Lastiel Rusc

• 5cwTwMwkEDP: So, I keep on trying to learn Sindarin (for many years) but things constantly come up or I have need to focus on something else. My question is ho...
• 88o9itYcH5v: Here are a few links if you are interested in studying Tolkien's languages, or if you would just like to find out more about them: http://www.elvi...

AJ Nasreddin

• PB22baiMQ5M: In case you have missed the announcement, Elfling has moved from Yahoo Groups to a new location, and will no longer function as a mailing list, but...
• 1vHCmTcwGoN: Edouard Kloczko's last book: "Le haut elfique pour les débutants" (Eng. "High Elvish for Beginners") --> http://lambenore.free.fr/downloads/HED_eng...
• 88o9itYcH5v: Here are a few links if you are interested in studying Tolkien's languages, or if you would just like to find out more about them: http://www.elvi...

Caleb Smith

• hNmNR5tgCdS: I've been working on a translation for a while now, (it's not done, but I figured that I could show a few verses now. I Chiril os Salod[1] – The L...
• c1UxycdiYsY: mae govannon, does anyone know a good quenya online dictionary? I found a fairly comprehensive sindarin one (made by hisweloke) but I'm more into Q...
• 88o9itYcH5v: Here are a few links if you are interested in studying Tolkien's languages, or if you would just like to find out more about them: http://www.elvi...

Links to resources

• Cwi3wM482n4: I've released version 0.7.0 of Eldamo: https://eldamo.org/ In this release, I've finished up my work on incorporating neologisms into Eldamo for ...
• 95n4kj5i8eb: I've released Eldamo 0.6.9 https://eldamo.org/ This is a bit faster than normal, but I'm getting ready leave on a lengthy vacation, so it was eit...
• GNj6QEjddBf: Another post on Elvish Roots on Fiona's site, this one a repost of something previously posted here: https://academy.realelvish.net/2018/09/29/elv...
• L5coSCPMVzG: I made a little keyboard to make typing in Tolkien's languages easier! The info is all on this page: https://academy.realelvish.net/keyboard/ ...
• c66dH7kHwpG: I’ve posted the first in series of discussions on Eldarin roots on Fiona’s website. The plan is to continue the series on a biweekly basis. https:...
• RNMbXwLfhCj: I've released v.0.6.8 of Eldamo: https://eldamo.org/ With this release, I have finished a "first pass" at evaluating attested primitive roots for...
• Q3AnDG77CgJ: I’m looking for sources of Neo-Quenya and Neo-Sindarin neologisms. I’m nearly done with my first pass through Eldamo neologisms, and I’m pretty com...
• V8oHpiN3yZq: A Psalmist Wordlist To support my work on translating the Book of Psalms, I've built a specific wordlist on Google Sheets, which identifies all wor...
• KEs3SFxCvtr: I'm doing it! Please spread the word and hopefully we can fund a whole year's worth of improvements to Realelvish.net! BTW, the banner picture is o...
• RZDMWqhtKXg: Now that Atanquesta is released, I have decided to take time and collect all the neologisms that I have coined in posts here in the community in a ...
• gYPgpCrrfkP: Next topic regarding Eldamo 0.6.6: internationalized search Eldamo now has two non-English search page variants (Polish and Russian), thanks to +R...
• Po9d8EmQpFv: I've released Eldamo 0.6.6 https://eldamo.org/ I've got quite a lot to say about this release, so I will be making several posts. The main thing ...
• CTmDGcqJqnc: This is the last general post on Eldamo 0.6.6. It is more technical in nature, and it therefore primarily of interest for those who work with the r...
• NcDk7eu9EEE: I am happy to announce the release of my NeoQuenya textbook Atanquesta - a NeoQuenya Primer. The work is aimed at beginner and intermediate student...
• 3mhRdJqPnpn: I have seen that MS. Tolkien Drawings 90, fol. 39r, has been published on the Bodleian’s “Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth” website. It is the ring i...
• HkzsKLaAebg: This is a follow up to my earlier post on internationalizing Eldamo: https://plus.google.com/101464290458691045803/posts/94oFwAPPsLi I have a pro...
• 9GALw8Jo7xF: I've release Eldamo 0.6.5. Nothing much new, just more evaluations of roots for Neo-Eldarin (G to I). This is taking way longer than I expected. ...
• 97jJkMCGjGh: I've release version 0.6.4 of Eldamo: http://eldamo.org/index.html I've continued working on Neo-Eldarin vocabulary, finished roots up through F ...
• NChiFKWfuPp: I've released Eldamo v0.6.3. http://eldamo.org/ There are two major changes. First, I've done some general search improvements. They are still s...
• Qg7AGoxYmWL: I've release Eldamo 0.6.2. http://eldamo.org/ Since the data entry is mostly done, this update is still focused on cleanup. In particular, I ente...
• aRGADhiZTc5: A Journal of Tolkien Research article by Dr. Dimitra Fimi: Language as Communication vs. Language as Art: J.R.R. Tolkien and early 20th-century ra...
• CDgedu8sYE6: I've release Eldamo 0.6.1: https://eldamo.org/ This is the first release of Eldamo that does not have any new data entry. It involves a major reo...
• H7YjoduGuPc: More Eldamo beta stuff. I’ve sort of got the mobile navigation how I want. The vertical view is working for me, but the landscape view looks bad on...
• L1JR2jvGPCJ: A new article at Tengwestië: Quenya Compound Tenses http://www.elvish.org/Tengwestie/articles/DeRosarioMartinez/quenyacompoundtenses.phtml ...
• FH1FnhhK2Mx: I'm experimenting with a new search page for Eldamo. The beta is here: http://eldamo.org/beta/content/search/search.html The major changes are: ...
• XjR26vcvAX3: I am in the middle of a major overhaul of the Eldamo data model to reflect its new “dual mission” of both (1) describing Elvish as Tolkien wrote it...
• 66ZNVytFcA1: We now have a Discord Server! Please join us following this link: https://discord.gg/Dhmyzrf For those who don't know, Discord is a messenger appl...
• PFgSQyJoiqy: +Ицхак Пензев Yitzik, your latest post and list of words has inspired me to start something similar (and I do not want to hijack your dictionary ...
• iU1dqDYwN7k: I've finished Release 0.6.0 of Eldamo. This release has nearly all of Tolkien's attested word forms from the existing published material. Only a fe...
• Km7Pn3azPyu: Sharing +Severin Zahler's CSS fontface guide as it's too important to be buried in a comment somewhere. Thanks, Severin! ...
• FjbR3hR4ytM: And resharing my rudimentary font sample as well, in case someone wants to take the bite and work on it further:) ...
• RCchNQPUXf8: I have release Eldamo v0.5.9 http://eldamo.org/ This release has the data from PE18. It took much less time that I expected. Unfortunately, that ...
• AZmJoZ9N8oc: I've release v0.5.8 of Eldamo. This version has the data for PE21, which was more of a slog than I expected (so many declension tables). Of the m...
• 26cWvi8YPQt: Greetings! I am quite an enthusiast about the elvish languages (particularly Quenya) and I know there are others out there who are like me. However...
• UN1LcSxwyqh: I've release v0.5.7 of my Elvish lexicon Eldamo. This version has data from PE16. Of the major publications, only PE18, PE19 and PE21 remain. I've...
• WW9UW6tbN8v: Tecendil.com has been updated to the latest version of Eldamo. Use it to browse the dictionary in Tengwar, as well as to do your own transcriptions...
• DnRptDKCTZK: Update: I'm getting the dictionary application ready for the Omentielva, where Roman Rausch will present it. Here's a little screencast video: ht...
• PtmJdUYe9RN: Hmmm just realised Vinquettaparma (http://middangeard.org.uk/vqp/doku.php/ns:wordlist) is offline... Does anyone by chance know what's up (i.e whet...
• BGLjmvZqjAf: So I just had an idea... Online automatic tengwar transcribers (often just called "rune generators") are at best producing only few errors, mostly ...
• UPdzGw7oyi9: I've done a "data cleanup" release of Eldamo (v0.5.6.1?). This "release" is targeted exclusively at programmers. I didn't do the work to update the...
• EgrBPuy6sVU: +Paul Strack +Eryn Galen +Ekin Gören +Roman Rausch updated the database with Paul's new 0.5.6 release. There are some other changes: I switched fr...
• 7Z8zeKSueQR: I've release v0.5.6 of my Elvish lexicon Eldamo. This version has data from PE15. Of the major publications, only PE16, PE18, PE19 and PE21 remain...
• H16BFE4zxqv: After a long week of ripping all of the formatting out of the book, the e-book is finally available! ...
• ErfQMsF2MZw: It is done it's done it's done it's done it's done! Hard Copies of “A Fan’s Guide to Neo-Sinda...
• dkPFfLVwKUr: I've release v0.5.5 of Eldamo. This release finishes both PE14 and the early Qenya name analysis. I've also done some cleanup on the XSD schema de...
• 7TqCgATPU5S: http://academy.realelvish.net/2017/04/05/first-glimpse-of-cover-art/ First Glimpse of Cover Ar...
• d3CUuDspq2J: Good news! We have established a Skype chat for Eldarin linguistic discussions! Please join if you also wish to participate! +Christopher Gilson +...
• V4HdfPkuba1: Any help would be greatly appreciated! Help Rename the Website! (Poll inside!) Teitho ...
• dTZaL3Ta6VZ: I am sooooo tired. Might just sleep a week. Textbook Re-write Complete It’s 1AM, and I...
• Yah5kLfenM5: The Realelvish.net Sindarin phrasebooks are now available in German! Sindarin Phrasebooks Upda...
• 8ccgrHhgSTY: I've release v0.5.4 of Eldamo. Now that PE22 is done, I gone back to working on earlier material. I finished up some left overs in PE12, and made ...
• cGodJ3gCNYY: Warning! +Roman Rausch 's site at http://www.sindanoorie.net/ is suddenly down! Only a Web Archive copy remains. ...
• UgZgNhYA3TM: I've release v0.5.3 of Eldamo. It's been an embarrassingly long time since I've done anything with the lexicon, as I've been obsessed with other t...
• crxfMrFcm8z: A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages - Lecture 1 with Dr. Andrew Higgins The ...
• Sv9es65vW4n: Huge updates to Your (Neo)Sindarin Textbook coming this fall! I went into detail in this post on my website, if you're curious. http://your-sindari...
• KWdn5RU8CK8: Andrew Higgins has written a review of Parma Eldalamberon 22, as announced on lambengolmor. You can read it at the link attached. ...
• bjWSSFwCdoD: Hello friends, I have made some updates to my Tengwar transcriber (http://arno.org/tengwar/), including more accurate Sindarin and Quenya modes, a...
• aMj9znM23sp: The LotRO Neo-Sindarin Plugin is finally complete and available for download! Details are in the link below. ...
• 6dKeQgbYcrs: I've release v0.5.2 of Eldamo. I don't normally do two releases so close together, but I've used Glaemscribe to add tengwar transcriptions for bot...
• hLJk5PWYXiq: Benjamin Babut has release a new transcription tool on the Glaemscrafu web-site: Glaemscribe. It is extremely nice (link below). He also has an AP...
• Vw69hTrgdiy: A new invented language: perhaps it's another minor one along the lines of Nala Lambe and Mágol? 13 days to go. ...
• TWgLT6URv7j: I've release v0.5.1 of my Elvish lexicon Eldamo. I am embarrassed that I haven't updated the lexicon since last September. I got distracted by som...
• fhdjTBaTtjC: BTW, if you linked to specific pages on my website, you'll have to update the URLs. For example, what used to be: http://realelvish.net/phrasebooks...
• dULwuCBcjDH: We are launched! (Finally!) New Website, Massive Updates None ...
• ajxCDivDm8i: I have not checked the translator for accuracy and I do not know who's behind the project. Tol...
• gvZgtphJpPT: I've release Eldamo 0.5.0. In terms of content, this release is not that major. However, this is the first release of Eldamo that includes "source...
• gArhxnq9hXp: I've released the 0.4.9 version of Eldamo. 1) Since there has been growing interest in the Quenya content in the project, I've done some general c...
• emTyhvrnXKx: Alright, I finished a small mountain of updates (still have more to go... need to finish rewriting homework assignments and making quizzes) but her...
• DobTWzgR5LF: I've release Eldamo 0.4.8, the current version of my Elvish lexicon. This is mostly a technical release, in response to Source Forge breaking down...
• TTGQhQuvcvY: Since Source Forge has been down for nearly 2 days, I have put a temporary download link for Eldamo on Dropbox. When Source Forge comes back onlin...
• D5Ar1R7H1Rv: I set up a new home for Eldamo: eldamo.org. All the latest content is now hosted there. I am not sure how long it will take for the site to be visi...
• GjPMVGKAcAr: PE's page has announced that they'll start mailing out copies of PE22 on Monday. :) YIPPEE!!!!...
• NpjZqdNViAx: Thorsten Renk's site has just moved to http://www.science-and-fiction.org/elvish/index.html ! Please update your bookmarks. ...
• hFc9KoVkuz1: I've release Eldamo 0.4.7, which has two major updates: 1) I've analyzed the Danian language. I originally thought this would be quite easy, given...
• TACRaz6odnw: In case folks haven't seen this, Glǽmscrafu just completely overhauled their site. http://www.jrrvf.com/~glaemscrafu/index.html ...
• huT1qf8fzZZ: I've release Eldamo 0.4.6. The two major changes in this version are: 1) I finished data entry for PE13. I am actually quite surprised at the amo...
• 6SRedVZvduK: There is a PE22 web page now at http://www.eldalamberon.com/parma22.html ! Release date is announced on June 1, 2015! ...
• fmP7EcgFJr8: Exciting news from Facebook! Timeline Photos - Adam Christensen | Facebook New from Pa...
• G7XM8FEba4s: Hi everyone! Remember that kick-starter a while back? Well, this is the sort of website you can make with it! Below is a link to a translation of T...
