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36056 "Beregond, Ander...
j_beregond Send Email
Jun 12, 2011
1:25 pm
... Of course; everyone who wishes to participate is welcome to register (no later than 17 July). Suilad, Beregond...
36057 "Beregond, Ander...
j_beregond Send Email
Jun 12, 2011
1:35 pm
Mellyn! It is still possible to register for Omentielva Cantea, the conference on Tolkien's invented languages that will take place in Valencia, Spain, on 11 -...
36058 Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@... Send Email
Jun 17, 2011
9:26 pm
I should like to draw the attention of the Elfling community to a novel that first appeared in 1871: _ The Coming Race_ by Edward Bulwer Lytton (also known as...
36059 david_giraudeau Send Email Jun 20, 2011
10:18 pm
Thanks to Damien Bador's kind comments and corrections, here is a new version of my Sindarin wordlist from PE17 : http://lambenore.free.fr/downloads/PE17_S.pdf...
36060 Roman
rausch_roman Send Email
Jun 27, 2011
12:12 am
Some comments: - _+Airon_ in PE17:149 seems to be archaic Quenya, since it has _ai_ for _ae_, a cognate of S. _gaeron_. You cite it as Quenya for comparison,...
36061 fra.veneziano Send Email Jun 27, 2011
12:14 am
Good morning, I am not a real die hard Tolkien fan, I read just The hobbit, The lord of the rings, and The silmarillion. About one week ago I was tasked with...
36062 Giraudeau David
david_giraudeau Send Email
Jun 28, 2011
1:17 pm
... I have kept all those forms, indicating the lenited ones. ... I have modified the entry for _tawen_ and added an entry for _tewin_. Thank you very much....
36063 Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@... Send Email
Jun 29, 2011
2:08 am
... lord of the rings, and The silmarillion. I think that is a perfectly decent basis. Some people who call themselves Tolkien fans never got as far as the...
36064 fra.veneziano Send Email Jul 2, 2011
7:20 pm
Thank you very much for your answers, I will go on hoping that the rest of the material will be published soon. ... This is very interesting, and it was not...
36065 Mans
mansbjorkman Send Email
Jul 5, 2011
12:10 am
... I think it might be a little more complicated than that. What Tolkien refers to is "the continued use of special single letters, such as Feänorian...
36066 ithidrielnarsilion
ithidrielnar... Send Email
Jul 8, 2011
11:05 am
Greetings, I am new to the list, so please forgive me if this question has been asked before. I did a search but did not find the answer I was seeking. This...
36067 fra.veneziano Send Email Jul 9, 2011
12:08 pm
I realise it is too hard to memorise Quenya grammar without some practice, so I want to try composing, or at least translating, something. As first step, I...
36068 Mans
mansbjorkman Send Email
Jul 10, 2011
1:31 am
... The sound _nty_ (as in _intya_ 'guess&#39;) comes close enough, I think. ... Yes (e.g. _rusco_ 'fox'). ... The big question I think is what would happen to the...
36069 cgilson75 Send Email Jul 10, 2011
1:33 am
PARMA ELDALAMBERON 12 Qenyaqetsa "The Sounds of Qenya" and "Qenya Dictionary" By J. R. R. TOLKIEN <http://www.eldalamberon.com/parma12.html> Tolkien's earliest...
36070 Slasher
slasher_tb Send Email
Jul 14, 2011
10:44 am
Well, I think this is the kind of names that are not appropriate to translate into Quenya. It would seem the whole concept of "free-man"; was non-existent in...
36071 BPJ
melroch Send Email
Jul 15, 2011
1:48 pm
... Yet some of them were enslaved by the enemy, and the concepts of slavery and freedom from it existed, as testified by the following terms: * léra adj....
36072 Phillip Wayne
exuyangi Send Email
Jul 15, 2011
1:50 pm
Probably, frank < Proto-Germanic *frang < PIE *prang- meaning a pole or prong. There some less likely derivations, but this is one most linguists accept. ...
36073 talkie_t Send Email Jul 16, 2011
1:27 am
Hi everyone. someone wrote a sentence to me in elvish a long time ago and I have recently found it but am having trouble translatingit. I have tried looking...
36074 Paul
varyar77 Send Email
Jul 16, 2011
1:27 am
Hi folks, I'm tinkering with the idea of a map/picture of the Solar System, as drawn by a young Vanya Elf of Valinor. I wanted to make sure my Quenya, esp. the...
36075 winterhavik Send Email Jul 16, 2011
8:14 pm
It seems to mean: I will always be there for you Always (illume) I will be (nauvan) there (enta literally "that yonder') for you.(elyen)...
36076 Mike Adams
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Jul 16, 2011
8:14 pm
God .... Tree elves? Mike Alaska Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T...
36077 Mans
mansbjorkman Send Email
Jul 16, 2011
8:15 pm
... On a recent meeting, Mellonath Daeron had a discussion about stars, and there we concluded that Borgil (= *Vorondél) is not likely to be Betelgeuse, since...
36078 Mans
mansbjorkman Send Email
Jul 16, 2011
8:17 pm
... "I will always be that yonder for you". Possibly _enta_ 'that yonder' is supposed to be something else. Yours, Måns...
36079 Paul Leone
varyar77 Send Email
Jul 17, 2011
4:37 pm
... From: Mans <at@...> Subject: [elfling] Re: Double check my (Vanyarin) Quenya? To: elfling@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, July 16, 2011, 4:47...
36080 "Beregond, Ander...
j_beregond Send Email
Jul 17, 2011
4:38 pm
... Do we know the root of the first element in _Borgil_, viz. _born_ 'hot, red' (L 347), so that Quenya cognate *_vor-_ can be deduced? Suilad, Beregond...
36081 dreamingfifi
elvenswordsmith Send Email
Jul 18, 2011
8:54 pm
... Hello Ithidril! Thorsten Renk's course takes the "ua-" from Parma Eldalamberon #17, Page 144. In this matter, I think that Fauskanger&#39;s course is a bit...
36082 fra.veneziano Send Email Jul 19, 2011
7:18 am
Thank you all for your interest. I am well aware that translating names like that is quite meaningless, and especially so if they are tied to specific...
36083 morthegil Send Email Jul 19, 2011
11:12 pm
... The Ardalambion course is not as upgrated, while you can get a reference to ua- in HKF's Quenya Wordlist. ... Yes, as you will find in the Wordlist, ua-...
36084 Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@... Send Email
Jul 21, 2011
9:39 pm
... "ithidrielnarsilion ... first uses the negative verb UGU/UMU, the second uses the word l? Renk, on the other hand, suggests using the negative verb UA-....
36085 ithidrielnarsilion
ithidrielnar... Send Email
Jul 21, 2011
9:39 pm
Thank you, dreamingfifi! This was a very helpful response. I am still studying PE #17, so your page reference was of great help. Hantalyel, Ithidriel...
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