Suliad! Not sure how I lost my Elfing email when I changed systems but I am back now.... I have been "studying"; Tolkien linguistics for the last 5 years or so...
I have been meaning to translate what is to me an important word, I just don't know where in "English" to start, I tried starting with the Quenya then...
Hi all! Following your advices and pointers I've researched the word respect in quenya by first looking at the etymology. respect (n.) c.1300, from L....
Aiya! I have in the last month posted a few Q(u)enya recordings that might be of interest to this group. Just today I recorded my Quenya translation of "Wie...
Dear elflingers Happy New Year to all!! I have just restored my page "Las Tengwar de Feanor", since it was formerly stored at geocities, and they donĀ“t...
Hi All, I would like to know if there is any hint or resource from Tolkien himself that Sindarin c/p/t are aspirated as in English cap/pop/top rather than as...
Hello all, Though I have not yet posted any message on the list, I have enjoyed reading through discussions here for quite a long time. However, I am now stuck...
Well, X-mas is here, and as usual I have uploaded some stuff to Ardalambion. I'm afraid it's only updated material this year, not completely new stuff, but I...
... phrase I'm looking to translate into Quenya is "Of course I speak Quenya. Doesn't everybody?" _É quetin Quenya. Ilquen laia?_ should express something...
Hi! On my forum, we are trying to translate "by a dream", that is "olos (olor-)" with an instrumental ending. But how can we do that? Should we consider that...
So, my friend wants to ask her boyfriend to marry her in Elvish (because he's a LotR fan) but she doesn't speak Elvish at all. I was trying to help her...
There is an event planned for August 2010 called "Festival in the Shire - A celebration of all things Tolkien inspired". It has merchandise for sale on the...
Mae govannen, mellyn :) Today I finished the ascii tengwar font, which supports all characters from Daniel S. Smith's classic keymapping Little tool for using...
Hello Folks, On page 49 of PE17, Tolkien states (concerning the name Nimrodel): "... Nim is evidently the Telerin word nimbi 'white'. Cf. Nimrais ...
In my recent musings on the Adunaic tongue, something caught my eye that had never occured to me before. This may have been noticed and/or brought up by others...
According to _Vinyar Tengwar_ 49:13, a late text by JRRT suggested that the negative particle _laa_ could be inflected for tense when the principal verb was...
Hey All! It's been a bit since I've done any poetry in Quenya (or any Tolkienian language, for that matter), so I decided to compose a text. Here is the result...
Hello All, Some time ago I made available upon request an Adunaic wordlist that incorporated all the declensions, inflections, etc. of all known words. I have...
Hello!! This is the first time I post here, so: hello!! ^_^/ I try to keep with every message you post. Ok, here is my problem. My name is Isabel (spanish form...
... Here is small (and non-exhaustive) list : 1) Dual (p. 25) : you give many examples of dual forms for parts of the human/elvish body, but you don't...
First of all I'd like to say hello to everyone as this is my first post on this website I've recently been reading Wuthering Heights for A Level and had a go...
Hello, I apologize for asking for this "one-off" bit of help but I've been working on translating a phrase into Quenya, I *believe* I may have it, and I just...
I was looking through my word lists for the Sindarin word for "like, as". David Salo's list only gives 'sui', but Fauskanger's gives 'sui' "like, as" and 'be'...
Much of like why in Cyrillic you have signs for B and V. One was B in greek, but became V, and the other when Cyril/Methodius designed Cyrillic and Old Church...
It should be noted that the frequent combinations _ea_ and _oa_ in Quenya typically arise from older VCV structures: lawa > loa "year" cawa > coa "house" faya...
I've been studying Quenya using Mr. Fauskanger's delightful course with a group from school. Out of a desire to begin with a larger vocabulary than Fauskanger...
Yes it is why we can create proto-Indo-European, looking at the older forms, and then how they changes but mostly how much in common they have and based on...
From time to time, I need to consult a Quenya wordlist, even when I am not home. It's quite easy to visit Ardalambion, find the "Quenya Wordlists" page and...
