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I am tinkering with a draft for Hebrews in my Neo-Quenya New Testament -- it would be a major addition, the third longest letter. Incidentally, I agree with...
14 Nov 12, 2012
4:09 pm

Diego Seguí
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Le hannon pfstrack a Tamas. I'll study your answers carefully and get back to you :) Just out of curiosity, from your answers, it seems Quenya is your "go-to" ...
2 Nov 11, 2012
2:11 pm

Menelion Elensuule
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Mae Govannen to everyone. This is my first email here -- hope first of many :) I've started recently to look at (I don't dare yet to say study) Tolkien's ...
3 Nov 8, 2012
1:49 pm

TF
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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...
6 Oct 31, 2012
3:20 am

Helge K. Fauskanger
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tatjana" <bondarenko.tatjana@...> wrote regarding Quenya influence on ... "R (and does that mean that the attested verb CUINAR ("they live") would have been...
1 Oct 23, 2012
2:05 pm

Helge K. Fauskanger
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Hi Elfling Community, I'm making a glossary and phrase-book for the Mannish languages spoken at the time of Bilbo and Frodo: ...
1 Oct 21, 2012
12:54 pm

traversetravis
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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....
5 Oct 19, 2012
10:56 pm

iiipitaka
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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....
4 Oct 17, 2012
1:18 pm

Menelion Elensuule
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I was translating my brother's name into elvish, (it wasn't on the lists the group so helpfully provided). In Hebrew his name means The Lord Healeth. I took...
11 Oct 11, 2012
12:52 pm

winterhavik
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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 Not long ago appeared the question on this list, wondering how much of Tolkien's linguistic works are still unpublished.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...
1 Oct 9, 2012
12:38 pm

glanthor
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Here it is: http://www.realelvish.net/phrasebook.php I know that it is gigantic and a lot to ask of anyone, but I want to make sure that I got this right. (or...
12 Sep 21, 2012
11:27 am

dreamingfifi
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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...
3 Sep 20, 2012
12:36 am

Isaac Penziev
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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...
6 Sep 11, 2012
12:57 pm

Helge K. Fauskanger
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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...
1 Sep 9, 2012
11:51 am

rogerclewley@...
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Mae g'ovannen, mellyn! It's been a long time, yet I felt again the nagging need to try my hand at Quenya composition. And listening to Galadriel's Lament with...
4 Sep 4, 2012
11:11 am

Damien
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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...
2 Sep 4, 2012
11:11 am

Damien
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Ok, here I go again. This is a "prayer" that I've always liked and on a whim today thought to see if I could come up with a Quenya equivalent. Now, I'm going...
5 Sep 3, 2012
12:17 pm

Maike
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Hi people, long time no see! I've been wondering about these two words that appear in Etym, and I have thoughts nobody seems to have postulated. - First, about...
3 Sep 2, 2012
1:15 pm

iiipitaka
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In the word "Quenya" is the "qu" pronounce "kw" or "kh"? Thank you for solving a a bit of a controversy for me & some friends. Almie, Yvonne   Yvonne Van...
7 Aug 30, 2012
9:28 pm

rikkuras_del_mas_alla
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The word "minathurie&quot; (using the Old English character 'thorn&#39; for "th") appears in Tolkien's essay on the river names of Gondor (Vinyar Tengwar 42:17). It is...
2 Aug 23, 2012
1:09 pm

BPJ
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Aiya meldori eldaiva, Just for the fun of it here is the first part of Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham. some word notes: Nás mara nin "I like it", literally...
1 Aug 23, 2012
1:08 pm

winterhavik
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Two entirely unrelated thoughts: I originally thought that the word !queren -- cited as querend-, and defined as 'pivot&#39;, 'revolving centre' PE17 p. 65 -- was...
1 Aug 23, 2012
1:48 am

iiipitaka
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On the occasion of my birthday (or whatever) I hereby announce the addition of Second Thessalonians to my list of Neo-Quenya New Testament translations: ...
1 Aug 17, 2012
8:43 pm

Helge K. Fauskanger
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... Don't quite get this one. _Utúrien_ could mean 'I have ruled' or 'I have conquered'. ... Out of (a/the) night that is covering me ... Dark as the Pit here...
3 Aug 15, 2012
3:46 pm

TF
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Utúrin Et lomillo ya túpa ni Morna ve Latta sis yo tar, Feanya utúriman Hantan Valar i valuvar. Umbarto aika nondasse únen Þorya, únen naina, Undu amarto...
2 Aug 15, 2012
4:12 am

winterhavik
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Hello everyone! As we know, there are two dual endings in Quenya: -t ("lasset") and -u ("aldu"). As I could understand from Helge's article, -t is preferable...
2 Aug 9, 2012
3:38 am

Paul Strack
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PARMA ELDALAMBERON 20 The Qenya Alphabet Documents by J. R. R. TOLKIEN <http://www.eldalamberon.com/parma20.html> _Parma Eldalamberon_ 'The Book of...
2 Aug 3, 2012
9:33 pm

Helge K. Fauskanger
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Nai Alasse tien! Does anyone have any ideas on neo-quenya words for eggs and ham? (I am translating Dr. Seuss...) Currently I'm thinking to use the latin word...
3 Jul 30, 2012
1:11 pm

winterhavik
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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...
2 Jul 24, 2012
9:18 am

Paul Strack
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I have been looking at some geographical matters pertaining to Middle-earth, which as always means you end up looking at his naming process. In particular,...
3 Jul 23, 2012
11:09 am

rogerclewley@...
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