... Of course it doesn't matter whether you write ë or e, but do we have any example of Tolkien using the spelling "ë" at the end of a monosyllabic word like...
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Jonathon Omahen
trumpetingba...
Oct 3, 2011 9:23 pm
With regards to the diaresis: since it is intended to indicate to *non-speakers* that final _e_'s are to be pronounced, not only are they superfluous with...
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yitzik_ua
Oct 6, 2011 11:25 pm
Máriessë, a moinë nildonyar! ... First of all, I'd like to express my sincere gratitude to Helge for his excellent course. It was my starting...
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Mans
mansbjorkman
Oct 6, 2011 11:26 pm
... Yes, you are probably right that _e_ with diaeresis does not occur in any monosyllabic words. Since the diaeresis is redundant anyway, that would really be...
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fra.veneziano
Oct 8, 2011 1:13 pm
I have encountered on some websites the expression _vanya súlië_ variedly translated as good/fair wind(s), presented as a form of farewell. Do you know any...
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fra.veneziano
Oct 8, 2011 1:13 pm
In Lesson 13, at the end of the section "The pronoun we", it says "whereas -mmë (formerly exclusive plural) ended up as dual inclusive “weâ€, with either...
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pfstrack
Oct 9, 2011 10:08 pm
I'd also like to thank you for producing your Quenya course, which was my re-introduction to Tolkien's languages after many years of absence. For formatting, I...
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Linda Naush
jouzinka
Oct 13, 2011 11:32 pm
Greetings to you all. =:) Thus far I was merely contented with transcribing texts, but now I decided to take the plunge for translation and I don't know if I...
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dreamingfifi
elvenswordsmith
Oct 13, 2011 11:32 pm
I think the internet devoured the diacritics you were trying to use, and turned them into random symbols. How about good old geminant vowels? Were you trying...
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ithidrielnarsilion
ithidrielnar...
Oct 14, 2011 2:18 pm
Greetings Francesco, If you look in Parma Eldalamberon 17, vanya is listed under the root BAN as including the sense Fair and Fine in terms of weather. So...
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BPJ
melroch
Oct 15, 2011 1:38 pm
... It's not 'the internet' but Yahoo Groups' email interface which garbles Unicode (UTF-8) by interpreting Unicode encoded text as if it were Latin-1 encoded,...
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pfstrack
Oct 16, 2011 1:52 pm
Here is what I would suggest. I apologize in advance for getting pedantic. ... With "hands", I would use the dual _-t_ instead of the partitive plural _-li_....
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lynndir
Oct 17, 2011 12:56 pm
Hello elflings would you like to confirm me the short traduction of "make a wish" ("faire un voeu" in french) I hesitate with a simple "caro enira" or "echado...
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fra.veneziano
Oct 18, 2011 12:21 am
Thank you for your answers. Yes, I suspected it was a fan-made expression. And it is quite disappointing that yahoo! still doesn't interact well with Unicode...
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Linda Naush
jouzinka
Oct 20, 2011 2:11 am
Hi, Paul, ... No problem at all, quite to the contrary. I learned a lot from your elaborations. I only wish you were portable to carry with me. =;))) From all...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Oct 24, 2011 12:42 pm
Thanks for various comments! ... was my re-introduction to Tolkien's languages after many years of absence. (...) If you'd like, I could email you the cleaned...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Oct 30, 2011 5:01 pm
... was my re-introduction to Tolkien's languages after many years of absence. (...) If you'd like, I could email you the cleaned up files (both HTML and RTF)....
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hisweloke
Nov 3, 2011 12:52 am
Greetings, Years ago, when working on Hisweloke's Sindarin dictionary project, dictionary applications were made available our users: first my own web-based...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Nov 4, 2011 1:34 pm
It has been called to my attention that an artist by the name of Doda has a string of little videos on YouTube that include little phrases in "Elvish". I...
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lynndir
Nov 4, 2011 1:35 pm
Hello elflings anyone cans tell me ? "make a wish" in sindarin words ________________________________ De : Lynndir <lynndir@...> À :...
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maike
maikedulk
Nov 5, 2011 12:53 pm
Apparently, this 'Doda' is a sort of Polish Lady Gaga, and on her last album called "the Seven Temptations", she recorded some sentences about "what she really...
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pfstrack
Nov 5, 2011 11:18 pm
I will take a stab at this. My Sindarin is not that good, though, which is why I hesitated to answer. I am not sure where you got _enira_ from. It isn't in...
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TF
percival64
Nov 9, 2011 2:58 am
or, maybe simply _anÃro iest_ 'wish a wish' - a bit of a tautology, I admit:) Â Thomas Ferencz Let's discuss Eldarin languages -...
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Phillip Wayne
exuyangi
Nov 9, 2011 2:51 pm
Perhaps I am missing the obvious, but what is wrong with simply _aniro_ ? In English, at least, "make a wish" and "wish" mean exactly the same thing (IMHO), so...
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Rodrigo Jaroszewski
rjaroszewski
Nov 11, 2011 1:22 am
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the EPUB format just a collection of HTML files inside a container? In that case, your work could be used to create an EPUB...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Nov 16, 2011 4:04 pm
With the publication of the two latest issues of Parma Eldalamberon, we have now have fairly detailed information about the phonology of various forms of...
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Evenstar
evenstar62
Nov 22, 2011 7:34 pm
Hi Everybody! I have the pleasure to announce that the second release of our Elvish Diary is available: One version all in Quenya but written with numbers and...
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dreamingfifi
elvenswordsmith
Nov 26, 2011 6:10 am
At my university there's a study on the dialects of English spoken in Montana. I went to a presentation of some of their findings, and was quite surprised by...
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iiipitaka
Nov 26, 2011 7:19 am
... 'Tolkien's dialect' in this case isn't (necessarily) either his native pronunciation or even his mature pronunciation, but the pronunciation he expected...
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Julian Bradfield
jcbradfield
Nov 26, 2011 2:42 pm
... David's addressed the issue of Elvish pronunciation, and I agree with what he says. On the specific issue of "for" and "four" - in modern non-rhotic ...
