I don't know if this helps, but Tolkien mentions that some Gondorian names are Quenya-Sindarin compounds, and Boromir is such an example. However those were...
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Paul Strack
pfstrack
Oct 27, 2012 1:13 am
Many real-world names are basically meaningless, chosen simply because they "sound nice". Others once had some meaning, but have drifted so far phonetically...
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Algoroth Draconis
algoroth_dra...
Oct 24, 2012 12:28 pm
I started playing Lord of the Rings Online about 2 years ago and have made 3 elven characters. I came up with names for them that sounded to me as if they...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Oct 23, 2012 2:05 pm
tatjana" <bondarenko.tatjana@...> wrote regarding Quenya influence on ... "R (and does that mean that the attested verb CUINAR ("they live") would have been...
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traversetravis
Oct 21, 2012 12:54 pm
Hi Elfling Community, I'm making a glossary and phrase-book for the Mannish languages spoken at the time of Bilbo and Frodo: ...
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iiipitaka
Oct 19, 2012 10:56 pm
... I have to say that you've done an extremely impressive job. ... I don't know if there's a "proper" periodization or not. I only know what I used: Old...
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iiipitaka
Oct 19, 2012 10:30 pm
... This is basically right, though there are a number of ways in which this could be treated as a matter of analysis (which is slightly different from what...
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bondarenko.tatjana
bondarenko.t...
Oct 19, 2012 9:30 pm
Hello again! I'm writing so soon as there is an idea plaguing my thoughts that haven't given me peace for a couple of days, so I thought that discussing it...
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Menelion Elensuule
andre.polyka...
Oct 17, 2012 1:18 pm
Hello Helge, HKF> Another problem is how to render the word "letter" (rather relevant when HKF> I am trying to translate New Testament letters). _Tengwa_ I...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Oct 17, 2012 3:22 am
... nosse or nostale with it. The Neo-quenya wordlist at Wikia uses these two terms as 'genus' and 'species'. So there is already some neo-quenya community...
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winterhavik
Oct 14, 2012 7:03 pm
One possibility to avoid confusion with dragon is to use the word nosse or nostale with it. The Neo-quenya wordlist at Wikia uses these two terms as 'genus'...
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Palatinus
elfiness
Oct 13, 2012 10:42 pm
Hi there, good work :) I am sorry that I can't read all your details and verify them, someone else perhaps could. For starters I would say that the canonical...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Oct 13, 2012 10:42 pm
Thanks for feedback regarding the root LOK. ... though in the Etymologies it was glossed "great serpent, dragon". In one place (PE17/160) its derivative Q....
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winterhavik
Oct 11, 2012 12:52 pm
Since the latin serpens was borrowed from Greek herpton with sound changes how about a similar sounding word built around the various Quenya words for fingers...
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pfstrack
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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bondarenko.tatjana
bondarenko.t...
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....
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Phillip Wayne
exuyangi
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...
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LukᚠNovák
lukas.novak@...
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...
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iiipitaka
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...
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glanthor
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...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
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...
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dreamingfifi
elvenswordsmith
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...
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dreamingfifi
elvenswordsmith
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...
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Isaac Penziev
yitzik_ua
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]...
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jacoishjr
Sep 14, 2012 11:39 am
Thank you for this WONDERFUL gift!!! Earendil...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
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...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
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...
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MÃ¥ns
mansbjorkman
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....
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rogerclewley@...
rogerclue
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...
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david_giraudeau
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...
