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...
Thorsten Renk
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Mar 3, 2009 12:40 am
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... Bluntly put, no. Theory is that Quenya genitive denotes family relationships ('the daughter of the king'), origin ('Varda of Mount Everwhite'), partitive...
Thorsten Renk
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Mar 3, 2009 12:40 am
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In a very simplified form the difference between the Genitive and the Possessive can be stated like this: The Genitive is used for family relationships, things...
... requiring something? I couldn't find anything in any of the wordlists in my 'library.' I of course discovered the word for 'a need,' which is the word...
Helge K. Fauskanger
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Mar 4, 2009 8:40 pm
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Da jia hao! ... I never made any comments since I joined the Elfling, but I do feel the need to say hello to everyone else in this group and, I suppose I can...
By the way, the Tolkien monogram reminds me of a Chinese character, Are you talking about Tengwar transcription? I think it was based off of Tibetan. ... -- ...
Thanks, Helge, that certainly clears this up for me. On a similar note, are there Quenya words for "must," "would," and or "should?" The word "must" in English...
Is there any material concerning apologizing in Quenya? Again, my reasons for learning the language are for use in my everyday life, my wife is learning with...
The only source I am aware with is this ar ámen apsene úcaremmar sÃv' emme apsenet tien i úcarer emmen. (and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those...
You may want to take a look at _apsen-_ "forgive" from Átaremma; one can imagine forms like *ánin apsene "forgive me"; *apsena! "sorry, aplologies" (cf....
Aiya, Tailer! :) Vowels are in Quenya usually written above the preceding consonant. Diphthongs, on the other hand, are usually written with the first vowel...
Under WED in the Etymologies, there is a word vérë, which means "oath" or "treaty" ... I don't remember exactly. Anyway, this looks like a verbal from a verb...
... Compulsion (obligation,...) and freedom from compulsion in Elvish is pretty consistently expressed in impersonal constructions. We find this exemplified in...
Thorsten Renk
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Mar 13, 2009 12:35 pm
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Expressing the idea of "should" with available Quenya vocabulary may not be so difficult, at least as long as "should" means "ought to". For instance: "You...
Helge Kåre Fauskan...
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Mar 13, 2009 12:35 pm
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Thank you both for your input, I'll sort through all of this and apply it as it makes sense! ... -- And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to...
Perhaps, then, if a verb ver- is possible, it should be used as an impersonal construction? So I need to do X would be, Verë nín carë X. Or should X appear...
I hadn't thought of doing that. Thanks, Helge, again this clears things up! ... -- And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of...
Since we're on the theme of verbs that are, in English, modal auxiliaries, I figured that I'd field a question about which I've been wondering for some time....
I learned Quenya through Mr. Fauskanger's course a while back, and since Mr.. Renk's includes more new material. Mr. Renk's course lists the pronouns like so: ...
... Iroquen, if I may, I'd like to refer back to your first mention of _ver_ I have checked my Oxford Thesaurus, and I cannot see any way in which _oath,...
I've been informed by some of its organizers that there will be a Lord of the Rings concert event at Radio City Music Hall in New York City from October 9 to...
Somehow this didn't go through the first time round. ... According to VT 42:34 _nauva_ can be used to express "would be", and one may tentatively assume that...
Pronouns in Tolkien's shifting concept of the language are a long story - a good part of which you can read up in The Quenya Pronominal System - a summary ...
Thorsten Renk
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Mar 20, 2009 12:32 pm
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First post…sorry to bother everyone with this, but I'm looking to translate a short phrase into Quenya. I've gone through the various lexicons and...