• Ej4QoMacHkT: Working on the Sindarin Dual Plural some more, based on some helpful comments by you guys. I'm having difficulty with words that would have ended w...
• QMavNNmjGZL: I've released version 0.4.5 of Eldamo. The major milestone in this release is that I finished analyzing the Ilkorin/Doriathrin languages. This mea...
• T2EixTtN4yf: An interesting article on 'Khuzdul' the secret language of the Dwarves. http://folk.uib.no/hnohf/khuzdul.htm ...
• HS8xn8eq8BP: The completed Pronouns and Quenya Cases lists are up. Thanks for the corrections everyone! (Especially with Quenya!) Here's the announcement with a...
• a7iKCkJCrek: Another minor Eldamo update (0.4.4). I know I said last week that I wasn't going to do this weekly, but +Tamas Ferencz  suggested putting the [Sear...
• HYNHiAVxFEM: I'm making a quick reference chart of Neo-Quenya and Neo-Sindarin pronouns, as well as a quick reference chart of Neo-Quenya case suffixes. Before ...
• LLHom3xKkN4: I released a small update to the Eldamo lexicon (v0.4.3). I am not planning on releasing updates on a weekly basis, but Tamas Ferencz inspired me t...
• TTBivZ3mPVj: Hey guys, I'm developing a free Android app with a Quenya translator and wordlists. I wrote the translator myself to handle sentences and correct ...
• AuiQwFjNxTU: Hi folks, I've been working on a multi-language Elvish lexicon for some time now, based on an XML data model used to generate entries for individu...
• M6Yohp6MDzC: Carl Hostetter just published some interesting words. "... glossary of Elvish terms (some previously unattested) encountered in a collection of la...
• EEK66bS7uRB: +Måns Björkman has added an analysis of the "later or Westron convention, in its northern variety" to his Amanye Tenceli website. ...
• RMdHwCCrh1W: Hi guys! I'm revisiting another of my lessons in my Neo-Sindarin textbook. Since the last time it went so well,  I submit to you another chapter fo...
• DyadG8seCkQ: An interesting  podcast to watch; it might be up your alley. +Olga García  Travels on the Olo...
• 8VH9wdWkN27: Hey Guys! I'm trying a little experiment. Before you start editing the spreadsheet, READ THE COMMENTS! If you share this link with others, tell the...
• GrwKS567ZfJ: Just saw this: "This Page has been removed at the request of the Tolkien Estate." WHAT??? Why? Anyone know? ...
• MuQ4aURQzav: Quenya Chat group in Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/quenyachat/ Facebook Fa...
• CrF7RGhAct7: This is a link to the new version of my lesson on plurals in Sindarin - can you spot any mistakes? Tell me please! ...
• JW82r1myR41: I have compiled an Adûnaic - English/English - Adûnaic dictionary, and thought I would share it here (I couldn't find another resource that had alr...
• 8Jtw4WGFbF1: Some of you might be interested in this PDF, which has (among other things) a much clearer/larger scan of DTS53 (and some other pages from Marquett...
• 8ox5JXqgQBs: I wrote a list of new words from VT 50. Can you spot any errors or missing words in it? Oops, ...
• GNCeE7ASxiN: If you haven't visited the new +#Elfling forums lately, they have managed to transfer the archives of the old Elfling Yahoo-group to the new site; ...
• bTMvnX4CJ9r: I have put my article on sound symbolism from Omentielva Cantea online, available in html: http://sindanoorie.net/art/ssymb.html and shiny pdf: htt...
• QdXLsN7ECKj: David Giraudeau has compiled a list/dictionary of Q(e)nya words in Parme Eldalamberon 21; it can be fund on the attached link. +#ParmaEldalambero...
• PB22baiMQ5M: In case you have missed the announcement, Elfling has moved from Yahoo Groups to a new location, and will no longer function as a mailing list, but...
• B5V5yXgujsi: If you're interested, I made a statistical evaluation of the Sindarin dictionary hosted at www.sindarin.de. There is some math involved and a Venn ...
• AgyjdfaebKr: David Salo has posted an article on the comparison of Qenya and Quenya phonology on Elfling: Y...
• 1vHCmTcwGoN: Edouard Kloczko's last book: "Le haut elfique pour les débutants" (Eng. "High Elvish for Beginners") --> http://lambenore.free.fr/downloads/HED_eng...
• SJ5RR7eCLkM: Don't know if this would be allowed, but I find it very useful for any Tolkien fan/scholar as it contains a lot of digitalized material: https://fo...
• CnMhaCaxU4t: I have copied the PE19 index that +Matthew Dinse has typed up into a separate document on my Drive. The special characters show up nicely on my com...
• DmCskGMS9nM: I have typed up an alphabetized word index (words, affixes, roots) for PE19 and thought I would share it with you all: http://www.lotrplaza.com/sh...
• 88o9itYcH5v: Here are a few links if you are interested in studying Tolkien's languages, or if you would just like to find out more about them: http://www.elvi...

Matt Dinse

• hKH4Da84phn: Karaitienya ké píkuva ter nótima lúme: urda nin teke. Lá samin i alme náve ataformaite. Helke utúrie ni tana lusse, mal koire tuluva yo laluvan lye...
• iU1dqDYwN7k: I've finished Release 0.6.0 of Eldamo. This release has nearly all of Tolkien's attested word forms from the existing published material. Only a fe...
• gbz5y85APmK: I've been exploring Q phonology and have a few questions about how morphemes combine in some educationally motivated situations: √NIK + mapa-​ + ​...
• NSHgp9tvYek: Was anybody from our community at Omentielva Otsëa, like good Maester Kalimac here? http://kalimac.blogspot.fi/2017/08/omentielva-otsea.html ...
• QdFQ8gf56su: As promised, the slides with the poetic selection to the talk. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8gjHaj7Lr5WZnNINW5ucTltUkU https://drive.google...
• d3CUuDspq2J: Good news! We have established a Skype chat for Eldarin linguistic discussions! Please join if you also wish to participate! +Christopher Gilson +...
• cXpXeNQdEdi: What do you think are the properties of Ann-thennath, and why? ...
• 2tGws68sXTL: Elfling firin. Ninque Nuru utúries. Matt Dinse Sep...
• GmuADVLCKuq: What vowel do you people put before the locatives in a word possessing no final vowel? aran, aranVllo, kas, karVsse — what do you put? Ómataima of ...
• feFcdwgRtDc: +Paul Strack +Tamas Ferencz +Fiona Jallings Let's have a discussion of those forms here. Please inform me of any additions and possible alternate i...
• WXET73QNktz: Ceno in yngyl dhaer! Does this work, or does it seem like an appeal to go and see them? ...
• 4KassLTnPZU: +Paul Strack A further thought about Tolkien's apparent temporary elimination of special case mutations in the Noldorin branch after 1930 (immediat...
• UsHWNTaq8Kp: UPDATE 2.04.2016: Happy April Fools' Day! Hello everyone and so sorry for a long period of absence. (Especially to +Ekin Gören who constantly fail...
• Vw69hTrgdiy: A new invented language: perhaps it's another minor one along the lines of Nala Lambe and Mágol? 13 days to go. ...
• VNh3nZR6hvS: Considring the map that +Matt Dinse linked to in a post some weeks ago, should my entry in the VQP for "wine" be rendered, and in that case, how? I...
• fKRxQpgqZUb: So MILDOR is "Wine-land" - interesting! I didn't see any discussion of this yet, though there's so much to catch up on from the past few months. I ...
• M65aGPjLq9q: Has anyone heard what happened to the recording of Prof. Tolkien reading a previously unknown Quenya poem in the Netherlands? ...
• R1Sbv9R3iyc: I've long longed for a way to express "most people" or "majority". Might Early N diant "most" be something to build on? If it was a Noldorin word, ...
• DYNF1oyJZvs: Neologisms for "nut", *pech, and "hazel", *pechol, and "buckwheat", *nelio or *neilof, depending on how old the compund is. Q. pekkuvo, of "nut" an...
• Sbgk7P4sSm3: How should I make a cognate of Sindarin brona in Quenya? The stem is BOR(ON); should I, starting from the derivatives like vórima, consider a basic...
• 6mFHntFww8x: I'll put up this thread to write down and not to forget the things of most peculiar interest I learned from +#PE22. (And I invite anyone to join!)....
• DZ8Ea7gmNhh: How would you make a verb 'become heavy'? I think to start from a CE pattern luñgu-tā? I presume that the causative formant makes a-affection and m...
• J9nMmkWz4UN: Here are revisions of the sentences I asked about back in june: Ortuvan hendunya i carindonna (carmonna), i orontion ya lá retë Ortuvan hendunya   ...
• D5Ar1R7H1Rv: I set up a new home for Eldamo: eldamo.org. All the latest content is now hosted there. I am not sure how long it will take for the site to be visi...
• jL1dqT3NP4U: +Matt Dinse What is the situation with verbal inflexions in PE22's later sources? As I understand, -of and -ab are now supposed to be 1pl. exclusiv...
• byDaBiSCc8z: I am opening this thread to make note of words from Parma Eldalamberon 22 that - I think - have been hitherto unattested. I have not checked them a...
• GFbnxejHkkF: I have a copy of PE22 and it is amazing. It is chock full of marvelous information about Quenya and Early Eldarin verb structures. I've only begun ...
• YYw8PTK24um: I think of adding my reconstruction *ŷ from MQ io, "wine". from MQ io, "wine" to the VQP. I feel a bit insecure about it since the only place I've ...
• RPEJSCzzw5J: Does anyone have an idea of how to express "goal, target, objective"? ...
• A6nqzPsSGGg: If I might ask a question...any ideas for the plural of aiwe? Is it aiwi, aiwer, or aiwir? ...
• JknBzqR3AQN: I propose a discussion. Is there any established etymological derivation of the future tense -tha element in Noldorin and Sindarin? This element i...
• GjPMVGKAcAr: PE's page has announced that they'll start mailing out copies of PE22 on Monday. :) YIPPEE!!!!...
• 4pva3senyMw: +Remi Korben +Matt Dinse +Tamas Ferencz I propose to move into a separate discussion, for we have touched a topic I've been considering on my own ...
• 2XqfBtfU52N: Hallo everyone! I’m here for the first time and I’m impressed with your linguistic skills. Forgive me my poor English, Sindarin and so on. I’m inte...
• hFc9KoVkuz1: I've release Eldamo 0.4.7, which has two major updates: 1) I've analyzed the Danian language. I originally thought this would be quite easy, given...
• gQpehRPNW3a: Even a respectable institution like Sotheby's can get things wrong... This article in the Mirror got my attention today: http://www.mirror.co.uk/...
• TACRaz6odnw: In case folks haven't seen this, Glǽmscrafu just completely overhauled their site. http://www.jrrvf.com/~glaemscrafu/index.html ...
• fmP7EcgFJr8: Exciting news from Facebook! Timeline Photos - Adam Christensen | Facebook New from Pa...
• R9Bb8hTMoio: Is there an attested Eldarin (or other ME language) name for the Milky Way? I have not been able to find any so far - I wonder how Tolkien would've...
• fNw4BKYWbrW: Question: is there an explanation why S. Rodon "Power, Vala" gets plural Rodyn instead of expected **Redyn? Even if *Raudon is assumed, shouldn't i...
• HYNHiAVxFEM: I'm making a quick reference chart of Neo-Quenya and Neo-Sindarin pronouns, as well as a quick reference chart of Neo-Quenya case suffixes. Before ...
• R8eh7ZFJKvU: How might one translate "blizzard" into Quenya? For now I'm tempted to combine hrisse and alaco somehow; any other ideas? ...
• EkBJZ2N97uH: Anyone know if there's a Quenya word for "Imladris"? I can't find one, and I'm thinking of just translating it into Imbirisse. ...
• M6Yohp6MDzC: Carl Hostetter just published some interesting words. "... glossary of Elvish terms (some previously unattested) encountered in a collection of la...
• D68RNKUKrSf: Hello! I was trying to figure out the translation for these lyrics from "Beyond the Forest" and I was wondering if any of you could help. "A, mel...
• Mj2qHQDcCoZ: Tengwar not in DTS: After looking through more of my just-received Hammond/Scull's Art of the Hobbit (2011), I noticed a page with tengwar which I...
• JUqNJh9DB9f: Na alassea, merya, alya ta herenya Hristonostarelya! Elen síla lúmenn' omentielvo. Na anda vehtelya, na quanta yulmalya tenna Lúmeo metta. ...
• AdLaQjbRkkS: Might anyone be willing to provide some criticism/corrections? Elsewhere there was a translation request for a line from the Silmarillion into Quen...
• BM7RANaCkjN: Do you think *colexe 'carry oneself' could be an acceptable neologism for 'behave'? Edit: just realized we do have an attested verb lenga- in PE17....
• JU8ocwFRCq4: +Tamas Ferencz 's translation for "Twelve Days of Christmas" brought me a question... how would be the correct Quenya translation of "merry Christm...
• CfWoc2kG21g: Dorwiniondil at the Plaza just shared news of an upcoming Hammond/Scull book = The Art of The Lord of the Rings: "[...] new examples of Tolkien’s ...
• 6cJoF2YEzYF: mîn i Valrog ah i iâ between a rock and a hard place, between Scylla and Charybdis Sindarin saying +#Sindarin +#idioms   ...
• RMdHwCCrh1W: Hi guys! I'm revisiting another of my lessons in my Neo-Sindarin textbook. Since the last time it went so well,  I submit to you another chapter fo...
• 9AAK4zRER2D: I need some translation help: "The women will write songs about their faithful husbands."  Thanks! ...
• HPUuBMyRA7Z: Eneth Nin Endy, nice to meet you all please give me lesson around quenya language!!??  ...
• DWGEB4e1qXt: Don't you just love it when you read an article in Vinyar Tengwar, and the editors mention something like in an essay on this-and-this found in a b...
• PrgkpVhkMRq: "still, quiet" in Sindarin: Fiona suggests *pell from QL qilda (cp. PE21's qilir), but I might like something a bit later that might not clash wit...
