We know the Sindarin future tense is "-tha", and we know the Quenya future tense is "-uva". They seem unconnected at first glance. Does any one have any ideas...
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_Woods_
Jul 1, 2010 1:13 pm
Hello everybody, I'm new to this and I'd really like your help. I'm creating a short for a roleplaying game set in ME and I'd like to have a few texts and...
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filmnoirkitty
Jul 1, 2010 1:16 pm
Hello! Sorry if this seems to be a rather silly question, but when writing Quenya is there a specific way of distinguishing a noun from a proper noun? The...
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Palatinus
elfiness
Jul 2, 2010 2:17 pm
Here is a french page which discusses the elements of the names, mostly suffixes http://www.corpus-angel.com/site/MYTHOLOGIE/Celte/%28Celte%29NomElfique.htm ...
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slasher_tb
Jul 2, 2010 2:17 pm
If you mean in Elvish script, no, there's no such thing as "capitals"; in tengwar....
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elhanan_austin
Jul 2, 2010 2:18 pm
We know that 'Death' personified is specifically "Nuru = Mandos" according to Tolkien. For other nouns to Proper Nouns, one could tack on a gender-specific...
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filmnoirkitty
Jul 4, 2010 11:37 am
Hmmm hmmm hmmm. All right, thanks to all who replied. In an example of a name like Silmerossë it'd primarily be context, for example introducing the character...
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elendil_voronda
Jul 4, 2010 11:37 am
Hello, As in many things, it depends. For instance, the name _Voronwë_ also means "steadfastness, loyalty, faithfulness", and cannot be distinguished from the...
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slasher_tb
Jul 4, 2010 11:38 am
No, but he's not talking about that! He's asking if there's a way to differentiate a name from a noun in Elvish script, as we do with capitals. And no, there's...
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filmnoirkitty
Jul 6, 2010 3:03 am
... Well, I was referring to the entirety of it, really. Both in writing Quenya and in the Tengwar script, though I didn't think Tengwar had capitals. I was...
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Kloczko
laurifindil
Jul 6, 2010 3:04 am
Tolkien made use of red capital tengwar in his Namarie published in 1968 : see here http://www.diagnosticarea.com/img/namarie.JPG The capital tengwar have the...
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LukᚠNovák
lukas.novak@...
Jul 6, 2010 3:04 am
... Why not use some calligraphic techique? E.g. to make the first letter more ornate, or write the entire name in a slightly different script, or.., or......
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Kloczko
laurifindil
Jul 6, 2010 3:08 am
Voronwë is only used as a name of a person in Quenya ; Ety, p. 353 "cf. name Voronwe" ; the common name is _voronwie_. Edouard Kloczko...
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Giraudeau David
davidkiks
Jul 7, 2010 3:02 am
... name Voronwe" ; the common name is _voronwie_. No, indeed we have _voronwë_ 'steadfastness, loyalty, faithfulness' in UT:395:410n.43. This kind of noun...
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elendil_voronda
Jul 7, 2010 3:06 am
I beg to differ, I'm afraid. ... This account "belongs in the final period of [Christopher's] father's writing on Middle-earth", according to the Introduction...
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abrigon@...
Jul 7, 2010 1:25 pm
"Semper fidilis" in Quenya? "De opresso liber" ? Mike Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T...
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Kloczko
laurifindil
Jul 8, 2010 8:46 pm
Meaning and use of words is not the same thing. Q. is not a "codification" of English. Manwë and Voronwë have a meaning in Q. that's a fact, but that does...
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"Beregond, Ander...
j_beregond
Jul 8, 2010 8:46 pm
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Charles Gadda
GammaFlightL...
Jul 8, 2010 8:47 pm
I am attempting to translate the following phrase from Akallabêth: "There is not now upon Earth any place abiding where the memory of a time without evil is...
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"Beregond, Ander...
j_beregond
Jul 8, 2010 8:49 pm
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elendil_voronda
Jul 9, 2010 12:40 pm
... I am sorry, but I cannot agree regarding _voronwë_. Unless we consider that Cirion did not speak proper Quenya (a hypothesis that's nowhere stated in...
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Phillip Wayne
exuyangi
Jul 9, 2010 12:42 pm
It is often useful, in any translation, to get the meaning rather the exactly English words across. Try translating instead: "The does not exist upon Earth a...
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elfiness
Jul 9, 2010 12:43 pm
... Mr Kloczko, your point is understood but somebody just reminded us that the vow of Cirion used the word "voronwe" as a noun for the steadfastness of...
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CLH harding
clh8518
Jul 9, 2010 12:47 pm
I don't think a word for "there" is necessary in this sentence. And you would use 'ëa' not 'ná' for "is" in this context. And I think 'lá' should come...
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Phillip Wayne
exuyangi
Jul 9, 2010 12:48 pm
Sigh. "There does not exist ... "...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Jul 9, 2010 12:49 pm
... How do you know? Can you back up this statement with any evidence? ... Tolkien did... _Elendil Vorondo voronwe_ (UT:305), meaning 'the faith of Elendil the...
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Giraudeau David
davidkiks
Jul 10, 2010 5:18 pm
... Your last statement is directly contradicted by the Oath of Cirion, or maybe you mean that Cirion didn't use proper Quenya. As long as we have no comments...
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_Woods_
Jul 11, 2010 6:32 pm
Hi, What do you think of these constructions? I've been using Pedin Edlhen's Sindarin course and Hisweloke dictionary to build some names: (a) A prison named...
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slasher_tb
Jul 12, 2010 11:55 pm
Mmmh... I wouldn't recommend them... but hey! That's just my taste...
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crowbabe74
Jul 13, 2010 9:53 pm
While they conflict with personal taste ~ evil Elves? ~ one that I feel is a contradiction in terms so far as the Tolkien writings are concerned, if that is...
