... Where did you get your _or_ from? Greg - Tirno ... eGroups.com home: http://www.egroups.com/group/elfling http://www.egroups.com - Simplifying group...
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G.Dyke
g_dyke@...
Jun 4, 1999 3:29 am
... The dwarven language was Khudzul. The Cirth are runes invented by the woodland elves of Beleriand. The dwarves adopted these runes which can be found on...
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G.Dyke
g_dyke@...
Jun 4, 1999 3:29 am
... Frodo sailed away at the beginning of the fourth age which was the period when quenya was the speech for official occasions in gondor It gradually petered...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jun 4, 1999 3:29 am
... Well, to start with, "y" is always a consonant in Quenya ;-) I trust you inteded to write _síluva_ (_siiluva_). Also, _lye_ is not an independent word in...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jun 4, 1999 3:29 am
... Well if the rest of the alloy was weightless, you could have some one-third Platinum and still not be heavier than iron! To reach the aluminium-like weight...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jun 4, 1999 3:29 am
... Though not reaching the extreme weight of Platinum, Titanium aint very light either ( about 4.5 kg/m^3), so it don't feel likely to me. I believe that...
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Sune Foldager
cryo@...
Jun 4, 1999 3:29 am
... No, Cirth is an alphabet created by the Sindar Daeron in the first age, i believe. The language of the Dwarves is called Khuzdul. There is an article on it...
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Didier Willis
dwillis@...
Jun 4, 1999 3:29 am
... To tell the truth, I hesitated for two reasons... - First of all, since the nominative "who?" is _man_, I would have expected something like *mannen for...
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Edward Beattie
edward@...
Jun 4, 1999 3:29 am
Cirth isn't a language, it's a script, originally devised by Daeron to represent the sounds of Sindarin. Dwarves did use it, in a modified form, but whether to...
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BP Jonsson
bpj@...
Jun 4, 1999 3:29 am
... 'Nai elen oio nunsiluvalye' has a more Quenyan feel to it IMO. B.Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> <melroch@...> ...
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C17GMaster@...
Jun 4, 1999 3:29 am
I was thinking about various languages, few of which I know anything about. I realized that they all seem to use the same basic 'system' of writing words. An...
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C17GMaster@...
Jun 4, 1999 3:29 am
... ardalambion ... I actually checked that a while ago, and could interpret "Earth-Language." I guessed that it was plural possessive, but I am pathetic at...
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gfinsen@...
Jun 5, 1999 12:29 pm
I have a feeling that if we are going to apply Mithril to modern elements, then I would say the Aluminium is the front runner. It's processing would have been...
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Jerome S. Colburn
jscolbur@...
Jun 5, 1999 12:29 pm
... And here in Champaign, IL, we had for many years a "Moria Silver and Gold Co.", but they pronounced it /ma-'rai-a/ (as in Carey). Come to think of it, I...
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Jerome S. Colburn
jscolbur@...
Jun 5, 1999 12:29 pm
I beg everyone's pardon, and especially Mrs. Salo's, for spending more bandwidth on this thread, especially since Rich Alderson has already handled the purely...
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G.Dyke
g_dyke@...
Jun 5, 1999 12:29 pm
... I don't think so the earth has no clame on the languages spoken in it ... ....Not quite (I think). Having read the Silmarillion, you will know it's short...
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G.Dyke
g_dyke@...
Jun 5, 1999 12:29 pm
... Wait a sec, I'm getting confused. _oio_ is just a root meaning "ever", so although you can use it as a word, there's no point in doing so when we've got a...
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Didier Willis
dwillis@...
Jun 5, 1999 12:29 pm
... Balin's tombstone illustrates a mode known as 'Angerthas Moria'. There was also a slightly different variant, 'Angerthas Erebor', described in Appendix E. ...
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C17GMaster@...
Jun 5, 1999 12:29 pm
I have introduced myself a while back (I think). I didn't, however, mention which books I've read. I finished the Hobbit, and am in the last five or six ...
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Didier Willis
dwillis@...
Jun 5, 1999 12:29 pm
... Imaginary languages built on a word-per-word translation (i.e. where a given English word matches with exactly one word in the invented language) are...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jun 5, 1999 12:29 pm
... [Andreas Johansson:] ... inteded to write _síluva_ (_siiluva_). Also, _lye_ is not an independent word in Quenya, but an ending, usually denoting the...
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Victor J. Ippoliti
ippoliti@...
Jun 5, 1999 12:29 pm
Hmm...
Okay, I think I got it...:-)
One little thing. What is an "aorist" form?
Nai elen sile tyenna
(better?)
Alex
-----Original Message-----
From:...
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Victor J. Ippoliti
ippoliti@...
Jun 5, 1999 12:30 pm
Aiya queti! Seeing as I'm Roman Catholic, I thought it'd be pretty cool to translate the "Hail Mary" into Quenya. So, here goes. BTW, if anyone out there has a...
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Victor J. Ippoliti
ippoliti@...
Jun 5, 1999 12:30 pm
Could you explain the revision, especially "nunsiluvalye?" Temporarily out of order (Now totally confused) Alex ... From: BP Jonsson [SMTP:bpj@...] Sent:...
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Victor J. Ippoliti
ippoliti@...
Jun 5, 1999 12:30 pm
That comes from move.to/ardalambion. It is the site of Helge Fauskanger(sp?), about Middle-earth languages. I found it in the Quenya Corpus Wordlist. ...
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Victor J. Ippoliti
ippoliti@...
Jun 5, 1999 12:30 pm
Aiya queti! Here's another try at a sentence. Anart mi hendinya morna. Anart="sun is(-t=is)." mi="in." Hendinya="eyes(hendi)-my(nya)." Morna="dark." ...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jun 5, 1999 1:16 pm
... Seems I'm not that bright myself ;-) Should've been _siluva_ with short "i" everywere. Also, I've seen people using _tyenna_ instead of _lenna_. _Tyenna_...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jun 5, 1999 1:16 pm
... Except that it should finish "as the Latin alphabeth is to English". Both the Tengwar and the Cirth are alphabets. If we want to use "alphabet"; as the name...
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Dorothea Salo
dorothea@...
Jun 5, 1999 1:29 pm
Generally, I try to be pretty easygoing about matters of topic on Elfling. All I usually send back as off-topic are messages that pretty clearly are private,...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jun 5, 1999 1:29 pm
... I don't know where you've got _-t_ "is" from, but in any case a Q word can't end in _-rt_. Try _Anar ná_ "(the) Sun is" (or possibly _Anar ëa_. I'm not ...