• 93syFS5QL5b: I do not have PE/21, but I saw the EN word flinc in Roman's list on Mellyn Lammath. My question is, if this comes from a root *SLIK (or something l...
• Ki7yjKK8ccA: I was looking at RC for something, and came across S Berennyn for "Brown-lands" on p.343, from Tolkien's unfinished Index. Does anyone have any ide...
• DyadG8seCkQ: An interesting  podcast to watch; it might be up your alley. +Olga García  Travels on the Olo...
• JgJhj8AyyRS: "If". Got a few words in Quenya, "cé/ce", "qui"... the mysterious "aiquen", and the older "mai". The Neo-Sindarin words are lacking, I think. "Ae" ...
• 71Vn29pmSBH: Ňona ve Nauco mi *satyasambe. "Groans like Dwarf on the loo." Beleriandic saying *satyasambe 'private chamber, privy, loo' ...
• 4QLPpk695ET: I was looking for a word for "hearth", and found the Quenya word "ruimen". Then I looked it up in its context, and found the untranslated Sindarin ...
• 32JUVjx2xwg: I've proposed this neologism over on FB in the Quenya Chat group; would like your opinions, too: *hrangie 'difficulty, trouble', modeled on sangie...
• Fn236ZCoJgs: The first part of my translation doesn't look quite right ("to more among us"); any ideas? If there was a suitable verb I wouldn't have to be tryin...
• SChHvzN5R53: If you've got 15k burning your pocket, you can have this letter beautifully handwritten by Tolkien, with analysis of Númenóre. ...
• JRyw6Uj5pof: So, I've been playing with some ideas for sections. What do you think of these new ones: Pronunciation and Prestanneth (Sindarin only) and includin...
• S1Se4pDrmm5: 'agree', 'approve', 'consent to' in Q? *olav- 'yield mutually'? ...
• WzPKedJ1cmX: Conditional and Subjunctive in (Neo)Quenya Tolkien's highly fascinating Early Qenya Grammar in Manuscript in PE14 devotes a page to The 'condition...
• PZaXp8VQRZV: A long, long time ago I made the Neo-Sindarin word *maega- 'to kneed, soften' based off of the root MASAG. I now see that it was a big mistake.How ...
• YgknV7Q8G7j: Has anyone ever produced a satisfactory derivation for Q Vása "the Consumer"? It's been bugging me so I've looked throughout some of the older mate...
• QomgrhctcvR: I hope you guys have seen that +Fiona Jallings has started to add NeoSindarin neologisms in their drones! Thanks Fiona. ...
• 9jtHABJJJYZ: Tana úpahtea, lunguhonda valme yá kenin i (fáre pella) samin loikarenen [copies]* atta i parmo imya (PE19) ! *not sure how to translate this ...
• 64EogkJrTRm: +Carl Hostetter has posted an invitation to a Quenya translation experiment to the +#lambengolmor  Yahoo group - not an easy task I'd say! ...
• 2UWycWxG9n6: Manna ta Ye lá ovanta yo olcar Hya tare úcarindoron tiesse Hya hare yo te i *yaiyar, Mal save alasse mi Héruva axan, Ar axanerya sana mi aure lómiy...
• 8Jtw4WGFbF1: Some of you might be interested in this PDF, which has (among other things) a much clearer/larger scan of DTS53 (and some other pages from Marquett...
• haTfQ1G6j7o: Aiyä! How are you all? I have a request, and I hope you can help me... Could you please translate me this phrase? "All will be well" it's like my m...
• 5vPrZkcAfEA: Here you can find the analysis of the Sindarin dialogues from the second Hobbit movie:   http://www.elendilion.pl/2013/12/22/g-i-p-report-complete...
• ZuVqEdPAunB: Manna yo merya Hristonostare illin! Matt Dinse Dec...
• jgeDcf3zEGS: Another sleighing song, on a less serious note: Losses hortala er-rocco-raxanen,  /1/ ter i palari voro lálala, súli valtea láma nyelleron. Alasse...
• UweJvi4k1ph: I'd like to get a little critique on a translation I did (Brandon Sanderson fans might have an advantage): Cuil argwannath Bronwe arnin Lend armet...
• XTjeaNwgFL1: Did I see one of Måns Björkman's Sarati fonts used in this video? http://www.theonion.com/video/the-onion-reviews-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-sma...
• eiKEif73S7A: This community doesn't seem very busy lately, but I thought I'd link this here on the chance it is of use to someone. I actually came up with the i...
• VG5K9x3EB8s: A most welcome arrival in the post today. 9/20/13 - 1 A most welcome arrival in the po...
• B5ifjZPKmne: I'm wondering what Tolkien meant by "a dative of advantage" when discussing the +#Goldogrin noun declensions in PE11 p10? ...
• TgaHd7N9RQB: I just signed up for this course; are any of you else taking it? http://www.mythgard.org/academics/fall-2013-courses/philology-through-tolkien/ ...
• gYY9eRcgmWh: Parma Eldalamberon #21 will be published on 2 September.  It "presents previously unpublished writings by J.R.R. Tolkien concerning the declension ...
• PXNbMdx4QkR: Hi everyone. Im a huge fan of Tolkien's work, and Howard Shore's as well. I'm trying to understand (obsessively) some elvish lyrics that appear in ...
• F1hyxpAYahE: Let's have some fun... Na i Melehte olye. Sine lar i atanivear i kestal. Nán atarelya, Lúk.  (Laaaaaaaaaaaaauuuuu) A himya hilya i losse lapatte. ...
• jcoGdTcW5oA: Máre Tuiléri illin! Aníron sevigir Veren en-Ethuil vaer! M...
• 3fafPqCxCYw: Ring egor laug yrin, thion luin dan gruin im. Man i eneth nín? ...
• JF29Eome5dG: Tule ne die huisse ole niqistine; íne ando ni·sapandie n·niqissa (tyá tiqilindie) raktentar ya nótiende ankassealdas talakūmet. I qanta paliste sil...
• eUonKXBgDgJ: This will probably be complete bollox, but. We have the following sentence in the +#TúrinWrapper Area IV in +#VT50 : Sí ?a?l il cem il chem n...
• cjD7av2UyPV: Another try at a Yeats poem, this time in Sindarin: IDHRIND An echuir nallam trí lú rhîw, trí ethuil nallam ui an laer; ir *laegi evyr gleiniar, ...
• YCnQboZy2c2: D. Salo on Khuzdúl verbs: http://midgardsmal.com/paradixis/ Paradixis | Midgardsmal T...
• RWGmbVu6BNe: Yé! Sí camnenyes! Hentëan (?hénetan?) alassië. Tamas Feren...
• CnMhaCaxU4t: I have copied the PE19 index that +Matthew Dinse has typed up into a separate document on my Drive. The special characters show up nicely on my com...
• DmCskGMS9nM: I have typed up an alphabetized word index (words, affixes, roots) for PE19 and thought I would share it with you all: http://www.lotrplaza.com/sh...
• gmjnYa6MxGU: Carl F. Hostetter has announced on +#lambengolmor that VT 50 is nearing completion and would be available for ordering soon. Apparently PE 21 is al...
• G14dxTma7PC: I wonder why most people tend to just care about "late" and "LotR-compatible" material, and despise anything "early" concerning both languages and ...
• 88o9itYcH5v: Here are a few links if you are interested in studying Tolkien's languages, or if you would just like to find out more about them: http://www.elvi...

Tamas Ferencz

• 9H4RQtM6T33: In the course of my Psalmic translations, I came upon an unforseen issue: what would be the future ending of a verb in qu(a)--? The verb miqu- is ...
• X5mnnJhakMA: I have created a group over at MeWe - you are very welcome to join, let's try it out if we can continue in the same spirit over there. ...
• M9RezCZViaW: There is hope after all that our data can be downloaded How to download your Google+ data befo...
• NpZLYwfesCH: I'm going to start working on a new version of Aglardh (install a brand new Drupal engine, new look etc) and make it operative before Google pulls ...
• P5a5fDQpgZx: Google will be shutting down Google+ for consumers ☹️, but will continue Google+ for enterprise customers To give people a full opportunity to tra...
• YEypSH4dEjJ: This is a translation of a poem from my native Hungarian. Raxa-mentie mi lóme Ma’ nuhtana sí Isil, I lóme ma’ úna, úpa, Ma’ amlunga nánye síra, M...
• TykUv6t4HA8: Queni quetir rie tane lá loikarir i lá rikir; mal i analta loikarion ná lá rike úlume. "They say only those who don't strive don't make mistakes; ...
• DyM2kp9tUKk: Kennen karneambor mate erdeli to i *matyar tarwammasse senna lúme yá. Senyave lá tulinte tere i laire, mal *vilwiste olane ringa ar mauya ten hire ...
• 95n4kj5i8eb: I've released Eldamo 0.6.9 https://eldamo.org/ This is a bit faster than normal, but I'm getting ready leave on a lengthy vacation, so it was eit...
• Tcd6gmnDVNy: Another well-written blog post by etymologist Anatoly Liberman, this time about the verb lie. I am only linking it here because the post talks abou...
• L5coSCPMVzG: I made a little keyboard to make typing in Tolkien's languages easier! The info is all on this page: https://academy.realelvish.net/keyboard/ ...
• ZeJB4tjRh4k: I'm not too well versed in what some "early" nouns cases mean. For instance, EQ/MQ comitative case, kiryaiko. Does this mean "with a ship"? This is...
• Uwg6NXV9J2w: What would you suggest for a good NQ equivalent of Goldogrin grith- v. “to attend to, tend, care, care for, mind”? I usually resort to aþya- when I...
• 95LJJY8HQCw: Random LOTR paragraph Book II, Chapter 8. At dawn they made ready to go on. The light came grey and pale, and they did not see the rising of the ...
• CJJBnK2LPMW: I wonder whether Quenya is lax enough to allow double negatives, whether lá melin laquen can be considered correct, or does it have to be lá melin ...
• iB8uNZPJT2F: Random LotR paragraph, this from the chapter A Knife in the Dark. Sam and Peregrin had not been idle. They had explored the small dell and the sur...
• RNMbXwLfhCj: I've released v.0.6.8 of Eldamo: https://eldamo.org/ With this release, I have finished a "first pass" at evaluating attested primitive roots for...
• EqPo9qcUTJH: An old "Middle Earth proverb" from Aglardh: Kasar sina, vesserya tana. Same thing, same difference. ...
• Q3AnDG77CgJ: I’m looking for sources of Neo-Quenya and Neo-Sindarin neologisms. I’m nearly done with my first pass through Eldamo neologisms, and I’m pretty com...
• jgT1Wp3gwpn: Ta maira nin i fá antalya kalya, Naltarya néka mal amleuka leukaron, Quiquie quelis feanya ola marya, þosserya maika ve naika yaime maiwion. "So p...
• N9TDXV3M3Pb: My mind is muddled...how would one render "day by day" or "three by three", &c.? "By" (instrumental) doesn't seem quite right to my English ears. M...
• C8Xo12Lo25p: I have four rhyming words for you to give me ideas on, how to say them in Quenya: fame shame blame tame Discuss :) ...
• hXTgUzWEe6B: New member, still very much an amateur in Sindarin but doing my best. I am doing a translation of some/all of the Episcopal wedding ceremony for ...
• NX1yBpPNNtr: Is there a distinction as to when you use the strong vs the weak form of a past tense Quenya verb when it has both forms? ...
• RHJc9bTDGDG: Vehte ná ve tarwa. Eke mon same ilvane *þenwar, mal lá rehta te, enga enyaliesse. "Life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not pres...
• 49cEnvH8kk5: I envy Tolkien, he could conveniently ignore or forget the rules of his own language and it's us who're left scratching our heads:) Consider esse ú...
• H2S61QgkFrn: A question posted over at Elfdict got me thinking on our two attested words glossed as "more". We have the adjective amba and the adverb ambe and I...
• E1ifHmTHNX7: Is there now a consensus out there what the proper genitive of nouns the type of koa should be? I think most people settle on kavo but perhaps some...
• Zk77jVe6XPB: A distichon (or enquelempelesta): Áreo poldore quéla ve koivie tique axollor; Limbali himyear en, lávar ananta moren. The strength of the sunshin...
• EYYempFuhKM: I found these neologisms online and it got me thinking...are these using the correct way to form compounds? *hánamil(le) n. maternal uncle > (hán...
• QVAyUzxZVUh: 'Elvish' and Dwarvish are going to be taught in Oxford on August 18. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/blackwells-jrr-tolkien-day-how-tolkien-first-l...
• 14vZBJwU2FP: Polil camya ni mapaitas formalyasse. Mal lá polil camya ni mapaitas hyarmalyasse. Ma Man nán? ...
• HHpSSChsA6b: Cé matan, cuitan. Cé þúyan, cuitan. Cé yulan, firin. Ma Man nán? ...
• JcYSz3z1LzF: Quere ellume, Ita *arni eteni na, lá mittuva. Enquere, Ita *mini na, lá uþuva. Ma Man nán? *arni, prep. out of me *mini, prep. in me cf. mimme, i...
• DF331h1xT6V: Last one, I promise... Cé mo same nelde, same nelde, Cé mo same atta, same atta, Mal cé mo same min, same munta. Ma Man nán? ...
• XuzBHE4XEhJ: Lánye quete, mal samin ñolme. Lánye alda, mal samin lassi. Ar lánye fenda hya henet, mal samin *pellime. Ma Man nán? ...
• ZS62ErZjVzg: I am in need of a word for "hinge". The closest I can come up with is peltas "pivot" but that seems too vague for a door. Any ideas? ...
• eyhiBr4VRUr: Noa as vessenya kendanemme i tyalie Venetio Makar ló Shakespeare mi Cambridge. Nése láta *tyalmardesse: tarwa né i *tyaltalan, to sa rie orne ar ta...
• 64FcrGtFR7Y: I have a new D&D character and he has a bow named "One shot, One kill". Can someone translate this name into elvish please? ...
