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...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Dec 14, 2010 4:01 pm
... topic dating from the time of his composition of _The Lord of the Rings_ have now been published in _Parma Eldalamberon_ No. 19. The publication of more...
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Melroch 'Aestan
melroch
Dec 24, 2010 11:46 am
Merya Turuhalme ar Mára Vinya Coranar ilye lin meldonyain! /Melarokko Aistano...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Dec 25, 2010 7:18 pm
Well, Merry X-mas (or indeed Merya Turuhalme!) to all. As has become a Christmas tradition of sorts, I have uploaded an article to Ardalambion: ...
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winterhavik
Dec 29, 2010 5:39 am
Happy Holidays to you as well - (I admit that I am still puzzling over turuhalme - victory/custom?) Thanks for the interesting story behind your translation....
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crowbabe74
Dec 31, 2010 3:51 pm
What Tolkien wrote about the customs of Turuhalmë ~ ...that was the day of Turuhalmë or the Logdrawing. 'Twill be a fitting day,' saith Lindo, 'for the...
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Petri
petristikka
Jan 4, 2011 8:50 pm
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...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jan 4, 2011 11:04 pm
... 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...
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Phillip Wayne
exuyangi
Jan 6, 2011 1:34 pm
This kind of "verbal slippage" is not unknown. The word 'witness' itself is formed of 'wit-' (as in witty, witless, &c -- to know) plus a suffix. It dates from...
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merp@...
morganmartin...
Jan 8, 2011 9:25 pm
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...
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iiipitaka
Jan 8, 2011 9:33 pm
... _mÃre_ ... later ... No, I don't think so. The description of the original text is somewhat opaque, but it sounds like it means that "Q m're, N m"r...
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Tiago
tiagosmc
Jan 11, 2011 3:38 pm
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...
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hhperala
Jan 11, 2011 3:38 pm
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...
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iiipitaka
Jan 11, 2011 4:49 pm
... of Sindarin, just for fun. Most recently, I tried to compile some rules for the development of original *â and *au using Tolkien's explicit ...
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iiipitaka
Jan 11, 2011 5:12 pm
... You're a member of Elfling. Congratulations! ... I own this list, and I do not recognize any difference between 'experts' and 'beginners'. If anybody on...
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Tiago
tiagosmc
Jan 12, 2011 2:57 pm
Thanks for the answer, it is very clarifying and highly technical, as it should be. So, as deliberate as this change was, I suppose the elves cared much more...
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hhperala
Jan 13, 2011 1:43 pm
... When _O:_ became _au_ or _o_, were words still stressed as in the protolanguage? ... Does the etymology _chadhO:d_ > _chadhaud_ > _hadhod_ (WJ:388) fit...
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iiipitaka
Jan 13, 2011 5:46 pm
... Well, they couldn't be exactly, since instances of apocope and syncope alter the syllabic structure of the language. Sindarin in general preserves...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jan 14, 2011 4:07 pm
... 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...
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LUCAS ANNEAR
lannear
Jan 15, 2011 11:58 am
Somewhat of a side note, and many people (Helge, almost definitely) will be aware of this, but there is a town in Norway called "Røros". I've always thought...
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dreamingfifi
elvenswordsmith
Jan 23, 2011 12:20 pm
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...
