... would mean ... Yeah! My mistake. I was holding my daughter and typing with one hand. So, with _melo_ does the phrase work with an implied "thou" subject? ...
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jesper@...
simplyanalogue
May 30, 2007 7:45 am
Did you correct them then? I saw they wanted corrections so I sent in a few comments regarding the use of "frälsa" vs "rädda" in the swedish version... ...
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aranel.tarvalie
Jun 1, 2007 7:23 pm
Thanks for having me. I've recently made my first attempt at translating words into Quenya, and then writing them in the Tengwar script. I started, like most ...
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Lakis Lalakis
elfiness
Jun 1, 2007 7:43 pm
... No, there is not such thing as name grammar in Quenya :) the name is just said by the way it is when it's just a name. You change the endings (noun cases)...
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jesper@...
simplyanalogue
Jun 2, 2007 4:35 am
"Lily" is very hobbit-like otherwise, being a flower and all that, welcome! electronically yours, jesper - -- --- ---- ----- ---- --- -- - ...
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Atwe
percival64
Jun 6, 2007 12:37 pm
Hi All, for avid Firefox and GreaseMonkey users I have created a GreaseMonkey script (better to say have hacked an existing script) with the simple function:...
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Isaac W Hanson
isaacwhanson@...
Jun 6, 2007 4:06 pm
Welcome, and well done! ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Andrew Higgins
asthiggins
Jun 9, 2007 1:16 pm
To All My secret vice (well not so secret anymore) of late has been trying to learn Sindarin by attempting to translate some of Tolkien's epic poem "Turin and...
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Matthew Dinse
tyrhael_idhraen
Jun 9, 2007 8:06 pm
... Would you mind describing what you mean by making Sindarin into Gnomish? There's Noldorin of the 30s Etymologies, but that isn't a dialect of Sindarin used...
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Evenstar
evenstar62
Jun 21, 2007 7:53 am
Hi Everybody! Today we have a little problem of translation on my forum. Can you help us? Here is the original sentence "j'ai souvent l'impression étrange que...
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Atwe
percival64
Jun 21, 2007 9:10 am
Hello, I give it a go. I can imagine several ways: I have the strange feeling: simple: namin (I judge, deem, think) poetic:) órenya quete nin closer to the...
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S P
elenyona
Jun 21, 2007 12:00 pm
... For one I don't recall any note pairing a Quenya postposition with the genitive, ;) [ergo arwantaron > armantar, ?arwantar] but otherwise a nice...
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Atwe
percival64
Jun 21, 2007 12:52 pm
erm, yes, some kind of a partitive genitive was in my mind ("give out of their riches but beyond" or something like that, but maybe this is maybe too much of a...
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Atwe
percival64
Jun 22, 2007 8:40 am
Hi All, this is a NeoQuenya translation of Caedmon's Hymn, also posted and discussed on Aglardh. Please feel free to comment here or over there. Hope you'll...
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harlindon1
Jun 23, 2007 1:29 pm
Well, I'm new to this group, and was told to introduce myself so- I'm Harlindon(1), and I've been studying Eldarin languages(specifically Sindarin, and more...
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Matthew Dinse
tyrhael_idhraen
Jun 24, 2007 2:48 am
... Welcome, Harlindon! I'm afraid there isn't exactly a "welcome committee", so: Ni-'wes fin i-'adorweni methra! (That was an _attempt_ at saying "I welcome...
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Matthew Dinse
tyrhael_idhraen
Jun 24, 2007 3:18 am
I recently came across David Salo's 'Qenya Botany' on a thread on the LotRPlaza again, and decided to compile a _Gnomish_ equivalent: that is, from the Gn....
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Andrew Higgins
asthiggins
Jun 25, 2007 11:39 am
Greetings All I have been working on a very rough translation of Tolkien's epic poem Turin and Glorund the Dragon from vol 3 of HME. It's madnes I know but a...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jun 25, 2007 6:04 pm
Glory and trumpets, we've had a new issue of Vinyar Tengwar! On page 2, the editor apologizes for "the vast length of time between this issue and the last"...
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d_h_barr
Jun 26, 2007 11:26 am
Greetings! I am attempting to translate a few small phrases from English to Sindarin as accurately as possible. I'd like to enlist your eyes and minds to...
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Bill Welden
williamwelden
Jun 26, 2007 3:21 pm
Helge -- You raise many interesting points in your recent post, on which I cannot comment for a lack of time; but I want to make sure everyone has a chance to...
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Matthew Dinse
tyrhael_idhraen
Jun 26, 2007 9:18 pm
Someone on the website Peth Pêd Peth is asking for a Sindarin name incorporating "proud". I looked, and couldn't find any Sindarin, Q(u)enya, or 30s Noldorin...
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S P
elenyona
Jun 27, 2007 9:08 am
dhbarr: "May the Shadow of the Dragon be upon you" would translate as _No i Vorchant en Amlug or le(n)_. _No_ is the imperative of "to be". (_Am_ seems to be...
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Cara Loup
caraloup
Jun 27, 2007 9:50 pm
Hi Helge, thank you so much for the detailed and interesting review of VT 49! Since I don't own a copy myself, could I ask about one detail that puzzled me?...
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Matthew Dinse
tyrhael_idhraen
Jun 27, 2007 10:00 pm
... Allow me to answer this anyway, not being Helge? ... Gondor" (by ... "really ... translation ... not be ... _náne_ only goes with "_he was_ a king of...
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iiipitaka
Jun 27, 2007 10:43 pm
The following are some general points on this recent exchange, and are not -- as yet -- intended to reflect on particular persons, though each individual may...
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Bill Welden
williamwelden
Jun 28, 2007 3:13 am
... Note, in addition, that the gloss is Tolkien's and is in the original document. --Bill...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Jun 28, 2007 11:13 am
... In Finnish, _-nsa_ functions as both the third person singular and plural possessive ending. They are distinguished by the use of a singular or plural...
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iaminluvwithmusic56
iaminluvwith...
Jun 28, 2007 1:21 pm
Hi! Well, i joined elfling a little while ago, but i haven't had the chance to introduce myself. I've decided, for my own special reasons, that i will have a...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jun 28, 2007 7:07 pm
... And these Noldorin words seem to fit the structure of later Sindarin well enough, so if I were you, I'd use them just as they are. ... They don't need any...
