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| | RIANAR ALFERION: An Elvish Ogham |
 | | The chief language considered here is called Eranor and has linguistic ties and affinities to Quenya and Sindarin, but it is a separate language native to the Sarith star kingdoms, which are not part of Middle Earth. | | | All Elvish scholars who follow in Tokien's footsteps are inevitably indebted to him and are like dwarfs (or perhaps Hobbits) perched on the shoulders of a giant. | | | The Rianar are used for inscriptions of a magical nature and also for writing the languages of the Elves. |
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http://www.bardwood.com/RIANAR.HTML
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| | On Tolkien |
| | The archaic language of lore is meant to be a kind of Elven-latin, and by transcribing it into a spelling closely resembling that of Latin (except that y is only used a consonant as y in E. Yes) the similarity to Latin has been increased ocularly. | | | He viewed his languages as real languages that he was discovering, rather than inventing, and in one of his unfinished novels, The Lost Road, he has the protagonist, a philologist, gradually discover the lost words of a previously unknown tongue (Quenya or Sindarin), before being transported back into time towards the source of those words. | | | The Red Book was written in a language called Westron, which was the tongue of the hobbits who narrated the tale. |
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http://www.langmaker.com/ml0108.htm
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| | Elvish languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | His interest was primarily philological, and he said his stories grew out of his languages. | | | Interactive Elvish translator, a web page that allows you to write a sentence in English and see it translated to Elvish in real time | | | Eltharin, the language of the elves of Warhammer: |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvish_language
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| | www.nellardo.com - Elfling FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) List |
| | It is not pleasing to have someone with little real interest in the languages waltz in, demand an immediate translation into “Elvish” (some questioners do not even understand that there is more than one Elvish language!), and vanish into the ether as soon as their question is answered. | | | I have a fondness for the well-known textbook An Introduction to Language by Victoria Fromkin and Robert Rodman. | | | Often, particularly in the first edition, it is not even safe to assume that the word or name is composed of attested roots or is in accordance with known phonological and grammatical rules of the languages. |
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http://nellardo.com/lang/elf/faq.html
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| | Primitive Elvish - where it all began |
| | The Romance languages got their definite articles just like this: Their ancestor Latin had no word for "the", but the meaning of Latin demonstratives (typically ille, illa) was weakened to produce articles like la or el. | | | But even so, the primitive language would sound pretty outlandish to him, and he would hardly recognize it as a mere variant of his own tongue. | | | 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). |
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http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/primelv.htm
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| | JS Online: UW student helps translate 'Ring' speak |
| | He has immersed himself in Quenya and Sindarin, languages author J.R.R. Tolkien created for the inhabitants of Middle Earth featured in his beloved "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. | | | Once hired, Salo sent a tape of himself saying lines of dialogue in the Elvish languages to Andrew Jack and Roisin Carty, the film's dialect and language coaches, so they could teach the actors, including Cate Blanchett, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler and Elijah Wood. | | | The story follows Hobbit Frodo Baggins on a harrowing journey through Middle Earth, under the guidance of the wizard Gandalf, to destroy the all-powerful ring that the dark lord Sauron covets. |
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http://www.jsonline.com/onwisconsin/movies/dec01/6045.asp?format=print
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| | Resources for Tolkienian Linguistics |
| | Tolkien also here discovered "for the the first time the study of a language out of mere love", by which he meant "for the acute aesthetic pleasure derived from a language for its own sake, not only free from being useful but free from being the 'vehicle of a literature'". | | | Parma Eldalamberon 10 contains the late Taum Santoski's "Glossary of the Minor Languages in The Etymologies". | | | It was in the pages of this book, a copy of which was sold to him by a school-friend in 1908 or 1909, that Tolkien first "discovered... |
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http://www.elvish.org/resources.html
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| | Wren's Nest - Article Detail |
| | I sort of agree with the people who think learning a made up language spoken by made up characters is a bit silly. | | | The fact that they were created for a story does not diminish their beauty, nor does it make them "fake." If these students want to expand their horizons by learning another language, good for them. | | | As a lover of both Quenya and Sindarin (though I am much better with Quenya), to have a school teach Sindarin is like a dream come true. |
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http://www.witchvox.com/wren/wn_detail.html?id=9304
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| | FAQ for Elvish Linguistics |
| | This is a FAQ (or list of Frequently Answered Questions with the answers) which I am writing on the subject of Elvish Linguistics. | | | J. R.Tolkien wrote a book called the Lord of the Rings (now made into a major motion picture known as the Movie). | | | Q 15: Which books should I buy to learn the languages? |
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http://www.geocities.com/tyalie/faq.html