• B7QXQAvSCLX: Please comment: > √SER to love nisserme n. a gay woman, lesbian illiserme n. a pansexual woman yuserme n. a bisexual woman láserme n. an asexual ...
• aeEMv6j6Gg1: Over the past few years both +Paul Strack and +Александр Запрягаев posted several pieces of analysis of Eldarin roots, their histories, evolution, ...
• 89LYUCVp98V: This is a poem for children by Hungarian poet Zoltán Zelk that I started to translate years ago, then got stuck and stopped, and now finished it. ...
• 3nGfTwFZtmB: Translating the Book of Psalms in Quenya - Miscellanea I thought of a discussion where some points concerning my ongoing translation of the Book o...
• E8ywBWy4K43: I found this translation lurking on my drive from many years ago, a fragment from the first chapter of Winnie-the-Pooh. I have updated it a bit. Y...
• V8oHpiN3yZq: A Psalmist Wordlist To support my work on translating the Book of Psalms, I've built a specific wordlist on Google Sheets, which identifies all wor...
• B4R3kTs9yYU: Over at Discord the other day I was chatting with Roandil about the two attested SKOR roots and how the two could coexist; now it occurred to me th...
• SFEhkyKrurP: Handen sisnome epe *komputerinya as *hlarmar or hlarunya lastala liennar quete, quete, ar tá quete amba. Hlarunya nwalyat. *hlarma "listening devi...
• 9TY39cDmL6N: Síra *kalkunen *kennasseli - enar ustauvanyet urnanyasse. Mauyuva sen *annún lúmi otso hya toldo anya tyeller húme *yutuxa, ta lúmi yunque ambe *ri...
• KEs3SFxCvtr: I'm doing it! Please spread the word and hopefully we can fund a whole year's worth of improvements to Realelvish.net! BTW, the banner picture is o...
• RZDMWqhtKXg: Now that Atanquesta is released, I have decided to take time and collect all the neologisms that I have coined in posts here in the community in a ...
• 57NQNKAtC8t: Epe asta mine yo perta fanyar nar i vilyasse. Kénai kelyuva si lómisse? ...
• Po9d8EmQpFv: I've released Eldamo 0.6.6 https://eldamo.org/ I've got quite a lot to say about this release, so I will be making several posts. The main thing ...
• NcDk7eu9EEE: I am happy to announce the release of my NeoQuenya textbook Atanquesta - a NeoQuenya Primer. The work is aimed at beginner and intermediate student...
• Q2L6fp5gFJJ: Would *elerran, *erran be a good neologism for "planet", lit. "wanderer, wandering [star]"? rána would be great, but that is already taken as one o...
• R9pf8oKroaT: Í melíte tyénen nén Tá poika, very’ anen, Tatallanente paldave Ma mai tá lenganen. Ar sí i íre xéyane Ar munta lemya nin Ta quetuvante paldave Nán...
• inhYMbXA8xp: *talmakasta adj., adv. "upside down" Paul Strack J...
• NAPBbU8GBR1: What would "excommunication" in Quenya be? Tamas Ferencz ...
• T12tYHCd5dW: Rie mólome ar lá tyalie care Yát lumbaro. Paul Strack ...
• JyCB7HEd7Un: Here's a first-draft rendition of my recommendations for tattoo-seekers and tattoo-artists. Let me know if you spot errors or have any comments or ...
• 54S5sjuB4Z7: Psalm 3 in Parmaquesta Third and last example — for the time being — of my ongoing translation of the Book of Psalms. This one may be of higher in...
• 1PJS3QMMh5G: Minaþurindor utúvier ondova pelma[1] sé i taras Tintagel Angalnóresse, karina otsea haranyes, arwa quettar tekine Latinya, Hellenya, Keltya lambess...
• 3mYvdAEq1G5: I have started translating the Book of Psalms into Quenya, and more specifically Parmaquesta. As I don't read Hebrew, unfortunately, I checked a nu...
• X8Ge3ofYkvM: How would you guys say "prepare" in Quenya (both transitively and intransitively)? manwa- is attested in Early Qenya, not sure if still suitable; f...
• hgSNRCea81i: The next +#1000words entry I throw up here to munch on is prove. ...
• Gpb3yDUEv21: ‘Hike’ The etymology gives a meaning “to walk vigorously”, and that meaning feels right to me. It could also mean ‘powerwalk’, but that could perh...
• 5nppWceZiBd: Though both are listed as Middle Quenya forms at Eldamo, is the verb lah- from LAKH possibly a later/newer item than manka- from MBAKH (in the Etym...
• 1AFoNqFVJ4Z: morna ve orko *katassa mi felko "as dark as an orc's arsehole in a cave" Gondorian catchphrase *katassa: ka/kata 'behind, at back of place' + a...
• AH5UArRBfp8: +#1000words "opportunity" Tamas Ferencz Jun 03, 2...
• 7WmBdC3zQgn: Would *ealima be a possible and comprehendable neologism/variant for 'possible'? ...
• gKj5F62QFZw: The next +#1000words entry is gas. I recently coined the word *kumma from KUM, based on the etymology of the international word gas. Any other (p...
• aQBXFxzQnB6: The next +#1000words entry up for discussion is example. My first idea is *hókilme "outtake, selection". ...
• PeTF4myzyei: Here's a dragonfly I took a picture of yesterday (well this may actually be a damselfly I think, but that's beside the point now). In Gnomish it is...
• LNNrMTJpCPA: The next +#1000words entry I put up for discussion is detail. Going on the Hungarian word for detail Is say something from SAT "fraction, part"; o...
• H73E6GASbtR: I wonder if the almost throwaway emendation of the gloss of CE *anak to 'against, opposite' in PE21 offers us any opportunity to use it in this new...
• jCC5KWHoRN5: ??? *kemorvamiru/*kemorvalimpe "vodka, potato-wine" *nelmatussamiru/*nelmatussalimpe "gin, juniper-wine" > HKF Zechariah *mirufea/*miruþúle/*limpef...
• bncLhe55Mjr: *keþula: adj. "inquisitive, curious" *kostula: adj. "quarrelsome, belligerent" ...
• C1oihfTGmFM: +#1000words Looking for a translation for E 'cell'. I feel we should derive it from YOD 'fence, enclose' (as in the sense of 'compartment'). Perh...
• 9WrXJNLBNvm: Concerning the Eldamo entry +#pec "nut": shouldn't this be +#pet (pec-) as we see with other Q nouns with stems ending in [k]? +Paul Strack ...
• KV7jcF4duZA: “Tuldóme né. I hluite mór Hwáner ar hwonder or i lén: Aqua nilte nér i lurtanor, Ta faltane i noltifén. Aly’ aista i Nakkanor, anon! Karkaya nerka...
• 8xoCS6S5c7y: First neologism to discuss from the +#1000words project (I am not going in an alphabetical order, rather in a random fashion): available We have ...
• Zravp1wT2ya: Two small suggestions: "Immediately, at once": ú pusto "Right away, promptly, very soon": arrongo ...
• EFsBzi4H9V8: My latest post about rats and birds in Quenya Chat has made me try to find - so far unsuccessfully - some good ways to express the following: resul...
• C9bvFoYtPit: Hyarna Georgia ná tolle Atalantea Earonde, ambaro hyarna *perkoronde. I tolle ná nu Angalnóreo ortúre. *Os koranari *yutuxa néya vinye *marindor tu...
• FPZSsRvdR5K: Concerning the verbal derivates of the root SKEY I am now pretty much settled on the pair *xéya- "pass (of time, intransitive)", and *xíta- "pass, ...
• V2x1AVuHrsq: Síra as vessenya eméniemme i Fitzwilliam *autamardenna mi Cambridge. Tana *autamar lá haura, mal hepe anvanime engwion úme - *tekemmar maitarion ve...
• 6qJXuxAaWec: *Minaþurindor *eyestanier *rikwe ekkese ké i *kumma *metan mo kime Karnilesse ontaina ondoinen hya veoinen. Kénai tuvuvante i hanquetta tulyuvas ve...
• 1mr11p5A52P: *Minaþurindor utúvier sa i Ingaran *Pengwin pole lemya nu nén ambela *perlúme *pellúme. *Pengwini nar *lawilíti aiwi i mo kime to Ambaro hyarna *pe...
• MpF7BRRpdEz: Sina hliasse merin sa nyaruvalve min exen pá parma ya *lanéya ehentanielve. Nyaruvan len pá parma tékina ló nyarnamaitar ye mine i ammelde nyarnama...
• TBExZWGdhU9: This words analysis has to do with negations. It is a problem that has been hashed to death, and in terms of the historical analysis I have little ...
• dqy8B8SyGpt: I Nakie-téma Navillo *pepella i tauresse sa i morko akárie nakie-téma ar nakuva ilye nastor i nar i témasse, ha þosta i kelvar. Mettasse i nauro l...
• 7rQXdtF5Z6L: To mull: 'propose, offer, suggest' All hint at something (idea, help etc.) being put forward to someone. Not helped by the fact that we don't have...
• CHRjd79y8Rh: Merin nyare len pá i osto yasse sí séran: Budapest. Sí rie *naþumo nán sisse, an háran Angalnóresse. Nostaina ostosse lárion lepenquain oa, túlelm...
• 759Yod9RH2S: Lá merin moia enar. Tamas Ferencz Apr 16, 2018 (11...
• QqdENX8nxQC: This word analysis focuses on transitive verbs meaning “put, place, lay, set”. Finding a good choice for these words is a challenge, and requires s...
• ixFfAL58UWN: Aipio-olóte 20180413_140850.jpg Aipio-olóte ...
• A63s4Yw3E4r: Manen estuvalve si lotse? Esserya eirien Sindarinesse, hetheglon Goldogrinesse. Naike ora men kile aqua exa esse *minome querieryo. ...
• WrtN21n8ez5: Síve kalina, aurea i telda otsole né, tambe hiswa, lumna, nenda sina otsole. Ekelyanelye noa arinello. Penin indo kare aiqua... Oruváne nin (should...
• hCedG1fkbvg: Foronaire (North Sea), noa. Nemis íta ringa ar *úfasta mal, lauvane kénai i polda vaiwa, nauvane lauka. ...
• NChiFKWfuPp: I've released Eldamo v0.6.3. http://eldamo.org/ There are two major changes. First, I've done some general search improvements. They are still s...
• EWWn6sT4oaK: Yallume, tuiléva laiti! Orni, lalmalini ta exe lotser, wilwarindi, tuimar, nete, nete, nete sé Anglesey Abbey síra. ...
• hGG2KcG6eqH: I watched Skyfall on Easter weekend, which has this quote from Tennyson's Ulysses, and thought I'd give it a go. I cannot do justice to the iambic ...
• KGg8JHqLYSN: What do you suggest for 'move, shift' (transitive)? Rúma- appears to be intransitive, and it is too specific for large and heavy things. Strictly s...
• Tz6XPeDMtAm: Going over fractions...in Neo-Quenya, could those forms in -sta be adjectives and the nominal forms be in -sto (cf. PE14:51 and PE14:84-85)? ...
• daTTs5Yg14v: So what do you say, fellow lambendili, shall we prove the Professor wrong? :) Watch J.R.R. Tol...
• ZPhEo1kqKMb: I’ve been working on (Neo-)Quenya verb conjugation and specifically on some representative examples of various classes and shapes. I’m inviting fee...
• Dtf6FbD5nRV: Aimanen *merenyalles, ar aimanen estalles, merya Tuilêre, Enortalére, Keulére, Paska, hya exe illin! ...
• G3vbEBfmtVL: Armaronya panyea anda kapsa *immenwaryanna; karaperyo tyarwenen quítan feryaxes mene lingwi raitien. Apánies *annúra vandili otso hya toldo i immen...
• WcoLT1Vq9Wv: Arya i ruhtala Orko lá i puhtala Nauko. Elvish pub wisdom from Eregion ...
• 4dNUcBSF3qW: I can't really make it out yet what it says in the vertical script. Kilma handas? Quilma hambas? ...
• 1VTPkFuL5wc: Posting here as it has some linguistic interest Tolkien artwork on show for first time at Bodl...
• fLvFsSaCYdu: Lúmequentanduri *lanéya utúvier yára opele la háya i nomello yasse háran. Ente, utúvielte opele atta: i minya opele late or anyára ya linyenwa kora...
• dM3urqF5ZmE: It's a fitting song now that Spring is here (albeit briefly I understand) :) Kenin askénie, i úlo lá, Keninye ilye *nuquar meninyas, Vanwe i lumbo...
• N8z1CMTUmYc: Kuluina hrisse tópa i amboni ar nandor nómelissen Hróna Europasse - neme litse hlapuina Sahara erumello avahtanie i hrisse. Tankave nuhtalima *ehte...
• VbsHrWN24ci: Referring to discussions elsewhere, another root that can be utilized to express the idea of inn, guesthouse, hotel etc. is NATH > *naþumo "guest";...
• HcHTtcAQugx: An attempt to translate the first few lines of Earendil Was a Mariner, to challenge myself trying to preserve the syllable count. I don't quite hav...
• 72J65ZjfE96: HATH > *haÞmā > Q *haÞwa (*haswa) "medicine, drug"? Robert...
• JxpmtvD3y6S: Síra *nostarenya! Nostanen koranári kanta *nelquean auta. Olólan ambe linyenwa ilya koranarnen; merin i nólenya olóluva yó koranarinyar. ...
• WY9MB1xyvkG: É nemilye, yonyo, mi ápina lé, Kénai úna nalye: na 'lassea, hér. Telinwa sí i meren. Tyalindorelvar, Ve lyen apaquenten, illi fairi nér, Ta vilyann...
• NvtaEWKNJ3C: Horala i tyalien, noa lómisse. DSC_1018.JPG I tyalienna horala, no lómisse. ...
• S6SovAg7qVV: I'd like to ask your opinion on some info found in here (https://realelvish.net/pronunciation/sindarin/). As far as I know, LH/HL is more like voi...
