Aiya ilyain! I would be glad to receive an explanation of two obscure (for me) points int Q. tengwar orthography. 1. The only rule I've seen concerning _oore_...
Hi We know that some of tolkien's languages will appear in the film (I say THE film for the Lord of the Rings by Peter Jackson). I believe Jackson has enlisted...
Aiya! Does anyone know of a Quenya word for "banished";? I am have having some difficulty with the other half of Genesis 3, where God "banished they from the...
I would like to reassure somebody : I know what an allophone is, as well as an archipnoneme. ;-) In (Noldorin) Quenya hl/l and hr/r _are_ allophones. If that...
Thinking about the etymology of the Sindarin 1st person sg forms _linnon_ 'I sing' and _nallon_ 'I cry' I have tried to analyze these forms in light of the H....
... You are absolutely right: I should replace Hwesta Sindarinwa with Halla! Personally I doubt that [h] and [x] were distinct phonemes in Feanorin Quenya,...
... **The combination -r + li becomes -lli in Quenya, as in the example Telelli, a plural of Teler, an elf of the third clan. Mir + li could be a plural ...
... clear, and can be proved only through a knowledge of sound-laws which can be shown to other words as well. In this case, the reconstruction *galadaa helps...
... The details of the evolution of elvish languages are too intricate to set out here. But it is true that an accumulation of many small changes may make two...
... The above statement depends on a misunderstanding of the meaning of "allophone". It is not enough for a sound to have a limited distribution for it to be...
Have been analogically thinking last night. We have these combinations in Quenya: nt -- nty (_anta_, _entya_) rt -- rty (_lerta_, _martya_) Then there is lt...
I noticed today the similarity between the Quenya and Khuzdul for _glass_; Quenya - hyelle (from *khyelesë), root KHYEL(ES) Etym. Khuzdul - kheled, attested...
My opinion is that we could think of the LotR and QS eras as times of non-standardised orthographies much like Europe's Mediæval and Rennaissance years. I...
... (etc.) Since a perfect score on this identification program is a 1, and a decent score is .25, all this shows is that Sindarin and Quenya are "unknown...
... the course and the description. Thanks for it all. ** Thank you for your kind words...it was recently pointed out to me that in Lessons 5 and 6 of my...
Dear friends, While browsing the recent archives of the CONLANG mailing list (where I lurk from time to time), I found the very insteresting link: "Unknown...
... **um, yes, I got this too, and won't subscribe for this purpose. But if I may be allowed to, I would add my vote to Rich Alderson's for a team of ...
Hi! I'm looking for a Sindarin equivalent for "I love you" We have "Tye mela'ne" or something like that in Quenya, I think. There is no verb "love" in Sindarin...
Hello, I would like to inform everyone that the AW Elvish School, about which I have already posted a message, will be holding a meeting of students and...
If we don't get our own way we unsubcribe? That sounds so childish... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own...
... The Telerin of the Etymologies is slightly different from later examples of Telerin (e.g. there are differences in syncope) but on the whole there's a...
... This interesting sentence can be found in the "Catalogue of an Exhibit of the Manuscripts of JRRT", a 40-page booklet which accompanied an exhibition at...
I realized something I had not realized till then. : ) Namely that there is _olor_ "dream". I shought have realized it sooner. I always thought that a final CE...
Attention please, dear Peddain! It is the last chance to begin the new Elvish year - 129th loa of the 14th yén of the 7th Age - with the Elvish Linguistic...
All of you who have been dragging the list off-topic in an exceedingly vulgar and abusive fashion (and you know perfectly well who you are): Shame on you. Stop...
... I do like this phrase, but remember Didier that _le_ 'thee' is a form in dialectal Sindarin of Imladris, influenced by Quenya. It can even be a loan-word...
What are peoples thoughts on past (passive) prticiples in Quenya? I've only been able to track down the following exemples: vanwa 'lost' "an old formation"...
I heard or read somewhere that there is going to be subtitles in LOTR whenever someone is speaking in Quenya or any language other then English. Does anybody...
... Tolkien explains the metre of the Namaarie as follows: "The metre is iambic, in lines of 5 or 6 feet each. The first part, lines 1-7, is in alternating...
