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35172 elmmire Send Email Dec 22, 2008
1:15 pm
... Dear Erna, ... But thank you for the clarification... Elemmire...
35173 Laura
violaceous_p... Send Email
Dec 23, 2008
3:20 am
Thank you so much for your help with the keyboard! And many, many thanks to Narbeleth for the assistance with the errors in my list. I have already learned...
35174 aelindis Send Email Dec 23, 2008
3:20 am
... In PE17:67 we have: "S _êl_, pl. _elin_ (_elenath_); also analogical sg. _elen_." This seems to mean that, at least in this conception, the plural _elin_...
35175 aelindis Send Email Dec 23, 2008
3:20 am
... I just wanted to enlarge upon *maike's* somewhat unspecific hint as I find this plural ending quite interesting. :-) Erna...
35176 quenarth Send Email Dec 24, 2008
2:53 pm
Hello everyone! I have a small thing to clear up that's been bothering me for a while but can't seem to resolve. Pronunciation of Q. _envinyatar_ in...
35177 Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin Send Email
Dec 25, 2008
1:45 pm
The rule about stress on the penultimate syllable when the vowel is short followed by two consonants means that the short vowel is followed by a consonsant...
35178 Rodrigo Jaroszewski
rjaroszewski Send Email
Dec 25, 2008
1:46 pm
Hello quenarth, When Fauskanger said "two consonants", he meant like in a consonant cluster. Since _t_ and _r_ have an _a_ between them, it's not a cluster....
35179 Mans Bjorkman
mansbjorkman Send Email
Dec 25, 2008
1:46 pm
... The stress would be on the second to last syllable if the _t_ and _r_ came directly after the vowel (e.g. *_envinyArta_). As it is, the _r_ follows the...
35180 ramaroreo Send Email Dec 25, 2008
1:46 pm
... Hi, your problem comes from the fact that you seem to misunderstand what is meant by "followed by two consonants". This means either a consonant cluster or...
35181 quenarth Send Email Dec 25, 2008
11:20 pm
Thank you all! I knew I was missing something, that's much clearer now. Merry Christmas! ... bothering ... shown ... by...
35182 Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@... Send Email
Dec 25, 2008
11:22 pm
Well, merry X-mas, folks! Preparing a Christmas Update for Ardalambion I finally gathered the courage to add the new words from Parma Eldalamberon #17 to my ...
35183 Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@... Send Email
Dec 25, 2008
11:22 pm
... shown as _envINyatar_, while all this time I had been placing the stress on the second to last syllable because the short vowl _a_ was followed by two...
35184 Leonardo Boiko
leoboiko Send Email
Dec 25, 2008
11:24 pm
Hi, Are there any further materials on David Salo's reconstructed Black Speech, as featured in the FotR movie soundtrack[1]? Given the scarcity of canon BS...
35185 iiipitaka Send Email Dec 27, 2008
3:43 am
... There is further material, but it only consists of my notes -- which, despite intending to, I have not found time to put in order and transcribe for the...
35186 Susan Frances Edwards
tuilinde42 Send Email
Dec 27, 2008
3:44 am
Helge, many thanks, no matter what other word lists I have or put together for my own use, yours is an invaluable resource for double checking the subtleties...
35187 narfinde Send Email Dec 27, 2008
3:44 am
Any ideas on how one would construct "never" ? It's not in the lexicon and, as far as I know, not attested. The only logical thing I could come up with is the...
35188 Petri Tikka
petristikka Send Email
Dec 27, 2008
3:44 am
Merry Christmas to all you Elflingers! To celebrate this glorious season, I'd like to share a video with you. I've sang a Quenya song of mine and put it on...
35189 Wanda the *B*Witch
witchwanda2002 Send Email
Dec 28, 2008
12:36 am
Merry Christmas to all you Elflingers! To celebrate this glorious season, I'd like to share a video with you. I've sang a Quenya song of mine and put it on...
35190 quenduluin Send Email Dec 28, 2008
12:36 am
If you asked someone from our country, you would probably get a clear answer even from a beginner. :) Many years ago someone (I don't know who) invented a word...
35191 Petri Tikka
petristikka Send Email
Dec 28, 2008
12:36 am
The correct YouTube address of this video is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUgAULGg3Ng&feature=channel_page It can be reached through that Facebook...
35192 Stephen Montalvo
liltawen Send Email
Dec 28, 2008
12:36 am
Does this include the 'Orkish&#39; wordlist in the old ICE/MERP Angmar book? I have always wondered where that came from. Stephen M [Non-text portions of this...
35193 Terry Dock
melhael Send Email
Dec 28, 2008
12:37 am
... That sounds like what Tolkien left us with. I think that a lot of people would love to see those notes anyway (myself included). It's always interesting to...
35194 Leonardo Boiko
leoboiko Send Email
Dec 28, 2008
12:37 am
... Well, I for one would much enjoy such notes as-is; just the phonetic variants are enough to whet my appetite =) Should you ever publish them, let the list...
35195 iiipitaka Send Email Dec 28, 2008
2:43 pm
... book? I have always wondered where that came from. ... No. I had nothing to do with that and I've never even seen it. This is the first I knew that such a...
35196 Evenstar
evenstar62 Send Email
Dec 28, 2008
2:43 pm
Just a little word for telling you that the new update of Helge's wordlist Quenya-English is now available in PDF format from Helge's website or directly from...
35197 Thorsten Renk
trenk@... Send Email
Dec 29, 2008
1:31 pm
... I can only answer for myself, but I would not have managed to cope with much new material - it took me the better part of the year to bring the courses...
35198 narfinde Send Email Dec 29, 2008
1:31 pm
I understand, but is that correct? I'm hesitant to use some ill-constructed word. Is my construction correct and fitting within the known quenya syntax? To me...
35199 Susan Frances Edwards
tuilinde42 Send Email
Dec 29, 2008
1:31 pm
Greetings to you all, and best wishes for the New Year! Here is the rest of the poem _My Heart Is Torn_ for your perusal. As always I will appreciate any...
35200 Petri Tikka
petristikka Send Email
Dec 30, 2008
1:16 pm
... Much obliged, I'm happy I could be useful. It took lots of work, as is obvious, and I'm glad that it's all part of Helge's wordlist now, in a polished...
35201 Tyler Kocheran
rfkrockteekers Send Email
Dec 30, 2008
1:17 pm
I wanted to ask for a little bit of clarity when forming verb phrases in Quenya. I kind of understand the definition of an intransitive verb as per Helge's...
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