Hi, can anyone advise me as to what to do when someone's posting comes out on my computer as a series of symbols, numbers and gobbledigook? It's becoming very...
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ras_home
Oct 3, 2006 4:30 am
Hi I am interested in translating my name into elvish respectively Quenya. My name is Rasmus which comes from Erasmus and means the beloved. What i thought...
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Matthew Dinse
tyrhael_idhraen
Oct 3, 2006 6:46 pm
... Quenya. ... In Quenya, the word 'beloved' is _melda_. As Rasmus is a male name, you could make _melda_ into a male name by adding -o or -on to get Meldo or...
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Susn Frances Edwards ...
frances_peac...
Oct 4, 2006 6:10 pm
David & Lukas, thanks for your suggestions, I've worked out what to do now! Susan Frances ~ Tuilinde [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Susn Frances Edwards ...
frances_peac...
Oct 5, 2006 5:29 pm
Greetings, As I quickly become bored if something is easy, I've been working on Bilbo's Song of Eärendil! No, I'm not going to post it all!! I'm going to give...
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Christoph Anton Mitte...
calestyo
Oct 5, 2006 9:32 pm
Hi folks. Does anyone know a word for "emblem" or "coat of arms" (preferably in Quenya)? I've looked up the common wordlists but could not found anything :/ ...
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Matthew Dinse
tyrhael_idhraen
Oct 9, 2006 1:19 pm
... I know of no attested word. However, if constructions are all right with you, one could make something like **turmanarwë "shield-symbol". However, _narwe_...
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Atwe
percival64
Oct 9, 2006 2:32 pm
I could imagine sg like *nossetanna, *nossenarwe. Shine on, ... Thomas Ferencz Let's discuss Eldarin languages - http://aglardh.middangeard.org.uk ...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Oct 10, 2006 10:10 am
Thorsten Renk recently announced his article about Eldarin numerals: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~trenk/elvish/numerals.html It is indeed a thorough work, listing...
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Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin
Oct 10, 2006 10:20 am
Sounds plausible and it works (at least for me). Arthur Utúlie'n Estel! ... Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail. [Non-text...
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fourofpi
Oct 10, 2006 11:07 pm
I apologize for asking for help.\ I am trying to translate 'I had to fall'. _lantenye_ , but I am having difficulty finding the verb has, have, had. Can...
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Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin
Oct 11, 2006 12:24 am
The verb "to have" is _harya_, meaning "to possess", so you could say _Haryaneynë lanta_. However, I think this sentence would be best rendered using the...
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fourofpi
Oct 11, 2006 10:39 pm
Thank you for all your help. I thought that _lanta_ " to fall" had a physical meaning, while lante had a more moral meaning, like "defeat", or a "fall from...
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Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin
Oct 12, 2006 4:57 am
... You are confusing the verb with the noun. The verb "to fall" is _lanta-_. It can mean either a physical fall or a moral one depending on the context. The...
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Atwe
percival64
Oct 12, 2006 8:52 am
Hi All, the following is a neoQuenya translation of the first 16 lines of the poem The Flight of the Noldoli, from HoME III. Also posted in my Auriquenta...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Oct 13, 2006 8:59 am
... Given Sindarin _#nelchaen_ the procedure sounds plausible enough. * Thorsten...
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Atwe
percival64
Oct 13, 2006 3:31 pm
There is also another possibility, though I admit there is little evidence to it. In VT47:21, note 19 some numeral forms are given, among others the sequence...
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Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin
Oct 13, 2006 4:40 pm
Atwe <percival64@...> wrote: ....but as these words are unglossed by Tolkien, it is possible that these were intended to be 30, 40, 50 and 60 (maybe...
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Susn Frances Edwards ...
frances_peac...
Oct 15, 2006 2:41 pm
Here for your consideration is the next section of Bilbo's song. This is the part I would be most inclined to omit, since some of the vocabulary is doubtful,...
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Susn Frances Edwards ...
frances_peac...
Oct 15, 2006 4:56 pm
May I make one or two suggestions, not being totally sure of my ground, but having checked what I can. _lotarwë_ I'm not sure if this is the correct form...
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echoes_echoes_echoes
echoes_echoe...
Oct 16, 2006 7:52 am
Mae govannen all, I am hoping to undertake a serious study of Sindarin and would like to find some kind of "immersion" list or forum where Sindarin is ...
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Atwe
percival64
Oct 16, 2006 8:24 am
Hi, May I make one or two suggestions, not being totally sure of my ground, but having checked what I can. _lotarwë_ I'm not sure if this is the correct form...
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Atwe
percival64
Oct 16, 2006 8:47 am
Hi, since I also translated (a part of) this song a while ago it would not be fair from me to offer any comments since I'd be biased towards my solutions;...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Oct 16, 2006 6:27 pm
... Not a very strong argument as there is no big difference between say 'fourteen' and 'fourty' in pronounciation (in fact, I recently shocked a few people by...
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Beth Winegarner
echoes_echoe...
Oct 17, 2006 7:02 am
Mae govannen all, I am working through the SIndarin course by Thorsten Renk and this morning was studying part of section two, which focuses on the conjugation...
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Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin
Oct 17, 2006 8:42 am
Mae govannen Beth, The answer to your question lies in a paragraph above the one with the examples: "If the subject of the sentence is mentioned explicity, a...
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michiru
michiru_benson
Oct 17, 2006 9:26 am
... wrote: [deleted...] ... person plural pronoun _mín_ "we" with the personless plural form of the verb _linna-_, i.e. _linnar_. ... mentioned, just as...
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Atwe
percival64
Oct 17, 2006 9:26 am
OK I concede; still that does not entirely exclude the possibility that those unglossed numerals were meant to represent 30, 40 etc. Maybe we will be wiser...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Oct 17, 2006 9:34 am
... The sentence is not translated, so how do you know it needs explaining? For all we know, it could mean '*To thee I sing I am Tinúviel'. Moreover, it is an...
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imabiah
Oct 17, 2006 1:11 pm
And if one were to speak these words, would the stress fall on the second syllable? I'm fairly certain that's the case in a three syllable word, but I'm not...
