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34839 ralucaeftimie Send Email May 24, 2008
12:54 pm
Greetings! :) Pleased to meet you all. I'm a female, in my early twenties, living in Eastern Europe and currently learning Quenya (and Tengwar ). I come to you...
34840 chris.wilkinson81
chris.wilkin... Send Email
May 24, 2008
12:54 pm
... phrase, ... which ... the ... this ... or ... describing ... viewpoint (so ... made). ... carried ... words, ... like this ... the ... recipient/object, ...
34841 aelindis Send Email May 24, 2008
12:54 pm
... Unfortunately, you did not provide a literal English translation of your Sindarin (?) phrase, but presumably - or at least according to my guess - _ morn...
34842 Gil
elfiness Send Email
May 25, 2008
1:20 pm
Hi I am not sure if I got you right, but I think you misunderstood something: 'ţúle' and 'thúle' are the very same thing. The letter ţ (called Thorn)...
34843 Lukáš Novák
lukas.novak@... Send Email
May 25, 2008
1:45 pm
There is just ONE tengwa-letter called either [thúle] (original pronunciation) or [súle] (later pronunciation), according to the dialect of Quenya you use....
34844 Isaac W Hanson
isaacwhanson@... Send Email
May 26, 2008
11:41 am
It is my understanding that it was the SOUND that this letter produces that changed (against the wishes of Fëanor). Take the word for "grey-elf";, sinda....
34845 kunzdb Send Email May 26, 2008
11:42 am
Thanks! I understand _falathren_ is usually read as an adjective, but I meant it as a noun referring to "sea-language&quot; or common speach... maybe I should...
34846 ralucaeftimie Send Email May 26, 2008
11:42 am
Thank you for your answers. :) I completely understand it now and it has become all clear. I suspected that was the correct case, but I wasn't very sure and I ...
34847 S P
elenyona Send Email
May 26, 2008
3:35 pm
kunzdb, concerning your second message, you may have noticed that I have already sent you e-mail in response to the private contact (of identical content) that...
34848 maho4451 Send Email May 28, 2008
1:08 am
Hi all, I've become extremely interested in learning the spoken form of Sindarin, and through such efforts I have been working on this translation: "Im...
34849 elffanatic2000 Send Email May 29, 2008
1:01 am
... form ... I ... all ... print) ... you could try buying David Salo's book A Gateway to Sindarin, it really helps if you're trying to learn spoken sindarin,...
34850 Phillip Wayne
exuyangi Send Email
May 30, 2008
12:21 pm
Or you might try looking at http://www.phy.duke.edu/~trenk/elvish<;http://www.phy.duke.edu/%7Etrenk/elvish>/ , which has a number of excellent courses and...
34851 maho4451 Send Email May 30, 2008
12:21 pm
... this ... Terese, ... work ... you ... Yes, i really look forward to reading that, but as of yet i have not had the chance to get a copy....
34852 iiipitaka Send Email May 30, 2008
12:27 pm
... http://www.phy.duke.edu/~trenk/elvish<;http://www.phy.duke.edu/%7Etrenk/e\ lvish>/ ... don't ... differing ... Do you happen to have an opinion of your own...
34853 maho4451 Send Email May 31, 2008
4:57 am
ah excellent. but i can't seem to open the course files? do you know what programs they use? ... 7Etrenk/elvish>/ ... don't ... differing ... ...
34854 Phillip Wayne
exuyangi Send Email
May 31, 2008
8:00 pm
You can winrar to open the .gz files, and adobe to read them Happy to help ... -- Phil ... Horses hooves hammer Pounding priests of drumskin ground Bringing...
34855 ruudverpaalen Send Email May 31, 2008
8:00 pm
Hi, I have been searching all over the internet for people that can help me with a simple translation. Next year I am going to do the Ironman triathlon and as...
34856 Phillip Wayne
exuyangi Send Email
Jun 1, 2008
11:31 am
When you say "Ironman" it could mean (a) a person who is very strong, (b) a person with a lot of endurance, or (c) a person made of metal. Which one do you...
34857 maho4451 Send Email Jun 1, 2008
11:31 am
Well, (I'm not an expert so by all means PLEASE seek a second opinion) but according to the Appendix of the Silmarillion, "Iron" in Quenya is "anga" and in...
34858 Phillip Wayne
exuyangi Send Email
Jun 2, 2008
12:30 pm
Well, once again I am no expert here, but I speak a bit of Sindarin. A very strong man: benn ammalar. (man very-strong) A very persevering man: benn i udhaur...
34859 actorsatworkproductions
actorsatwork... Send Email
Jun 2, 2008
12:30 pm
Hello Everyone This is a little unusual but I am looking for someone extremely good at speaking Sindarin who can help tutor the actors in the film Born of...
34860 Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@... Send Email
Jun 2, 2008
12:30 pm
... Yes, basically. _Angaina_ is the adjective "of iron" in Quenya, the best-attested Tolkienian Elf-language. _Nér_ and _veo_ will both do for "man". You...
34861 peregrin_ionad Send Email Jun 2, 2008
12:30 pm
Hi guys (and girls!) I've just joined...so I thought I'd pop in and say hello! I'll probably just end up lurking...but hopefully I will post from time to time!...
34862 Phillip Wayne
exuyangi Send Email
Jun 3, 2008
1:06 am
Quenya and Sindarin are very good places to start. ... -- Phil ... Horses hooves hammer Pounding priests of drumskin ground Bringing the thunder [Non-text...
34863 trilogy9@... Send Email Jun 3, 2008
1:06 am
Not actually a reply, just a comment actually. Dear Mr. Salo, I am an avid reader and in particular, a devoted J.R.R. Tokein reader.? I just wanted to say that...
34864 Lila MacDonaugh
peregrin_ionad Send Email
Jun 3, 2008
1:07 am
Ahhhh....I so wish I was in cambridge! but I'm in India for most of July! I had a look at the website!  Good luck! Wish I was involved!   Pip "It's...
34865 maike
maikedulk Send Email
Jun 3, 2008
11:59 am
funny coincidence .. I just got that book because I was *getting serious* in studying Sindarin and we (my study partner and me) started to notice the huge ...
34866 Phillip Wayne
exuyangi Send Email
Jun 3, 2008
12:02 pm
Alas, I am but a poor judge ... there are differing opinions of almost any attempt Sindarin out there. I am sure that googling many persons such as Dianna...
34867 iiipitaka Send Email Jun 3, 2008
12:20 pm
... You're asking the wrong person in the wrong forum. I became involved in Tolkien language studies in the mid-1990s because I was skeptical of the opinions...
34868 trilogy9@... Send Email Jun 4, 2008
1:37 am
Phillip. First, let me say, that nothing can be obtained by "googling"; me or by looking at such? sites as "you tube" or "my space" because this is not...
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