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 | | In fact, the Silmarillion Index refers to Quenya as "the ancient tongue, common to all Elves, in the form it took in Valinor" in Aman - as if Quenya was so similar to Primitive Elvish that it was merely as a later form of it, not a new language. | | | We know that Aragorn gave a High-elven name to his son Eldarion, who succeeded him on the throne of Gondor when he died in the year 120 of the Fourth Age. | | | It is stated that the Noldor "were changeful in speech, for they had great love of words, and sought ever to find names more fit for all things that they knew or imagined" (Silm. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/rings/elvendom/ih.html
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| | Primitive Elvish - where it all began |
| | It should be noted that one early idea was rejected later: the notion that the Elves did not invent language on their own, but learnt Valarin from Oromë (LR:168). | | | However, the style of "the ancient tongue" in many respects differed markedly from later Quenya, and generally the word Quenya should not be applied to it at all. | | | The name of the Vala Oromë is really adapted from Valarin (an early Eldarin form was Arâmê), but in later ages the Eldar took the name to mean "horn-blowing", wrongly supposing that it contained the verbal noun ending -mê (WJ:400). |
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http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/primelv.htm
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| | ..::Languages of Middle Earth::.. |
| | After Iluvatar (God) created the Earth, there were three basic languages in Aman: Valarin, the language of the 'gods', Primitive Quendian, the language of the Elves and Khuzdul, the language of the Dwarves. | | | When the Noldor rebelled in Aman and went into exile in Middle Earth, they took their language, the Noldorin Quenya, with them. | | | Primitive Quendian then split into Common Eldarin and Avarin, the languages of the Dark Elves. |
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http://www32.brinkster.com/riennoraina/lesson2.html
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| | who was turgeon? - THE TOLKIEN FORUM |
| | The -gon in Turgon comes from the Quenya kano 'commander' (deriving from the more archaic 'herald' or 'crier'), and derived from the Common Eldarin kan 'cry, call aloud'. |
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http://www.thetolkienforum.com/showthread.php?t=7958
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| | The Grey Havens - Middle-earth: Sindarin - the Noble Tongue |
| | When Ar-Gimilzôr "forbade utterly the use of the Eldarin tongues" in the 3100s of the Second Age, we must assumed that even the Bëorians dropped Sindarin and took up Adûnaic instead (UT:223). | | | The Númenóreans started to envy the immortality of the Elves, and eventually they turned away from their ancient friendship with Aman and the Valar. | | | The prominent name Fëanor is in fact a compromise between pure Quenya Fëanáro and the "correct" Sindarin form Faenor ("correct" in the sense that this is what primitive *Phayanâro would have become in Sindarin, if this name had actually occurred in Common Eldarin in ancient times). |
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http://tolkien.cro.net/mearth/tolklang/sindarin.html
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| | Tolkien Obsession |
| | In the Autumn Quarter of 2003, I took a course entitled "Historical Linguistics and the Languages of Tolkien's Middle Earth." This was not a class to learn the languages, but rather the history of the languages and how they came to exist in their present forms as derived from a common Eldarin tongue. | | | I will post my final assignment here, which, among other things, was to create a family tree of the Elven tongues. |
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http://home.uchicago.edu/~shburch/tolkien.html
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| | THE EVERYTHING PAGE |
| | (Appendix A) Eldarin adjective derived from Elda (Silm) | | | Aldúya fourth day of the Eldarin six-day week, dedicated to the Trees | | | gleaming-in" = "in the moon gleaming"); Isilya third day of the Eldarin six-day |
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http://members.aol.com/atp1tgas/myhomepage/profile.html
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| | Conlang Directory: Fiction: Tolkien |
| | The Common Speech of men, dwarves and hobbits, and the original language of the fictional manuscript to The Lord of the Rings. | | | While it was derived from Adûnaic, Tolkien never specified the exact relationship between the languages. | | | The tongue of the Valar, the angelic spirits who inspire the stories of The Silmarillion. |
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http://www.langmaker.com/db/condir_fictiontolkien.htm
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| | Emblems and Heraldry |
| | The Red Eye was the common symbol for Sauron in the Third Age, even when talking about him as a person [13, 16]. | | | It symbolizes his watching from the Dark Tower all over Middle-earth, especially after the One Ring. | | | When Morgoth slew Fingolfin, his shield was "sable unblazoned" and his armour was black. |