• Nhk8JCo1pTV: I emma ya nún *ihimtanien tea *élikombet lan ertear - hya, amna naitienna, ertanier, an nalte *kalayéni *lindóra auve. I *palantilla Hubble akárie ...
• bVxuEEPPSs5: Lá eke mon nanpule i ilin minna i yaxe. Middle-Earth proverb ...
• iGzYxpR8WFz: Another word analysis, this time for a single word: the conjunction “and”. We know the net result: Q. ar and S. a. Knowing its development is never...
• ZLwZnCtPDFX: “absolutely” Someone asked me to translate “she is absolutely adorable” for her boyfriend to say of her. For “adorable” I’ve used mélima but “abso...
• KyR9cRGxnYM: Tatallálima manen nostale ivírie *italo hrisse tompe ilqua noa otsolesse; i hrisse aqua itíquie, anar kale, Tuileo *níse lemya i vilyasse: nostale ...
• 79vXsWwBdno: What would, in your opinion, be the present perfect of the verb derived from SKEY 'pass' (whether it's *xíta or *xéya is probably irrelevant in thi...
• jYr8GZG3Q5u: Another exploration of words, this time “letter, line, write”. This is a bit different from my previous examinations, since the most of the words i...
• 3gybPWCEJ38: Tíkua i hrisse to nóre, po auret nannemiéva; turulyane lóme or áre, sin askate lumbor Anar. "The snow is thawing across the land, it will be gone ...
• epva78fG6xA: Telda lómisse yallume hrinse, ta sí ninde hrisse untúpa i maller, tarwar, immenwar. Kesyalima nóme yasse oian: ailume lúre, hrisse, alako, oloire ^...
• PpEkr4sSDVn: Rike amaríkie rike órikombe véla raita amaraikiénen raima raiweva: úkaraite ta alasaila. Hard-striving to twist a group of óreli is like ensnaring...
• YHqNGFrpjq8: A shot at the Pythagoras theorem - an interesting challenge :) Quí mo teke *kankimi[1] to *téranehtea neltilo ilye kimbar, i *kankimo *latse[2] ya...
• c63aYnAi5UK: Ilye hroar nenna sumbaine lungieltallor imya hehtar ve i ló te tínen etenírina neno lungie. Ilye engwi lemyar mi sére hya mi téra, vórima menesta ...
• 6iZuKZ5eGBM: Háramme to *angaraxa Londonna... Ménamme tyalmardenna Pintero tyalie kendien. Valyalima! Merin samuvamme fárea lúme fai í tyalio yesta limpeo yulma...
• 9oEepmWKb6A: Yet another conflux of words, this time “parent/child, grandparent/grandchild, boy/girl and baby”. These are probably the last for a while On the ...
• jVWT12P8j4N: Enar mauya nin anta *tanasteli (presentations) ar *partale (teaching, training) amna aþumonyain lepenque - xéyuvas ter i quanta aure. Ente, namin h...
• BpnGRGQSGdc: Since I am starting to work more seriously on assembling a coherent Neo-Eldarin vocabulary, I thought I should articulate the approach I intend to ...
• 58CWiZ62WKB: Samin Isilya-lumbe. Sinome háman opo nonwanya, mauya men moia, lanye. *Hentópanyat lunge; sanarinya hísea; uiúlien yulmali *kofio quanta, la káre m...
• VzU2c5yV36k: Throwing in a few words to munch on: surprise recognize to get to know, acquaint get, acquire ...
• 1ULWZAKyxqZ: This is silly but why not:) I recently watched this delightful movie with Danny Kaye and have been thinking since whether we can do justice to this...
• ctvC4VBia6b: Square/rectangle and cube. There is neltil for triangle, so *kantil would be logical, but that also means 'fourth finger'. Perhaps that's not a bi...
• QMNj7kxeH68: Possible Quenya linear measurements? UPDATED lár a league; 3 miles *larnelesta a mile; 1 mile (> NQNT) rangwe a fathom; 6 feet ranga a yard; 3 fee...
• RWLi5paEPwE: If qua is "something, a thing", and -sta is "close grouping", could *quasta be "group"? ...
• DWPK9Lox8yC: I'm watching the Six Nations rugby championship on the telly, and on the dot I have named the game rikkoron "try-ball", because of the nature of t...
• CDgedu8sYE6: I've release Eldamo 0.6.1: https://eldamo.org/ This is the first release of Eldamo that does not have any new data entry. It involves a major reo...
• NmZbQ5j7YKv: Elye yú awalde nar pá i kúmakirya Elennero vilie i Mareso mentienna? Titta karne immenwa kíra Kúmasse - ké istan mai oloities Mares, ar ménas ambel...
• eXiNcPeEnjC: "trousers, pants" NQ *rotset? cf. E hose, G Hose? Ras Al...
• NhCSrJ2wRhg: Do you think the idea behind ahtumat may have been that it is the 'worker's meal', meaning the main meal for those who usually work through the day...
• QuCraX47oTi: Síra í métima ré yas nauvan Formenya Karolinasse: auviluvan sinyesse. Lauvas arra, an túliéva, feluvan ata sinye náse, ono tenta rie ingare... Nami...
• RXKYiVBhD3y: Observation of the Day aka Certainly News to Me: Its temporal antessive use in http://eldamo.org/content/words/word-1029560541.html would indicate...
• fv9KjeomqSn: Putting the problem out here as well, for folks who are less 'instant ', like myself: verbs for "to buy" and "to sell"in Quenya. ...
• FH1FnhhK2Mx: I'm experimenting with a new search page for Eldamo. The beta is here: http://eldamo.org/beta/content/search/search.html The major changes are: ...
• hKH4Da84phn: Karaitienya ké píkuva ter nótima lúme: urda nin teke. Lá samin i alme náve ataformaite. Helke utúrie ni tana lusse, mal koire tuluva yo laluvan lye...
• XmnyDZy4wcs: As Q sumba- is glossed "submerge" it would be a neat joke to translate "submarine" as *sumbarin ;) ...
• K2zuGYQoMaT: Referring to our discussion about future imperfect participles I just wanted to repost this sheet I started to put together some time ago, collecti...
• cvY6jd4tQvn: A conceptual question. We know that in Q adjectives can act as nouns (A Vanimar etc.). Would you agree that the same concept could be true for adj...
• GHeGND2uJm8: Is there any rule that would prevent medial nh in Q? I can't find any but wanted to confirm... Would a form like *nanhalya- 'unveil, reveal' be fin...
• 7dCAtnDAd7A: Ambar né ufárea Melehta Alexanderen, mal i noire láne. Juvenalis ...
• e5VUNmuQBwF: Ata hrisya sisse (ar amna ilya lómisse hrinse), potai hrisse tópa ilqua Vurapestesse - hequa I maller an aþahanya tikunes nu i immenwar. ...
• Tsn9vHV3hEL: If lá can be enclitic with ké and become kéla could it do the same with yú and mean nor/neither? ...
• G4AHbsTQpVw: Fasta nin, an akávien (have succeeded) kame *mittahyalin (entry-paper, ticket [rather clumsy, any better ideas?]) atta i *tyalmardenna (tyalmard-, ...
• FKhB9jKkKR2: Working on the 1000 top English words translations makes you sometimes realise how many different meanings, hues can be sometimes attributed to a s...
• FGsSUtJpr2L: Síra ménen kame keura lendalávanya (passport) [1]; fastalima vanta né: síra lauka lá noa, i hrisse tikune [2] astasse mal i maller lá níti; ente An...
• 4yNJM1MdAox: I hrissea Budapest as i síre Anduna, kénina (kenna?) atarinyo henetello, sí. 16/01/2018 ...
• 4uNYG9LAWfG: It's preposterous that I should try this, but I am in that mood today. I hope my neologisms are transparent enough. ------------- Romeo: Aike vah...
• XjR26vcvAX3: I am in the middle of a major overhaul of the Eldamo data model to reflect its new “dual mission” of both (1) describing Elvish as Tolkien wrote it...
• E1PU4oPEo7D: Síra lelyan Matyarnórenna; sinye nauva tenna utúliévan. Alassea nán sa enkenuvan atarinya, mal lá mára nin i quanta lenda keluva (will flow = last)...
• 7SpsgEPRQtN: Suggestion: *virda "variant" (cf. Gn. brigli); *karpavirda, lambevirda "dialect". Looking at the discussions on discord we will need a word like t...
• UVUfNC4Kdvn: After your post on losing and lost, I wondered if the phrase for I lost x could be "vanwa nin...x Using the same structure as Ecce nin...x and ...
• 9Z6kwWVB3tn: I fasta hesto apsa as i kapsa as i apsa nan apta lepta i silma yulma to i talma. ...
• ZizdPiHQYTG: Valarya nauváne alassea an otsola-metta anya, ananta félan lunga. Askénie (obviously) lá aþya sa hiswa ava, lumbuli lumnar i vilyasse, ilquáresse i...
• VDuxDU1FBf5: Hande Istare síve i Frankenstein lá i úvanimo. Nolwe síve i Frankenstein i úvanimo. “Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein is not the monster. Wi...
• Cpm7uUGKkff: Er erinqua lé ea nwalya i nér yello illi avánier: á nananta sen ma hastaina. "There's only one way to hurt a man who has lost everything: give him...
• CUnXt294SJU: A word for "minute", I beg you! All I can imagine is smth like nilco (nilcu-) ...
• RVhhNDCkrn4: Need a word for an non-causative "join (v)". Tamas Ferencz...
• DV8JZrXqd4W: *Arinwatenna (for breakfast) manten massa yo úle, lingwe usquenen *vortaina (preserved, made lasting), ar kolosta; yúlen *kulorvo (of tomato, golde...
• RYFZKaFMcK6: For "puppy", what would roa + -ince become? Ravince? Or would huo + ince become huince? ...
• cootmTYT99J: Enwa ilúvesse sinwa sa neren arwa alta hereno mauya kesta vesse. Jane Austen ...
• EuEGXCARWB6: Raumo Eleanor amna oantie sillo (i súre turka en), mal okólie luime. Síre sirya ara i osto, ar i anta rávasse palda palar, senyave wenya salquenen ...
• XJZFKoW3kZ5: Ekénielde sina *ardaemma (ardemma?) (map) i limesse nún? Lelyalima (enchanting, amazing) manen i viríte (various) ear kelussi siryar yo hwinyar ter...
• TWz8WEgXJyd: Merya nostarë Arcastaro! Tamas Ferencz Jan 03, 201...
• QtPWhw6MfWJ: Here it is. My dedication to the Professor on his twelfty-sixth birthday, to New Year's festivities and everything in between. Written in the ancie...
• GY11nDxrNBz: And an ornamental version to follow! Aukira n-aure.tif And an ornamental version to fo...
• EAqiLzLU928: Culuma (culu-ma) is orange; could malma (mal-ma) be lemon, and laingwa (laic-ma) be lime? ...
• 66ZNVytFcA1: We now have a Discord Server! Please join us following this link: https://discord.gg/Dhmyzrf For those who don't know, Discord is a messenger appl...
• gfPcv2tD8Ae: Since my wordlist is provisionally suspended, I want to make inquiries about particular words here. My first question is "sausage"! How will you ca...
• YzRfuhcXLgh: “A Study in √rō/oro” Tá Yavanna *alassea, ar tolunes, ortaila rankuryat menelda, ar quentes: ‘Orwe oryuvar orni Kementário, *itan Soroni i Arano e...
• WYoafgAaZcg: I am just wondering how do you say "fun" in Neo-Quenya? Can we make smth usable from EN. gairuid? ...
• hHUHw9gS8g3: Merya Mettare Len, Meldonyar! Ekin Gören Dec 31, 2...
• PFgSQyJoiqy: +Ицхак Пензев Yitzik, your latest post and list of words has inspired me to start something similar (and I do not want to hijack your dictionary ...
• iU1dqDYwN7k: I've finished Release 0.6.0 of Eldamo. This release has nearly all of Tolkien's attested word forms from the existing published material. Only a fe...
• XUZxsExUtmv: I said I'd post more about “what's next” for Eldamo, so here it is. Given my recent posts, it’s no secret that I think we need a generally improve...
• LqCcqGNpqcT: One could think that adapting Quenya for modern age is difficult because of science and technology. Yet it seems that the "weak link" is in the com...
• 2xQaTj6NC72: Ela vinya alassie, ela vinya elmenda! Vende yondova ontaril, yondova atar úner. Vende ú nero nosta, ve marinde marin, cén sin cole míre, indil lost...
• cggbNiaQpL9: Merin merya merende ilye otornoin at osellin! Na alassea Hrístonostarelda, Turuhalmelda, Hanukkalda, hya aiqua ya *merenyalde. Alye mate, yule, lir...
• HQ9vgWsYuCP: Just out of curiosity: What is "The Last Jedi" in Quenya? I know that this might be an impossible translation, because Jedi probably isn't accounte...
• fv7ybPk7sVB: men- 'go, proceed'+ -ma 'implement' > *memma 'vehicle'? Pa...
• 8ghCj45SzZ2: An koranallor nelde Disney milyave leryane i vinya Elenye Ohtar *menemma (moving picture) ara (around) nostarenya, olólie haimenna sa tirimme i vin...
• duNk1pWzkti: Tékanen síra'r karne rea VinQuenyarin quetta “*equétiévanítas” i mahta *Ingillin [English language] quettar toldo: ‘to have been about to have said...
• PzoLuccRdUP: Laqui loinamin, coantur hosto sino samë nostarérya síra. Valima nostarë, +Tamas Ferencz! getty...
• Km7Pn3azPyu: Sharing +Severin Zahler's CSS fontface guide as it's too important to be buried in a comment somewhere. Thanks, Severin! ...
• GqJXkMznaar: For Q chatting it would seem fitting to have a Q word for the English language. There is the very early Q word Ingilnóre "England" that seems based...
• FjbR3hR4ytM: And resharing my rudimentary font sample as well, in case someone wants to take the bite and work on it further:) ...
