anything special happening. Also, the...
... According to the few examples of the known corpus that include the element _of the West_ I'd rather say that no compound is desired here: _Conin en Ann^un_...
... Normally, the second element of a compound word takes soft mutation, but since the first element _annún_ ends in a nasal, then _hir_ would most likely...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Mar 7, 2006 7:40 pm
While we are discussing Khuzdul: I am about to update my Ardalambion Khuzdul article with the bits of info that appeared in VT48, but I am told that on page...
... forms ... RC:269: "Concerning _Azanulbizar_, in the manuscript of _Nomenclature_ Tolkien comments that it is the Dwarf name of _Nan Duhirion_, Common...
... This is not a typo on Erna's part, but rather a likely misreading from the documents containing this passage when it was typed into RC: it was commented...
Thorsten Renk <trenk@...> wrote: First, let me note that for a scholarly study of Tolkien's work, any form is potentially interesting. The status of...
... (s) ... [...massive quote trim...] Unfortunately, I know nothing about the Semittic languages. About the Primary World Languages, I speak a fair amount of...
The list mod added a comment to my earlier post [Intellectual property owners have the right to choose the means and the time, if ever, to make their material...
... whether he would even consider granting the results any official or "canonical" status, are of course questions that must remain forever unanswered.) I...
I have been inquiring into history of elvish languages recently. I have read Tolkien's "Quendi and Eldar", Helge Fauskanger's "Evolution from Primitive Elvish...
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Giel van Schijndel
giel@...
Mar 8, 2006 6:04 am
I've done an attempt for translating the ring-inscription into Quenya, please give me your comments on it. [see...
... anyone knows of ... From what I can understand from what the Editorial Team (who works on Tolkien's unpublished linguistic manuscripts) has written on ...
Ok. I've got some news. Recently, I've been exchanging e-mail with Patrick Wynne, one of the more familiar members of the E.L.F. I have been given confidential...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Mar 8, 2006 6:20 pm
... survive], but apparently such sensitive information cannot be released. (Not that I asked, or will ask, any questions about the CONTENTS of these notes; I...
Peter and Helge, thanks so much for your kind responses and for taking the time to share all the info that I wasn't aware of. I'm definitely going to keep an...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Mar 9, 2006 11:49 am
I finally got around to addressing the first round of comments to my article (those dealing with the 'Avallonian Fragments'). The development of the past tense...
As -mme is likely exclusive, I noticed on Aglardh that Bob Powers interpreted -ngwe to be the inclusive dual pronominal ending in Quenya (probably from Telerin...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Mar 11, 2006 9:39 pm
... ending for substantives _-r_ come up in High Elven speech. I can't see any phonetical "rule" that may have caused it to appear in Quenya. It is not a...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Mar 11, 2006 10:20 pm
... familiar members of the E.L.F. I have been given confidential information, and as such, I have promised him not to tell anyone else the actual contents of...
Cheers! Making slow but steady progress through mr. Fauskanger's excellent Quenya course, I was challenged by the Norwegian band Istarion to translate some...
Hello, all. I'm a relative beginner, so this might seem like a stupid question, but I was hoping that somebody could tell me why S. 'aran' seems to have two...
... I don't quite get the use of -ta- here (taken from the impersonal negation phrase in VT42:32-34*?). 1 sg. aorist with 2 pers. object would in fact be ...
