... **no problem. Helgi Friskybugger isn't the least bit sensitive about having his name misspelled. He even has a collection of some of the more amusing...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jun 1, 1999 10:50 pm
... speaking specifically of myself. The place I learned the most at is Helge Frauskenberger's (forgive my spelling of your name-sorry!) Ardalambion. This...
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lindril@...
Jun 1, 1999 10:49 pm
Thanks for those Quenya phrases! How about some Sindarin phrases now? On an unrelated note, what is the Quenya verb for search/look for? T.C. ... eGroups.com...
815
gfinsen@...
Jun 1, 1999 10:49 pm
Yes, Marillion is derived from Silmarillion. For some reason the Sil- was dropped, possibly by record company execs because the original name might be too...
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Boris Shapiro
elenhil@...
Jun 1, 1999 10:49 pm
Aiya! Just another technical question :) Looks like there's no attested word for "Evil" (as a noun) in Quenya. Maybe an adjective _uumea_ can produce a noun...
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Didier Willis
dwillis@...
Jun 1, 1999 10:49 pm
... There is also the word _manen_ "how", attested in *The Peoples of Middle-earth* ("How did the language of the eldar change ?"). This seems to imply some...
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Dim Globe
orgof@...
Jun 1, 1999 10:49 pm
Suilie, lambengolmor! As Mr.Fauskanger have noticed, we are desperately in need..."of some stranger's hand / in a desperate land" (The Doors). He's right! What...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jun 1, 1999 10:50 pm
... "March" is the english form of the german and swedish word "mark", originally "frontier"; (which meaning is preserved in Markgraf/markgreve "Border-Earl")....
820
C17GMaster@...
Jun 1, 1999 10:50 pm
During some research on platinum (because I was bored and wondered about the mithril/platinum conjecture), I found the following facts: 1 - Only gold and...
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Victor J. Ippoliti
ippoliti@...
Jun 1, 1999 10:50 pm
Aiya persons! Here's the first sentence I've ever tried in Quenya: Nai elen oiale syluva lye. May a star always shine on you. Probably many of you recognize...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jun 1, 1999 10:50 pm
... words. Does everybody else do this, or do people slowly become fluent in Quenya? If so, how long does it take? ** "As is the way of Elvish words, they...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jun 1, 1999 10:50 pm
... ** The genitive case *may* be used for "from" (cf. _Oiolosseo_ for "from Mount Everwhite" in Namaarie), but I think the ablative is easier understood:...
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Josu Gomez
josugp@...
Jun 1, 1999 11:02 pm
... Naarello tornonyar tuller, ar siinanna entuluvalme. ... I would say "urulambi";, as "urulooke";... ... "Onooro" is the word given by Etym for the familiar...
825
C17GMaster@...
Jun 3, 1999 2:19 am
... Actually, I found this on that Arda-lamba website. I found my problem quickly. I was searching for a _tuula_ and not _tul_ and was on the wrong page. I did...
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C17GMaster@...
Jun 3, 1999 2:19 am
Are there any Cirth dictionaries? If you don't know what Cirth is, you probably can't find a dictionary on it. Anyway, I believe that Cirth was the Dwarven...
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Jerome S. Colburn
jscolbur@...
Jun 3, 1999 2:19 am
... However, platinum is almost twice as heavy as lead, whereas mithril (or, more precisely, the "metal" that "the Dwarves could make of it") is described as...
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Jerome S. Colburn
jscolbur@...
Jun 3, 1999 2:19 am
... ...'course, he might have had the chance, later in Minas Tirith, to ask Galadriel for a copy... ...
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Serguei Chubukov
schubukov@...
Jun 3, 1999 2:19 am
... I've not idea about metals and stuff, but how about titanium? Isn't it mined in the Urals? (Geography and Chemistry, two things I was really bad at high ...
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lindael free
lindael@...
Jun 3, 1999 2:19 am
Finally I tried by miself to write ertainat tennoio in fêanor quenya. There's no probleme (Thank's the FEE). I just don't know how to writr the ...noio cause...
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G_Dyke@...
Jun 3, 1999 2:20 am
<01beac42.18381460.ippolit-@...> wrote: Original Article: http://www.egroups.com/group/elfling/?start=821 ... OK so far ... and again ... and again ... ...
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Irina Galoyan
greystar@...
Jun 3, 1999 2:20 am
Greetings! I'm mostly a lurker on this list, but now I have a question to ask. A couple of them, really. On Helge Fauskanger's site I've found a translation...
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Victor J. Ippoliti
ippoliti@...
Jun 3, 1999 2:20 am
hmm, sorry about that. I know how it feels, though. People misspell "Ippoliti"; into everything(Ippolito, Ippolepsy, Ippoleti...) Also, perhaps in "Nai elen...
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Victor J. Ippoliti
ippoliti@...
Jun 3, 1999 2:20 am
Hearing these, um, tales of great labor makes me ashamed to ask this, but oh well. Mr. FAUSKANGER(did I get it right this time?:-)), do you mind if I cheat and...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jun 3, 1999 2:27 am
Indeed, how *do* we make question-words in Quenya? ... Middle-earth* ("How did the language of the eldar change ?"). This seems to imply some kind of...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jun 3, 1999 2:27 am
... An honest attempt, and not very bad at all. For Sindarin _na-chaered_ I think I would have used Quenya _hairanna_ rather than _haiyanna_, and I am not...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jun 3, 1999 2:27 am
... The Qenya Lexicon lists _saka-_ "pursue, look for, search" (p. 81) and _tuku-_ "go in search of, look for, fetch". The latter may clash with the later verb...
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Vicentini Emanuele
vicentin@...
Jun 4, 1999 3:26 am
... This made me recall about Mithril Miniatures, a company producing 32mm pewter figurines on Middle-earth. I should have thought about it earlier :-) Saluti,...
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G.Dyke
g_dyke@...
Jun 4, 1999 3:26 am
... I just wanted to appologise for coming to an abrupt end yesterday: _Nai elen siluva tyenna oiale_ I believe the everlastingly (_oiale_) ought to go at the...
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BP Jonsson
bpj@...
Jun 4, 1999 3:26 am
I seem to have gotten some of the facts about Pt's (and Mithril's!) properties wrong, but still the conjecture was right since i was equally wrong about "both"...
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BP Jonsson
bpj@...
Jun 4, 1999 3:26 am
... The noun is probably 'uuma', since 'uumea' < *uumaya quite regularly. I prefer 'raitya'* or 'hwarya' "crookedness", 'uunir' or 'mornir' (<- 'niire' "will")...
