**My thanks to everyone who has been and/or continues to work to keep this list going. ** Lisa Star ...
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galadhorn@...
galadhorn
Oct 31, 2001 10:52 pm
... Suilad a Moriel! I am very content you are a member of our list. Welcome! And thanks a lot for your detailed analysis of the Moria inscriptions in the LOTR...
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Eris Caffee
eris_caffee@...
Oct 31, 2001 9:48 pm
This is a bit late, since I've already posted a few messages, but it's traditional to introdouce oneself when joining a new list, so... Hello! My name is Eris...
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Ryszard Derdzinski
galadhorn
Oct 31, 2001 9:42 pm
Suilad! Two important things: (1) I have made a typo in my last post: in place of _atalantië_ should be _alantië_. (2) Copyrights don't allow me to...
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Eris Caffee
eris_caffee@...
Oct 31, 2001 9:29 pm
... I think she's saying _alantie_ rather than _atalantie_. I just don't hear that first "at" syallable. Thus: Mornië utúlië Darkness has come Mornië...
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Ryszard Derdzinski
galadhorn
Oct 31, 2001 8:33 pm
Suilad! Javier Lorenzo wrote to me that the Elvish text sang by Enya may contain words: _Mornië utúlië_ and _Mornië atalantië_. I agree with him. Any ...
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Ryszard Derdzinski
galadhorn
Oct 31, 2001 8:22 pm
Suilad! Great news! I am listening to a full version of "May it be", a song by Enya from the LOTR movie! She sings in Quenya: I can hear: "Lórien,...
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Lukas Novak
lukas.novak@...
Oct 30, 2001 8:50 pm
... There are more examples of "m" resisting lenition, aren't they? Perhaps we shoul simply take it as a fact - Sindar simply for some reason were reluctant to...
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Michael Urban
urban@...
Oct 30, 2001 3:23 pm
There is a fair amount of Elvish and Dwarvish composition in the forthcoming movie. Generally, this work is attributed to David Salo. Do I correctly infer...
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Ryszard Derdzinski
galadhorn
Oct 30, 2001 6:25 am
Suilad! I want to present my theory concerning the Glamdring inscription (see G-i-P: LotR movie at http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/movie.htm). Runes cirth are...
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John Cowan
johnwcowan
Oct 30, 2001 4:32 am
This message is to announce that Dorothea Salo has resigned as both a moderator and a member of Elfling. By request of David and Dorothea Salo, I have assumed...
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Aelfwine@...
endorendil
Oct 30, 2001 4:13 am
... Ah, I see. Enough of this, then. I wish you a full and speedy recovery....
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John Cowan
johnwcowan
Oct 30, 2001 3:15 am
... No, merely that moderators are not omniscient, and in my particular case, not entirely recovered from surgery. ... I disagree with this view of my role. I...
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Cirk Bejnar
eluchil@...
Oct 29, 2001 11:07 pm
... <snip> ... No one named you in the original statement. The requirement for evidence applies just as much to Lisa as to you (or me or anyone else). ... ...
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Aelfwine@...
endorendil
Oct 29, 2001 8:38 pm
... In fact, what she said was that "there has been a long campaign to suppress all forms of use of the languages". That's _all_ forms of use. And I never said...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo
Oct 29, 2001 7:53 pm
... [snip] ... In WJ362 Tolkien indicates that the regular Sindarin reflex of _Morikwende_ would have been _Moerbend_ (the form actually used being _Morben_)....
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John Cowan
john_w_cowan
Oct 29, 2001 7:01 pm
... Not I, certainly. Lisa, I believe, spoke of discouragement rather than prohibition. But in an earlier posting, unless I misunderstood you, you implied...
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Aelfwine@...
endorendil
Oct 29, 2001 5:55 pm
... Who has ever said that writing in Elvish was prohibited? I never have; the Tolkien Estate never has. Where has anyone -- including Lisa, if your...
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David Kiltz
palannir
Oct 29, 2001 5:54 pm
on 10/24 I wrote a reply to Andreas Johansson (Morgai) but the posting never got through. (Here's the content FYI, although Vincente's post has made this...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Oct 29, 2001 5:54 pm
Carl F. Hostetter feels that I am overly dogmatic in the question of how ... presentation of the "Notes on Óre" (and will have to await a future article), but...
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David Kiltz
palannir
Oct 29, 2001 5:53 pm
... Yeah, good point. I really can't say whether the old _i_ ("Fugen i") wd have caused umlaut at that stage. Anyone ? Still, as you say _morgai_ is probably a...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Oct 29, 2001 5:53 pm
... nebos-kr'op, German Wolken-kratzer ("Himmelkratzer" would have ... And Norwegian _skyskraper_ directly based on English _skyscraper_...but NOT with the...
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Omar DÃez
esterpiscole
Oct 29, 2001 1:57 pm
... awkward ... We may be an irreverent language, but in Spanish "Cielo(s)" has got the two meanings of "himmel", and skyscraper is "rascacielos". I don't...
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Ryszard Derdzinski
galadhorn
Oct 29, 2001 12:26 pm
Suilad! Eris Caffee presents her interesting transcription of the movie Moria wall inscriptions both on own website ...
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Lukas Novak
lukas.novak@...
Oct 29, 2001 10:14 am
... I cannot say I understand exactly what you mean, but IMHO Descartes' "first truth" is meant as concerning mere existence, while the essence of the...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo
Oct 28, 2001 8:14 pm
... The [ng] of *_Morn Gai_ probably practically instantly became [Ng], since nasals are notoriously liable to assimilate in place of articualtion with ...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo
Oct 28, 2001 7:57 pm
... Oughtn't *_morikegjaa_ rather yield *_Mergai_? *_Mornakegjaa_ might be a more probable primitive form, but within the mythos, the name _Morgai_ can't well...
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad
Oct 28, 2001 7:56 pm
Suilad, ... Is /ng/ the velar nasal, or the velar nasal + velar voiced stop, or the alveolar nasal + velar voiced stop? Just interested. Cuio mae, Pavel...
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad
Oct 28, 2001 7:52 pm
Suilad, ... Optative? Wow... (and why not, just for the hell of it!) I don't think there's a universally accepted theory on _aen_, and I would join Mr....
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo
Oct 28, 2001 7:29 pm
... _Turgon_ is probably a bad example, it being Sindarinized Quenya. The first element of _Morgai_ is perhaps the adj _morn_, so it'd be ...