• 77YsVzqGaNc: Lungo hrísa Kievessë. I caltengwa carna ara i pustalë *nutalamna angamallëo ("metro") lá haiya coanyallo. ...
• 1ujxZD7ao7t: Atalatyanente (atalatanyente?) Ambaro anyára parmakoa. I koranari amna min húme lempe tuxa linyenwa ampano tare Kemetesse (Hakapta? Egypt, see http...
• hrrRaHnFYAK: Hentean sa helleondo (asteroid) mine ar perya lár palda úva Ambarenna, ar lahtuva ara me enyar. Nauvas ena aqua háya ananta: nauvas yurastalume i ...
• YPGS11aav1v: Kesyalima ná ma laimyave lie aistar Hristonostare/Turuhalme sinome Ingilnóresse ar mélamarinyasse (Madyarnóre). Madyarnóresse quéni ortar i Turuhal...
• jQ598gy2h1c: Sina i sulpa porcelleva ya manten síra. IMG_20171214_160456.jpg Sina i sulpa porcellev...
• cQu6Y92qhye: If we had an instant chat in Quenya, what messenger would you prefer? None None ...
• UdPCjHgmyLf: Tiruvan Elenye Ohtar, Toldea Asta - I Telle Yedir Isilyasse, olean walda ve hína 😊 ...
• 3aEfARitrb1: Ehentanien sa Atan naike entuluva Isilenna rongo. Awalda nán - Untale Isilenna né nessenyo alta autas ya tirnen palantiresse. ...
• 1fy8gkStkSe: Mai - ta menya "losse hríve" lemenye aure atta, ar tensi avánie... Namarie, losse hrisse, alla, ulo! ...
• cB8AWA1A1jJ: Akárien porokelle-sulpa síra. Hanten porokelle-rámar tambenna, napannen *viríte (varying, various) sulkar ar laiqui, ta *asahanya (easily understoo...
• JCpuDyPLLPL: I think it is important (1) to find and fill the gaps in the basic vocabulary and (2) make choices on different variations of certain words (like "...
• Dg9fbxfsp2W: One thing that we need to improve as a community is our abilities to add Tengwar, Sarati, and Cirth transcriptions to our websites. It's not possib...
• jnpAHFpNmMz: Hrizya. Namin minya lómisse nótime loallor, hrizya - haura, tiuka hrissequessínen. Nas tensi tál-núra. Maxuvan massa síra. Senyave maxan ta mastan...
• iVbVEnyopXb: Merya Hrívesse illin! gplus1191345519.jpg Merya Hrívesse illin! ...
• UfqBSzcFdxq: How do you interpret autas? I mean, pit it in a sentence for me please:) I have a lot of questions today... ...
• MtnGqRR3kAP: This is a hypothetical question to those of you who know more about programming than me - I myself amused myself a bit with some little Python year...
• AZqD6wAPivt: How would you say "forget" in Q? lerya sanarello? hehta sanarello? Gnomish has this very interesting root: ...
• XDkLpY6zZ2N: What do you think, friends? Shall we base our Neo-Quenya reconstructions on the latest ideas of the Professor found in his draft notes, or give adv...
• MXXG5rhUTQA: Lumba nán. Hiswa ava, miste lanta, nique. Xáran nanwene kaimanna. ...
• gbz5y85APmK: I've been exploring Q phonology and have a few questions about how morphemes combine in some educationally motivated situations: √NIK + mapa-​ + ​...
• 1Tdcs8B8eji: Is panya- our best option for the simple notion of "to put, place, set sg"? Etymology had a verb esta- but it was struck out and anyway would clash...
• fE3fxY7XWLU: Ya istalme, limba ná; ya lalme, earon. Just heard this very profoundly deep quote on a TV show. ...
• Txg7b2pm88V: Ta enwa koivie Hya er intyale? *Kentaltasse raina Anwiello la rehtie Á latya hendutya Hellenna amtira, á kene, Nán er úna yondo, la merin ófelme An...
• D8THNhsWv4A: Telyanen i Eldarin tië online métimavë! Epë parië atta loain ar perya, polin quetë ambi quettar sa sanan pollen úne parne. Sí merin parë rimba ambë...
• Q3ezKDK4FZi: Seldom, rarely - do you have a suggestion for these, other than saying larimbave? Or rare, for that matter. Few. ...
• PbDLYmM5ohV: Maira ré lyen illin! Nique sisse. I kemen faren helka, sie erendien *parkataine lóki, ar erdi i aiwin. Samimme "vére" aiwi i lillume tulir lotarwam...
• G6uVRvdrHyT: A Quenya word for "special, particular" would be helpful, especially as an adverb "especially, particularly" :) I see Sindarin edregol "in especial...
• AjYcybmiRHy: OK: our word or words to ponder for today is: though, although, albeit ...
• fkGPkRawqcV: Got bread? None None ...
• dddV2RGKWm3: I wonder if tolya "prominent" (lit. sticking up) could be a good kenning for "proud, haughty" ...
• SDnWXGCRvvR: Rike luke Nauko i haurallo "Try dragging a Dwarf away from the hoard" (="you are asking for something impossible") Middle Earth saying ...
• YsZP82rYaPs: This is a bit of a speculative post. Amazon recently announced a deal with the Tolkien estate for a Middle Earth TV series. Who knows how long it w...
• 1jT7FfUQf6X: Greetings! I am wondering if anyone knows how to use the double dots for a "y" in the Tengwar Annatar font without having spaces between letters an...
• TXxuZd9uL8m: Is there ever a consonant-vowel cluster of "quu"? Tamas Fe...
• cfayKHbFjNr: Any suggestions for the verb "glide, slide" in Q, and, consequently, 'sleigh'? At one point I coined pas- and it's in VQP but now we have that with...
• TW7RvyTFQdv: Does anyone have a clue whether there's any possibility of obtaining the many out-of-print Parmar Eldalamberon? Or are there any digital copies aro...
• EKq6o7pC1sP: Quenya nursery rhyme. The metre is - | - ^^ | - ^ | - ^^ | -^ - | - ^^ | - ^ | - ^^ | - Ter híseva landa norta olombo Ho tínila helma talta i ló...
• AZmJoZ9N8oc: I've release v0.5.8 of Eldamo. This version has the data for PE21, which was more of a slog than I expected (so many declension tables). Of the m...
• R7BaHWpSaXL: Andanéya, harunya quente nin quenta: Roquen atta yestat sé lár atta. Ilya roquen norta i exenna min lár ilya lúmesse. Pí yesta min roquende ar vil...
• Qhr7Vq7bvbW: Qui i kassa la kamta karelya vá kole sa. "If the helmet does not fit on your head don't wear it." Middle-Earth proverb ...
• L1UEU96pU3f: How would you guys say 'important, significant' in late/neo Quenya? ...
• HvJ1kTykSoQ: Someone asked me how you would say of the Earth and the Moon in Quenya, and I demurred. They are not a natural pair, but a pair in the given contex...
• Eg6ssijnewT: ‘Malo olanetye lunganna, lótenya? ’Ammilke maquali leptaner ni síra.’ ’Manen athyuvan tyen *itan nauval merya?’ ’Nai netyuvan ta nette ye tá lilta...
• f6XpWnxU6Ug: Aiya, nildor! Once I was quite enthusiastic about [Neo-]Quenya. Then I experienced a kind of frustration, having read PE22 and totally lost in its ...
• TKGoAvmyXH4: Just an exercise in hexameters. “Ranyamo, mallo utúlier aine yo lumbe taletyat?” “Aistana asto ni tópa, nanakka feanya hroanya.” “Á hamu sisse ta ...
• F2e4PkwmeRV: Enno onna enno enne. "A person's child is a person's purpose." Middle-Earth saying ...
• VGfrsC1Nsxt: William Shakespeare: Sonnet XVIII Ma ai sestuvanyel Laireva aurenna? Elye anírima ta ammilya ná lá se: Ráve súre Tuileo lelye tuimar rihta, Ar Lai...
• 9Qr31KKGUhB: Aiya, mára meldo! Merin maquetital quettalion ata, an ranyal rimbavë! In a textbook I was reading, I read "epë = after (of time), and nó = before (...
• BMoesZAGkb4: Á *rahta maqualya orkonna, aunakuvasses. Give an orc your hand and it will bite it off. Middle-Earth proverb. ...
• MsYGmx9nULz: Following Tamas's post from earlier I made up this list of pronouns ma? what? (interrogative pronoun) man? who? mana? what? (adj.) mó? whose, what...
• 5ahsfgqf8Lg: I'm looking for help translating a phrase into Elvish. It can be any version of Elvish you like. Here's the story; me and by girlfriend are nearin...
• VAp13CtxhLE: I am kinda shocked. Doriath has iâth (fence) in it. So should we pronounce it dor-yath, not like the' 'ia' in Melian like we separate 'rh' in gaur...
• PMH848x5234: Translating names of pets friend's cat (female kitten) Bandy 'little bandit': Arpince from arpo + ​-ince 'thief, seizer (diminutive)' There's a sl...
• PMP6zb2hGfM: Eke len tulya Nauko *findimaitarenna, mal lá eke len mauya se hyare fangarya. You can take a Dwarf to the barber, but you can't make him shave. M...
• Qb6Hb3nY9ZF: I think we now have attested Quenya interrogative/demonstrative/relative pronouns for most situations (who, what, whose, where, whence, whither, ho...
• G4YZgpPkicm: Aiya! Maquetin le quetto. In the book "Quentin i Lambë Eldaiva", upon the fourth lesson I fell upon the word "virya-", which means to change. Howe...
• 9kmdXrALUbM: It's been some time since I've done a translation, so I tackled "Spirit of Life": a hymn that's basically an anthem of the Unitarian Universalist f...
• gspKFMShJ8i: A question to discuss. Do you believe that even in nominative Sindarin pronouns are unchangeably lenited? Is there enough evidence to either side? ...
• 6BH2zCD3ooC: Edited "Ilya mára nauva, ar ilya mára nauva, ar ilquaima engwi mára nauvar." "All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things...
• 4tqUkamGnmg: My sketch of how to update the conditional sequence of QVS into post-reverse QUenya and to Sindarin (based on the introduced Noldorin hints). Start...
• 6nFtMQH44ws: New Testament in Neo-Quenya translated by Fauskanger. Download in epub here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7LiUTtL4JLMXzRRellGTjVsOVE ...
• 5yJiSXvXEnQ: A quenya syntax question: Should I normally position and adjective describing a noun before or after the noun in question? E.g. Cenean yaule morna ...
• fTaGoVsR4ju: Would saveryet translate to he believes it? James Coish ...
• 2t8BvRe43Pp: Ette atto; ta ette etta atto. Atto atto otto: etta atto atto ette. ...
• FRTz1Q6KydT: Mellyn! What do we know about the rules for lengthening vowels in compounds and inflections in Quenya? A typical example of what I am trying to und...
• B6ZMcC56U9q: Tell me about your workaround solutions for the conjunction 'so that/in order to/ut'. Or maybe there is something attested? I think this is physica...
• ffEPMYmRyPS: Styx I lunte taltea an yo nan, kíra i quilda yo passa nén. La *palma sa níra, la falma sa hilya, laika langorya rista i ló. Erinqua nán. Kanwanyo ...
• 93sfzLic57s: Nosto i-Aear, lass laeg, Legolas! Dorthannel anan nu 'aladh vi 'lass. Ae lastol i-nall e-maew 'ri falas, Gúrel ló-chiratha hîdh vi thaur dass. Leg...
• 8EQjKR5nFYc: Sunday couplet *Lustie siryear, *enwakuvindo, raike nietyar *Thanka i fenna ka ni, verkave ompa menin. *lustie adv. "emptily, in vain" *enwakuvin...
• dTcwrrBnjjb: Friday couplet Vanya *molisse a yesta si enta yo *uiala nyáre Húme yo minya i ló, nai nauvas i minya ata! "Fair slave-girl, start yet another tra...
• 24wohKYKK6H: Greetings fellow Eldar! I am in a dilemma. I am unsure of the usage of plural and dual pronominal forms for the 1st person. Is it inclusive plural,...
• Mz6cY6MyBRK: Essenya Kevin. Páranyë Quenya an alassëa. Nas lenca. Istëanyë nótima quettar. Mal páranye quiquië lertëanyë. ...
• 1KVhQVKbuZ3: Wednesday couplet Á hora ninna, melisse, an anda i lóme en ompa; Asra Arra ta íre i lú lisse yo waltalima. "Wait for me, beloved, long is the nig...
• bacEhyejNVH: Greetings! I am afraid I have received a faulty copy of the 2015 edition for Quetin i Lambë Eldaiva English Royal by Thorsten Renk after buying it ...
• WnqgtsgL9QC: Tuesday couplet Orya i hísie amb’ orotingali narqueliéva Lemya erinqua oron, tíras i poika Aman. ...
• HGNK8nMuEtP: Monday couplet (distichon^) Yalle i ítila lón hendutyaye *nanhatir áre Néka i ñalta kamin, kalyas ananta ilú ------------------------------------...
• V2AcupLZCeD: I don't get it... Not a single word for 'back' (a part of body) in any language since Leeds? And none for 'stomach' ever? ...
• cLAVQyhmp2o: Hello! I am wondering how to use the Tengwar for others to see on a webpage!!! Can anyone tell me how to do so??? Also, if it involves programming...
• 35aAhcWkwj4: The counter here on the side is telling me the community has reached half thousand members. *Perhúme! *Perveneg! Now I know very well that this nu...
• NSHgp9tvYek: Was anybody from our community at Omentielva Otsëa, like good Maester Kalimac here? http://kalimac.blogspot.fi/2017/08/omentielva-otsea.html ...
• QdFQ8gf56su: As promised, the slides with the poetic selection to the talk. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8gjHaj7Lr5WZnNINW5ucTltUkU https://drive.google...
• YbBa1L1gfBd: Nai kalambar Omentielwa Otsea. Tamas Ferencz Aug 1...
