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Is there any way you can find old Digests (like for example from 2000 nr. 34 (called "Qenya Grammar Fragment")? Supposedly there are some previously...
2 Jul 11, 2008
12:23 pm

Matthew Dinse
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Suilad, Elemmire and I have made another overview that we find handy - of the mutations found in Pedin Edhellen. in table form you can find it here ...
1 Jul 9, 2008
12:06 pm

maike
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Well, I'm back (as Sam said). Two weeks ago, a thunderstorm hit western Norway and pretty much electrocuted my PC (though in the end, it happily turned out...
5 Jul 7, 2008
12:16 pm

meneldilv
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Greetings- Since purchasing Mr. Salo's book on Sindarin I've been looking at how to say six words in Sindarin. Those are: Honor - Wisdom - Sword - Healing -...
1 Jul 6, 2008
9:16 pm

Wes Tasker
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Hey Everyone, I'm new here and trying my hardest to get a text transcribed (I think that's the right word!) in Tengwar. The phrase I want (in English ...
4 Jul 4, 2008
3:40 am

Maike Dulk
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Hi Sophie ! I'm new here and trying my hardest to get a text transcribed (I think that's the right word!) in Tengwar. The phrase I want (in English ...
1 Jul 4, 2008
3:40 am

Giraudeau David
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I recently got a copy of David Salo's book, and it's been very helpful in my personal study of Sindarin. So, seeking something i'd know to translate into S, i...
12 Jul 2, 2008
12:36 pm

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There are still problems with the second half. For instance, the number of the verb form _thelir_ (a plural) is inconsistent with _aeben_ (a singular) --...
1 Jun 29, 2008
12:32 pm

S P
elenyona
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Gwaith-i-Phethdain (www.elvish.org/gwaith) update from November 29, 2003: Today in the movie department you can find a photo and investigation of the Black...
7 Jun 29, 2008
12:31 pm

maho4451
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since i'm letting a friend borrow this book, would the explanation of sindarin word order work? http://books.google.com/books? ...
2 Jun 27, 2008
12:03 pm

Phillip Wayne
exuyangi
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When i last left a post i was asking about the word order of sindarin and i got it as a SVO but i found a phrase that said, "Anira i aran suilannad mhellyn...
2 Jun 26, 2008
12:07 pm

Rodrigo Jaroszewski
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... These seem well-composed to me, but to be strictly accurate they should certainly be termed "Neo-Quenya sentences," and not only because Tolkien did not...
1 Jun 24, 2008
12:28 pm

marc_zender
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... 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...
6 Jun 24, 2008
12:27 pm

Thorsten Renk
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Hello everybody, I have posted an unfinished compilation of Quenya words from PE17 on my Elvish website, Men Eldalambínen. You can see it here: ...
1 Jun 21, 2008
6:50 pm

Petri Tikka
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... Is anyone familiar with Hebrew's "equivalent&quot; of the subjective? I've done some reading on Hebrew (mostly Biblical Hebrew) and I don't remember seeing...
1 Jun 20, 2008
11:28 pm

Jay Lawson
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... 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...
3 Jun 20, 2008
11:28 pm

aelindis
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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...
5 Jun 20, 2008
11:27 pm

Helge K. Fauskanger
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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...
5 Jun 19, 2008
11:24 pm

feanorfirespirit
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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&#39;s...
2 Jun 17, 2008
10:45 am

Thorsten Renk
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... Thank you for your kind words. I should not say "naive", but simply "uninformed&quot;. I imagine it may indeed be somewhat shocking for innocent newcomers to...
6 Jun 15, 2008
1:24 pm

Peter
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... 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...
7 Jun 14, 2008
5:59 pm

aelindis
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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...
5 Jun 14, 2008
5:59 pm

Thorsten Renk
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... 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...
1 Jun 13, 2008
12:25 pm

Helge K. Fauskanger
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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...
32 Jun 13, 2008
12:24 pm

Annaka Shultz
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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...
6 Jun 13, 2008
12:24 pm

Annaka Shultz
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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...
1 Jun 13, 2008
12:22 pm

ryan
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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...
1 Jun 10, 2008
11:27 pm

janine.kaihau
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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...
1 Jun 9, 2008
6:45 am

Benct Philip Jonsson
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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...
3 Jun 8, 2008
9:55 pm

maike
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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...
1 Jun 7, 2008
4:36 pm

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