... Quenya. Glad I could help. :) ... Checking my copy of XII:340 I expected there to be an editorial note concerning this. There was not. It seems _Ing-_ is...
... The word _*eldalamberon_ is just as 'correct' as _*eldalambion_, but this has nothing to do with Vanyarin Quenya. There are more examples for pl. _-er_,...
... Hi, It suddenly occurred to me today that you quote St. Exupéry, right? If you use that quote, my earlier suggestion "ask for" would sound awkward. I...
... I think _sa_ means "it" and the sentence would rather require a relative pronoun "that which", so my choice would rather be _tai_. _nin_ is a dative - so...
If I were to suggest a Neo-Quenya verb for "borrow", I would start from the root YUK "employ, use" (LR:399). For "use" in general we can assume a verb...
Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Dec 3, 2006 5:34 pm
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Hi!
Tonight one ask me for translating this sentence for a tatoo. Can you help me please?
The text is:
"to believe in life"
or
"to hope in life"
"life"...
'ello... I am cureently a student at UCBerkeley and am working on a project for my sociolinguistics course. My purpose is simply to explore what drives an...
... from the root YUK "employ, use" (LR:399). ... cognate of "Noldorin"/Sindarin _iuitho_ (< *_yuktâ), [...] Hi, thank you for your help, in fact I learn the...
Hello. It's been a really long time since I finished the Quenya course or translated anything so there's probably a lot of wrong stuff here. Since I changed...
... The existence of _ma-_ in _man_, _mana_, _manen_ have led some to theorize that the interrogative "Where?" would be *_massë_. According to the Parma...
Hi, Any suggestion on how to translate "choice" into Sindarin? So far I haven't been able to find a similar term, apart from Q _cilmë_ "choosing". I guess...
... David Salo has put forth *_cilith_ in the RotK movie soundtrack lyrics.[1] It is also good to note here if for education's sake that in some real-world ...
I have decided to take a break from my role as moderator of elfling, a duty I took on for four years. Wishing you all the very best, I remain thankful of (and...
I need the word for 'sleep' or something that would be translated as 'the sleeping one'. I need this as a name for a character for a little fic I'm writing,...
"Sleep" as a verb can be either _lor-_ or _*fum- [hum-]_. Tolkien later decided that "fu-" was a Telerin form and that Quenya made this to be "hu-". The verbal...
But let us not forget that _fúme_ is a rather early word from LT1, we have no way of knowing whether Tolkien would have considered it as a living and valid...
Maybe, but since it exists and we do have Fúmella, I don't see any reason not to use it in neo-Quenya as long as we recognize it as such. I am getting rather...
You may call it "petty pickiness" if you wish - I have just pointed out the many "ifs" implied in such a reconstruction. Peace. Thomas Ferencz Let's discuss...
But since this is all centered around someone wanting a name for a character in a story (one that you will probably never read anyway), why do you really care?...
... wrote: [...]Besides, _fúmë_ shows up in Helge's Quenya Wordlist with notes about updating the word to _húmë_. [...] The only thing I can comment about...
I would agree with you,. however we must be aware that Tolkien's conworld is consisted of several parallel universes or continuities. The universe where Qenya...
Thanks very much! ... later decided that "fu-" was a Telerin form and that Quenya made this to be "hu-". The verbal form is not attested but is assumed based...
... But this is just because Tolkien has changed the phonetical development. In Early Qenya, intial _f-_ comes from stems with F-, while by the time of the...
I'm trying to reconstruct the noun "battle" into Quenya, as in "Battle of Unnumbered Tears". Tolkien conveniently forgot to give us this word. In Sindarin,...
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