On a Mac (Leopard), with Firefox: After browsing one book, could not access the page (i.e. the preview window didn't fully close) unless I reloaded the page -...
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karolina_ethnoresearc...
karolina_eth...
Sep 1, 2009 12:18 pm
Dear All, Some of you may know me from personal correspondence, other from Omentielva Tatya, still other may remember my only message posted to this list over...
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tuilinde42
Sep 1, 2009 12:18 pm
I can't comment on the website - it isn't one I've heard of or used, but having had a quick look at the dictionary my comment would be that it gives no...
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Hugo Cesar de Castro ...
hugocesarcc
Sep 4, 2009 9:50 pm
Karolina Kazimierczak (are you Polish?), Would you mind sending me a PDF copy of your PhD thesis. I'm an attendant on an MSc program on Computer Science, and...
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wigdawei
Sep 4, 2009 9:50 pm
thanks for any insights. I took liberty with lightning as a "cloud flame", but would appreciate any and all help with this translation. ...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Sep 4, 2009 9:50 pm
Well - where can we read the PhD thesis? Cheers, * Thorsten...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Sep 4, 2009 9:51 pm
I have added to Ardalambion the article I wrote about the various interpretations of the name "Sauron". http://folk.uib.no/hnohf/sauronname.htm It was first...
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Dan Yetman
ffvi_locke_cole
Sep 5, 2009 3:11 am
Congratulations! It wouldn't be possible for you to upload your thesis so that we may enjoy it, would it? I graduated from Exeter (Tolkien's old college)...
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Josh Taylor
pdxpsalmist
Sep 5, 2009 3:16 am
So in the word lomesse is the last "e" sounded out or silent? Reason is I want to use oldschool tengwar characters. In tengwar do the accents matter in the...
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Benct Philip Jonsson
melroch
Sep 5, 2009 8:46 am
... I couldn't resist this one. _Franklin_ means "a land-owner of free but not noble birth" from Anglo-French _fraunclein_. Probably related to Old French...
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Dan Yetman
ffvi_locke_cole
Sep 7, 2009 8:47 pm
Is there any chance that we could get the final third of your Westernesse film idea? Incidentally, I have never read a more evocative, terrifying, and emotive...
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Alain Borel
borelalain
Sep 7, 2009 8:47 pm
... Would you please consider making it openly available on Lancaster University's institutional repository? http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/ I'm sure it would be...
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narbeleth
Sep 7, 2009 8:47 pm
... How about this way? _Lim (/celeg/lagor) sui bragollach vi menel, / Risto i chwest (en-)echuir_ (Literally: "Swift as the sudden flame in the sky, / Cut the...
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nozomiboshi
Sep 7, 2009 8:47 pm
Omentielva na mára, ilquen! I am not much of a scholar of the Eldarin languages, relying heavily on Thorsten's and Helge's courses. Thorsten suggests using...
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"Beregond, Ander...
j_beregond
Sep 7, 2009 8:48 pm
... Thanks for your feedback. Now <www.omentielva.com/ardaphil> is redesigned, with the previews on separate pages, which should cause less trouble for...
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Palatinus
elfiness
Sep 7, 2009 8:48 pm
... Last "e" is never silent. All vowels are sounded. I don't understand your question about the accents. The two dots above the "e" don't play any role so you...
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"Beregond, Ander...
j_beregond
Sep 7, 2009 8:48 pm
... Oops, should be <www.omentielva.com/ardaphil.htm>. - Beregond...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Sep 9, 2009 12:46 pm
... I'm not sure if I ever have given this reason for the choice of _-lme/-mme_ as 1st person plural forms and _-lve/-ngwe_ as 1st person dual forms. Perhaps...
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karolina_ethnoresearc...
karolina_eth...
Sep 13, 2009 8:48 pm
Big thanks to all who expressed interest in my work over the last few days. I didn't expect such a response. And apologies for not replying earlier. I just...
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alanandersonjr
Sep 17, 2009 4:51 pm
Hi all- I'm new to this group and this whole elfish language. Upon seeing this beautiful language I decided that I wanted to have something inscribe on my...
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tuilinde42
Sep 19, 2009 10:08 pm
Hi, Alan could you tell us what the text is meant to say, and which mode you were using. It's hard to correct something without that information. I thought...
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Dan Yetman
ffvi_locke_cole
Sep 19, 2009 10:09 pm
Oh, no. Please tell me that you DIDN'T buy Ruth S. Noel's book. Please tell me that you didn't take it as anything but the merest SUGGESTION of the language....
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mansbjorkman
Sep 20, 2009 9:49 pm
Hello, and welcome to the group! I read your tengwar as "Walked thru hell and found my angel". Assuming that interpretation is correct, I have the following...
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aelindis
Sep 20, 2009 9:49 pm
... In strictly orthographic spelling, the inscription seems to read (IMO): "walkedthrohellandfuondm[?*]angel". * The tengwa _anna_ represents a consonantal...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Sep 26, 2009 7:33 pm
I agree with the comments Måns made. Also, maybe the NG of "angel" should not be written with the tengwa Tolkien used for NG as in "ring", since the word...
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Mans
mansbjorkman
Sep 28, 2009 4:01 am
... True. So the question is what to use instead. In phonetic spelling the obvious choice is <anga>, but since this is orthographic spelling, I would suggest...
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Mans
mansbjorkman
Sep 29, 2009 6:42 pm
... I should add, <ungwe> with a nasal tehta for NG. ... I was asked off the list if one would also write "pict" with an underposed dot, since it has the same...
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werecraft
Sep 29, 2009 6:42 pm
I've been working on a Quenya translation of the song at the end of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night to be used as a song for my Quenya band. It's not always a...
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Anaconda
crowbabe74
Sep 29, 2009 6:44 pm
Suilad, Forgive me if this is beating a dead horse, however, I was in the process of making a reply to this thread waaay back when - when the responsibilities...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Oct 1, 2009 9:13 pm
Dear Annaka, ... Well, no - because there still seem to be many misconceptions around, which can still be and should be cleared up. I hope you're not just...
