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35032 Petri Tikka
petristikka Send Email
Aug 3, 2008
7:45 pm
... Although the notes containing _alatúl(i)e_, _amatulya_ "welcome" (PE17:172) were rejected, it does not imply that these particular words suffered the same...
35033 ramaroreo Send Email Aug 3, 2008
7:46 pm
The page as such has been rejected that does not necessarily mean that all the elements are invalidated. "Alatúlie" seems to me a very likely compound since...
35034 quenduluin Send Email Aug 3, 2008
7:46 pm
Aiya! I'd like to ask you about your opinion on this question: Should eldarin stems beginning with W- and with GW- be distinguished? I don't know any Quenya...
35035 Gil
elfiness Send Email
Aug 4, 2008
12:14 pm
You are on the right track. :) But why don't you look at the online Sindarin dictionary, the PE roots of the words beginning with GW? The answer is obvious...
35036 Giraudeau David
davidkiks Send Email
Aug 4, 2008
12:15 pm
... Yes, I know, 3 about Q(u)enya. ... It seems to me that learning Neo-Quenya in the blindness of unexplained standardizations is not the good way. Mr...
35037 Helge Kåre Fauskan...
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Aug 5, 2008
12:20 pm
... Fra: LS <verbalasphyxiation@...> Emne: [elfling] Looking for Quenya translation help Til: elfling@yahoogroups.com Dato: Tirsdag 29. juli 2008 05.13 ...
35038 Matthew Dinse
tyrhael_idhraen Send Email
Aug 5, 2008
12:20 pm
... And would that 'obvious&#39; answer be that at the time of the 1930s Etymologies, roots starting with GW- produced w- in Qenya but b- in Noldorin, and ones...
35039 Thorsten Renk
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Aug 5, 2008
12:23 pm
Dear David, so, let me give a short summary of what I have gathered: Your chief scholarly contribution to the Elvish community is a French-Quenya lexicon which...
35040 Thorsten Renk
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Aug 6, 2008
12:10 pm
... PE17:154 has three roots in GW-, GWAL, GWAN and GWAY. From GWAL we have e.g. Q: _walya_ 'be excited' _walta_ 'to excite' and Sindarin _balch_ 'fierce&#39; ...
35041 Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin Send Email
Aug 6, 2008
12:10 pm
Well, I will reply even if David does not. *grin*   I started out studying Helge's Quenya course because at the time that's all that was available. I enjoyed...
35042 maike
maikedulk Send Email
Aug 7, 2008
11:54 am
Suilad, I'd like to comment on this ... ... In defense of Thorsten, but also of the others who are being criticised for presenting non-attested material as if...
35043 Giraudeau David
davidkiks Send Email
Aug 7, 2008
11:55 am
... French-Quenya lexicon which you do not update any more because you feel it is inappropriate. I feel it inappropriate _because_ I think I could create a new...
35044 Thorsten Renk
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Aug 8, 2008
12:25 pm
... As I pointed out repeatedly - the reason is time, or better the lack of time. Deciding on a form may be 10 minutes work - bringing the decision process to...
35045 aelindis Send Email Aug 8, 2008
12:25 pm
I'm sorry to say that I do not understand this particular line of reasoning by David Giraudeau: ... work (even on only one point) according to the full...
35046 thegnome_2 Send Email Aug 8, 2008
12:26 pm
ok i picked out what i want but i CANT figure out how to make it into proper tengwar like on the ring... if tried to find good sorces to craft this phrase into...
35047 Julian Bradfield
jcbradfield Send Email
Aug 8, 2008
12:26 pm
I am pleased to announce that Volume II of the collected Quettar is now available. This 112 page volume covers issues 11 to 20, published in 1981 to 1984. It...
35048 Giraudeau David
davidkiks Send Email
Aug 9, 2008
7:37 pm
... rather "grammar of re-constructed Quenya (i.e. Neo-Quenya)" , or as Terry Dock entitled rightly his own grammar : "Prescriptive Grammar of Neo-Quenya". I...
35049 davidkiks Send Email Aug 9, 2008
7:40 pm
... that all the elements are invalidated. "Alatúlie" seems to me a very likely compound since the stem ALA- on page 146 is used in exactly this sense in...
35050 Petri Tikka
petristikka Send Email
Aug 10, 2008
9:01 pm
... I would always use an attested Quenya construction, unless there is a definite reason to think it obsolete. Tolkien's ambivalence about LA- and AL- stems...
35051 Roman Rausch
rausch_roman Send Email
Aug 10, 2008
9:01 pm
... The root ALA- 'good, blessed, fortunate' is apparently from the same conception as Q. _lá_ 'yes' < _ala_ 'good' mentioned years ago in VT42:33. Most...
35052 Thorsten Renk
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Aug 10, 2008
9:02 pm
... It seems you didn't read the Adunaic course either... Just a brief note with regard to my wording: Of course I don't 'invent&#39; new forms of Adunaic not...
35053 Benct Philip Jonsson
melroch Send Email
Aug 17, 2008
5:18 pm
How would you all form a quenya adjective from _Eressea_ which already is a substantivated adjective? I don't like neither _eressearin*_ or _eresseaina*_ (is...
35054 quenduluin Send Email Aug 18, 2008
11:33 pm
Thank you very much, these are exactly the examples I needed. Having noticed that _gw-_ is a quite favourite word-beginning in Sindarin, I didn't see that this...
35055 Lukáš Novák
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Aug 18, 2008
11:33 pm
... "eresseáva" ? Lukas...
35056 Roman Rausch
rausch_roman Send Email
Aug 18, 2008
11:33 pm
... I would start with _Tol Eressea_ and decline _tol_, hence _*Tolwa Eressea_ or _*Eressea-Tolwa_. This is similar to the way Tolkien forms the genitive of...
35057 TF
percival64 Send Email
Aug 19, 2008
12:07 pm
... which could very well lead to *Tolwa alone since everybody (among the Eldar) would know _which_ Tol they are talking about Thomas Ferencz Let's discuss...
35058 Lukáš Novák
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Aug 19, 2008
11:25 pm
What about "eresseáva" ? Lukas ... /BP 8^)>>...
35059 Benct Philip Jonsson
melroch Send Email
Aug 21, 2008
7:40 am
Thanks to Lukas, Roman and Thomas for your suggestions. It seems my tendency to over-complicate things struck again... (Sorry for late answer. I was suddenly...
35060 misha_aniron Send Email Aug 27, 2008
12:09 pm
Okay, i'm new at this, so i could use a little help here. I don't even speak English that well (i'm from spain). I would like to translate the following...
35061 Helge Kåre Fauskan...
hkfauskanger@... Send Email
Aug 28, 2008
12:07 pm
... remembrance of what still remains of noble and pure in the heart of Men".   You are onto something. The word Nimloth is Sindarin. You could keep it as it...
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