• 3zomtd5UCF5: Hi! I've recently made a lot of changes to Parf Edhellen (www.elfdict.com) and I would like to plug my website here once more! :) I believe it ha...
• TX8bj95Pm9r: Does anyone have any idea what "Drega", imperative for 'Flee!" might be in Quenya? Is there a root? Any guesses on what Drega might sound like in...
• DnRptDKCTZK: Update: I'm getting the dictionary application ready for the Omentielva, where Roman Rausch will present it. Here's a little screencast video: ht...
• dbSsaCVxswb: ᴹQ. horta- v. “to send flying, speed, urge” Definition of exhort transitive verb : to incite by argument or advice : urge strongly ...
• PtmJdUYe9RN: Hmmm just realised Vinquettaparma (http://middangeard.org.uk/vqp/doku.php/ns:wordlist) is offline... Does anyone by chance know what's up (i.e whet...
• QdCsvTWkwjd: Hi, new here. I would love to learn Quenya, I downloaded the text book of the net, but I always have a hard time sticking with it from a lack of ot...
• W4wQV81qey3: *Súrielli Yasse pitya, mára anen Yuyálea tauresse patanen Yas silima *súrielle alde Ta *iasinti luini, lunge I súrielli lintie willer Yalle wilwa...
• ZxzMxqJ4AEc: AS hláfweard "master of the loaf" > E lord Q massatur "master of the loaf" > *mastur > E master It's all connected 😉 ...
• NXaYBmeDc7Y: To a favourite tree (from Handel's Serse, Act I) Milya ar vanima olasse melda mapalininyo, a raita tyen calambar! Nai tarítali ar raumo la terhat...
• GBMNqMxPJmi: Hello, Am very new to Sindarin, but using the many resources provided I have attempted a translation of Galadriel's ring speech to Frodo when she r...
• NTZa3iG2Zex: Word proposal: Q *minome adv., prep. + Gen. "instead, in place of, in exchange for" ...
• iXSMEG93yei: Tamo móta koammasse tella otsolello *quilyaila i mitye rambar, ta ilye fendi yo *hendeli. Tanka ná i koa oluva annetya mal terhaties koiviemma ter ...
• G8WMXLJqAiK: Looking for ideas how you guys would say "chaos, disorder, mess, confusion, havoc, tohuvabohu" and related adjectives etc. in Quenya (or Sindarin)....
• 7Z8zeKSueQR: I've release v0.5.6 of my Elvish lexicon Eldamo. This version has data from PE15. Of the major publications, only PE16, PE18, PE19 and PE21 remain...
• hcj7U8b43eg: Maiku vanen erühini Tamas Ferencz Jun 22, 2017 (10...
• dHdYq1JFUzB: Hi! I'm very new to all of this, and I am trying to work on translating Gandalf's quote, "all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is...
• XXqyiwLBdZe: Hello! I was wondering what you would use in Quenya for the word "bearing" in this sentence: "You have seen them bearing the cloaks of lords!" This...
• ErfQMsF2MZw: It is done it's done it's done it's done it's done! Hard Copies of “A Fan’s Guide to Neo-Sinda...
• FGtGrDBXz3W: Just searching for a Sindarin word for "nobody", stumbled across uvan, sources given are TI/281,283,314. I have no access to the Treason of Isengar...
• hZhZia3Zihv: I've devised a Greek-type orthography for Quenya which it honestly deserves in its Classical approach. An example as follows: Αἴ. Λαύριε λάνταρ λά...
• D2NKGDe1uKf: “Ilya ré *​Emillere,” quente harunya hantien verirya, haruninya, onnattain quain, er ion emilinya. ‘“Every day (is) Mother’s Day,” said (habituall...
• iD3qrrFkCn4: I wonder if they will release the lyrics somewhere.. for public benefit. https://calvertjournal.com/news/show/8273/elvish-opera-to-be-performed-in...
• efhSAsCdSQZ: Greetings all! I've been struggling on my own and have finally decided to join the community. I recently got back in to Tengwar calligraphy after ...
• CeviBfv34Ti: Lá onnaya lá yarontarerya Lá onórorya lá nilmorya Lanye aiqueno Lanye aiqueno Nanye, ve illi: tárie, Forn’ aikasse, *nulme, *aquasatie, Néka, vahá...
• cdwX8SCqC6f: Someone put up a question on another forum whether there's a word for "fool, foolish" in Quenya,and it got me thinking. There are the EQ noun and a...
• P6d8hHQt5yx: Lá peresa nin. Tamas Ferencz May 01, 2017 (00:29) ...
• 2gGo9padw7G: Helkenen kelya. Arkean lá palpas i laimar íta... Robert Re...
• 6mgwyym2eui: Happy Easter, wonderful community! Have peace, fun, and prosperity wherever you are. ...
• dkPFfLVwKUr: I've release v0.5.5 of Eldamo. This release finishes both PE14 and the early Qenya name analysis. I've also done some cleanup on the XSD schema de...
• RUMDRQCDvEV: How would you guys say "side" (noun) in Eldarin? Ицхак Пе...
• d3CUuDspq2J: Good news! We have established a Skype chat for Eldarin linguistic discussions! Please join if you also wish to participate! +Christopher Gilson +...
• 4S633LgMCG3: There is one day in any poet's life when thy become ready to write the 'Monument'. This time I attempted to write in a quantitative verse with comp...
• Neg7i6MPEAr: *Conlang Database Project* Update March 23rd Over the past few weeks I've been busy with working on a few other things, but that was a total benef...
• i469wPEEzzK: Light thickens A translation of Lady Macbeth's aria from Act II of Verdi's Macbeth. The original Italian lyrics are loosely based on Act III, Scen...
• FH7ei1hTNXR: Let's guess! How many PE issues or years will be taken until every meaningful linguistic material by Tolkien is available? Then, how far could ...
• 2KZKQ7feLQs: I’m trying to better understand how participles, gerunds, (particular) infinitives, etc. function and interrelate in Quenya. Some sample sentences:...
• hhf3wv321SQ: Is this correct? Yessesse, Ranta 31:49 Ar Mipsa, an quentes, I HERU ávet tire imbe, íre vanwe velto. ...
• ETqGma6a8U6: I have started working on a project - a primer course into Quenya, that is, to NeoQuenya (although I do not like the term). I know there are other ...
• Q1KsEB8ntz4: Alako Doris ména ter Ingilnóre. Tulle arinesse ar neme tensi náse melehteo ingasse. Amna anarkie nótime laimar et i kemello tarwammasse. Hlarin núm...
• XZ9Xd8XS8ha: At least at an earlier stage there was still the prefix http://eldamo.org/content/words/word-2252155757.html which would make sense combined with l...
• 8ccgrHhgSTY: I've release v0.5.4 of Eldamo. Now that PE22 is done, I gone back to working on earlier material. I finished up some left overs in PE12, and made ...
• P8LWrZLF6UK: A relatively quick translation (since much revised) of the song "I See You" from the film Avatar English lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/leo...
• Fby2Z1bfjT1: Guys, I would like to pick your brains on two bits in LVS7 in PE22. 1) on p154 there is this quite generic statement "... The particular infin. wi...
• Uq2n96W6fUN: I keep appreciating the beauty and carefulness of Early Qenya even more, day after day. Here is an anachronism in EQ septenarii: En veallo ni·túli...
• 41DxL8sWaze: I was listening to my favourite Vangelis record today - Earth - and thought I'd translate this short piece of lyrics. Nelme ambaquerne Rappente i ...
• cQyRvbPXSon: Hello i am Azog , i speak Orcish 08/02/2017 ...
• cDZFbUL299H: Introducing my, doubtlessly, most ambitious Eldarin project ever! Over a month in the working! As a person who does not physically hear the length ...
• SRxZhM91gPe: So quick update from my conlang database project! I've just refactored the database model to be able to include the marks (whether a word is i.e. ...
• 8irA7bkgUwQ: And as a bonus: two snapshots of my favourite notebook. A glimpse of hell hiding behind the achieved completed version! :D ...
• dPDtm8irDdk: I loava minya nieninque *lotarwasse DSC_0694.JPG I loava minya nieninque *lotarwasse...
• Qe68so2D7hr: I have seen this short Burns poem today (in a comment to an article about May's visit to Trump) and decided to have a go at it. I Quáke-matindo ...
• WL2sbW2up37: Since the English "in love" is an adjective would the Quenya equivalent be melwa? ...
• 2BwMC8WPotq: Ma mantelde *arimmatienna? Inye mante massa, manya yo tyur, ar yúle kuluma pirya. *Oraureanna sulpa nauva. ---- *arimmatie n. "morning meal, br...
• eFz6Sqy5nUQ: Síra aure ustiéva - ustean (mastean?) *kentamnar - yulmar, salpar - i urnasse. Ta anda menie: mauya san perya ré *laukata tenna i kentamnar nar run...
• UgZgNhYA3TM: I've release v0.5.3 of Eldamo. It's been an embarrassingly long time since I've done anything with the lexicon, as I've been obsessed with other t...
• i3i2U2V1zQn: *Millume sina hrívesse: hríza! Kenuvaila [1] sa i hrisse quí lemyuva talamesse. -------------------- *millume adv "first, for the first time"; mi...
• iAd19NGaFLT: I în hen delu. Ni *basseril, a bin laew tangadanner i ni fuiar. Ach guion eno. Avon *daved an delos. Limmidin i thîr în na nim a vudas. *Aden i 'wa...
• j5Q5RLSHLU9: Translation inquiry: "Since the Elves were not going (did not intend, were not willing) to follow him, he strived against them by force." (thus not...
• QbBdpouBAKE: In his Outline of Phonetic Development, on page 58 of PE19 Tolkien introduces the somewhat unexpected (for me) compound word tálgárta "high boot", ...
• CYotiKDwKXh: Á enyale Á enyale ni í vanwa nán, Háya minna i séra nóre; Í eke lyen hape mánya ambe lá, *Lahya amna autan, ta lemyan óle. Á enyale nin ni í lá ni...
• 8XoecYtMx7R: Ortean yulmanya miruvóreo quanta i atano nostare enyalien ye sina otornasseo *tyarme ar i tyáro alasseo, valmeo, márieo, sanweo, nainieo ta melme...
• A8isSrV8yAS: *Indosatienya i vinya loan: lá karuvan *aimanima *indosatie i vinya loan. ------------------------- *indosatie n. "resolution, decision" indo "(s...
• 7zmW42dZiXu: Negrenig iuithar gae, lais egor chwand sui gaef coled 'lî dan na i dorech dîn. Ach idhrin i negrenig, ar ui cewir i ngaef i maer mîn ngaef. https:...
• WSB1MpWecFT: Ilye maitarín, lindimaitarín, kallonyar vínelmaron, Alan Rickman, David Bowie, Prince, George Michael, Lemmy, nete, nete, nete, nete, nete, ar ilye...
• cJzAQ4hdmjT: On Christmas Eve I wish you all joyous festivities, peace and happiness wherever you are - may your Twelve Days of Christmas feel as if you were in...
• 4dXvybL21oH: This is another passage from my blended adaptation-summary of the Ainulindale and Genesis to practice with Quenya. I'm trying to use more non-Engli...
• cTnEd8Ux8QU: Westron ribadyan irbê–t(h)i/–di anâ ? Assuming that the /r/ is not a changed sound (no begadkefat fricativization in Adûnaic dialects? ;)) and that...
• VgZfjmyrK9h: *Oroparmen Marquette Napána Okombieryanna Arkastaro I *oroparmen nyarne i akámie minya *lerie parmo I Perian. Ta erya parmaron min yo perta *menk...
• WbaugKu3Amy: Time for some fable :) Let's make it flawless together? Máma rokkorye Máma, ye penne tó, kenne rokkor: min sakila i•lunka, exé kólo túra, métimá ...
• hWo1wzGUG3E: Laitale óraviéva Tamas, I do indeed remember reading your translation of this famous passage on Aglardh. Still, I hope you don't mind another vers...
• 9yqLKQYLRwK: Eldamo glosses the Quenya word to as an adverb meaning "as a rule" based on the Q sentence lairesse nihare to tarassi, yo unta hrívesse landannar i...
• Dffnsng79Lb: Hey everyone! As a part of my IT apprenticeship I'm planning on realising a kind of elvish resource which I think does not exist yet in a similar ...
• BrPBoNPf468: I was given a task to translate lock and key. In I Vinya Vere, Helge translates key as latil, something that opens. I'm curious what lock or somet...
• Sn3pjbGFFHv: I'm new to (Neo-)Quenya and have spent some time with the Ardalambion and Parma Tyelpelassiva courses (plus Eldamo, Parma Eldaliéva, the Bible tran...
• FiMYGbt3r6D: After re-reading page 147 in PE 22, i thought about this "before of time. PHA, APHA. enge. 1 2 before, in front of place. KHYA .13 after {later th...
• Ub5ZdikfkUz: Nér akárie tatallálima emma lossea "helyanweo" hya "hísekúmo" nindatalmasse Rannoch Scotiasse. 'Ta quílenka helyanwe karinwa titta limbaron i karir...
• fbaZiPHqNLf: DEATH NOR dread nor hope attend A dying animal; A man awaits his end Dreading and hoping all; Many times he died, Many times rose again. A great m...
• MdF5hQwnbM5: Before Philippi Tulmassen fírimóron ea sóla, ya luimenen hilyanwa mene almenna; útirina, ciryastier vehtento marte únúra nenna ar angayassin. Quan...
• cXaS5ZaEz7f: +#KoireaQuenya +#ThePlaceWhereILive +#Vocabulary So here's the vocabulary of the topic The Place Where I Live. Nota bene I have only listed the w...
• STz6SyySLQ2: +#ThePlaceWhereILive +#KoireaQuenya +#TopicalConversation The Place Where I Live ----------------------------------------------------------------...
• 8WuuGtvX3nh: By all means let get started. Shall we begin with the idea to go to Quenya Chat first on the topic of 1. Describe where you live. Nation, city, k...
