Good Day. Can someone translate this Elvish text into English, please? : Eldron, Loth Lun er Arcú. I would be glad if thou can help me, please. Kind Regards/ ...
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SKC8563@...
Jul 1, 2001 11:35 am
... It must be Sindarin since it contains cluster _dr_ and sound _th_. I don't know much about Sindarin, but I just used Sindarin Translator by Didier Willis....
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Gildor Inglorion
gildor@...
Jul 1, 2001 11:37 am
... Hm.. where is it from? if it is from a non-Tolkien RPG world, we cannot help you much... there is no doubt that this is NOT Quenya... it looks closest to ...
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Gildor Inglorion
gildor@...
Jul 1, 2001 11:43 am
... the circumflexed vowels are used by Tolkien to denote triply long vowels... these vowels are just long vowels, but the sindar tended to pronounced them ...
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Dock Terry
tdock@...
Jul 1, 2001 12:21 pm
"the circumflexed vowels are used by Tolkien to denote triply long vowels... these vowels are just long vowels, but the sindar tended to pronounced them ...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jul 2, 2001 1:37 am
I just uploaded Lesson 16 of my Quenya course: http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/less-d.rtf This lesson discusses the instrumental case, verbs with an unaccented...
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SKC8563@...
Jul 2, 2001 12:17 pm
This one is my first original composition in Elvish. I wrote it in Quenya first, (Perhaps it was actually translation from Korean, my mother tounge. Anyway, I ...
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D. Daniel Andriës
uialdil@...
Jul 2, 2001 5:59 pm
... Only in full-writing modes. Of the four attested Sindarin tengwar modes, two use the andaith and two use the long carrier to indicate vowel length. ...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jul 2, 2001 8:12 pm
... maybe "I am not oriental" in Quenya and Sindarin? In Quenya: _Umin Rómeno_ "I am not of the East", _umin Rómello_ "I am not from the East" or _umin...
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Ales Bican
bican@...
Jul 2, 2001 8:24 pm
... **Ok. ... **Ok. ... **I think it is ok. ... **The independent emphatic word for "I, even I" is _inye_. ... **The adjective usually agree in number with...
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Lukas Novak
lukas.novak@...
Jul 2, 2001 10:07 pm
... I have thought that Amrun relates (at leas primarily) to the FACT of sunrise, rather than to the compass direction or area (which is East - Rhun). The use...
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Lukas Novak
lukas.novak@...
Jul 2, 2001 10:07 pm
Hello, Here are my comemnts to your poem. I warn you that I am no expert and can be wrong! ... Well, there are 10 syllables... Perhaps you could make use of...
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SKC8563@...
Jul 2, 2001 10:37 pm
... Perhaps better than me. ^^ ... Oops! Though counting Quenya syllables is not so difficult, I usually make mistakes... (In Korean, it is dead easy if you...
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Boris Shapiro
elenhil@...
Jul 3, 2001 7:16 am
Aiya! ... AB> **We have _salpa_ "bowl" from Qenyaqetsa, but who knows AB> if it is valid in LotR-style Quenya. Q _salpa_ should probably correlate to S...
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SKC8563@...
Jul 3, 2001 9:10 am
// I set the title now. :-) // Thanks for your valuable comments, I revised my poem. Q. nyeerea linde vanwa vanima melmenya neeca luin silmesse, umin ata lelya...
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Gildor Inglorion
gildor@...
Jul 3, 2001 9:47 am
I wonder what is the origin of the ending -ie (and perhaps -ea) in quenya.. I havent ever seen such word along with its predecessor of proto-elvish... for...
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SKC8563@...
Jul 3, 2001 1:24 pm
Some comments: ... And indeed I found the counting Quenya syllables dead easy if I can write it in Tengwar... Just count the number of Tehtar and it is...
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Gildor Inglorion
gildor@...
Jul 3, 2001 1:48 pm
I realised recently that near-final -i- in sindarin words causes the preceding vowels to be umlauted.. and that is why the verb is egleri- while the noun is...
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Lukas Novak
lukas.novak@...
Jul 3, 2001 5:22 pm
Hello Seo, ... It depends on what you want to say. If you mean just night or darkness in general, yes. If you mean "the Night" or something so, then rather no....
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Ales Bican
bican@...
Jul 3, 2001 7:39 pm
... **This is no doubt derived from _nyeere_ "grief", right? Actually, I myself used this word once, but now I prefer *_naira_ "sad, lamentable", a supposed...
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Ales Bican
bican@...
Jul 3, 2001 7:39 pm
... **As for _sinde_, it is ok, both _sinde_ and _sinda_ are possible. ... **As was noted, it should be _firner_. ... **Again plural, but not **_umer_ as Lukas...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jul 3, 2001 10:27 pm
... Then it is a very good one. ... "By everlasting cold northwinds..." I have theorized that the plural instrumental of _suure, suuri-_ is _suuriinen_ with a...
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David Kiltz
kiareh@...
Jul 3, 2001 11:27 pm
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David Kiltz
kiareh@...
Jul 3, 2001 11:53 pm
... "Darkness"; rather = _mornie_ ... _firner_ (pl.) ... _umer_ ... _tirer_ ... _Melcorhiini_, I think. In compounds you do not have to add case ending to the...
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David Kiltz
kiareh@...
Jul 4, 2001 12:08 am
... Well, these may seem redundant to a native speaker of a language that gets on very well without them ;-) Let's take a sentence like "beautiful women walk"....
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Zach Shuford
zshuford@...
Jul 4, 2001 1:59 am
Hi, though I've been a big LotR fan for years, but I'm just now begining to to learn how intricate his languages were (are). Anyway, my question is: how much...
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Zach Shuford
zshuford@...
Jul 4, 2001 3:13 am
Are there any good recordings of Quenya being spoken? I've listed to Tolkien's reading of the poem in "Farewell to Lórien," but it lacks some sounds (like...
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SKC8563@...
Jul 4, 2001 4:57 am
Thanks to Lukas Novak, Ales Bican, Helge K. Fauskanger, and David Klitz, for careful corrections. ======================================== <<Revised Poem>> -...
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David Kiltz
kiareh@...
Jul 4, 2001 7:47 am
... Welcome ! I'm afraid too little of Quenya is known to actually get fluent in it. However, a good deal is known, enabling to e.g. write some poetry. There ...
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David Kiltz
kiltzd@...
Jul 4, 2001 7:53 am
... Sorry, but I think it shd be either _moore_ or _mornie_ for "darkness"; (both are attested. _more_ is given as "dark" in the etymologies, not "darknes". It...
