Happy new year to you all! David, Petri, sorry I didn't have the opportunity to answer any earlier. ... Looking at _the Etymologies_, I noted the following...
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Celebrian
gilgaladiell
Jan 9, 2012 3:08 pm
Most languages have their own forms of cussing. Obviously, Tolkien wouldn't have done much with that. I was just curious on how that would work, especially...
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Roman
rausch_roman
Jan 9, 2012 3:09 pm
In the spirit of Chistmas and the New Year, or at least the wave of updates which seems to go through the websites right now, I'd like to announce a major...
I Alaco i Hosseva Ulunga by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Half a league half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred: 'Forward,...
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mikkih73
Jan 23, 2012 10:20 pm
Hello! I too would like to thank you for making this course. I came across it years ago and enjoyed it then and have enjoyed going back through this revised...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jan 25, 2012 2:04 pm
**> I Alaco i Hosseva Ulunga Some interesting features here! ... Indeed; I would rather use the later word _raumo_ from Tolkien's latest revision of the poem...
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winterhavik
Jan 30, 2012 2:17 pm
Thanks, Helge for your comments. I hadn't realized that raumo was the later word for storm. Too bad it leaves out the alliteration, but I prefer to use the...
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fra.veneziano
Feb 21, 2012 11:01 pm
A question regarding the use of the diacritics in the general mode for the tengwar: I've read that the General Use permits the vowels to be placed above either...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Mar 5, 2012 8:27 pm
I have been trying to churn out some more Neo-Quenya New Testament material, and I have a vague ambition of completing the non-Pauline letters this spring. In...
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MÃ¥ns
mansbjorkman
Mar 5, 2012 8:28 pm
... That depends somewhat on which samples you would say are written in the General Use. On Amanye Tenceli I apply a rather wide definition of the mode, but in...
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fra.veneziano
Mar 9, 2012 7:27 pm
Thank you very much for your answer. I've been mainly interested in Quenya for now, but recently I was toying with some modes for Italian. I made up several,...
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winterhavik
Mar 12, 2012 2:11 pm
Hello Helge, An interesting idea. I couldn't comment on the sound changes from qenya, not having studied it that area at all. However, I do think that...
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Ceilidh Chaos
highprincess...
Mar 17, 2012 11:50 pm
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi Thus passes the Glory of the world I think in Quenya it would be Sin lenweta alcar Ilu I am planning to get a tattoo and I want it to...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Mar 17, 2012 11:50 pm
EW wrote, regarding my theory that QL forms like qeletya- 'rot', pa.t. qeleksine (QL:76) are paralleled by such a latter-day Quenya verb as _lelya-_ "attract",...
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Paul Strack
pfstrack
Mar 24, 2012 4:58 am
Here are my suggestions. ... I agree on sin and alcar. For "pass" I would use auta as in _auta i lóme_ "the night is passing" (Silmarillion). The verb lenweta...
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Menelion Elensuule
menelion@...
Mar 24, 2012 4:58 am
Hi, CC> Sic Transit Gloria Mundi CC> Thus passes the Glory of the world CC> I think in Quenya it would be Sin lenweta alcar Ilu Maybe the scholars will correct...
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_olam
Mar 24, 2012 4:59 am
Is it possible that Qenya *_kji_ > _ksi_, whereas *_ki_ > _ki_? Michael...
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TF
percival64
Mar 24, 2012 4:59 am
Hello, I'd put it as Síve vanya alcar Ambareva. _vanya_ could be replaced by _auta_; similarly, _Ilúva_ could stand for _Ambareva_. Thomas Ferencz Let's...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Mar 24, 2012 4:59 am
... I would add a genitive ending to _ilu_ (i.e. _Iluo_), otherwise it could work. I would tend to use other words, though: _Sie auta ambaro alcar_, probably...
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wigdawei
Mar 24, 2012 4:59 am
Ertherel? Thank you for your time. - David...
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meglimorco
Mar 24, 2012 4:59 am
... Perhaps _léline_ can be construed as a strong past tense < *_lely-ne_ with change of interconsonantal -y- to syllabic short -i- (cf. PE 19, p.100). The...
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Roman
rausch_roman
Mar 24, 2012 4:59 am
... Maybe _Balj(a)nôrê_ 'Valian folk' > _Valinóre_ (PE17:43) is relevant here: If the vowel in CjaC drops for some reason, the result is apparently CiC, so...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Mar 29, 2012 1:28 pm
I am trying to produce a Neo-Quenya version of a string of New Testament letters, and I have drafted a substantial amount of text, but here an there I...
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Phillip Wayne
exuyangi
Apr 1, 2012 6:36 pm
Perhaps we can go back to actual Indo-European roots (IE). Orginally *mosgo- it mean brain, not marrow. Perhaps from anything inside of a bone. Given that, I...
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meglimorco
Apr 1, 2012 6:36 pm
... According to GL the Goldogrin _lung_ 'heavy' can also mean 'grave, serious'. Maybe the same could apply to Q _lunga_. <> Björn...
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TF
percival64
Apr 1, 2012 6:37 pm
1. "Serious" (grave, not joking, etc.) Well, there's always _lumna_. Serious and grave all go back to 'heavy' so by extension _lunga_ is a possibility. The QL...
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LukᚠNovák
lukas.novak@...
Apr 2, 2012 2:52 pm
... If they are the Mosaic tablets, why not speak just of "ondor"? Lukas...
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melroch
Apr 2, 2012 11:49 pm
... Somehow this doesn't seem credible to me as a *compound*. I mean there *would* probably be a simple word for 'marrow', and _pirya axo(ron)(*)_ *as a...
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Menelion Elensuule
menelion@...
Apr 2, 2012 11:49 pm
Hello, ... LN> If they are the Mosaic tablets, why not speak just LN> of "ondor"? Just stones? Then it wouldn't be meaningful enough. We don't say "fruits"...
