I am a rank beginner. I just joined and this is my first post. Ruth Noel's book tells me to add -r to make a plural for the verb third-person. While -met...
... Because you mention my website I want to answer your question. The PDF file is still there (at http://www.lordoftherings.net) - simply click an entry about...
There's a reference to a pdf available from the movie site that was mentioned at http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/movie.htm . . . however, I have been unable to...
Who created this!? http://www.creator.org/ What the!? http://www.wcotc.com/revm/ They even have an email list! creativity-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Another...
I made the name 'Glaerdir', meaning poem-maker or bard, I want to keep 'Glaer' there, but I'm wondering if -dir is correct? should the 'd' change or another...
Dear Friends Welcome to "The Silmarillion in Elvish Project" which is an attempt to translate fragments of "The Silmarillion" by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien into...
In the context of a discussion in talk.bizarre I recently composed the following, which may be of interest: "Corma i firiníssen Corma a carcar rilerenyë ...
Gnomish or _i-lam na-Ngoldathon_ is a very early (c. 1917) stage of the Celtic-like Tolkien's language that later (c. 1951) became Sindarin. In the "Gnomish...
Crebain is the Sindarin word for a type of crow found in the southern Misty Mountains, Fangorn Forest and Dunland. Its singular is very likely _craban_, as is...
... -ui has probably a variety of origins. In the case of annui, I think it is simply Eldarin *andűyâ > Old Sindarin andűia > S annui. It might be from...
David Kiltz wrote: [quote] ... One of several nominal endings. I don't know how to define its semantic content more precisely, but we have takse 'nail', tupse...
Hello! Begging your pardon, but I have a little question about one name: Annatar. What are the word that makes this compound? They are "anna" and "atar", with...
A guy asked me what is the origin of the Sindarin adjectival ending _-ui_ (eg in "annui" in the King's Letter). I had to confess I don't know, but said...
So I'm trying to trranslate the phrase "So Mote it Be" and I'm thinking that I'll have to use "Be it So" but the thought occured that perhaps just "Nai," be it...
We've pretty well covered 'ry' and 'ly' in Quenya, but how about 'rw' and 'lw' in Sindarin? I'm trying to do a family tree and am stuck on two names: 'Elwing'...
Aiya! How should PE _-tl-_ (like in _*et-lelya_) act in Quenya? Should it become _-lt-_ like _-tk-_ > _-kt-_ > _-ht- in _ehtele_? Same question about _-dr-_...
Aiya! Again, I've got a question - how should PE _tp_ look like in Quenya? As you may have noticed, I'm messing with various difficult cases of _et-_...
I also have the Laurie song sung by Tolkien since I forgot to mention this in my last mail I do so now Ronin [Non-text portions of this message have been...
I do have some CD-Tracks in Elvish read by Tolien himself I only do not have any space on my Homepage anymore, so if anyone has got some space I would send him...
Aiya! There is a suggested case of CE word _*wonatsra-_ "to entangle" (NAT), in which there is an interesting part _-sra_; I haven't found another case of this...
Aiya! ... DS> I am sceptical of this change. Certainly metathesis occurs, and DS> regularly (as in ciryat+lo > ciryalto "from two ships"); but I do DS> not...
... I am sceptical of this change. Certainly metathesis occurs, and regularly (as in ciryat+lo > ciryalto "from two ships"); but I do not think that it would...
Aiya! I'm trying to reconstrust Quenya cognate of S _awartha-_ (WAR) "to forsake, abandon", but I'm not sure how should PE _awar-_ act in Quenya. Normally...
I want to ask... what is the historical cause of initial-mutated words? (i am talking about sindarin) i have heard somewhere that the initial consonants of...
In an interview with Orlando Bloom (Legolas) and Liv Tyler (Arwen) found at http://www1.tolkienguild.org/articles/display.cfm?ID=585 we can read about "a...
TheOneRing.net reported that Liv Tyler spoke some another Elvish line in an interview a few days ago. The full report, and a WAV recording of the line is here:...
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...
