... I have to apologize to continue on the off-topic, but I beg to differ (and I'll try to get some points relevant to the list in my answer). For instance,...
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Travis Henry
traversetravis
Aug 1, 2010 1:42 pm
Is anyone able to clarify whether the Silvan Elves of Mirkwood and Lorien are?: A) Nandorin (and thus a branch of the Nandorin sub-family of the Eldarin...
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slasher_tb
Aug 2, 2010 2:01 am
I think this is covered in Unfinished Tales. They are Nandorin with a Sindarin royal house....
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promenadeofthedeer
promenadeoft...
Aug 12, 2010 8:36 pm
I am taking up a project I had to abandon a very long time ago, attempting to translate a classic American poem into Quenya. I posted a bit about this project...
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nachinkov
Aug 14, 2010 2:16 pm
Good day, Trying translate one text to qenya, I found the following problem. Let's take an verb "tir-". Perfect pl. will be: "itirier" or just "tirier"....
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nachinkov
Aug 14, 2010 2:21 pm
Hi to all, I've spent a night in learning quenya, but basically translating an russian quatrain to quenya adressing available manuals at the same time. I think...
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CLH harding
clh8518
Aug 14, 2010 2:22 pm
"I raise my lamp beside the golden door!" ... From: promenadeofthedeer <riverbeauty@...> Subject: [elfling] Translating a Poem To:...
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jacoishjr
Aug 17, 2010 11:38 am
I was wondering if anybody could tell me if the possessive noun case is the same as an adjective? For example, could a word like húnwa of a hound (from huan,...
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nachinkov
Aug 17, 2010 12:00 pm
Seems like Yahoo has broken the translation text, it should be: Varne winyamo ranne aldeonissen, Ara falasi ailinion felle nye're, Ar tere haranye ti'rielver ...
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Abrigon Gusiq
abrigon@...
Aug 17, 2010 12:02 pm
A related language like Englush is to Dutch should not be that hard. Dutch when spoken sounds like English meter/rythem but with German or like words and not...
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TF
percival64
Aug 18, 2010 11:56 am
Hello, you drop the -r and add the pronominal ending, i.e. (i)tírielve. Thomas Ferencz Let's discuss Eldarin languages - http://aglardh.middangeard.org.uk ...
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Phillip Wayne
exuyangi
Aug 18, 2010 11:58 am
A better case (pardon the pun) might the the 'mysterious' partitive plural, which indicates something(s) from a group. Canine = things from the larger group of...
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Mans
mansbjorkman
Aug 19, 2010 1:50 pm
... There clearly is a close connection between adjectives and the "possessive" case. In "Quendi and Eldar" (WJ:368), Tolkien refers to "the adjectival suffix...
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elffanatic2000
Aug 21, 2010 11:14 pm
How would you say "there is..." as in there is a dog in my house? Does Ea count as there is, since it was the word Eru used to create the universe?...
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Mans
mansbjorkman
Aug 22, 2010 3:08 pm
... _Ea_ means 'be' in the sense "exist". No attested Quenya text seems to provides a phrase corresponding exactly to "there is a dog". Possibly you would not...
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James Coish
jacoishjr
Aug 22, 2010 3:11 pm
My humble opinion is that it would be translated: Ná huo coanyasse. Ea huo coanyasse being more permanent, meaning "There exists a dog in my house". The...
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crowbabe74
Aug 24, 2010 1:53 pm
'Ea' is stated in the Silmarillion/Book of Lost Tales as meaning 'Let these things be.' I also saw it used in the phrase 'Ea Earendilion,' which was...
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Kris Kowal
cowbertvonmoo
Aug 24, 2010 1:54 pm
Hello, I've continued working on my Elvish map of Middle-earth, with a lot of help from Måns (bearing in mind that what errors remain are my own), and we...
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Phillip Wayne
exuyangi
Aug 24, 2010 1:59 pm
Hmmm ... you can't really treat ser and estar like I that, imho. 'estar' is something that is transient or temporary. 'ser' is something more permanent. El...
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Dan Yetman
ffvi_locke_cole
Aug 25, 2010 1:37 pm
Googlemaps for Middle earth! ________________________________ "Only a fool ignores the words of his enemies...but only an idiot believes them." "Every man is...
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Mans
mansbjorkman
Aug 28, 2010 1:47 pm
... If there is a less lofty way to express 'there is' in Quenya, I don't think it is known. But I do not see a reason why there must be one. Compare Genesis...
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CLH harding
clh8518
Aug 29, 2010 3:13 am
I would think that it could possibly be translated either way depending on what precisely you mean. I've always thought of the difference between ëa and ná...
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slasher_tb
Aug 31, 2010 3:03 pm
... I'm sorry but this is wrong. My native is Spanish and "el perro es en mi casa" means nothing at all, it's just plain wrong, ungrammatical. The only way to...
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slasher_tb
Aug 31, 2010 3:03 pm
Yes, strictly using canon I would say the verb would be: itírielme, itíriemme, itírielve depending on the quality of "we" you want to use....
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Marissa
flamesofdeath01
Sep 3, 2010 11:44 pm
I posted a translation question on Yahoo and received an answer. The person who answered asked that I double-check their answer. Here's the writing I wanted...
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matthias liszt
gunananda
Sep 6, 2010 11:34 pm
okay, im new to quenya and just got my knowledge from Pesch's book titled Elbisch. the first line seems to me very good translated "ealar i neeno" (spirits of...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Sep 7, 2010 9:53 pm
... (...) ... Which illustrates that Pesch is rather limited in scope... Tolkien has found a very nice way of preventing exactly that problem - the pronoun ...
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tuilinde42
Sep 7, 2010 9:54 pm
... I think it might be better to say _á lava nin_ using the imperative form of the verb, and then the Dative. So it is literally _Grant to-me_ which,...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Sep 8, 2010 1:21 pm
... - the pronoun gets attached to the imperative particle, as in _ámen anta_ 'give us' - so _*ánye lave_ 'grant me' would be the wording of choice. Maybe...
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ffvi_locke_cole
Sep 9, 2010 1:23 pm
Okay, one of my friends wants to get a tattoo in Sindarin meaning "Through Thorns to the Stars", which I'm to design. I'm no great linguist, but I have a...