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http://www.forodrim.org/gobennas/heraldry/heraldry.htm
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| | Common Eldarin Pronouns |
| | The demostrative Sindarin pronouns are derived directly from their Common Eldarin ancestors: | | | The demostrative Quenya pronouns are derived directly from their Common Eldarin ancestors: | | | Quenya, the speech of the Elves of Eldamar and of the Noldor Exiles in Middle-earth, is a logical and elaborate language. |
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http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/ce_pronouns.htm
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| | List of Tolkien's Languages |
| | It is not clear exactly what is meant by these names nor how these languages relate to each other, but there are at least a few words attested for each. | | | Silvan Dialects in the Third Age were spoken by the Elves of Lorien and Mirkwood; the speech of the Elves of Mirkwood is called a Woodland dialect. | | | In addition, based on the same sorts of techniques which linguists normally use to study languages, and which Tolkien used to develop his languages, it is possible to determine the forms of unattested words in such languages as the Telerin of Aman and of the Ilkorin dialects. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/9902/langlst.html
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| | OLDSIND |
| | Originally esdê was evidently a common noun "repose"; in WJ:404, Pengolodh observes that while the Quenya and Telerin forms (Estë, Êde) had come to be used only as a name of the goddess, the Sindarin word îdh still had a general meaning "rest". | | | The primitive form is given as barasâ (accented on the final syllable), showing the common adjectival ending -â. | | | This suggests that here, the ending -ê was originally abstract only, though the fact that there was a feminine ending of the same form would have made the word easily applicable as a fem. |
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http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/oldsind.htm
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| | It as used by the High Elves who had returned in exile to Middle-earth at the end of the First Age. | | | Though they used the language of the Eldarin form. |
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http://www.siapedia.homestead.com/question.html
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| | wikien.info: Main_Page |
| | The history of Middle-earth is divided into three time periods, known as the Years of the Lamps, Years of the Trees and Years of the Sun. | | | Rohirric - spoken by the Rohirrim - represented in the Lord of the Rings by Old English | | | These languages were related, and a Common Eldarin form ancestral to them both is postulated. |
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http://www.alanaditescili.net/index.php?title=Middle-earth
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| | The One Ring: Annotated LotR Project: Flight to the Ford |
| | As noted earlier in the annotations to this chapter, Tolkien strongly objected to attempts to derive Elvish words from roots in "real-world" languages. | | | Tolkien commented on 'Hoarwell' in his guide to translators: |
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http://neb2.gotdns.com:8080/torc/completed_newformat/81429.html
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| | Dictionary - Quenya Quenya |
| | Common To Elvish The tongue of Tel'Quessir is being summoned for your use. | | | Elvish to Common The tongue of Tel'Quessir is being summoned for your use. | | | However, keep in mind that the Quenya lambë ("Elvish tongue") is far more complicated than just jamming two nifty words together. |
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http://www.18things.com/quenya
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| | Tolkienion Lexicon Letter Q |
| | The ancient tongue, common to all Elves, in the form that it took in Valinor; brought to Middle-earth by the Noldorin exiles, but abandoned by them as a daily speech, especially after the edict of King Thingol against its use. | | | Not named as such, but referred to as Eldarin or High Eldarin or High Speech. |
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http://www.tolkienion.com/lexicon/comp_q.html
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| | Quenya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Third House, the Teleri, spoke a different, closely related language: Telerin, although this was by some seen as a dialect of Quenya which is untrue in a historic perspective but plausible in a linguistic one; the languages do not share a common history but are very much alike. | | | This is probably the case because of the enduringly close relationship the Vanyar had with the Valar. | | | It was the language that developed among those non-Telerin Elves that reached Valinor (the "High Elves") from an earlier language called Common Eldarin. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quenya
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| | The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum - Orcish Fear |
