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34264 Thorsten Renk
trenk@... Send Email
Aug 2, 2007
7:26 am
... It seems I may just not be smart enough to grasp how this is done - because my first impression upon reading VT49 was 'Wow - what a mess this is going to...
34265 Nan Roberts
mirandarotunda Send Email
Aug 3, 2007
6:16 am
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right group to ask, perhaps you could redirect me if not. I'm making an artist book about elvish. Can I do that? It will be...
34266 Travis Henry
traversetravis Send Email
Aug 3, 2007
6:17 am
I'm working on Middle-earth&#39;s equivalent of the Kingdom of Ethiopia, in Far Harad. Tolkien wrote an essay called "Sigelwara Land", that investigates the origin...
34267 christinaevelinandersen
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Aug 3, 2007
6:18 am
Finally i found all the sign etc that i needed to write this tattoo in Sandarin. It is english words that i translatet to Sandarin(at least I think so) Now i...
34268 elendil_voronda Send Email Aug 3, 2007
6:18 am
Second installment of the Akallabęth translation: As I said in my previous messages, I will assume that this text is written in the archaic Book Quenya. I...
34269 Lakis Lalakis
elfiness Send Email
Aug 3, 2007
8:12 am
It's Sindarin, with an 'i' :) It mostly seems fine to me, unless someone else has to propose better words. As for the grammar, the 3rd line would better be 'ah...
34270 Lakis Lalakis
elfiness Send Email
Aug 3, 2007
10:13 am
My humble opinion is that this qualifies as fair use. Nobody is going to hunt you down for making a gift. It would be only polite to contact the authors...
34271 TF
percival64 Send Email
Aug 3, 2007
11:18 am
My personal favourite for the "shining jewel" element is Early Qenya _sinqe_ "gem, jewel" (PE15:72, 74) which may (or may not) have been influenced by OE ...
34272 TF
percival64 Send Email
Aug 3, 2007
11:25 am
Hi, I do not really subscribe to the idea that the past participle would be simply formed by a suffixed copula (but it's just a personal opinion since I am not...
34273 Thorsten Renk
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Aug 3, 2007
1:55 pm
I am happy to present an updated version of my article "The Quenya Pronominal System - a summary" http://www.phy.duke.edu/~trenk/elvish/quenya_pronouns.html on...
34274 S P
elenyona Send Email
Aug 3, 2007
4:45 pm
Thanks for the update, Thorsten. The early Qenya examples make it all the more interesting. I too was just updating my own personal grammar theory (kudos to...
34275 Giel van Schijndel
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Aug 3, 2007
5:07 pm
Actually if you copy the full texts of these poems this most likely won't be fair use (not by European copyright law at least). Though copyright law only...
34276 Roman Rausch
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Aug 3, 2007
5:19 pm
... In the drafts to the 'Lord of the Rings' Tolkien gave Harad the Westron/English names 'Harwan, Silharrows, Harrowland, Sunharrowland&#39; (TI:439), clearly...
34277 "Beregond. Ander...
j_beregond Send Email
Aug 3, 2007
11:25 pm
Mellyn! The first volume of _Arda Philology_, containing the proceedings of Omentielva Minya in Stockholm August 2005, is now being printed. More information...
34278 Nancy Roberts
mirandarotunda Send Email
Aug 4, 2007
2:23 am
THank you Lakis and Giel. That was very helpful. This is going to take me some time, I've found. There are lots of elements that I have to learn, like the...
34279 traversetravis Send Email Aug 4, 2007
2:24 am
Thanks TF and Roman Rausch for your help. That link to Tolkien's alternate Harad names is useful indeed. Travis...
34280 "Beregond. Ander...
j_beregond Send Email
Aug 5, 2007
4:09 am
Mellyn! If anybody wishes to make a last-minute registration for Omentielva Tatya, do so at latest tomorrow Thursday. Use the PayPal button on the registration...
34281 Helge K. Fauskanger
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Aug 6, 2007
3:22 am
... is going to make of any Neo-Quenya pronominal system.' I can't see why. Now we can tell with some confidence what Tolkien's revisions really involved, and...
34282 Andrew Higgins
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Aug 6, 2007
3:25 am
Thorsten Suliad! Excellent. I was actually using your original article and writing in the updates. Very helpful. Thanks, Andy Andrew Higgins ...
34283 Thorsten Renk
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Aug 6, 2007
7:05 am
... Okay - so then the question is - how seriously are we going to take it? ... When I take a long, good look at the paradigm in VT49:16, I see _-t_ *only* in...
34284 Matthew Dinse
tyrhael_idhraen Send Email
Aug 6, 2007
7:33 pm
Hello; On the LotRPlaza forum I recently came across a translation request for the following. I ran across some problems (like how to express the word "fae"),...
34285 faelach69 Send Email Aug 7, 2007
3:00 am
... the ... looking ... well. ... treat ... that ... that ... in ... This ... Concerning the dative, I think that you could translate it either way, but I...
34286 trilogy9@... Send Email Aug 7, 2007
2:54 pm
Beregond, suil! Please give me more info on Omentielva Tatya!!! I'm fairly new here and I missed it. Blessings, Dianna...
34287 faelach69 Send Email Aug 7, 2007
10:57 pm
Hello everybody, my name's Bj Ward. I've been studying Tolkien languages since 2000, when I was 9 - needless to say, I know (and understand) alot more than I...
34288 faelach69 Send Email Aug 7, 2007
10:58 pm
VT49:14 states that the Quenya future tense marker -uva is related to the "independent verb uva", which is glossed "impend, be imminent". What I'd like to...
34289 Thorsten Renk
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Aug 8, 2007
8:30 am
In the course of working in detail through VT49, there are more updates on the way: I have now included all new past tense forms into my article on past tenses...
34290 TF
percival64 Send Email
Aug 8, 2007
9:51 am
Hi, it is quite possible that both are late independent innovations and CE and PQ did not have a future tense form at all. It would be interesting to see a...
34291 meneldilv Send Email Aug 8, 2007
2:58 pm
... (except for some very early Qenya stuff). You might say: _...apa hlarie_ "after hearing (a rumour that...)" Or you could go for a tense-less gerund in...
34292 TF
percival64 Send Email
Aug 8, 2007
3:31 pm
... I agree with this, languages can operate quite well with three tenses only... ... Every translation is a periphrasis, so there is no problem in that:) Of...
34293 LukᚠNovák
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Aug 8, 2007
3:43 pm
... No sentence _requires_ pluperfect, as any sentence is translatable into Czech, and Czech has no pluperfect (just simple present, past and future). And we...
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