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...
... 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...
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...
That's a very nice observation. Chance resemblances between unrelated languages are very probable. Tolkien studied several reported languages and there is no...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
... The translation on Omniglot ... It appears,however, as though your Sindarin translation does *not* include findings from recently published material...
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...
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...
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: ...
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...
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...
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. :) ...
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...
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...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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?....
Yeah, to me "tiéo" would probably make the most sense audibly. ... -- And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now...
Hi there I would be very interested to see your work and see if I can help Since almost everyone nowadays has some webspace, I suggest you upload your text in...
Is there a special format for transcribing Quenya diphthongs? I just ran my name "tailer" (ai sounds like the "y" of Tyler in Quenya, right?) through the...
Does anyone know of a Quenya verb for the concept of needing or requiring something? I couldn't find anything in any of the wordlists in my 'library.' I of...
... Actually, it's far from obvious that _*drega-_ should have a past tense _?dregant_. As used in _drego morn_, it is an intransitive verb, and those would...
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