... As I wrote already in my very first contribution to this thread, this is to some extent a matter of differing personalities and colliding philosophies. As...
... Is anyone familiar with Hebrew's "equivalent" of the subjective? I've done some reading on Hebrew (mostly Biblical Hebrew) and I don't remember seeing...
... Yes, it is touching to see that the VT editor suddenly found the time to handle such a request _just as this debate erupted here_. If Hostetter actually...
how does sindarin go in terms of grammatical structure? is it subject- verb-object or object-verb-subject or what? and when is it either or more that i have...
I'm working on translating a song into Sindarin and would like a second opinion on some of the phrases. The ones with the asterisks I'm having difficulties...
As regards the attitudes of certain members of the Editorial Team towards post-Tolkien Elvish: I notice a suggestion to the effect that Carl F. Hostetters's...
... Thank you for your kind words. I should not say "naive", but simply "uninformed". I imagine it may indeed be somewhat shocking for innocent newcomers to...
... So we would be establishing the Eldarin Language Academy, you mean? ... Well, according to Tolkien we are probably in the sixth or even the seventh age by...
Hi all Elemmire and me are a bit puzzled by how the pronominal ending of A- verbs, should be used. ... In Gateway to Sindarin we cannot really confirm that. It...
... There is of course no doubt that at one conceptual stage of the Celtic-style brand of Elvish, "said" was indeed _pent_, the direct cognate of Quenya...
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...
Hello all. I am fairly new here, but I felt that this lit exists to help one another along, not to fight about what is the best way to learn Tolkiens elvish...
whilsts trying to transcribe on tengwar scribe, ive noticed that it doesnt use the omatehtar. which i think is correct. so can someone check these and see...
Please help. Could you tell me if I've translated the following correctly? Flo O'Flaugherty I love you always I loved you more than life 28 June 1990- 15...
Ämne: How sad... Från: Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> Datum: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:12:02 +0200 Till: elfling@yahoogroups.com How sad that this list only...
Oh, my study parther and me were wondering for some time already how this works on this list: There seems to be quite a large gap between posting a message and...
Hi everybody! I have been searching for a fool proof quenya translation and I'm hoping you guys know more than I do! ok so I'm looking for the words MIND BODY...
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...
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!...
Helge Fauskanger wrote (quoting David Salo): [DS:] ... [HF:] ... I agree... sort of. Perhaps predicative adjectives behave much like *verbs* in Q (after all,...
I've been working on this for the last 2 days and I want it to be right because I'm going to wear it for life! In english, "As this band circles my arm, so do...
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...
Hi, I am new to the group, and also very new to attempting to learn the languages of Middle-earth, though I have been entranced by Arda and its history for the...
im thinking of getting a phrase in tengwar Quenya as a tattoo and have looked on many websites to try and find four words; job,where,you and start but alot of...
I wonder if any of your members could help. I would like to have an inscription made for my dog who died last year, whom I loved very much. The inscription in...
Hi! Since i'm new i'll start with introducing myself; I'm Wouter Aangeenbrug, 19 years old and living in the Netherlands. I signed up to this group because I'm...
Greetings, After many months settling into my new home and retirement (hooray!) I'm back at my writing. Some queries on Quenya grammar and usage: 1 Place...
Those with an interest in the history of Tolkienian linguistics might like to know that, after more than a decade of unavailability, I am in the process of...
Mildly off-topic, but since I haven't heard back from Lisa (and she might just be busy; I only sent my initial inquiry on Friday) I thought I would try here. ...
