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...
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maike
maikedulk
Nov 3, 2010 11:00 pm
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'...
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Palatinus
elfiness
Nov 4, 2010 10:34 am
... The circumflex is only a reminder that such long monosyllables are extra long. It seems to me that it is a general rule with no notable exceptions,...
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Phillip Wayne
exuyangi
Nov 4, 2010 10:35 am
Just as a suggestions, why not release the sources (and data) to the public domain. That would put a lot more eyes on it, and your goals (which are excellent)...
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maike
maikedulk
Nov 5, 2010 12:28 pm
That's a good idea, thanks. I will consider that! It has not occurred to me before - maybe because it is after all a very small application with a very small...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Nov 6, 2010 12:48 am
And what are we to think about the _polysyllabic_ words where Tolkien uses the circumflex instead of the acute? _Annûn_ "west", for instance? I have some...
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iiipitaka
Nov 6, 2010 3:59 am
... instance? ... on ... set ... While this conjecture seems plausible enough, it requires some sort of historical explanation. Why would not annžn...
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Evenstar
evenstar62
Nov 6, 2010 2:29 pm
Hi! I need some help concerning the days of the week into Quenya. Of course I know the six day's Eldarin week, and the five day's Valian week. But when we talk...
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elhanan_austin
Nov 7, 2010 4:05 am
Hi Evenstar, Whoever compiled this list of week names was not being very careful. In Appendix D, Tolkien gives us the Quenya days of the week, in the following...
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Giraudeau David
davidkiks
Nov 7, 2010 4:05 am
... On (real) _Otsola_, see the interesting chapter "Otsan and Kainendan" in Parma Eldalamberon 14 (pp. 16-22, and especially p. 21). ... Note that the forms...
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slasher_tb
Nov 7, 2010 4:05 am
Sorry but I think that must be a little confused, what I have is this: Elenya, Saturday Anarya, Sunday Isilya, Monday Aldúya, Tuesday Menelya, Wednesday ...
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elfiness
Nov 7, 2010 7:44 pm
... And whoever Tolkien fan read the list did not bother to correct it. It's a wiki, anyone is responsible for inaccuracies :)...
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crowbabe74
Nov 7, 2010 7:45 pm
Here is the actual quote from Appendix D ~ "The six-day week of the Eldar had days dedicated to, or named after, the Stars (Elenya), the Sun(Anarya), the...
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qatharsis
Nov 12, 2010 1:36 pm
... I don't know about Sindarin precedent, but in Latin, the prepositions _in, sub, super_ describe location with the ablative and direction with the...
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qatharsis
Nov 12, 2010 1:36 pm
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...
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Damien
elendil.voronda
Nov 25, 2010 11:22 am
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...
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BPJ
melroch
Nov 25, 2010 7:23 pm
... Shouldn't it rather be "We only know the official Quenya names that were used on top of the colloquial Adûnaic names" ? ;-) /bpj...
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ramaroreo
Nov 28, 2010 3:01 pm
... I guess rather than to the fishermen, this name refers to the location : villages upon the hards among the marshes and meres, of which the chief was...
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Damien
elendil.voronda
Nov 28, 2010 3:10 pm
... In the early history of Númenor, this was seemingly not the case, taking into account the sentence printed in PM:145 that was editorially removed by...
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Damien
elendil.voronda
Nov 28, 2010 4:39 pm
... Indeed, the "watery" connection is a possible one. And in fact, I don't deny it entirely. However, there are two obstacles to interpreting the first...
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Evenstar
evenstar62
Dec 3, 2010 2:02 pm
Hi! I've had the idea to publish an Elvish Diary 2011 all in Quenya and tengwar (or with Roman Letters and Arabic numbers if tengwar are to hard to read) ...
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mithrennaith
Dec 4, 2010 4:14 am
Hi Evenstar, Aligning the Númenórean months with the Gregorian calendar is fraught with difficulties - I've seen lots of different possibilities pass my...
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cgilson75
Dec 11, 2010 4:30 pm
PARMA ELDALAMBERON 19 Quenya Phonology: Comparative Tables Outline of Phonetic Development Outline of Phonology By J. R. R. TOLKIEN ...
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Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin
Dec 11, 2010 4:30 pm
I am translating a seasonal poem and have come across a line that is giving me some trouble: 'On the sad and the lonely, the wretched and poor' My...
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Lukáš Novák
lukas.novak@...
Dec 11, 2010 8:42 pm
What about using a suitable preposition instead of case inflexion? Lukas...
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elhanan_austin
Dec 12, 2010 5:15 pm
If I knew of a suitable preposition then of course I would use it, but that was my original question: is there a suitable independent preposition meaning 'on,...
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ramaroreo
Dec 13, 2010 1:04 pm
Why not "pá, pa" see VT44:26. Órerámar...
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grant.hicks@...
ghicks02
Dec 13, 2010 1:04 pm
Arthur, If it helps, Helge Fauskanger's lexicon lists or for "on", but comments that in LotR Quenya or is always translated "over". The meaning "on" is from...
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elhanan_austin
Dec 14, 2010 4:00 pm
Thanks, I think that will work. ~Arthur...
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elhanan_austin
Dec 14, 2010 4:00 pm
I did think of _or_ but it really doesn't fit, but I thank you for taking the time to suggest it. Another person has suggested _pá_ and that seems to fit the...