| | Only learned folk make meaningless distinctions, because they are fond of distinctions, as they are of fitting each little thing into its own neat little box. | | | Before the Elves knew differently, they called any creature of Darkness or prowling creature by the term (Common Eldarin = rauko) (Quenya = urko) (Sindarin = urug) uruk; including orcs, trolls, balrogs (see Valarauko), and whathaveyou). | | | In many Christian countries, even now, the common folk treat saints as though they are gods, and in religions like Santeria they actually are gods. |
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http://forum.barrowdowns.com/archive/index.php/t-4437
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| | The Grey Havens - Middle-earth: Nandorin - the Green-elven tongue |
| | Concerning the relationship between the Green-elven and Grey-elven tongues, it is stated that "although the dialects of the Silvan Elves, when they again met their long separated kindred, had so far diverged from Sindarin as to be hardly intelligible, little study was needed to reveal their kinship as Eldarin tongues" (UT:257). | | | This umlaut must have developed independently of the Sindarin umlaut on the other side of the Misty Mountains (there is no trace of umlaut in Quenya and the Telerin of Aman, languages that evolved from Common Eldarin after the separation of the Nandor from the other Eldar, just like Sindarin did). | | | All that is known of the Nandorin tongue is some thirty words, most of which are found in the Etymologies. |
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http://tolkien.cro.net/mearth/tolklang/nandorin.html
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| | Articles - Ent |
| | Ents are not hasty creatures, they take their time; even their language is "unhasty". | | | In fact, their language appears to be based on an ancient form of Common Eldarin, later enriched by Quenya and Sindarin, although it includes many unique 'tree-ish' additions. | | | In this meaning of the word, Ents are one of the staples of fantasy and folklore/mythology, alongside wizards, knights, princesses, and dragons, although modern English-speakers would probably not call them by their traditional name. |
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http://www.lastring.com/articles/Ents?mySession=7b97acfd7b2f599960427efc79120ce6
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| | Quenya or Sindarin......? - THE TOLKIEN FORUM |
| | Exilic Quenya and Sindarin (a Quenya term) are different languages naturally "related" ~ generally all the Elvish tongues would be related to a common primitive ancestor, working backwards (going deeper back in time) on an imagined and complicated "tree" of Elvish language and dialect. | | | Comparing the two is a bit like English and German, or perhaps Italian and Latin; lots of similarities but substantial differences. | | | Yes, as Cir said, Sindarin is the common Elvish language, used both by all the Elves and many learned Men in Middle-Earth. |
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http://www.thetolkienforum.com/showthread.php?t=2389
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| | The Lord of The Rings - Learning Elvish Lesson 16-20 |
| | This table is based on an account of Eldarin numerals written by Tolkien in the late sixties, published in VT42:24-27 (also see the editorial notes on pp. | | | A new example was published in January 2002: It turns out that in one incomplete Quenya translation of the Gloria Patri, Tolkien used fairë aistan as the dative form of "Holy Spirit"; here fairë means "spirit" and the adjective aista "holy" follows it, and the dative ending -n is appended to the latter word (VT43:37). | | | Tolkien indicated that the word for "fifth" had earlier been either lemenya or lepenya (with the same ending as in minya etc.), but this "irregular" form was later replaced by lempëa by analogy with the simple cardinal lempë "five". |
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http://www.thelordoftherings.ca/elvish/lesson4.html
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| | Quenya Phonological Tables |
| | Finally it may have remaind until after the long final vowels were shortened (to explain the Book Quenya long-vowelled accusative). | | | This event foreshadows the end of the Common Eldarin period. | | | Finally the Vanyar, Noldor and, sometime later, part of the Lindar (Teleri) reached Aman: they are known as the Calaquendi (Elves of the Light). |
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http://www.xs4all.nl/~xelag/quenya_phonetic_tables.html
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| | Dictionary - Sindarin Sindarin |
| | an account of the Common Eldarin words for 'hand' and their descendants in Quenya, Telerin, and Sindarin, followed by a brief discussion of | | | Un guide pour les dissidants de la reconstruction de mots en Sindarin | | | On-line Sindarin search engine and downloadable PDF dictionary. |
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http://www.18things.com/sindarin
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| | Silmarillion Dictionary K-N |
| | Mirkwood M [Common Speech]; Middle English mirke, Old English mirce dark, evil [English: murky]; | | | Eldarin RUSSA brownish-red, S ross (also see RUSKA- brown {Etym})]; this latter element was | | | Words of the languages of the Rohirrim, Hobbits and Common Speech are traced to possible roots in the |
