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3734 Lukas Novak
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Nov 26, 2000
8:50 pm
... I am not sure, but is should not be "haarane"? "i nes" - doubled subject. I would write "i nee" What about "intyanes"; instead of "sanwanes";? ... Do we know...
3735 Lukas Novak
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Nov 26, 2000
8:50 pm
Hello, Boris, ... Please, what do you mean by MT? If you mean the Morgoth's Ring, the chapter "Myths Transformed", I have read it, and been shocked by it. I...
3736 Ales Bican
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Nov 27, 2000
7:47 pm
I wanted to ask before, but I have not remembered it till now... In WJ:340 in 'Of the Ents and the Eagles' there is written: "There are two amanuensis...
3737 Gildor Inglorion
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Nov 27, 2000
8:54 pm
ales bican wrote... ... well that reminds me of "mahanaxar&quot;.. if a word like "anaxartaron&quot; exists, that means that the former word can be analysed as...
3738 Beregond. Anders Sten...
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Nov 27, 2000
9:25 pm
... I read _onyalie_ as _onya_ 'child&#39; + _lie_ 'people&#39;. Ents and Eagles are yet another kind of 'child-people&#39;, as compared to Elves and Men (Eru's children)...
3739 vanlin680@... Send Email Nov 27, 2000
9:49 pm
<<>Nan sin Iluuvatar harane ar lastane, ar andave sanwanes [1] i nes maara, an ... I am not sure, but is should not be "haarane"? "i nes" - doubled subject. I ...
3740 Lukas Novak
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Nov 27, 2000
9:55 pm
Here is the rest of my suggestions, - some of the words I do not know, these I leave unnoticed. Please remember these are only my opinion. ... "lirnenter&quot;: the...
3741 Boris Shapiro
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Nov 28, 2000
6:57 am
Hello Lukas, ... LN> Please, what do you mean by MT? If you mean the Morgoth's Ring, the chapter LN> "Myths Transformed", Yes. LN> I have read it, and been...
3742 David Kiltz
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Nov 28, 2000
10:42 am
... Hi Ales, a very interesting question! I always thought that in _onyalie_ the root ONO- "beget, become" was involved. The ET give _onna_ "creature"; and thus...
3743 David Kiltz
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Nov 28, 2000
10:50 am
... _maahanaxar_ is _maahan_ + axar, where _maahan_ means "authority, authoritive decision" (from Valarin, cf. HoME XI). Maahan (pl. Mahani) was also used for...
3744 Eleder
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Nov 28, 2000
2:21 pm
... This is an ancient discussion. In Dec 1998, Edward Kloczko suggested _onya_ "son" and the plural _lie_ to get the meaning "offspring&quot;, and in _Anaxarta_...
3745 Lukas Novak
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Nov 28, 2000
2:51 pm
Ales Bican wrote, ... I think "onyalie" can really be "o-en-yal-ie": but what would that mean? "en-yal-" is "re-call", "-ie" is gerund ending. Can "onyalie"...
3746 Patricia Carlson
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Nov 29, 2000
9:00 am
I Liked what I heard in the Anaxartaron Onyalie letters, that Ents were paired with Eagles. I had supposed them with Eagles though Yavanna's concern for the...
3747 Lukas Novak
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Nov 29, 2000
12:15 pm
RL: Quite right about "haarane." The "i" was a slip for what I guess should be "sa" ("that" as a conjunction) "intyanes"; is good as well, thank you. LN: I am...
3748 Deniz
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Nov 29, 2000
7:38 pm
This is something I´ve never understood fully. When you see tengwar writing all around the net, it´s always written from the right to the left. But what´s...
3749 Edward J. Kloczko
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Nov 29, 2000
8:34 pm
... ? Well, maybe you have some "new" edition, but in my edition of LOTR the Sindarin text on the Gate of Moria is written just as this English text and the...
3750 vanlin680@... Send Email Nov 29, 2000
9:34 pm
<> What is a liquid stem? Is it a basic stem as opposed to one ending in -ya or -ta? <> The "quetteparma quenyanna" gives a stem of "tele-"; it says it's from...
3751 Beregond. Anders Sten...
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Nov 29, 2000
10:28 pm
... Idiosyncratic, then. But I have not seen it. ... No, from left to right. Suilad, Beregond...
3752 mckastro
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Nov 30, 2000
3:52 am
Aiya ilye quenyandilin! 1. May be, this problem is already discussed somewhere, but - how to express "or" in Quenya? a) The first thought appearing in a head...
3753 Andrew Durdin
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Nov 30, 2000
5:39 am
... "Note 15 "A simple agental formation (like /*abaro/ > /*abar/ from *ABA) from the stem *TELE, the primary sense of which appears to have been 'close, end, ...
3754 Edward J. Kloczko
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Nov 30, 2000
1:03 pm
... Maybe Deniz you have been using a translation of LOTR? In one of the Polish edition of LOTR I own (published by Czytelnik/CiA Books/Savaro) the ring ...
3755 Edward J. Kloczko
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Nov 30, 2000
1:03 pm
... There is *no* etymological connection between the ending -ar (as seen in Eldar) and the word _ar_ "and". ... Never heard that Quenya was Arabic. Quenya is...
3756 Lukas Novak
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Nov 30, 2000
5:25 pm
... It was a shorthand for a stem ending on a liquid consonant - these are (in a wider sense) l,r,m,n. These stems allow adding -na instead of -ina, according...
3757 Ryszard Derdzinski
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Nov 30, 2000
6:03 pm
Aiya ilquen! ... Polish ... ring ... That's true. Untill 1996 in the Polish LotR every tengwar insription had some defects. Edouard writes about them above....
3758 Ryszard Derdzinski
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Nov 30, 2000
6:07 pm
... "real" language. But that _Quenya_ is not "Tolkien&#39;s Q(u)enya" it is a pidgin. Yes, we should always remember that there is a deep gap between real ...
3759 johanlundqvist@... Send Email Nov 30, 2000
8:01 pm
Hello, i'm new to this group and i has not learned so much sindarin or quenia. Is there someone that can translate my name into sindarin, my name is Johan and...
3760 vanlin680@... Send Email Nov 30, 2000
8:50 pm
I'm not aware of any Quenya word that translates precisely to "merciful"; or "mercy"; the closest I think is "failo" = "generous";. "Eru" is God. So perhaps...
3761 Ales Bican
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Nov 30, 2000
9:49 pm
... **Seems a bit strange to me. Pa. t. of _har-_ would be _harne_ or ever maybe _haare_, but very likely not _haarane_. _har-_ is of the same pattern as...
3762 vanlin680@... Send Email Nov 30, 2000
11:38 pm
... I thought the verb was _hara-_. I'm not sure, though. ... I assume you meant _uuner_; I agree. Why use _ea_, though? I thought this should only be used...
3763 David Kiltz
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Dec 1, 2000
11:04 am
... Maxim, I'm afraid I can't help you out with the translation of Q. "or" either. It wd be nice if we knew of some "disjunctiv&quot; element in Q. However "or" is ...
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