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| | yourDictionary.com • Tolkien's Invented Languages |
| | The Mannish languages, such as Adûnaic (or Númenorean), Taliska, and Drúedainic and Khuzdul, the secret language of the Dwarves are probably not represented well enough in Tolkien's writings for us to derive a clear ideas of them. | | | Languages of Middle Earth: An Encyclopedia of Tolkien Languages | | | Links to Tolkien Language Sites on the Web |
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http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/tolkien.html
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| | Ardalambion |
| | This is a revised, updated and expanded version, edited by Vicente Velasco and incorporating his extensive annotation on my original treatise (still available as an RTF file). | | | Index to the Qenya Lexicon by Elvish words - the corresponding Qenya-based guide | | | The Tengwar - download Daniel S. Smith's fonts for Tolkien's most beautiful Elvish script! |
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http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf
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| | Tyalie Tyelellieva |
| | This list provides a description of the unpublished manuscripts that are known to exist in addition to many manuscripts or texts which have been published in obscure and out of the way places (mainly fanzines or "tiny literary journals"). | | | This list gives information about the specifically linguistic interest of each of the standard works, mainly books, published by J.R.R.Tolkien, and/or edited by Christopher Tolkien, plus a few additional works by other people that I thought were of linguistic interest. | | | This translates, more or less, as "the games of the Elves who have come to perfect their music and poetry". |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/9902
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| | The Elvish Languages |
| | I chose Quenya over Sindarin to learn first largely because one of my primary motivations for learning Elvish was the desire to have a new and beautiful medium in which to write poetry. | | | When J.R.R. Tolkien was developing his stories of Middle Earth (most notably 'The Lord of the Rings') he actually invented several languages to varying degrees of completion. | | | Without that work learning this beautiful language wouldn't be possible. |
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http://home.insightbb.com/~vaught.jim/elvish.html
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| | BBC NEWS UK Education Do you speak Elf? |
| | Most of the children I come across can't even speak English, never mind French or German or any other useful language. | | | Which in English means, what a great idea - the more of us who can speak Elvish the better! | | | Quenya - related to Finnish - is largely a ceremonial language. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/3532003.stm
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| | elvish |
| | The Tengwar of Feanor, a table of letterforms resembling the beautiful Celtic half-uncial hand of the "Book of Kells". | | | Invented and described by J. Tolkien in "The Lord of The Rings" as an orthography for his fictional `elvish' languages, this system (which is both visually and phonetically elegant) has long fascinated hackers (who tend to be intrigued by artificial languages in general). |
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http://www.antionline.com/jargon/elvish.php
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| | artificial languages FAQ |
| | Reading some descriptions of natural languages that are drastically different from your own native tongue should also be considered a prerequisite. | | | Examples are the "pivot languages" or "interlinguas" used in some methods of automated translation. | | | Tolkien's "elvish" languages, the Klingon language from Star Trek, and the feminine language Laadan from Suzette Haden Elgin's novels are examples of this fascinating social phenomenon. |
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http://www.faqs.org/faqs/language/artificial-languages-FAQ
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| | Tolkien.co.uk |
| | How many languages have The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings been translated into? | | | Please note that these books are not published by HarperCollins. | | | The languages created by J.R.R.Tolkien are at the very center of his fictional work. |
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http://www.tolkien.co.uk/information/faq.asp
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| | village voice > arts > Arda, or Ardor by Paul LaFarge |
| | He prepared an edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight that is still used by students today. | | | Elvish is a delightful subject in a movie in which, frankly, there's not much to delight. | | | Tolkien's languages are beautiful, but their beauty does not account for their popularity; if he had created Quenya and Sindarin and let them be, we would have, at best, a pair of mellifluous alternatives to Esperanto, though with vastly more complicated grammars. |
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http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0203/lafarge.php
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| | Yamada Language Center: Tolkien Language Guide |
| | Resources for Tolkienian Linguistics - Links to sites and references to written literature concerning the Tolkien Languages. | | | Tolkien Font Library - Cirth, Elvish, Lothlorien, Rivendell, Tengwar Gandalf | | | List of Tolkien's Languages - A list of all of the languages in the Tolkien books with a short description of each. |
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http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides/tolkien.html
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| | The Elvish Linguistic Fellowship |
| | Diego Segui has very kindly provided his index of Vinyar Tengwar for publication here, in both English and (the original) Spanish versions. | | | Diego writes: "This index lists in alphabetical order all words, roots, affixes, etc. belonging to languages invented by J.R.R. Tolkien which appear attested, discussed or mentioned in the journal Vinyar Tengwar (VT). | | | Part I presents Eldarin Hands, Fingers and 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. |