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http://www.quicksilver899.com/Tolkien/SILM/SILM_KN.html
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| | David Salo English |
| | Q: Do you intend to publish your book in other languages ? | | | A: It's a common misconception that you had to have been on site to work on the film. | | | I do think that a complete reconstruction of Common Eldarin, more than appears in A Gateway to Sindarin, would be desirable. |
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http://ambar-eldaron.com/david_english.htm
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| | Silmarillion Dictionary O-Y |
| | LotR], from ÓROK- goblin [Etym] through an ancient Common Eldarin root *RUKU, referring to | | | the early Common Eldarin base is taken to be *SRAWE 'flesh', which would produce Q hráv-, S | | | Words of the languages of the Rohirrim, Hobbits and Common Speech are traced to possible roots in the |
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http://www.quicksilver899.com/Tolkien/SILM/SILM_OY.html
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| | Mellonath Daeron : The Development of the Elvish Languages |
| | Common Eldarin: It is unclear wether or not Common Eldarin can be considered a clearly distinguishable language, or if it was just a convenient linguistic term, used when describing elements common in the Eldarin languages (similar to today's usage of "Common Germanic"). | | | Quendian: The common language of all the Quendi when Orome found them at Cuiviénen [1]. | | | Very little is known about these languages; one of their late representatives was the Silvan of the Vale of Anduin. |
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http://www.forodrim.org/daeron/md_ldev2.html
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| | Rúmil was one of the Noldor who refused the summons of Fëanor, and he remained in Tirion as one of the Noldor of Finarfin, where he presumably remains still. | | | Rúmil was also a skilled linguist, and when the Teleri finally arrived in Valinor he was first to discover just how the Telerin language had changed from Common Eldarin compared to Quenya. |
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http://www.yourencyclopedia.net/rumil.html
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| | From Common Eldarin as which is related to ar |
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http://www.xs4all.nl/~xelag/quenya_vocab_particles.html
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| | Elvish |
| | This alphabet is only the most common and further information on writing can be obtained from the appendices of The Return of the King. | | | The dictionaries, with few exceptions, do not contain proper names, but virtually all names appearing in the references can be translated from this dictionary, provided that care is taken to recognize sound changes (herein explained) and to correctly partition compound names. |
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http://home.netcom.com/~heensle/lang/elvish/elvish.html
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| | I Lam Arth |
| | The more common way to express possessives in Sindarin is by using forms which apparently behave like adjectives (i.e. | | | This can be done without referring to the attested Sindarin pronouns and their attested use and is hence rather independent of grammatical interpretation (only well-known phonetical shifts are applied). | | | This indicates that hono should in fact not be taken as a variant of ho, although we will postpone its interpretation until part three of this article. |
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http://sindarin.weet.us/pro_renk.html
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| | Common lore has it that adjectives follow a noun and are lenited in this position. | | | A common assumption is that predicative adjectives are in general unlenited, since there is a gap created by the absence of the word 'to be' (which must have been present in primitive Elvish) and it is intuitively plausible that a mutation could not develop over this gap. | | | As it is, however, we are unable to decide this question now (and the distinction has little importance for writing Sindarin sentences which is fine with just the fact that there's no additional lenition for indirect objects without explanation). |
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http://sindarin.weet.us/mutations.html
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| | Articles - Teleri |
| | Their tongue, known as Telerin or Lindalambë (tongue of the Lindar), was considered by some to be a dialect of Quenya, but the Teleri themselves considered it to be an independent language. | | | In the early versions of Tolkien's mythology (see: The History of Middle-earth), they were known as Solosimpi ("Pipers of the Shores"), while the name Teleri was given to the clan of Elves known in the published version of The Silmarillion as Vanyar. | | | It was much more conservative than Quenya, and was the closest to Common Telerin (from which Sindarin and Nandorin were also derived), and even to Common Eldarin of the later Elvish languages. |
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http://lastring.com/articles/Teleri?mySession=005b20a549c77fe15a750e5e927e...
