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36348 winterhavik Send Email Sep 1, 2012
12:52 pm
Aiya Algoroth, Here is my translation attempt: I am a man But change I can I must I suppose Not sure what it means... Evandil...
36349 winterhavik Send Email Sep 1, 2012
12:52 pm
Elendil, Elmendinqua ar vanima. Hanta le carmalyan....
36350 Paul Strack
pfstrack Send Email
Sep 1, 2012
12:52 pm
Here are my thoughts, such as they are. For inimeite, the masculine version in the Etymologies is hanuvoite (Ety:INI), whose earlier form is anuvoite in Early...
36351 Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@... Send Email
Sep 1, 2012
10:05 pm
Some comments on this translation: I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew: _Lassion lirnen, malinë lassion, ar malinë lassi...
36352 Dan Yetman
ffvi_locke_cole Send Email
Sep 1, 2012
10:05 pm
Did...did you just translate the Possum Lodge Club Prayer...into QUENYA? I'm a man But I can change If I have to I guess.   ...
36353 iiipitaka Send Email Sep 2, 2012
1:15 pm
... That is certainly possible, and a/e confusions are regrettably common in readings of Tolkien's handwriting. Inima would be an adjective, though, and the...
36354 Algoroth Draconis
algoroth_dra... Send Email
Sep 3, 2012
5:55 am
... That was the idea. But after seeing the first post that came up, I am thinking that I missed something....
36355 Maike
maikedulk Send Email
Sep 3, 2012
12:17 pm
Hi, Some people have an outspoken opinion on what Quenya (or Sindarin) should and shouldn't be used for. The group of people interested in the elven languages...
36356 Palatinus
elfiness Send Email
Sep 4, 2012
5:04 am
Sorry for the OT What do you mean "Marion Zimmer Bradley's music"? ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
36357 Damien
elendil_voronda Send Email
Sep 4, 2012
11:11 am
Aiya Helge, Thanks a lot for your comments, criticisms, and proposed corrections. I am very grateful that you took time to analyze my ramblings and gave very...
36358 Damien
elendil_voronda Send Email
Sep 4, 2012
11:11 am
Hello Palatinus, Marion Zimmer Bradley apparently composed a melody to go with the song. You can check out a rendering by Margaret Davis on YouTube: ...
36359 Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@... Send Email
Sep 7, 2012
12:32 am
Has anyone seen the new issue of Parma Eldalamberon that was announced a little while back? I do plan to order a copy eventually, but from the description...
36360 Paul Strack
pfstrack Send Email
Sep 7, 2012
11:05 am
Hi Helge, I have a copy, but I have only skimmed it. It seems to be mostly about the tengwar. There are several tengwar charts (English Mode) and numerous...
36361 Damien
elendil_voronda Send Email
Sep 9, 2012
11:50 am
Hello Helge, This _Parma_ is definitely worth buying for all Tengwar-lovers. Tolkien's calligraphy is quite beautiful, and many different variations in styles...
36362 david_giraudeau Send Email Sep 9, 2012
11:50 am
... PE20 p. 5 : Ironically, there are no examples of Qenya written in the so-called Qenya Alphabet, and the only specimens of any Elvish language written in...
36363 rogerclewley@...
rogerclue Send Email
Sep 9, 2012
11:51 am
On the Name "Cardolan"; This is a name, that to my knowledge, has never been fully explained in any of the narrative or philological texts of Tolkien. There is...
36364 MÃ¥ns
mansbjorkman Send Email
Sep 9, 2012
11:51 am
There are in fact no Elvish words whatsoever in the manuscripts published here; all the samples of the "Qenya alphabet" are written in primary-world languages....
36365 Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@... Send Email
Sep 11, 2012
12:57 pm
Thanks for the review. ... charts (English Mode) and numerous writing examples. The examples are mostly English, occasionally Latin, in two cases Old English...
36366 Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@... Send Email
Sep 11, 2012
12:57 pm
The Neo-Quenya New Testament (NQNT) project marches on with two more Pauline letters, 1st Timothy and Philemon: http://folk.uib.no/hnohf/nqnt.htm - HKF...
36367 jacoishjr Send Email Sep 14, 2012
11:39 am
Thank you for this WONDERFUL gift!!! Earendil...
36368 Isaac Penziev
yitzik_ua Send Email
Sep 20, 2012
12:36 am
Moina Ainon! Lyen hantan pa túra molielya! Cendan ilya quenta. Voro lartan sinye nati cendien! Y. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
36369 dreamingfifi
elvenswordsmith Send Email
Sep 21, 2012
11:27 am
... I have tried every phonetic transcription there is, just about. IPA was the only one that worked consistently. If people are confused by it, they can see...
36370 dreamingfifi
elvenswordsmith Send Email
Sep 21, 2012
11:27 am
... Someone? Anyone? Well, I've updated and uploaded the changes to the phrasebook. Check them out, tell me what you think. Fiona...
36371 Helge K. Fauskanger
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Oct 9, 2012
12:37 pm
'm trying to finish a version of the Letter of James for my Neo-Quenya New Testament project. There are two terms that are somewhat problematic. Shrewd...
36372 glanthor Send Email Oct 9, 2012
12:38 pm
Hi! Not long ago appeared the question on this list, wondering how much of Tolkien's linguistic works are still unpublished. For example, can anyone tell if...
36373 iiipitaka Send Email Oct 9, 2012
12:44 pm
... A stirrup in Sindarin is a talraph (foot-rope? foot-strap?). S raph must represent something like *rappa or *grappa > (a)rappa in Quenya. Perhaps a bridle...
36374 LukᚠNovák
lukas.novak@... Send Email
Oct 10, 2012
1:16 am
... Would not "leuca" do? "Herpetos"; is "serpens" in Latin, and you are translating the New Testament which is written in Greek, not some hypothetical Hebrew...
36375 Phillip Wayne
exuyangi Send Email
Oct 10, 2012
11:07 am
Perhaps we can work backwards. The PIE root *serp- gave rise to two separate groups of words (we know about serpent, Sanskrit sarpati, &c). However, the other...
36376 bondarenko.tatjana
bondarenko.t... Send Email
Oct 11, 2012
12:51 pm
Hello, I’ve been lurking on this group for some time, but it is the first time I’ve decided to write something. My problem is as follows....
36377 pfstrack Send Email Oct 11, 2012
12:51 pm
... The root LOK was glossed "bend, loop" in both SA and on PE17/160, though in the Etymologies it was glossed "great serpent, dragon". In one place (PE17/160)...
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