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http://www.elvish.org
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| | Encyclopedia of Arda: Elvish |
| | The rich and ancient languages of the Elves | | | Other Elvish languages in Middle-earth include dialects derived from Sindarin (for example, the language of the Wood-elves of Thranduil). | | | A general term for the languages of the Elves. |
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http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/e/elvish.html
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| | GreenBooks.TheOneRing.net™ Ostadan's Lore & Letters Cent o Hedhellem Main |
| | Unfortunately, Tolkien himself never wrote a work explicitly describing the vocabularies, phonologies, and grammars for these languages, leaving his readers with the task of reconstructing them by inference on the basis of the material available, much as professional linguists reconstruct ancient languages. | | | This makes it difficult for the non-specialist to employ the Elvish languages effectively. | | | As he wrote in 1967 (in a suggested correction to an article about him), |
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http://greenbooks.theonering.net/ostadan/files/020101.html
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| | Lord of the Rings Movies Information TheOneRing.net™ News Archives |
| | Tolkien incorporated *elements* of Welsh and of Finnish into his Elvish languages, but the larger part of these constructed languages derives neither from Welsh nor from Finnish. | | | Perhaps only Marc Okrand's Klingon comes close, but Okrand was somewhat handicapped by being obliged to incorporate into his language various Klingon noises produced arbitrarily in the early films and given English translations. | | | His "hobby" with his Inkling friends of inventing languages and mythologies, and writing novels in order to exemplify them, is something I feel more negative about. |
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http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/8/991891727
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| | J.R.R Tolkien's Elvish Prayers |
| | Tolkien was a devout Catholic and he translated 6 of well-known Catholic prayers into his contrived Elvish languages. Among them the | | | ! I do not claim to be perfect in Elvish, but it is something to go by. | | | journal published these texts in Quenya with mimeographed copies of Tolkien's handwritten drafts (there were a few for the Our Father and Hail Mary as the Elvish was worked out over time). |
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http://www.kevinsymonds.com/elfpray.html
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| | Learn Elvish |
| | You see, there's no way to have a language in which lá can be both 'yes' and 'no' - so if you want to speak Quenya, you have to decide for one of them. | | | Why am I telling all this to you? | | | I absolutely love the Elvish languages, so I can understand that perfectly, and I wish you plenty of joy! |
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http://www.phy.duke.edu/~trenk/elvish/learn_elvish.html
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| | The Encyclopedia of Arda FAQ: Where can I learn to speak Elvish, or find an |
| | Linguists have been hard at work for many years working out the details of the Elvish languages, and a great deal of information is to be found on the Web. | | | The other major linguistic source in Tolkien's own work is a document entitled The Etymologies, published in volume V of The History of Middle-earth (The Lost Road). | | | There are plenty of sites dedicated to Tolkien's languages, but special mention should be made of Ardalambion, which is probably one of the most extensive linguistic sources on the Web, and provides a downloadable course in Quenya, the High-elven tongue. |
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http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/faq/elvish.html
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| | Dictionary of the Elvish Languages |
| | Endari: 'Middle-day', the middle of the year in the Elvish calendar. | | | Eldarin: Quenya word referring to the generic name given to languages spoken by the Elves, Quenya and Sindarin. | | | Firith: Sindarin word for 'Fading', also the fourth season of the Elvish year. |
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http://rivendell.fortunecity.com/hobbit/10/dictionary.htm
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| | elvish |
| | The Lord of The Rings as an orthography for his fictional ‘elvish’ languages, this system (which is both visually and phonetically | | | elegant) has long fascinated hackers (who tend to be intrigued by artificial languages in general). |
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/E/elvish.html
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| | LINGUIST List 6.837: Tolkien's Elvish languages |
| | - ondo Q[uenya] 'stone' S/359 (p.180) - Sakao iedh 'stone' (there is a pervading correspondence e/o throughout Austronesian languages, and I am *not* making that up!). | | | (This, of course, started as a spoof of Proto-World) Is Elvish Austronesian or has Sakao (Espiritu Santo) an Elvish substratum? | | | As I was looking for an Elvish cognate for my Proto-World *hu(n)t I came across (and the whole effort took me perhaps five minutes, writing it down much longer, however): 1. |
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http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/linguist/issues/6/6-837.html
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| | The Elvish Languages of North America |
| | I hope you will find all of the information you are looking for about my Elvish languages. | | | On this site you'll find information about my languages and maps, along with descriptions of my Elvish tongues. | | | My languages are here to provide unique adventures for minds. |
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http://ishtarian0.tripod.com
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