Continuing in the aim to give a Primary World model for the language of every Mannish people mentioned by Tolkien... In a footnote to the Snowmen, Tolkien...
im estel, telin ned aur vorn hen an annad dulu allen, mellyn nīn. I am Estel, I come in this dark hour in order to give help to you, my friends. I talk...
Hello everyone, I was wondering about the various methods anyone has used when translating a piece from English into Sindarin (or Quenya). I have studied...
... I have to say that I can't think of any case where I translated using this 'method'. There were some cases of omitted copul¾, for which there is some...
... saying 'on ... I am in doubt about the factual reasons for the assumption that Sindarin sentences of the type 'subject - (omitted copula) - prepositional...
... Tolkien frequently invented and rethought the conceptions of names and the history of places, sometimes not arriving at a definite conclusion.<< This shows...
... I do know the reasons traditionally cited by the current editors; they involve anything from ill-defined personal problems to Tolkien's difficult...
Helge K. Fauskanger
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Jan 4, 2008 1:22 pm
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The languages of another Mannish people mentioned by Tolkien, from the unfinished story "Tal-Elmar" in Peoples of Middle-earth: "Agar-speech" =...
... "Ill-defined personal problems"? This seems unnecessarily vindictive to me. Why the ad hominem attack? I don't think it's necessary. ... Considering how...
Hello, everyone - ... Sindarin sentences of the type 'subject - (omitted copula) - prepositional phrase' would actually be of similar type as Japanese ...
I am very pleased to announce that after taking into account several feedback messages, the new version of my Sindarin course Pedin Edhellen should now be free...
Thorsten Renk
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Jan 5, 2008 9:25 am
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I'd like to present you two new articles on Sindanórie (http://sindanoorie.atspace.com/). There are already several studies on Tengwestie and Parma ...
Suilad Thorsten, Thank you for devising this course on Sindarin. I actually printed it out (the whole thing) two days ago at the library. It said it was okay...
Suilad Roman, Thanks for sharing the article 'On the diphthongs ei, ai in Noldorin and Sindarin': I will put it to good use, as this is one of the things that...
I am new to this list. I subscribed because I am really interested in, especially, Sindarin. I want to learn to speak and write it and was delighted to find...
Hi everyone, For those of you that are following this, I told you that I sent an email recently to the Solicitor of the Tolkien Estate seeking permission to...
Dear all, do we by any chance have a decent S word for 'beginning' these days? I was contemplating using the gerund of heria- 'begin suddenly and vigorously',...
... PE17 or some else material I do not possess might have better insights on Noldorin or even LotR Sindarin verb-noun correlation. There are of course older...
Thanks Elhath - much food for thought there. I'm not keen on calquing the Welsh cael + VN passive in S as it's colloquial, unlike the -ir and -wyd Welsh...
... I didn't even expect to hear from her ... It's wonderful to hear that the Tolkien Estate has been so forthcoming with your book and your use of Elvish. I...
... Good sign of the estate taking stuff seriously - sounds good. I keep my fingers crossed for you! -- electronically yours, jesper - -- --- ---- ----- ----...
http://home.netcom.com/~heensle/lang/elvish/elvish.html: this site has Elvish on it and i was wondering if it was right or if it was wrong. i've been looking...
Aya, I would like to write in Quenya: Gil-galad, Great King of Noldor: Gil-galad, Ingaran Noldoron. But, Gil-galad is Sindarin. Then, my question: Gil-galad...
Suilad mellyn nin, ... idea of writing a book about Tolkien and Elvish, and have been a bit daunted by the rumours of the past about how difficult the Estate...
When I subscribed to this list last weekend I got a message from the list admin, in wich it said: "To be connected with a study partner, you may contact <email...
Oh, best of luck with estate!!!!!!!!! Congrats! ... From: jesper <jesper@...> To: elfling@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 11:39 pm ...
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... has ... The presentation of "THE ESSENTIALS OF SINDARIN GRAMMAR" on this site falls far short of what would seem to be the minimum level of 'correctness'...
Hey Maike, I'd love to study with you. I've been studying Sindarin on and off for the past couple months, but I haven't gotten very much done. So if you're...