hello i am new here and iv been trying to learn as much elvish/tengwar possible im new to all of it as well im not sure what kind of help i can be but im...
elffanatic2000 <elffanatic2000@...> wrote: i need help finding a site for numonorean, and if there isnt one can someone help me make a langauge for it...
... <http://www.uib.no/people/hnohf/adunaic.htm> ... Adûnaic is rather fragmentaric as JRRT left it to us. I suppose one could steal *some* vocabulary from...
Hi folks, I've been working my way through Helge Fauskanger's Quenya course, and thoroughly enjoying myself while doing so. In an effort to stretch my brain a...
... There is no such language as Númenórean. The people of' Númenor spoke Sindarin and/or Adûnaic.<< "Númenorean" is a lesser-used synonym for the Adunaic...
Hi Andrew, on the problem of the gates: one possible solution is to ditch the passive voice from the sentence and render it as an active in Quenya, so "let the...
Thanks for the help. Actually, I managed to find a very good translation of the whole poem in the internet. It also seems that the translation was first ...
Hi Tomas, Many thanks for your thoughtful reply, it was appreciated. :) ... I agree, I quite like the notion of _palya-_ in this context, and it certainly...
Hello, _andon_ here was simply meant to be the noun "great gate", a variant of _ando_, see http://middangeard.org.uk/eldarinwiki/index.php/Andon so not the...
Hi there :) ... of _ando_, see ... <http://middangeard.org.uk/eldarinwiki/index.php/Andon> Ah, ok. :) Thanks for that clarification. :) ... the particle...
Hi Thomas, All, ... the particle ... the optative feel ... I've been reading through the Átaremma and the analysis of it on Helge Fauskanger's Ardalambion...
Hello Andrew, _na_ in Átaremma is different from _ná_ in that it is, in my opinion, the imperative of the verb "be", forming a predicate together with the...
Hi Thomas, All, ... Many thanks again... I'll need to get my hands on that VT I suspect. :) An unrelated question if anyone has any ideas they might like to...
Ah, the elusive conditional/subjunctive construction:) I am afraid I do not know much about it. In (externally) late Quenya I have not seen it discussed in any...
... "Sauron Defeated" 247. Assuming that the past tense of _ulya-_ is _ulle_ one might indeed extrapolate from _ullier_ that a subjunctive/conditional can be...
... I think, of course, that it is strictly the subjunctive of the negative. For 'I would do' I'd say _karnien*_. ... Indeed. But what would the subjunctive...
... That's what I'm saying: _ú-_ is a can of worms: one doesn't even know for sure what's the conjunction _ú_ and what is forms of the verb _ú-_. It may be...
using helge fauskanger's quenya course i found that the word "na" meant "is" and "nar" meant are so would i use "na" as the word "are" as in the sentence "you...
Hey there. I'm going through Helge's course again and am having a real problem with possessive noun endings. Sometimes I think I know which word gets that...
The difference between _na_ and _nar_, after what I understand, is that _Na_ is the singular form and _nar_ the plural form. _so na..._ "he is..." _le na..._...
Hi, it's the possessor, the person/thing that 'owns' the possession, that gets the ending. Like in English, if you are talking about Finwe's book (the book of...
... Quenya has an abundancy of verb endings that denote person, and ná (long vowel, not "na") is no exception to the rule. If I understand it correctly, ná...
Hi Thomas, Apologies for the delay, I've been interstate on business... ... 'Fraid so. :) ... That is definitely interesting. I do appreciate that so much is...
hi all, I'm trying to translate Círdan's gift of Narya to Gandalf upon his arrival in middle earth, and, I think, botching it completely. Following is my...
Hello. The problem I had was with the phrase "rivers of wine." I thought that "river's" would take the possessive case because thay consisted "of wine", but...
... Yeah, this is one of the big ones. But to get started, you don't need any downloads... just going here http://www.phy.duke.edu/~trenk/elvish/to_be.html and...
