My daughter and I are just starting to learn Quenya as a hobby together, and she and I were playing around with a few words. We had a question (which I'm sure...
David Salo's message #6861 (yep, mine) was, as my fellow list managers have pointed out, needlessly inflammatory and in violation of our protocols on civility,...
Today, I found the following article in the Encyclopedia Britannica: ELF _plural_ Elves, in Germanic folklore, originally, a spirit of any kind, later...
Aiya Eldalambendili! I've wrote a song about Feanor in Quenya. Please let me know if I have any errors in it. Thanks, Yehuda Ronen (GandAlf). .: Quenya :. ... ...
Under BEL in Etym we find N _belt_ "strong in body" from ON _belda_, and under DEL N _doll_ "obscure" from PQ _ndulnâ_ has a side form _dolt_, presumeably via...
Greetings ! ... since the cluster ñw (Exilic nw) doesn't appear between vowels : it is replaced by -ngw- ; example : Common Eldarin *teñwâ > Quenya tengwa...
Hello I'm new to the list, thinking I would share my first faltering steps with the tengwar with the people who know. I have to say I quickly lept into a...
... **It doesn't *seem* to make them happy. It seems to upset them terribly. My source of information for this statement is Bill Welden who says that Helge's...
... Really? I can think of no situation in which this is the case. If you know of some, I'd be interested to hear of them. ... Including idiots like me who ...
According to Lisa Star's web site, _Tyalie Tyelellieva_ 18 will be published in December of this year, and will contain an analysis of Tolkien's Quenya...
Anyone have any examples of their calligraphy in ME lingos and
normal ones as well.
I mean more like calligraphy and illumination, or in many Islamic
forms...
... proportion to the total amount of text in Tolkien's books; the amount is therefore very small. ... true, I could blithely republish, say, the whole of...
Hi everyone, I'm a second year linguistics student at the University of Bangor, North Wales. I'm very interested in the works of Tolkien especially his...
A proposal: Let's move the copyright discussion to a special place or else let's agree on an abbreviation in the "subject" header. What about CRD (for...
... [snip] **Julian (or anyone else who is interested) may wish to look at my website which gives several instances of various types of behaviour on the part...
Just a note to say "Thank you" to all the participants in the current discussion of copyright, dictionaries, etc. While the disagreements have remained as...
<snip> Hi all. With regards to such arguments I think the expression "Publish and be damned" is in order. Just publish the stuff and if worse comes to worse,...
Since David now has time again to participate on this list, I wonder if he could take a few minutes and discuss his ideas on the Sindarin ending _-ch_, and the...
... Since, almost by definition, you don't know about those who do not wish to share their work with others, how can you possibly justify this claim that there...
Greetings ! Thanks to Yehuda Ronen for his beautiful Song of Feanor ! As he asked for, here are some remarks about the translation. Line 11 : Nelde mirili...
Greetings ! Here is an attempt of translation of Goethe's most famous ballad, and probably the most famous piece of his poetry : Erlkönig, The Erl-king. I've...
I myself in fact hold anarchy to be an ideal. That is, anarchy in the strict, literal sense. Anarchy, properly understood, is simply the absence of rule. As a...
... Patrick is taking this letter far too seriously. I should point out that Tolkien also deplored the practice of people borrowing The Lord of the Rings...
Aiya Eldalambendili! I made a site with my compositions in and about Quenya (and other things). Its address is: http://my.ort.org.il/tolkien/gandalf Comments,...
Hi, Does anyone out there know how to spell "elven archer" in tengwar letters, preferrably in quenya and not just transliterated from English (although that...
Greetings ! I wouldn't be too surprised if the thema of this mail has already been debated on before… Quenya perfects are formed by adding the ending -ie,...
Well, the movie soundtrack is now released on CD. (And, no, you don't have to buy all the different covers :-) The booklet contains the lyrics for a number of...
Anyone have a copy or know here on the net where to get thet
chart, sort of looks like a cockeyed square, that shows the
letters sounds and their placing in...
Suilad! Welcome to Gwaith-i-Phethdain: I have added the first part of the language analysis of the lyrics from the LotR movie soundtrack. You can see two ...
