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  • Category: Tolkien, J.R.R.
  • Founded: Sep 5, 1998
  • Language: English
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Hello everyone! I've been lurking in this group for a couple of weeks and have really enjoyed the discussions. I can't add any value to the linguistic ...
5 Feb 28, 2002
7:19 am

cohlinn_list
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Suilad! Interesting news for all the interested in the Movie Elvish. Do you remember Elrond crying during the Battle of Last Alliance? Finally I have found...
15 Feb 28, 2002
6:51 am

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I've downloaded the Sindarin dictionary and learnt some words, but how do I really go about improving until I know how to piece together coherent sentences and...
11 Feb 28, 2002
5:20 am

skyfiery
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Hello I must admit that I havent learned much Quenya yet, but I thought maybe I should try it and let others correct me, so here goes my first Quenya poem:...
4 Feb 28, 2002
5:20 am

Thomas Ferencz
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Hello everyone im a new member and im interested in learning the runes and symbols of the black speech dos anyone know any good resources,i know and can write...
11 Feb 28, 2002
1:39 am

sshiskom
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Boris Shapiro, claiming his "right" to read Carl F. Hostetter's epistles, also defends the human rights of all the Elflingers by bringing us CFH's ... the...
3 Feb 27, 2002
9:35 pm

sara bellemare
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Aiya! One more point on that subject: I immensively liked the way that Jackson used Tolkien's languages to shape my feelings. That is not about keeping or...
1 Feb 27, 2002
8:04 pm

Boris Shapiro
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... tongues ... Nor do I! They were clearly his idea of much of what was beautiful in language. ... words. ... thousands of ... Sauron's Black Speech is an...
1 Feb 27, 2002
7:57 pm

peregrinejohn
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In E. Cloczko's "Dictionnaire..." I find the entry _arta_ meaning "fort, fortress" from Etym _3AR-_ sub _GARAT-_. But in other lexicons, like in the...
1 Feb 27, 2002
7:15 pm

Alex Grigny de Castro
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Aiya, I have tried to translate the first few lines of one of my favourite poems into Quenya. Here it is, please help me to sort my errors out... The Two Trees...
6 Feb 27, 2002
6:25 am

Jeremy
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Quenya on its way I found pararrel between Biblical Hebrew and Modern Hebrew with Anwa Quenya and 'Coirea Quenya' (non-exist yet?) quite powerful. Especially...
2 Feb 27, 2002
4:13 am

Kai MacTane
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Just thought I'd share a very interesting and sobering discussion of the divisions in the Revived Cornish movement: ...
1 Feb 27, 2002
3:51 am

endorendil
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Aiya, Hoping this hasn't already been discussed a hundred times, I wondered about the name Ninquelótë. I read in ETYM that the primitive form of the word for...
3 Feb 27, 2002
3:01 am

Vicente S. Velasco
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May I make a request for the moderators? Any discussion on quenya copyright or the current discussion on 'living&#39; quenya which quickly is boiling over into a...
2 Feb 26, 2002
2:05 pm

John Cowan
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Aiya, a simple haiku just for fun: Lómë helwassë Nimbë óressë Yúyo cuilenya qualtar Shadow in the sky Sadness in the heart Both are butchering my life I...
3 Feb 26, 2002
2:01 pm

Thomas Ferencz
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does anyone know what "true love" is in elvish script? email me @ big_botaltron@... thanx!...
3 Feb 26, 2002
1:47 am

Kai MacTane
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On a tengwar site, I saw an example of the ring enscription calligraphy, and one of the letters had a stem that was below and above the bow of the letter. What...
5 Feb 26, 2002
12:30 am

Gildor Inglorion
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Aiya Assailë Sailion! First of all apologies for double-posting my previous two questions; I had the impression they hadn't gone through for the first time. ...
4 Feb 25, 2002
11:20 pm

Helge K. Fauskanger
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... Well, neither is quite right. Yeah, Spanish and Portuguese have Latin roots, but so does French. There are Frankish influences, (and possibly slight ...
19 Feb 25, 2002
6:34 pm

David Kiltz
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teithant skyfiery ... * why dont you show your attempt? we could check your sample and try to correct it, but we can't help without it ...
1 Feb 25, 2002
1:14 pm

Gildor Inglorion
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Again Pavel Iosad states that Sindarin is VSO. After re-reading his previous posts on the subject, I still don't understand the logic. I WANT to understand; I...
6 Feb 25, 2002
7:14 am

Andreas Johansson
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Thank you for a comment. I revised it. Imbe lotsi mine sungwa limpeva ulyan uu-nildo. Ortala yulma Isil calima suilan san tultan leo yanen sii neldiemme. Isil...
1 Feb 25, 2002
2:43 am

sshiskom
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Greetings ! Some remarks about the Quenya version of this beautiful Chinese poem... ... Imbe i lotsi "between THE flowers" ? Sungwa "drinking vessel" might be...
2 Feb 25, 2002
2:14 am

sshiskom
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Aiya Subject: y? ... no, anna in this case is a carrier, like the long and the short.. the tehtar attach to the tengwar if possible, I can't remember for...
3 Feb 25, 2002
1:25 am

Carl F. Hostetter
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After posting a message two weeks ago or thereabouts, I realised that I haven't actually introduced myself formally. So here goes: I've enjoyed Tolkien's books...
1 Feb 25, 2002
12:39 am

Matthew Bladen
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Suilad, According to my transcription and Javier Lorenzo's interpretation the new Sindarin phrase used by Hugo Weaving (Elrond) in the video on the official ...
9 Feb 25, 2002
12:31 am

Beregond. Anders Sten...
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... drunk >(cf. next ... Is there any need in these cases to distinguish between continuative vs. aorist? I am hungry, he is drunk - simple adjectival...
4 Feb 24, 2002
8:06 pm

Kai MacTane
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I have a question concerning the trilled "r" in "The Fellowship of the Ring" film. Elrond (Hugo Weaving) calls Isildur several times but I don't hear the...
3 Feb 24, 2002
8:02 pm

D. Daniel Andriës
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... in an all-out death-match! Who will win?!? <g> Okay, so maybe the distinction isn't actually the stuff of the WWF. But I would like to get a better handle...
5 Feb 24, 2002
2:24 pm

Lukas Novak
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Dear Friends, a simple question: do we know of a word, suffix or anything in Quenya that means "too, as well"? Thomas ...
3 Feb 24, 2002
2:24 pm

Lukas Novak
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