04-24-2003, 09:49 PM | #121 |
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Somewhere I read that "-ale" or maybe "-le" make a noun form of something. Hantale is an example of this, I guess. So is lindale, music.
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04-24-2003, 09:53 PM | #122 |
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I have found the source. At Ardalambion, the Quenya wordlists.
"-lë: ending forming nouns that "seem properly to have been universal and abstract" (VT39:16, where Tolkien is actually commenting on the prehistoric form -lê, but -lë is its Quenya descendant)" Maybe I should research before I make my first post!
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04-25-2003, 04:35 PM | #123 | |
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04-25-2003, 04:41 PM | #124 |
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Anybody knows what Tolkien himself meant on the subject of other people learning his languages? I've read something, but now I can't remember where...
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04-26-2003, 09:01 AM | #125 |
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Ok, could someone help us out here? Is 'quettar' a word? (I think Lalaith and I are getting so confused here) I think it is supposed to mean 'speaker' according to her...
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04-26-2003, 10:50 AM | #126 |
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No QUETTAR is the plural form of QUETTA.
Which means: QUETTA - word QUETTAR - words
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04-26-2003, 12:28 PM | #127 |
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Quentaro means narrator.
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04-26-2003, 02:06 PM | #128 |
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I speak a little! (Quenya) and a tiny bit of Sindain.
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04-26-2003, 08:47 PM | #129 |
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That book is by Ruth S. Noel, right? I heard somewhere to avoid her like the plague, but you never know.
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04-26-2003, 10:41 PM | #130 |
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Does anyone know of a Quenya word for lightning? I suppose "raumo", noise-of-a-storm could be used for thunder, but what could lightning possibly be??
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04-26-2003, 11:59 PM | #131 |
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Cala-haloitë "Leaping Light?"
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04-27-2003, 12:16 AM | #132 |
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Tell me what ya'll think of this: someone brave enough post a couple of sentences for the rest to translate. I would but I'm having trouble with my keyboard right now. (Part of my keyboard will not work or is working wrong. Sounds like something is loose in there, I can hear it when I shake it.) Awe, shucks... I will just have to go get a new one tomorrow. Anyway, post something and we'll try to translate it and if need be fix parts to make it right. You know me, I don't give a rat's patoot and I'd do it. But as I said, my keyboard is acting up. If no one posts something, I'll do it tomorrow evening.
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04-27-2003, 01:02 AM | #134 |
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I probably speak more Quenya than Sindarin, though I prefer Sindarin. I owe that to Ardalambions Quenya wordlists, which give the meanings (and occasionally etymology) of practically every quenya word or word part known. And Quenya is more popular than Sindarin.
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04-27-2003, 01:08 AM | #135 |
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Wanna trade?
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04-27-2003, 01:11 AM | #136 |
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Sure!
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04-27-2003, 01:20 AM | #137 |
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Okay, now we just need to invent a mind-switching machine.
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04-27-2003, 11:31 AM | #138 |
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*winces* Ohh, Gwaimir, you reeeeally don't want to do that (switch brains with Wayfarer). Do you reeeeeally know what you're getting yourself into? Just a reeeeeally bad decision all around, really. Very, very, very strange things go on in his mind**.
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04-27-2003, 11:36 AM | #139 |
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I was just thinking about that... Maybe we can just switch our Middle-earth Language knowledge.
Oh, by the way, I found out something interesting: "stupid tolkien all teh elf languages should b da same they should all d da same" From an AIM conversation.
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