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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Ryszard Derdzinski
galadhorn@...
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 ...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
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...
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David Kiltz
kiareh@...
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...
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Didier Willis
didier.willis@...
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...
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Lukas Novak
lukas.novak@...
Jul 8, 2001 11:18 am
... You are right. I have told you: beware of my amateur advices! Lukas...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
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...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jul 7, 2001 4:24 pm
... OK. I was, for some reason, thinking the stem was DEL "go". Andreas _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jul 7, 2001 4:15 pm
... I'm fairly sure I've seen _Tolciin_ before, thru' that might've been an independent invention. Andreas ...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
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...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jul 7, 2001 3:50 pm
... Given _ú-chebin_, why not _ú-dhelin_? Andreas _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail...
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BP Jonsson
bpj@...
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...
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BP Jonsson
bpj@...
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...
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D. Daniel Andriës
uialdil@...
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 ...
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SKC8563@...
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...
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Lisa Star
amlug4@...
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...
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Lisa Star
amlug4@...
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...
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Lukas Novak
lukas.novak@...
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...
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Lukas Novak
lukas.novak@...
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...
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Lukas Novak
lukas.novak@...
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 ...
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SKC8563@...
Jul 6, 2001 10:40 am
... Sorry. Sure _loar autar_ with number agreements....
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SKC8563@...
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...
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Gildor Inglorion
gildor@...
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...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
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;...
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Lola Lee
lola@...
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...
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SKC8563@...
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)...
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Lukas Novak
lukas.novak@...
Jul 4, 2001 6:29 pm
Hello, ... I am in doubts about this. In compound the long -uu- in "suuriinen" ceases to be the first syllable, and therefore, being a wholy unstressed...
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Gildor Inglorion
gildor@...
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...
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Gildor Inglorion
gildor@...
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......
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Gildor Inglorion
gildor@...
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...
