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5255 Gildor Inglorion
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Jul 4, 2001
9:19 am
... (Barring ... no you cant.. you dont know neither enough words or enough grammar rules.. neither you or us... in fact we do know that Quenya is the most...
5256 Gildor Inglorion
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Jul 4, 2001
9:24 am
... have ... to ... The most detailed pronounciation guide in my oppinion can be found in the first of the Quenya lessons availiable in Helge's Ardalambion......
5257 Gildor Inglorion
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Jul 4, 2001
2:06 pm
at least two problems bothered me while studying Helge's analysis on markirya: 1. why while we have participles in -la in the vast majority of verbs, we have...
5258 Lukas Novak
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Jul 4, 2001
6:29 pm
Hello, ... I am in doubts about this. In compound the long -uu- in "suuriinen&quot; ceases to be the first syllable, and therefore, being a wholy unstressed...
5259 SKC8563@... Send Email Jul 4, 2001
10:15 pm
... I thought _rh_ is impossible. Is it possible? On this problem, I just searched Helge's Quenya Corpus Wordlist and found two things interesting: 1)...
5260 Lola Lee
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Jul 5, 2001
3:23 pm
What's the story with these, especially copies that apparently were(are) being sent to certain individuals in the United States? Here I'm referring to those...
5261 Helge K. Fauskanger
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Jul 6, 2001
8:06 am
... Yes, _rh_ is a permissible (though rare) combination. It has already been pointed out that it occurs in the verb _terhat-_ "break apart" (Etym, entry SKAT;...
5262 Gildor Inglorion
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Jul 6, 2001
8:11 am
... I dont know the full story, i know they are some people that have correspodence with Christopher Tolkien and possess a huge amount of Tolkien's papers and...
5263 SKC8563@... Send Email Jul 6, 2001
10:00 am
Reading recent postings about "unpublished materials of Tolkien", I wrote one poem about my wish. *^^* Enjoy... But this situation is not so enjoyable...
5264 SKC8563@... Send Email Jul 6, 2001
10:40 am
... Sorry. Sure _loar autar_ with number agreements....
5265 Lukas Novak
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Jul 6, 2001
12:27 pm
... I knew I had seen it somewhere... Christopher Tolkien's note to this line reads: "See text VII, p.406 [this text deals of the incapability of Evil to be ...
5266 Lukas Novak
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Jul 6, 2001
12:27 pm
Hello, I have not read Markirya before, but what you says seems to me perfectly right. ... It seems to me that the noun in such a position ALWAYS has to be the...
5267 Lukas Novak
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Jul 6, 2001
8:16 pm
A nice piece! A great poet amongst us! ... "lambengolmoron" is the genitive plural in the case of -o stems (-r-: plural, -o-: genitive, -n: secondary plural...
5268 Lisa Star
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Jul 6, 2001
11:30 pm
... **I would just like to point out, for the many people on this list who are new to linguistics, that the the letters rh (and also lh) may be understood in...
5269 Lisa Star
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Jul 6, 2001
11:36 pm
... **snip very nice poem by Seo Sanghyeon. ... **Am I mistaken or is this not the first time anyone has tried to write Tolkien's name in Quenya? I hope I...
5270 SKC8563@... Send Email Jul 7, 2001
5:33 am
... Sorry. _lambengolmoron_ indeed. But I changed my mind, and I think it should be _nainie lambengolmoin_ with dative, means "Lament FOR...
5271 D. Daniel Andriës
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Jul 7, 2001
7:36 am
... You sure about that? According to Webster's New World Dictionary, "Tolkien" is accented of the first syllable (TOL-kien). Anyway, speakers of other ...
5272 BP Jonsson
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Jul 7, 2001
1:09 pm
... I have done it once or twice, tho not publicly as far as I remember. I also rendered it as _tolkiin_. Note that _tol-ki-en_ would look like a female name...
5273 BP Jonsson
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Jul 7, 2001
1:19 pm
I just checked with "Longman Pronunciation Dictionary", which lists /"tQlki:n/ as the only British pronunciation, with /"tA:lki:n/ and /"toulki:n/ as...
5274 Andreas Johansson
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Jul 7, 2001
3:50 pm
... Given _ú-chebin_, why not _ú-dhelin_? Andreas _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail...
5275 Helge K. Fauskanger
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Jul 7, 2001
4:13 pm
... say, ... The form _ú-chebin_ includes a lenited form of the verb _hebi_ "to keep" (we finally know that this is definitely its shape, since the root KHEP...
5276 Andreas Johansson
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Jul 7, 2001
4:15 pm
... I'm fairly sure I've seen _Tolciin_ before, thru' that might've been an independent invention. Andreas ...
5277 Andreas Johansson
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Jul 7, 2001
4:24 pm
... OK. I was, for some reason, thinking the stem was DEL "go". Andreas _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your...
5278 Helge K. Fauskanger
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Jul 7, 2001
4:27 pm
... Some languages actually use the simplest (normally "singular";) form of nouns when a plural number is added. After all, why add an explicit plural ending...
5279 Lukas Novak
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Jul 8, 2001
11:18 am
... You are right. I have told you: beware of my amateur advices! Lukas...
5280 Didier Willis
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Jul 8, 2001
12:07 pm
Dear friends, I want to have your opinion on two rather technical issues regarding the probable pronunciation of sindarin. (a) Regarding the phonetics of...
5281 David Kiltz
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Jul 8, 2001
12:07 pm
... Huh ? I thought it was of Northern German origin, i.e. _Tollkühn_ "rashbold";. If so, the "original"; has the stress on the first syllable and _ie_ in the...
5282 Andreas Johansson
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Jul 8, 2001
4:39 pm
... Given that the stem is KAB, I'm strongly inclined to believe it should be stressed on the second syllable, and spelt *_erchammui_ according to the rules...
5283 Ryszard Derdzinski
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Jul 8, 2001
6:31 pm
... attempt ... My small booklet entitled "Three Elvish Compositions dedicated to Christopher Tolkien" has its Quenya title written in tengwar too: _Neldë ...
5284 Ryszard Derdzinski
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Jul 8, 2001
6:31 pm
Boris Shapiro has agreed to publish his dictionary of the recostructed and anattested Quenya words (Parma Penyanë Quettaron) at Gwaith-i-Phethdain! Now you...
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