Paul wants to translate: "Denethor son of Ecthelion of the House of Hrin, Steward of Gondor until the King returns". ... i Aran ad-tl" The form...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jun 7, 2012 1:05 pm
EARENDILLAHTIE Titta pica Andaro cendelesse tcala queni et caimallo sa-tirien ter calca, mornave VENUS PASSAGE Tiny dot on the face of the Sun dragging...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jun 7, 2012 1:05 pm
Here is a VERY preliminary announcement of my Neo-Quenya New Testament project: http://folk.uib.no/hnohf/nqnt.htm Extremely crude and elementary at present,...
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Menelion Elensuule
andre.polyka...
Jun 8, 2012 2:58 pm
Hello Helge, I have been thinking of a word "letter" as a message, I mean, something written. As a letter is to be sent normally, why can't we use the...
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ramaroreo
Jun 8, 2012 2:59 pm
... I tried to convince myself with 105 arguments, but a single comfortable one defeated them: Lauca quesset hlusse minna hlarinya - pica n pica A warm...
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GH Chinoy
ghchinoy
Jun 8, 2012 3:02 pm
Helge, Fantastic! H [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Phillip Wayne
exuyangi
Jun 8, 2012 8:49 pm
As I remember, the word 'letter' replace the original old english ærendgewrit (errand writing, I guess in modern English) some time in the 1200s or so. Can we...
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fra.veneziano
Jun 8, 2012 8:49 pm
I did my best, but the weather was not kind. Helca ar lorna, andavë rincen tirë " lumbor Rómenna. Chilly and asleep, long I endevoured to see...
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Paul Navas
baranorwasno...
Jun 11, 2012 2:59 pm
Thank you very much for your interest, Helge. I completely agree with the clumsiness of "Ecthelionion" and I'll be glad to let that go for a simpler form. It...
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Roman
rausch_roman
Jun 11, 2012 2:59 pm
... Ha, in hindsight - I should have stayed in bed as well. My experience goes: Ai Earendil, Anaresse antitta! Tran, l knan... Alas Earendil, Tiniest on...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jun 21, 2012 3:34 pm
... strictly in space but in time also, which would indeed be easier to justify than other conjectures. Still, I am confused with the final "n" - is it because...
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quengoldo
Jun 27, 2012 7:25 pm
Alla! Me'le elflingers! Tolkien wrote: That is, the sounds were approximately those represented by i, e, a, o, u in English machine, were, father, for, brute,...
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sofia.estevez
Jun 28, 2012 9:01 pm
Hello elves, My name is Sofa. This is the first time I post something on this group, although Im a frequent visitor and avid reader of your exchanges. The...
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Menelion Elensuule
andre.polyka...
Jun 28, 2012 9:02 pm
Hello, Actually, quenya (and sindarin) basic vowels are pronounced more like Spanish or Russian ones, not like English sounds. However, I found somewhere...
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Julian Bradfield
jcbradfield
Jun 28, 2012 9:05 pm
... This has baffled many people - probably almost everybody who reads it! However, the OED does document a pronunciation /wɛː/ for "were". I'm not sure that...
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Bob
rfhancock48
Jun 29, 2012 7:46 pm
Hi Sofia The following files describe how to write Tengwar in Quenya or Sindarin modes. http://www.forodrim.org/daeron/teng-que.pdf ...
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Morthegil Lammeldir
quengoldo
Jun 29, 2012 7:46 pm
Thanks! I just got some digital edition of OED, didn't find /wɛː/, but I found 'were (wɛə(r), wɜː(r), wə(r))'. It seems that these pronunciations are...
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urban@...
mike_u_us
Jun 29, 2012 7:46 pm
Of yellow leaves and gossamer in autumns that there were, with morning mist and silver sun and wind upon my hair. Of course, this is poetry, so rhymes are...
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Menelion Elensuule
andre.polyka...
Jun 30, 2012 2:01 pm
Hello everyone, Interesting, but couldn't find anywhere the word "ent" in Quenya. In Sindarin they are called onod (in singular) and önyd/enyd (in plural). ...
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quengoldo
Jun 30, 2012 2:10 pm
... Wow! So great to see Tolkien himself confirm this! Thank you so much! And thanks to all who kindly replied! ... Pengolodh Bengu^l...
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Palatinus
elfiness
Jun 30, 2012 6:42 pm
... From the title of an essay "Anaxartaron Onyalie" translated as "Of eagles and ents" it is supposed that "onyalie" refers to the ents. A single ent would be...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jun 30, 2012 6:42 pm
... Alass er anwa r hyanda. Well, _hyanda_ means "blade, share" as a noun. "To share" is one of those difficult terms we don't have a quite perfect ...
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iiipitaka
Jun 30, 2012 7:49 pm
... I'm not sure I follow the reasoning of these people by whom this is supposed. If the Quenya title were, in fact, a translation of "Of the Ents and the...
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Menelion Elensuule
andre.polyka...
Jun 30, 2012 8:13 pm
Hi Palatinus! Thanks a lot! "Anaxartaron Onyalie"... a strange construct and a strange, I'd say, bizarre word for "eagle" :-). As for Helge's wordlists,...
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Dominic Bridwell
elemirion
Jul 1, 2012 1:05 am
Actually I think one would have to realize that the accents in England, and there are many make this rhyme. Were is pronounced to rhyme with Hair, is correct...
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Palatinus
elfiness
Jul 2, 2012 1:10 pm
... This is some reasoning: http://www.pa2rick.com/langlab/anaxartaron.html According to Wynne, the Anaxartar are likely the Great Eagles, not the species of...
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Bob
rfhancock48
Jul 2, 2012 1:15 pm
Hi Helga and Sofia I think there may be some confusion going on here with the meaning of "share" as a noun. If hyanda is given as a noun with the translation...
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TF
percival64
Jul 2, 2012 2:05 pm
Well yes, but the English verb share does go back to the AS� sceran, also source of later 'share, blade'. There is the attested Q verb _etsat-/estat-_...
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iiipitaka
Jul 2, 2012 2:05 pm
... I don't find that hypothesis credible. Soron, sorni is explicitly used in reference to the "Great Eagles" ("Es sorni heruion an!"/"Sorni Nuumevalion...
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iiipitaka
Jul 16, 2012 4:00 am
Common Eldarin seems to have had a relationship between roots beginning in D and ND (generally resulting in words beginning in l- and n- in Quenya). In Note 25...
