... Yes - but this is also the most fascinating aspect. Personally, I found it (and still find it) much harder to understand the aesthetic ideas behind Quenya...
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Tyler Kocheran
rfkrockteekers
Jan 27, 2009 1:31 am
Yes and no. I think they can pretty much be used interchangeably, but I'm not sure if it's more 'proper' to say -nyë over -n. For me, since I'm trying to...
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Tyler Kocheran
rfkrockteekers
Jan 27, 2009 1:31 am
That helps very much, thank you. _Merin cendë i parmar canwassë_ Thanks! ... -- And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of ...
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Palatinus
elfiness
Jan 27, 2009 1:22 pm
I am not a highly educated person but I believe that once you study at least 2 foreign languages, no matter how superficially, you start understanding that the...
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Maike
maikedulk
Jan 29, 2009 1:13 pm
Suilad, I made a sort of collage of still images on "the Song of Eärendil" (by Bilbo) as performed by the Tolkien Ensemble: ...
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Vicente Velasco
rashbold
Jan 30, 2009 1:11 pm
... The -nye pronominal suffix is useful when you attach other pronominal suffixes to it, as in _utúvienyes_. Otherwise the -n will work just fine....
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Tyler Kocheran
rfkrockteekers
Feb 1, 2009 2:38 pm
It also comes in handy like so. If I wanted to say "I want to learn", I could either say: "Merin nolyë" or "Merinyë nolyë" It's nice to have the extra -yë...
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naugperedel
Feb 6, 2009 1:14 pm
... influence as ... guess ... direct ... actually ... I have one question on this theme. Did Jhon R.R. Tolkien knew Mandarin Chinese? If he did knew this...
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Palatinus
elfiness
Feb 6, 2009 1:15 pm
I don't know if you are aware of "Lalaith"'s excelent Edainic Etymologies article at http://lalaith.vpsurf.de/Tolkien/Fr_Atani.html She tried to reconstruct...
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Palatinus
elfiness
Feb 7, 2009 1:38 pm
That's a very nice observation. Chance resemblances between unrelated languages are very probable. Tolkien studied several reported languages and there is no...
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David
wigdawei
Feb 9, 2009 1:21 pm
Sindarin compound noun for Sword of the Wizard/Wizard Sword? Maglaithron Magolithron Thanks, David...
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David
wigdawei
Feb 15, 2009 10:13 pm
I just wanted to follow up with my original hasty query...Sorry... Much of the resources I have discovered online give rules for Sindarin compound nouns (well...
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iroquen
Feb 21, 2009 1:31 am
Since there has been relatively little traffic on Elfing lately, I think that this is a good time to introduce myself. I became interested in Elvish first...
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iroquen
Feb 21, 2009 1:31 am
Mr. Fauskanger and I worked together (that is, I wrote the first draft, and he corrected it [and it needed lots of correcting]) on a translation of the Babel...
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Tyler Kocheran
rfkrockteekers
Feb 23, 2009 1:39 pm
Welcome to the elflings list. We are actually all still here, just busy of course :) I was actually just looking into learning Tengwar calligraphy today, and ...
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Jonathon Omahen
trumpetingba...
Feb 23, 2009 1:40 pm
Taking iroquen's lead, I feel it is necessary to finally introduce myself, a longtime follower of Elfling, and Mr. Fauskanger and Thorsten's work. I first...
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maike
maikedulk
Feb 23, 2009 1:40 pm
Suilad, I noticed that of the verb "to flee" there is only the imperative attested _drego_ and the opinions thus differ on whether it would be an i-verb or an...
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aelindis
Feb 23, 2009 1:40 pm
... The translation on Omniglot ... It appears,however, as though your Sindarin translation does *not* include findings from recently published material...
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tuilinde42
Feb 23, 2009 1:41 pm
Iroquen, my question is not about the Sindarin (I gave up on that some time ago) but the English version of the Bible, and the Quenya on Omniglot. My Bible...
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tuilinde42
Feb 23, 2009 1:41 pm
Ooops! Forget the query about _saame_ I've just found it in Helge's list!!! I blame my age, or my eyes when I go through the lists and can't see what I'm...
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Tyler Kocheran
rfkrockteekers
Feb 24, 2009 1:18 pm
I'm trying to translate some English text into Quenya. Here is the English text: "Left my fear by the side of the road" What I've come up with so far is this: ...
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tuilinde42
Feb 27, 2009 1:22 pm
Tyler, There's nothing wrong with _tieo_ but if it doesn't sound euphonious to you you could use the word _malle_ instead which means _street, road_ and that...
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ANDREA KRETTEK
quira00
Feb 27, 2009 1:22 pm
hi all! I am new to this mailing list. I am planning on getting a tattoo on my wrist with the names of my two children in quenya, spelled out in tengwar. I...
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quenduluin
Feb 27, 2009 1:22 pm
I would use possesive case instead of genitive: _rénasse i tiéva_. It doesn't produce unusual vowel groups and, in my opinion, it fits this sense better. :) ...
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Tyler Kocheran
rfkrockteekers
Feb 28, 2009 10:42 pm
Thank you all so much for your input and help, this clarifies things a lot! I guess I still don't completely understand the genitive case. I've been taking...
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faelach12
Feb 28, 2009 10:42 pm
Hello All! I have just finished (if you can call anything considering Tolkienian linguistics ever 'finished'!) a little list I've been working on for years. It...
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faelach12
Feb 28, 2009 10:42 pm
... Hey David, I'm more of a suscriber to Quenya, but I'll give you my opinion. :) You are probably looking for a one-word name; but, if not, you could always...
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faelach12
Feb 28, 2009 10:43 pm
... tattoo on my wrist with the names of my two children in quenya, spelled out in tengwar. ... into "star" and one into "sun" or "radiant one" or "ray of...
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faelach12
Feb 28, 2009 10:43 pm
... be ... drego ... Suilad, In these cases, I usually resort to the tactics Tolkien himself did. Which of these is the most aesthetically pleasing to YOU?....
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Roman Rausch
rausch_roman
Feb 28, 2009 10:43 pm
... Well, one could still make it _*tiéo_... PE17:58-59 also mentions that abstracts and verbals can have extended parallel forms with _-n_, as...
