Bjorn Fromen is right writting that the doubled mutation: CE _*mapá-_ > OS _*maba-_ > S _**mava-_ couldn't occur in Sindarin. My mistake. Sorry. Maybe the...
... I don't know about spanish Spanish but in South America (Chile, Argentina) "jota" as in _ají_ (hot sauce) is pronounced similarly. Try pronouncing an "i"...
... Hey, give us your Czech name! We like a challenge - why else would we be doing tolkienian linguistics? ... Feel welcome. I hope you'll find the list...
jodvar deithant: So my question is : is there any rule when to write óre and when rómen? It's been covered a few times, but since you're new, here goes! Use...
In a recent tv interview, Liv Tyler gave an example of a Sindarin phrase that will apparently appear in the movies. A sound clip is available from the address ...
Hi, I'm just new to elfling, so I want to introduce myself a bit : I am from Czech republic (that small piece of land between Russia and Germany), my name is...
... What does _verbum sapientibus_ mean? Andreas _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from...
I was doing a list of Quenya consonants for a Spanish course I'm writing (similar to Helge's but way more basic, the vowel part is a lot shorter thanks to...
... I should caution that, at least among English speakers, the "sh" sound is often pronounced with some lip-rounding, and there should be no lip-rounding with...
Dear Elendili, I want to inform you that my linguistic website 'Gwaith-i-Pheddain' (at http://necik.mag.com.pl/~galadhorn) will soon move to the US. Since June...
My best friend contiunaly messes up Gandalf's color. He keeps saying that Gandalf starts out as Gandalf the White, then becomes Gandalf the Grey. After a...
I'd like to put in a few pennies' worth on the Spanish question myself, seeing as how I did four years of pena -- er, graduate study of Hispanic linguistics,...
... Spain's Spanish is known (not considered a standard, though, that's more what Spain wants than anything), mainly the ceceo. Also, we argentinians have a...
... I can't. I mean, you may be right; I suspect you are right; but I don't see how to demonstrate it. ... I still don't see how to rule it out as a...
I was reading Helge's course and found the sentence "cenitas farya nin" which is translated "seeing it is enough for me", and I immediately saw how much it...
To Angasúle: Since most people studying Quenya are native Anglophones, they tend to use the definite article much less than speakers of Romance languages. 'La...
There was a palatal tectal (or platalized velar)_KY_ in PQ. That became at some time _TY_ in Quenya. Assuming the sound shift to be regular we end up with a...
... There are obvious differences, of course, mostly due to constraints on the typefaces available (in print or on a typewriter) to Tolkien; he could not...
... Yes, stress it on the e. Probably a better form would be lairetyar (short forms tend to be used in words of this length, cf. Sorontar vs. taaro, Nuumenor...
... I should have been more precise, but I didn't have my books with me. Page 68 of _The Road Goes Ever On_ provides a facsimile of a written transcription of...
A few days ago I made the word lairetyaro poem-doer, as a translation of Spanish 'versero' = verse-doer, it means someone who likes to 'versear' (the...
... That's only relevant if you assume that Tolkien's work was completely coherent and consistent in all of its stages of development. There's enough evidence...
... What I like on this solution is that it does not require to regard the word as irregularity. But is there any analogical "devocalisation" of "-i-" after a...
"erukyerme"... one of the words that bring us trouble... one of the canditates to be misread by Christopher Tolkien from another word... some think that maybe...
... This seems to me the most likely explanation, in view of another instance of Q. -ky- that surfaced recently. In one of the "Notes on _Óre_", published in...
Suilad, mellyn! My name is Ryan Cross and I just joined this list. I'm writing this message to introduce myself as well as share a brief text in Quenya and a...
Hello, I've been a lurker here for a while, and have decided to break my silence because I have a semi-urgent question, my current poem being impossible to...
Aiya! I have been pondering the subject of Quenya ordinal numbers for some time now, and have been unable to find any attested besides _minya_ "first" _tatya_...
Rejoice all ye people; I have just uploaded Lesson 14 of my Quenya course (added to the file that already contains lessons 11, 12, and 13; you'll have to...
