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Sarmendili! We celebrate the tenth birthday of Amanye Tenceli with a description of Sarati for Quenya (here: http://at.mansbjorkman.net/sarati_quenya.htm). As...
1 Apr 4, 2009
1:49 am

Mans Bjorkman
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... Actually Mr. Fauskanger (aka "me") has long been working on an update, and I finally see the end of this work, but I can't upload a half-finished (or even...
1 Apr 4, 2009
1:49 am

Helge K. Fauskanger
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The can't be Quenya because it has words that start with "g". Maybe it's "Qenya?" Telerin has words with an initial "g." Sindarin does, too, but this poem...
1 Apr 4, 2009
1:49 am

J Graney
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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....
8 Apr 4, 2009
1:49 am

Tyler Kocheran
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Sarmendili, I have now added version 3 of the font Tengwar Eldamar to Amanye Tenceli (here: http://at.mansbjorkman.net/tengwareldamar.htm). Among other things,...
1 Apr 4, 2009
1:49 am

Mans Bjorkman
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For Omentielva Nelya we call for scholarly papers on all aspects of any or all of Tolkien's invented languages, in any or all of their conceptual stages. The...
1 Apr 4, 2009
1:49 am

"Beregond, Ander...
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The Third International Conference on J.R.R. Tolkien's Invented Languages 'Omentielva Nelya' 6 - 9 August, 2009 * Change of venue Omentielva Nelya was...
1 Apr 4, 2009
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"Beregond, Ander...
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Le suilannon, I am only just learning Sindarin and Quenya, and came across this poem in Quenya: Ai lintulinda Lasselanta Pilingeve suyer nalla ganta Kuluvi ya...
3 Mar 31, 2009
12:22 pm

Arthur Boccaccio
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I learned Quenya through Mr. Fauskanger&#39;s course a while back, and since Mr.. Renk's includes more new material. Mr. Renk's course lists the pronouns like so: ...
3 Mar 27, 2009
1:06 am

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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...
4 Mar 24, 2009
3:16 am

J Graney
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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...
1 Mar 21, 2009
4:41 pm

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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...
1 Mar 18, 2009
10:24 pm

iiipitaka
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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...
2 Mar 17, 2009
12:16 am

Tyler Kocheran
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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...
3 Mar 17, 2009
12:11 am

Tyler Kocheran
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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...
2 Mar 7, 2009
4:18 pm

Mans Bjorkman
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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...
3 Mar 7, 2009
4:18 pm

TF
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I have studied Spanish and Chinese. It is now very well-established that Quenya is heavily influenced by Latin and its descendant languages, as well as Greek....
14 Mar 7, 2009
4:17 pm

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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...
3 Mar 6, 2009
3:16 am

Tyler Kocheran
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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: ...
8 Mar 3, 2009
12:40 am

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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...
3 Mar 3, 2009
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Thorsten Renk
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Here's my first attempt at a real translation of english text. This was really challenging for me, but here it is: ...
1 Mar 3, 2009
12:39 am

Tyler Kocheran
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Hello All! I have just finished (if you can call anything considering Tolkienian linguistics ever 'finished&#39;!) a little list I've been working on for years. It...
2 Mar 3, 2009
12:39 am

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hello, all! I am new to this mailing list, and I hope to find some help concerning a translation I am attempting. what I want is two dates, as well as a name...
3 Feb 28, 2009
10:43 pm

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Sindarin compound noun for Sword of the Wizard/Wizard Sword? Maglaithron Magolithron Thanks, David...
3 Feb 28, 2009
10:42 pm

faelach12
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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...
4 Feb 23, 2009
1:41 pm

tuilinde42
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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...
1 Feb 23, 2009
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Jonathon Omahen
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This is my first message, so I would like to introduce myself. My name is Marcus Smith, and I live in the United States, in California. I am a junior in...
92 Feb 23, 2009
1:39 pm

Tyler Kocheran
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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...
1 Feb 6, 2009
1:15 pm

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'nauvan&#39; 'nauvanye&#39; Same thing? '-nye' is just the formal. Correct? I need Another syllable and '-nye' would work famously....
5 Feb 1, 2009
2:38 pm

Tyler Kocheran
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Suilad, I made a sort of collage of still images on "the Song of Eärendil" (by Bilbo) as performed by the Tolkien Ensemble: ...
1 Jan 29, 2009
1:13 pm

Maike
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