Quenya has a question particle "Ma" used to indicate that the sentence following it is a yes/no question. It is thought to be placed at the beginning of the...
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Kjell-Åke 'ChO...
choken_se
Apr 22, 2009 3:35 pm
Hi, I'm not an expert, but aren't you supposed to put the interrogative word word marker "ma" in the begining to make it an question. If we use your example to...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Apr 22, 2009 3:35 pm
... I am prepared to argue that this is almost certainly wrong. I simply can't picture Tolkien forming a sentence with such a repetition as _i i venn_ - it's...
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CLH harding
clh8518
Apr 23, 2009 1:20 am
I know that Quenya has man(who), manna(what), and ma, the interrogative particle, but I've never found out how to ask questions in Sindarin. Do we know any...
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Susan Frances Edwards
tuilinde42
Apr 23, 2009 1:20 am
A small group having made contact with each other, I'm beginning to work on Sindarin again, after several years of not looking at it. To aid my work I'm making...
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Tyler Kocheran
rfkrockteekers
Apr 23, 2009 1:21 am
Well that certainly clears things up! I had thought that 'ma' would serve the purpose, I just didn't know if it was the best solution we have at the moment. ...
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Palatinus
elfiness
Apr 24, 2009 3:30 am
As Tolkien implied, Middle-earth is not a faery, nor an utopia. Valinor is :) But why a world of silver and gold is one where I can "walk with the Elves", and...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Apr 24, 2009 3:33 am
... Well, sorry, I have to insert here a lament on the state of Tolkien linguistics - conjecture once again suddenly becomes truth. And neither myself nor...
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TF
percival64
Apr 24, 2009 3:37 am
Hi, in my opinion this is purely speculative - I will look through the available early Qenya material I have got but AFAIK from later phases there is not a...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Apr 24, 2009 3:44 am
... Out of curiosity - why is my name in this list? I don't work on compiling wordlists, and while I have a somewhat free interpretation of Middle-Earth ...
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Kjell-Åke 'ChO...
choken_se
Apr 24, 2009 3:55 am
Well, Helge Fauskanger' discusses some ideas in lesson 17 based on the sources he got, which is commonly known sources today. I guess it depends on your...
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tuilinde42
Apr 25, 2009 4:24 am
... Im sorry, Thorsten, and apologise. The information came out of Helge's Parviphith, which he says is based on the worldists in David's Gateway. And for...
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aelindis
Apr 25, 2009 4:25 am
... I do not know if Tolkien did ever associate _mithril_ and Titanium, but regarding _elanor_, we have his word that it would look like "a pimpernel (perhaps...
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Crist Neagu
mis_crashboy...
Apr 25, 2009 4:26 am
Hello everyone! So, as you all may have noticed, i just joined this mailing list. I mainly intend to stay in the shadows and pick up things about not only...
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Roman Rausch
rausch_roman
Apr 25, 2009 4:27 am
... I agree with you. In fact, Tolkien has already written about (over-)scientification of his works: "Lembas, 'waybread', is called a 'food concentrate'. As I...
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Roman Rausch
rausch_roman
Apr 25, 2009 5:52 pm
... From PE17 we now have 'interrogative base MA-, [...] usually extended man(a)-' (PE17:162). This seems to be a hint towards _man_ and _mana_ being two...
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maike
maikedulk
Apr 25, 2009 5:53 pm
Suilad, I have never felt that the wonder or magic that I experience in Tolkien's legendarium has ever been lessened by the the work of David, Helge, or...
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faelach12
Apr 26, 2009 1:37 pm
This has been a problem for many years. Not one that cannot be worked out, mind you, but one that has yet to be. It is proof of Tolkien's vast creative genius...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Apr 26, 2009 1:37 pm
... In what way does this contradict what I wrote (i.e. your usage of 'but on the other hand') - I quoted a pardigm which does not in every case use the normal...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Apr 26, 2009 1:38 pm
... So, how would you imagine a discussion held between, say, Feanor, Thingol and Fingolfin? Or, the bitter fight among the Noldor if Quenya _th_ should be...
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Roman Rausch
rausch_roman
Apr 27, 2009 10:16 am
... I was merely subjoining a comment on the question of how _ma-_ would be declined (which seemed to float in the air). RR....
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Susan Frances Edwards
tuilinde42
Apr 27, 2009 10:16 am
Thanks to all who have come in on this. As I said, I was expressing a momentary irritation - absolutely nothing more, and am sure that there is no need for...
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J Graney
iroquen
Apr 29, 2009 12:14 pm
No one really knows what the partitive plural ending really means (unless something has been published recently and no one has talked about it yet.) Tolkien...
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c9691
Apr 29, 2009 12:14 pm
Hi I know you guys must get fed up of people asking to get English inscriptions translated to Elvish. Sorry, but I need some help! I have spent ages trying to...
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Crist Neagu
mis_crashboy...
Apr 29, 2009 12:15 pm
Hello everyone. So... The sentence is "this book is mine" (yeah...starting basic). I camed up with this: "_parma sina naa nyeva_". I'm slightly worried about...
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maike
maikedulk
Apr 29, 2009 12:15 pm
Suilad, ... isn't it rather psychology ;) ? [...] ... [...] ... This is not true in general; it certainly isn't for me. As I stated in my previous mail:...
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Benct Philip Jonsson
melroch
Apr 29, 2009 1:07 pm
... Yes we do. You sum it up quite well. ... That's what 'partitive' usually means: part of a group or part of a whole. ... Yes, that seems to be the case. By...
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Cristi Neagu
mis_crashboy...
Apr 30, 2009 11:11 am
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:27:07 +0300, J Graney <iroquen@...> wrote: First of all...thanks for the reply. I had many theories in my head, but the more i...
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clh8518@...
clh8518
Apr 30, 2009 12:12 pm
naa? maybe it's just the server messing it up, but it should just be one 'a' with an accent on it. nyeva: I believe you are supposed to use the subject form...
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Ancient Languages
elucubrator
Apr 30, 2009 12:13 pm
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