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02-01-2003, 02:35 PM
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Elvish when spoken....
I've been meaning to comment on this for a while now, but I kept forgetting so here goes
 After watching the extended version of FotR, the scenes that were added back in during Lothlorien, I really noticed something about the Elvish language when it is spoken. It sounds so close to the spoken form of Latin. Has anyone else noticed that? If not, go back to the part where Galadriel and Aragorn are talking to each other in Elvish just before they leave Lothlorien, I really noticed it there, the way Galadriel speaks the similarities really come out there, in my humble opinion Besides, with Tolkien being a linguist expert, I am sure he based it off of the Latin derivatives anyway....
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'Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien. Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn' Ambar-metta!' - And those were the words that Elendil spoke when he came up out of the Sea on the wings of the wind: 'Out of the Great Sea to Middle-earth I am come. In this place will I abide, and my heirs, unto the ending of the world.' 'Then Tuor arrayed himself in the hauberk, and set the helm upon his head, and he girt himself with the sword; black were sheath and belt with clasps of silver. Thus armed he went forth from Turgon's hall, and stood upon the high terraces of Taras in the red light of the sun. None were there to see him, as he gazed westward, gleaming in silver and gold, and he knew not that in that hour he appeared as one of the Mighty of the West, and fit to be father of the kings of the Kings of Men beyond the Sea, as it was indeed his doom to be; but in the taking of those arms a change came upon Tuor son of Huor, and his heart grew great within him. And as he stepped down from the doors the swans did him reverence, and plucking each a great feather from their wings they proffered them to him, laying their long necks upon the stone before his feet; and he took the seven feathers and set them in the crest of his helm, and straightway the swans arose and flew north in the sunset, and Tuor saw them no more.' -Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin "Oh. Forgive me, fairest of all males of Entmoot...Back down, all ye other wannabe fairest males! Dunedain is the fairest!" --Linaewen
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