I just discovered a pronunciation guide for well-known Finnish names; you just click on a name and hear it pronounced: http://www.sci.fi/~kajun/finns/7.htm ...
As I remember (and I could be wrong here) Icelandic geminates (CC) -> hC (example: dottir is pronounced dohtir, with the h being sounded). Can anyone tell me? ...
http://your-sindarin-textbook.realelvish.net I'm especially looking for scrutiny on the chapters about syntax, pronouns, and verbs. Thank-you in advance for...
... that (a) I connect it with the Quenya words r‡v` "roaring noise" and raumo "noise of a storm" (The Monsters and the Critics, p. 223); the former could be...
Hi all, I've been trying to understand some basic sound changes in the history of Sindarin, just for fun. Most recently, I tried to compile some rules for the...
Who am I to be posting here? Well, let me just hope there is space for a beginner in this forum. I have read Fauskanger's Quenya Course a bit more than a year...
Under the root MIR- in the Etymologies appears "Q, ON _mÃre_" (p 373) . A correction to this entry was added in VT46: "[after] Q, ON _mÃre_ [insert] ON...
... enjoyed reading it. I would like reconsider the possibility of using Tolkien's word for `witness' for a reasonable translation of the Biblical Hebrew and...
Ná alya i vinya coranar! Have a Great New Year! Hyvää uutta vuotta! The same on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T22dourox20 Petri Tikka aka Ondo...
Hello all, From all the sources we have, it is fairly obvious that all Númenórean place-names were in Quenya, even if a number of them (maybe all) probably...
Hi all, I've been recently contacted by a girl who plans to get herself and her twin sister tattooed... she asked me to transliterate her sentence into...
I'm curious if any information was available on how the Sindar expressed egocentric directions. We have _adel_, which means "in rear of, behind" and the...
Thorsten, Helge and the many illustrious and active scholars whom I am indebted to: "But there is - one is a natural language, the other an artificial ...
I'm a little confused about this. According to the LotR Appendix E: "In Sindarin long vowels in stressed monosyllables are marked with the circumflex, since...
Suilad, I've been working on a new version of a (desktop) Sindarin dictionary, preliminary named "Ithildin";. It is in essence a new version of Didier Willis'...
Hello. I'm trying to translate what to me is mind-boggling at the very best: "The sword will not be useful to you" Actually, the real sentence is somewhat...
Thanks for your help on the word for deer. I do like connecting the word with sindarin 'aras'. Belated thanks also to posters regarding the ninya, lenya forms....
Below is information you might have an interest in. Tuilinde ~ Susan "Return of the Ring" is the next large International event being planned by the Tolkien...
It's been a while since I've been here, but I need help with a translation. Some guy on a dating site sent me a message that said "Nai hiruvalie Menelessie". ...
A recent discussion on Neo-Quenya style provides just the excuse for a replay of one of my favorite translations, from Atwe of the Aglardh website. I love to...
"everything is illuminated in light of the past" I found some sort of translation for it, but wnated to know if any of you guys could help perfect it Iluve...
the idea is a compilation of 108 neo-quenya sentences which demonstrate most of the syntatic features of quenya and provide an aid to the translation into...
I'm working on a Sindarin toponym for East Bight. There doesn't appear to be an easy translation of bight or loop. Perhaps it would be adequate to translate...
Hello, A while back Helga F. wrote about a possible use of ninya for a word showing first person singular possession. I recently saw in Petri Tikka's excellent...
due to the reactions I got by using "Neo-Quenya" and its unclear definition I thought of using another. I thought of using the term given by the author plus...
The absence of a word meaning "farewell"; or "goodbye" is a well-known problem in Sindarin. In his excellent course, Thorsten Renk suggests that the compound...
