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I am currently tryng to translate some more Bible text into Neo-Quenya, and I feel it's going relatively smoothly, but I shall need to coin a couple of words: ...
15 Jul 16, 2012
11:48 am

iiipitaka
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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). ...
6 Jul 2, 2012
2:05 pm

iiipitaka
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Hello elves, My name is Sofía. This is the first time I post something on this group, although Im a frequent visitor and avid reader of your exchanges. The...
5 Jul 2, 2012
2:05 pm

TF
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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,...
7 Jul 1, 2012
1:05 am

Dominic Bridwell
elemirion
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EARENDILLAHTIE Titta pica Andaro cendelesse túcala queni et caimallo sa-tirien ter calca, mornave VENUS PASSAGE Tiny dot on the face of the Sun dragging...
6 Jun 21, 2012
3:34 pm

Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
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Dear Elfling readers and contributors, My name is Paul Navas, although I am known as Baranor in my Tolkien-related activities. These deserve a short word so as...
6 Jun 11, 2012
2:59 pm

Paul Navas
baranorwasno...
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The first few verses of Moses' meditation on life Airelinde 90 Arcande Moses i Ner Eruva 1 Heru, Lye marda menya anaie ollo nostie ana nostie 2. Epe i oronti...
1 May 12, 2012
1:41 pm

winterhavik
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I have begun updating the English-Quenya wordlist on my site: http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/eng-quen.rtf Some corrections from VT45 are already in place (see...
31 May 3, 2012
8:12 pm

Helge K. Fauskanger
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I have a prayer that I wrote and always wanted to translate to elvish. So here it is. I know it is wrong in many ways but can't for the life of me figure out...
6 Apr 29, 2012
11:23 pm

Algoroth Draconis
algoroth_dra...
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Mellyn nin ~ It's been a while since I posted here, and longer since I made my brief foray into the study of Sindarin. My family recently purchased a home near...
3 Apr 26, 2012
5:16 pm

Sarah
imabiah
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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...
7 Apr 25, 2012
1:46 am

Josiah McCoy
josiahmccoy63
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Hello everyone, In Helge's translation of the Johannine corpus we see the form "Hlassen". For example, John 8:26: 26 Samin rimbe natali quetien ar namien pa...
6 Apr 23, 2012
8:43 pm

meglimorco
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I was playing around with what uninflected Quenya might look like in comparison to inflected while translating the book of Jonah (incidentally the book...
1 Apr 15, 2012
1:28 pm

winterhavik
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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...
9 Apr 4, 2012
6:17 pm

Menelion Elensuule
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Ertherel? Thank you for your time. - David...
1 Mar 24, 2012
4:59 am

wigdawei
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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...
5 Mar 24, 2012
4:59 am

Helge K. Fauskanger
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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...
3 Mar 9, 2012
7:27 pm

fra.veneziano
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**> 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...
2 Jan 30, 2012
2:17 pm

winterhavik
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I have uploaded a rough version of my revised Quenya course here: http://folk.uib.no/hnohf/lessons.rtf There is still no link from the Ardalambion main page,...
13 Jan 23, 2012
10:20 pm

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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,...
1 Jan 16, 2012
6:14 pm

winterhavik
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... (not counting any rejected one): AM-, ANA-, AR-, I-, KHAL-, KHAM-, LAK-, LAS-, LIB-, LIN-, LIR-, LUG-, MIW-, NÁ-, NAR-, NÍ-, ROS-, ROY-, SKAL-, SKAR-,...
1 Jan 9, 2012
3:09 pm

Helge K. Fauskanger
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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...
1 Jan 9, 2012
3:09 pm

Roman
rausch_roman
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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...
1 Jan 9, 2012
3:08 pm

Celebrian
gilgaladiell
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Dear Elflingers, Do you remember the Gwaith-i-Phethdain website? :-) It's news and research part still exists, and now its main interest area is all what is...
1 Dec 30, 2011
1:54 pm

Richard
galadhorn
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Hello, here are the first two stanzas of this moving poem. Comments to improve the phrasing are most welcome! Especially the word for 'charge&#39;. The Charge Of...
1 Dec 30, 2011
1:54 pm

winterhavik
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Well, folks, X-mas is upon us, as often happens in late December. I have pretty much revealed what I was working on, and here it is: The Neo-Quenya Gospel of...
3 Dec 25, 2011
2:37 am

Yvonne Van Brimmer
hobbitwife
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A good day to everyone! I have been looking into the Quenya declension system beyond the paradigms given in the Plotz Letter, and while there are many...
6 Dec 14, 2011
2:11 pm

Cara Loup
caraloup
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Inching my way through the Gospel of Mark I encountered a new problematic word: "Envy." Sure enough, we have Quenya words for greed and desire, but envy isn't ...
6 Dec 12, 2011
9:44 pm

Damien
elendil.voronda
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... tongues, I tend to believe that it would be disrespectful – and foolish – to reject it and settle for a word that has no claim whatsoever to be ...
2 Dec 12, 2011
9:44 pm

BPJ
melroch
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To address my own little challenge the other day: Here is a text intended to illustrate the main changes in two phases of Quenya development: OLD QUENYA: ...
20 Dec 7, 2011
2:33 pm

Julian Bradfield
jcbradfield
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