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| | Eldarin Común |
| | Eldarin común condujo a las idiomas más últimas Quenya, Telerin, Sindarin, y varias idiomas de Nandorin. | | | Eldarin común partido de Quendian primitivo, de la lengua original de todo el Quendi, o de duendes, cuando el Eldar dejó Cuiviénen. | | | English version: Common Eldarin Next: Quendian Primitivo Up |
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http://www.yotor.net/wiki/es/el/Eldarin%20Com%FAn.htm
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| | Sindarin |
| | When the Noldor returned to Middle-earth at the beginning of the First Age, the Noldor and the Sindar were not able to understand each other since their languages have developed differently during their long separation. | | | The Sindarin tongue shared common roots with Quenya, and the two languages had many similar words. | | | It was the most prominent descendant, with the Quenya, of the Common Eldarin, the languages speaking by the Elves who make the Great March. |
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http://khallandra.tripod.com/sindarin/intro.htm
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| | Middle Earth Languages |
| | This language the primary language of Men and Hobbits however Elves, Dwarves, Wizards and even Orcs also use The Common Language. | | | The Common Language is the same language nowadays spoken by everyone. | | | Its roots lie in Common Eldarin, the root of Quenya, Telerin, Sindarin and Nandorin but it's closest ancestor is the Common Telerin tongue. |
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http://hometown.aol.com/annunheled4/myhomepage/lotr.html
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| | Lord of the Rings Movies Information TheOneRing.net™ News Archives |
| | Part I presents 'Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals' (HFN) proper, an unfinished "historical-philological" essay that provides an account of the Common Eldarin words for 'hand' and their descendants in Quenya, Telerin, and Sindarin, followed by a brief discussion of Elvish ambidexterity. | | | Included after HFN is a related text on the invention of the Common Eldarin stems for 'neter' 9, 'kanat' 4, and 'enek' 6, which serves as a sort of alternative ending for the essay. | | | The essay then details the Eldarin names for the fingers (and toes), including children’s "play-names" that treat the fingers as the members of an imaginary family: father, mother, and children; and it concludes by showing how the finger-names were closely connected with the development of numerical stems in Common Eldarin. |
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http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/8/1107830112
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| | A Gateway to Sindarin |
| | The discussion of Sindarin compound words on the other hand is a different matter. | | | A critical view on the presentation of the verbal system has already been given in some detail above: The presentation suffers strongly from the fact that Salo tries to force attested forms to conform to his ideas rather than let the attested forms guide the development of his theory. | | | It so happens that Tolkien himself describes the derivation gapna > gampa > gamp in VT47:20 where we also find the Common Eldarin form of cam - it is kambâ (VT47:7) and the result of kab-mâ (VT47:12), i.e. |
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http://www.phy.duke.edu/~trenk/elvish/salo_discussion.html
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| | Tolkien's Tongues |
| | Given these two subgroupings, the early and the late, the question arises, "which of these two does the attested data in the later works more strongly support?" To answer this question, I have collected data on all three of the Eldarin languages, so that they can be compared. | | | The real question is whether Sindarin is more closely related to Quenya, as was the case in the earlier conception of middle earth, or whether it is most closely related to Telerin, as is the case in the later version. | | | This is where things get interesting, so to speak, because different traits are shared by different pairs of these languages. |
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http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~littlerose/tolkien/115project4.htm
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| | This is not strictly true, in the same way that we do not 'come from' apes. | | | Letters merely represent sounds when we write - they are not the sounds themselves. | | | Dutch, like English has lost this final sound, but Dutch has also now lost the giveaway letters too! |
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/silmerina/quensind.htm
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| | Such constructions are common enough in the languages of our own world (e.g. | | | These will normally be referred to by book (denoted by the common abbreviations) and page. | | | The Valar being the most prominent }{\b\lang2057 Ainur}{\lang2057 in Arda, }{\b\lang2057 \'e1ya}{\lang2057 came to refer especially to the }{\i\lang2057 awe}{\lang2057 the Elves felt for these mighty spirits, and the word took on a noble sense.) Primitive }{\b\lang2057 g\'e2y\'e2}{\lang2057 was derived from a Common Eldarin stem }{\scaps\lang2057 gaya}{\lang2057 "awe, dread" (cf. |
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http://filebox.vt.edu/a/adsmith4/Quenya/ataremma.rtf
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| | The Reckoning of Time |
| | The only potential reason is maybe a desire to set the Númenorean reckoning deliberately apart from its Eldarin origins, which may then indicate that it was actually a product of the late Kings who were already under the Shadow. | | | This is the only Elvish calendar preserved in some detail, but as seen before, it featured many details that were already present in the most common Eldarin calendar of the First Age. | | | The first of these was the Bree Reckoning, originally identical to the Númenorean mode except that the year 1 B.R. corresponded to 1300 TA and the names of months and days were applications of the Northern Mannish translations, not the common Quenya forms. |
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http://rover.vistecprivat.de/~lalaith/Tolkien/Time.html
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| | Poisoned Ranger TP! |
| | The grey disperses as swiftly as it came, and he says approvingly, "It shall not be long, ere this Fastvard becomes a happy man in the autumn of his years - is that common among your people?" | | | "Though I think the Common Speech fairer than some that I have heard spoken, I must agree with your description of it, and if we are not to judge mellyn, who might? | | | Perhaps a judge is not needed..." Letting his gaze rise to Rigada and Erethringil in turn, there is a brief silence before, "But will you not join us, as my kinsman says, 'neath a clear and star-lit sky? |
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http://www.anycities.com/user1/tolion/logs/dangelydh26.html
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