I'm currently doing an essay on the elven languages of Tolkien, and one thing I'm discussing is the "real world" sources of Quenya; how Quenya relates to other...
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lord_bergen
Jul 9, 2003 11:13 am
Well I don't know much about the language, but Tolkien used the language from Karelia (at the border between Finland and Russia) as a source of inspiration. ...
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Aaron Shaw
maethorgalad
Jul 10, 2003 12:14 am
My many thanks to everyone. Your responses have been most enlightening. I do have some follow up questions though that I would like to present for discussion...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Jul 10, 2003 12:00 pm
... The grammar mutations evolved the same time with the internal mutations. So the correct process would be *atele *kalrondo -> Adel@ gallond@ -> Adel gallon ...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Jul 12, 2003 3:41 am
... Since at least the publication of _The Lost Road_ in 1987, it has been widely recognized that the Eldarin tongues, at least as exhibited from the latter...
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Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Jul 12, 2003 4:15 pm
Carl F. Hostetter wrote, regarding Helge Fauskanger's statement that the Noldorin pa.t. _mudas_ (< _mudo_ 'labour, toil', < MÔ-) is "totally abnormal" and...
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cgilson75
Jul 14, 2003 12:02 am
I am pleased to announce that copies of _Parma Eldalamberon_ no. 12 are once again available for purchase. This issue contains the "Qenyaqetsa" by J.R.R....
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minas_tsulis
Jul 16, 2003 1:27 pm
I have a question concerning the entry SEL-D- in _Etymologies_: We there have the word _selde_. After the change of the etymology from "daughter"; to "child" we...
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Hans
gentlebeldin
Jul 20, 2003 12:57 pm
... Certainly not, especially since there is some evidence that a Noldorin word with suffix _-s_ actually may be the cognate of a Quenya word with suffix...
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Michael Everson
evertype
Aug 4, 2003 9:29 pm
I am looking for people to review a Tengwar mode for Irish. If you're interested, please write to me privately. I'd prefer it if reviewers really knew...
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Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Aug 8, 2003 12:16 am
In _The Lord of the Rings_, the "Huorns" are sentient, shadowy trees, who lurk in the less savory corners of Fangorn Forest and, thanks to an abiding hatred of...
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Edward J. Kloczko
laurifindil
Aug 8, 2003 10:08 pm
... Not quite, not quite. ;-) ;-) ;-) Several years ago, I came to the same conclusion as you, cf. my book "Le dictionnaire des langues des Hobbits, des Nains,...
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Hans Georg Lundahl
hglundahl
Aug 10, 2003 12:59 pm
Patrick Wynne wrote: "Here phonology provides the probable answer; for on analogy with the cognate pair Q _róma_ 'loud sound, trumpet-sound' = N _rhû_ (in...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Aug 10, 2003 10:43 pm
I would like to extend Pat's comments with two of my own: First, a chart of the phonological developments from Primitive Eldarin to Noldorin or to Sindarin,...
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Edward J. Kloczko
laurifindil
Aug 12, 2003 5:34 pm
Patrick H. Wynne wrote ... No, all the US publishing houses I have approached have declined it because of the usual copyright problem. ... No I haven't gone...
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Edward J. Kloczko
laurifindil
Aug 12, 2003 7:01 pm
I bought last week a new book in German by W. Krege, the translator of LOTR into German; he has done a new translation of the book. His book, or should I shay...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Aug 27, 2003 5:37 pm
In an etymological note on the Quenya name _Itaril(lë)_ (S _Idril_) in the late (c. 1968-69, see XII:331) essay _The Shibboleth of Fëanor_, we find the...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Aug 28, 2003 1:33 pm
... While I'm not aware of any language having a 'tense' stem dichotomy, forming participles from aorist stems *instead* of from present stems, Old Greek and...
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad
Aug 29, 2003 12:40 pm
Hello, ... A somewhat similar situation obtains in Russian. Even though Russian does not possess the necessary distinction, still a correlation between the...
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Hans Georg Lundahl
hglundahl
Aug 29, 2003 4:06 pm
Wrote CHF in Pavel Iosad's post: "What I'm trying to get at is some indication of how likely it is that a language that has a clear present participle vs. past...
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cgilson75
Sep 13, 2003 3:09 am
Occasional discussion here of the nature of the influence of Finnish on Qenya eventually led me to my university library to reconsult their copy of the first...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Sep 13, 2003 3:30 pm
... Which it does not. The use of both _w_ and _v_ to represent the same sound is only from cofusion of orthographies. Old Finnish spelling (before the...
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad
Sep 13, 2003 5:03 pm
Hello, Christopher Gilson wrote an fascinating essay on Kalevala influence in Tolkien's early Qenya. Among other things, he noted the apparent relationship...
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Hans Georg Lundahl
hglundahl
Sep 15, 2003 7:05 pm
... Actually, in books printed in Gothic (Blackletter) style, 'w' was the norm in Swedish, like it still is in German and Polish. In books printed in Antiqua...
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cgilson75
Sep 19, 2003 2:09 am
Pavel Iosad wrote: "A further twist is added by the fact that the Finnish word [_kulta_ 'gold'] is one of the numerous loans into Finnish from very early...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Sep 19, 2003 2:17 pm
... Indeed it is. Relating to this issue, I think it would be interesting to find out all possible Finnish lexical influences on Qenya from the _Qenya...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Sep 20, 2003 7:23 pm
... In full knowledge that such 'irregularities' derive from earlier regularities (a point not in dispute, I know), which only reinforces the point made on...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Sep 23, 2003 11:48 am
Once again, I'd like to set out and give a few comments on Arden R. Smith's excellent and interesting column in VT, "Transitions in Translations". In numbers...
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Hans Georg Lundahl
hglundahl
Sep 25, 2003 1:09 am
... In 1938 some German censors were asking Tolkien if he were _Arisch_ and Tolkien ridiculed the idea of asking it by _regretting_ to admit he had no Jewish...
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cgilson75
Sep 25, 2003 1:48 am
Petri Tikka wrote the following, to which I would like to add some further notes on the occurrence of these forms in the Kalevala excerpts in C. N. E. Eliot's...
