... As the guy said, he just based himself on Dragonflame. However, according to Helge, and other documents I read, evidence shows that the vowel _oe_ (NOT the...
34204
aelindis
Jul 11, 2007 7:27 pm
... Silmarillion" and "The Children of Húrin" (though in the latter, it may have been merely for consistency with the former; although, OTOH, he's perfectly...
34205
Jason Fisher
visualweasel
Jul 11, 2007 7:40 pm
... Just so. But that's no basis on which Erna should judge Christopher's intentions, which was the claim I was asking about. But I'm perfectly happy to drop...
34206
Jason Fisher
visualweasel
Jul 11, 2007 8:02 pm
... Yes, of course he did. ... True, no question. ... Now that was a good, thorough answer -- thanks! You're quite right that Chrisopher would never have...
34207
Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jul 11, 2007 8:05 pm
Now that we have finally received confirmation that the past tense of "to be" can be _né_, the question remains how we are to add pronominal suffixes to the...
34208
aelindis
Jul 11, 2007 8:36 pm
... intentions, which was the claim I was asking about. I have already answered that question. ... Age would *want* to "modernize" the spelling of the battle...
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Jason Fisher
visualweasel
Jul 11, 2007 9:14 pm
... But not before I sent that reply. ... Yes, he did. So why not use Nírnaeth Arnediad, then? ... Who's not making an effort? Look, the claim has been made...
34210
Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin
Jul 11, 2007 9:37 pm
I am so glad I'm going to on a plane for 14 hours flying between Beijing and NYC. This "debate" is too funny. Enjoy the hair splitting. *grin* Arthur ... But...
34211
Jason Fisher
visualweasel
Jul 11, 2007 9:57 pm
... Not sure which is worse, this debate or a transcontinental flight, hahae. Hope your flight is a good one. :)...
34212
aelindis
Jul 11, 2007 11:29 pm
... (citing Dragon Flame and Helge Fauskanger) that Arnoediad is an older form (First Age), Arnediad a later one (Third Age). It seems that you are confusing...
34213
Melroch 'Aestan
melroch
Jul 12, 2007 6:15 am
... We do that all the time in the real world, writing e.g. "the battle of Hastings" rather than "the battle of Hæstingas", and e.g. "Actium" rather than...
34214
Rodrigo Jaroszewski
rjaroszewski
Jul 12, 2007 6:25 am
My two cents: Could we settle, on the Quenya Course, for a standard where _ane-_ is to be used with all suffixes, but preferentially short ones when they are ...
34215
Melroch 'Aestan
melroch
Jul 12, 2007 10:00 am
The subject line got garbled when I first sent this, due to a misbehaving reformatter. ... We do that all the time in the real world, writing e.g. "the battle...
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Jason Fisher
visualweasel
Jul 12, 2007 2:38 pm
... No, I don't think I am. And I would say in return that it seems you are simply missing my point. So you win; have it your way. You guys can change all the...
34217
Jason Fisher
visualweasel
Jul 12, 2007 2:54 pm
... Finally! A genuinely satisfactory answer! This is an excellent point. So perhaps Arthur is imagining himself in Third Age Middle-earth ... Thanks very...
34218
jesper@...
simplyanalogue
Jul 13, 2007 3:21 pm
Hi! Trying to come up with a suitable name for my upcoming music album I'm toying with the word "silver-circle" (meaning CD) in sindarin. "of silver" is...
34219
Lakis Lalakis
elfiness
Jul 13, 2007 5:42 pm
We have Celebrin-dal and Celebrim-bor however Celeb-dil instead of Celebrin-dil and Celeb-orn istead of Celebrin-orn We also have Caradhras instead of Caranras...
34220
Evenstar
evenstar62
Jul 13, 2007 8:26 pm
Hi! On my forum, someone asked an interesting question: How is the feminine form of words? In French, not only the word is turn up into feminine, but the...
34221
Lakis Lalakis
elfiness
Jul 13, 2007 9:58 pm
Have a look at Ardalambion, the article about name translations (now we all have Elvish names) and the one about the affixes and word elements... my opinion is...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Jul 14, 2007 10:17 am
... To make the point more precise, there is some degree of gender-marking in Tolkien's languages and agental affixes are often paired in a male and female...
34223
jordan_hewko
Jul 14, 2007 3:03 pm
hey, i was looking into getting a tattoo in tengwar cursive, and i did some research because i really dont want to get a tattoo and then have someone tell me...
34224
Matthew Dinse
tyrhael_idhraen
Jul 14, 2007 3:57 pm
... The top one is better (though I disagree with the curl on the second symbol; I think it should be curling to the right rather than the left), and the...
34225
jordan_hewko
Jul 14, 2007 11:33 pm
I thought that would be the case, alright thanks for the help, i really appreciate it...
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Andrew Higgins
asthiggins
Jul 16, 2007 2:30 pm
As you may have noticed if you have looked at my blog (wotan's Musings)- I am slowly working on rendering Tolkien's Lay of Turin and the Dragon (HME vol 3)...
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Heather Downing
venuscantar
Jul 16, 2007 2:31 pm
http://www.geocities.com/rehtaehmusic/unnamed.html As I'm going to record this next month, I want to make sure that I sing everything correctly. Is there any...
34228
aelindis
Jul 16, 2007 6:08 pm
... I have to admit that i do neither understand the grammatical structure of the Sindarin sentence nor the meaning. I suspect that it may be questionable in...
34229
S P
elenyona
Jul 16, 2007 8:14 pm
... There are also some things (mostly grammar) that need to be looked at in the Quenya text: - Spelling following a standard looks more credible; in other...
34230
my_preciousss2005
my_preciouss...
Jul 17, 2007 12:43 pm
For the letter "r" in Tengwar, I'm a bit confused as to when I should use rómen and when I should use óre. Is it just that rómen is used at the beginning of...
34232
Travis Henry
traversetravis
Jul 17, 2007 12:45 pm
Did Tolkien make a Sindarin word for "standing stone"? If not, what about his other Elvish languages? (And if so, what would be the Sindarin cognate?) If not,...
34233
Lakis Lalakis
elfiness
Jul 17, 2007 4:41 pm
Hi. If you look at the recent posts in Elfling, you will find post by Helge Fauskanger where he discusses the latest VT issue. There he mentions a recently...