• RdW8ZUGSQZb: Thanks for your very interesting thoughts. Paul, Andre and others who have mentioned exactly what tends to stop the community from developing a sp...
• Dxe8uAoVhSY: How indeed could we build up a spoken (chatting) Quenya? A few months ago David Girardeau was lamenting how the new words and forms seem to actuall...
• BEA2fdUPUro: Rie erya lénen eke mon harna atan ilquo nehtaina: nananta sen ma hastaina. "There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him bac...
• TExF3uNPbbq: +#randomLotRparagraph `Well, well! ' said the wizard. `The passage is blocked behind us now and there is only one way out – on the other side of t...
• NmEctfvC9Zj: Has there been any thoughts or attestment for the entu, ensi, enta declensions? I'm noticing that tensi and tenta may be related somehow. ...
• a5jkwCd7rhn: Sindarinists: what do you make of the (plural) forms athof, athab paired with the "usual" 1st sg athon on p167 of PE22? Ephemeral variants? ...
• Qh3m17dsRiJ: A counter-proposition to Jallings' law-words: I'd much rather have it *thain (Q cognate sanye) as "law" and *thaineb as "lawful, law-abiding", than...
• LvhCsK62yd1: +#randomLotRparagraph `As you go down the water,' he said, `you will find that the trees will fail, and you will come to a barren country. There t...
• 4CAzgoYpy2F: "At the end of everything, one must expect the company of immortals." Maybe there is someone who also considers this sentence beautiful and wise. ...
• FXimPthQi2t: What do you think fíta and fifíta on PE22:132 could mean? ...
• GQzqXpFLYBR: +#randomLotRparagraph Out of the shadows a ladder was let down: it was made of rope, silver-grey and glimmering in the dark, and though it looked ...
• afqxeKBVHPy: Aaah. Increasingly hard. And lots of newer grammar as well. Athya, Tárinyar, tekitása ríkan, Lá kenilden ñwalyan i•ríkieinen, Sampan i•quettanyar,...
• BvFdXAvo5cH: I tried to scour the web, but in vain... Does anyone know of a translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, or at least the first art...
• PcRDAKzCSGw: AEROR VORN. Man nad hen, i dortha níf ni? Cant vi vorn i tentha na nin? Fer-pherno a noro lim! Henion ni i gílen îm. Law, law, law! Cant vel morn, ...
• 4fPHc5rAWTK: +Jim Coish it appears your post about maths can't be commented; I just wanted to note that instead of píca one could possibly simply use the prepos...
• 6u147nPdzJu: Melinduo oquetie pa filici - Ma lennuvatye? Haira en ná tindóme. I lómelinde né, lá lirulin, ye tereva hlarutya sostane. Illómea liris i marindess...
• fHpiSQyFL2G: +#randomLotRparagraph Comments are, as always, very-very welcome. At once he set off with long deliberate strides through the trees, deeper and d...
• Ae3gPKNwpww: The first two stanzas of the poem "Szózat" ("Summons") by Vörösmarty Mihály. An i mardor lîn, ae Magorion No an-uir sadar hador; Ha le onnant ar l...
• HQnisQ1DCoH: +#randomLotRparagraph The afternoon, as Sam supposed it must be called, wore on. Looking out from the covert he could see only a dun, shadowless w...
• Sv9es65vW4n: Huge updates to Your (Neo)Sindarin Textbook coming this fall! I went into detail in this post on my website, if you're curious. http://your-sindari...
• GHYrUGWGRJy: The "Ainulindalë" and part of the "Valaquenta" written in Quenya. http://archiveofourown.org/works/1384744/chapters/2899936%EF%BB%BF ...
• JMXVcf1m4ZS: +#randomLotRparagraph 'Indeed yes,' said Gandalf. 'Doubly. And is not that strange? Nothing that we have endured of late has seemed so grievous ...
• CNxit4wYmEF: +#randomLotRparagraph 'I sat at night by the waters of Anduin, in the grey dark under the young pale moon, watching the ever-moving stream; and ...
• Cd5E5Z53r5c: +#randomLotRparagraph ‘There it lies’ he said, pointing away south-eastwards to where the mountains’ sides fell sheer into the shadows at their ...
• eW4U6iBqYUN: onotinwa, onotinwa, *luntanwa, kirinwa - is this a fair translation of mene mene tekel upharsin? - there is a Gnomish verb luntha- 'balance, weig...
• KWdn5RU8CK8: Andrew Higgins has written a review of Parma Eldalamberon 22, as announced on lambengolmor. You can read it at the link attached. ...
• JEBCAtVjDeU: As usual, as I was working on the translation of the Rock-soup tale, some questions surfaced - maybe you guys will have some good ideas: - opele i...
• YbidHefwM3t: Ondosulpa   Yalúmesse nessa rando rananye tere i nóre. Úna yo alaherenya nés, ar *lillume la póle hire mólome ar patane tere ilya aure ú matiéva. E...
• cHkN3Hv3oUU: Pinched from the old Aglardh site; I did this translation years ago. De Profundis --------------- 1. Núrello lyenna aiálien, a Héru. 2. Héru, al...
• X9dErpE9jL4: Oath of Feanor in Quenya translation by taenia http://archiveofourown.org/works/1384744/chapters/3718166 Nas cotumo hya meldo, nas ulca hya poica ...
• NmGKQStJSio: I found a translation in Quenya of Feanor's reply to Mandos' doom. Is it correct? Vanda carnelmë, ar lá ú sánala. Vanda sinanna vorondë nauvalmë. ...
• Dw5uJfojsQE: Some animal names based on their CE equivalents (see PE/21:82): S *celef (deer, stag) kel(e)bē (deer, hind), kelebō (hart, stag) S *naeag (goat) n...
• 9zjmSsEDyvZ: The Tūlaiyeta Conundrum, or: Conditionals in Eldarin. Lets us speak about the peculiar Old Noldorin form from QVS, ni tūlaiyeta glossed by Tolkien...
• JEMxS7HcdRc: Hello :) Can anyone translate this in Quenya? "We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treas...
• 9SZVfvQKo6w: Ah, some productive time I had, pondering on the complexities of Eldarin grammar. Some of the lengthier ideas I am still to release later, when I f...
• Qsh3KqSUapv: Here's a difficult one - how to translate "honor"? I've been thinking of using "name" to refer to reputation, as in "good name/bad name", but I'm ...
• NLszY983tCx: Urya. Anúrie urya. Nemis sina ré i anúrea Aldearon tensi sina loasse. Télemme mene ar tire latópina tyalie [1] sina lómesse, mal ló i úre vamme. Ma...
• gWZGhGrikUT: Here is a list of Elvish names and phrases from The Art of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien that I think might be previously unpublished. So...
• bjWSSFwCdoD: Hello friends, I have made some updates to my Tengwar transcriber (http://arno.org/tengwar/), including more accurate Sindarin and Quenya modes, a...
• ZT6K87sB1uo: I'm gunna do it. I'm really gunna do it! I'm writing a letter asking the Tolkien Estate whether they'd be opposed to me publishing my Neo-Sindarin ...
• ea3iban28e6: Guys, I need help for a prayer for my deceased grandmother, both in quenya and sindarin :( thanks ...
• 2tGws68sXTL: Elfling firin. Ninque Nuru utúries. Matt Dinse Sep...
• iu45mg3E4nF: A sad +#StoryOfARoot that is, a story of forgetfulness and forgetfulness and oscillations. Curiously, the situation in the Lexicons is remarkably s...
• FRe6ckscvtS: Alta sorno ríke mapa nappayanten vinyamo, karnelya kirisse-harwe i vinyamo kendelenna. Herenyanen i sorno la etélie ta auvíle. A large eagle tried...
• WFAi4tFyh18: There is a process, when you take the basic material and let your thoughts go astray, not even attempting to recreate Tolkien's trail of thought so...
• 17nuLLxsqdk: Made a translation of a song important to me, Co Cię Czeka by Barbara Brylska. This one I hoped to perform in Quenya, but it really calls for Sinda...
• 2K4VNXLu2kK: Has anyone heard what happened to the recording of Prof. Tolkien reading a previously unknown Quenya poem in the Netherlands? ...
• cnPwvATEzkc: Íta waltalima sa i *tamnarána Juno *anwéna Silindonna; enwa, tensi utúlies ar peluvas Silindo ter amna loa atta ar karuvas emmar pa sa ar ránaryar,...
• gsq4z7fsUgi: Melmeo Naire   Imbilinkion *kossa *kosse nu i tópa, Vorolindelassion linde asalaste Quanta korna Rása yo menel elerrína, Fantaner Ardo yára yerna *...
• ihyRhPiYa11: If martan is a 'dwelling house', can *tantan be a 'workshop'? ...
• MyGKLXEevCb: Vinya masse luxo[1] utúlie mancarellor. Ecuva nin care vinye centamnar sina otsolasse quermasse, cé *wilviste mára. [1] EQ 'mud' >> 'clay' ...
• 79sFEUUtQi7: Is anyone else heading to the Tolkien Seminar in Leeds on Sunday? (http://www.tolkiensociety.org/events/tolkien-society-seminar-2016/) There's a la...
• RtjwC4DCNUA: Here's another +#Oonagh song, in fact the only song of her that's 100% elvish! The song is actually a translation of an originally icelandic tradi...
• iBnyANQQW6q: Just working on a translation for someone into both Quenya and Sindarin of the following sentence: "If you want to be hard (i.e. "steadfast, endur...
• bTBXiasupHK: Manten lingwe *undomatienna. Ar *cemorvar. Severin Zahler ...
• HmvDWjupxM9: In our university, students can anonymously assess the performance of teachers, express their opinions on courses, etc. at the end of each semester...
• Gy9ZiCzPy4d: Mana estuvalme sina laima? (Digitalis purpurea) 20160627_122954.jpg Mana estuvalme sin...
• W68NiKrZTzW: Maiwion yaime astáre olorinyar telda lómisse. Nánye i falassea ostosse Fowey hyarmenesse Ingilnóreo sina otsolasse. ...
• 5NLwf3Kyv44: nanweneste utúrie *opomeneste
• UYHf6D4g7yL: Tavar ya ece len *loicene rá calca Nolmor autier vinya erma lo vistale tavaro. *Ápente tavar *laimye piryassen andave, epetai i erma 'lignin' ya a...
• UCNuM7G9GpL: Got something very special to share today, just finished translating another Song for Oonagh that will be released this autumn and noone knows anyt...
• SbXbzdP7aMP: Hi! I don't know very well the Sindarin, but I'm trying to improve them. Could someone translate for me these phrases? "Everything happens for a re...
• FoZvyYf5rTE: So in the past few years I got granted the chance of composing elvish lyrics for professionally produced songs, which to my and the producer's asto...
• 3mzctUkjgRA: Hello there :). I have a question regarding the translation of the quotes from Tolkien's books. Is it possible for you to translate it from english...
• DiPNjkXeCSS: Well, if we lack a word, we either (1) paraphrase, or (2) derive, or (3) reconstruct. That's clear. But what shall we do, if we have two or three o...
• LdxUd1vzteb: One of the benefits of Parma Eldalamberon issue 22 is the information we got about verbal adjectives, the different adjectival endings and their me...
• 52Uca6yo8Ya: Nas íta ringa rá Nárie (sinome Ilngilnóresse). Quetir i *vilwiste[1] *laukantuva[2] otsolamettasse. Merinyes. Telin kate nótime kentamnar tere i ot...
• 7thaeLkyp8C: I have just finished a coffee pouch, made out of leather, and thought of writing "coffee" on it. However, we lack a word for that in eldarin, don't...
• bLVwGEez2eS: Yúlan *kaffa yo ilin yo *liste. Sina i nelya kaffa síra. Samin himíte haime kaffan. ...
• VesVvgfwXSA: Angwion ie uman enwa. "The existence of dragons at one time is a fact." This must be the single coolest sample sentence ever in any of Tolkien's ...
• 4fRVW9JVcZ1: Aldea ná i vinya Isilya...: - ulya - urda - hiswa - sapsarrima[3] I erinqua *laituvaina[1] engwe ná ta er *mótari[2] nelde lembe tenn' otsolemett...
• ZbLTdr1pJq9: Tensi enequellume enenquellume yurasta ar enenque otornor nar otornasselmasse! (Naite: nótime samir otornor atatye essi) ...
• K412KebrKDg: Mae govannen! Im Ballansidh! Tamas Ferencz May 29,...
• KnQS1kr6nrC: Ú-inn ða v'im mudad sír. Lőrinczi Gábor May 27, 20...
• Jvwuv8kfpCb: Looking for simple ways to express the following adverbs in Q (or S, for that matter): at all (al)though at least ...
• e1dWTyZemxs: Nótime árillor né *tittaiwi [1] tutúlier tutullier [2] lotarwammanna. Níke, linte, karaiti, maline-morne-ninqui, ta kólime i polinte kape lótello l...
• aMj9znM23sp: The LotRO Neo-Sindarin Plugin is finally complete and available for download! Details are in the link below. ...
• 9hcuYrDoJmy: Ivistien i tehta mir +#DadTalksQuenya, an i selyë hinna quilda ná. [I've changed the tag into "DadTalksQuenya, for my daughter still is silent.] ...
• BbyVbyydA1C: Intrigued by the Verbal Adjective xiéte "passing, impermanent" from PE22:155 (LVS7), as root for this one SKEY is given, what may be the verbal ste...
• S7igkFhkJWq: Nen a! nen, ne chuil i 'lanna mael, glanno drass nín ah, panno nin na 'lass ah estel, na dathon tangant ne i-aur dolel. Water oh! water, in life t...
• FA5KaEPUoDh: If somebody wants to help me in my experiement wherein I am trying to talk a little bit Quenya to my daughter Rina (3 and a half yo), please post y...
• 6hhaSePSvvV: Trying to correct a mistake. According to QL:49, "culmarin" turned out to be a mere "orange (fruit)". Shall we call tomato *malmarin, then? ...
• ACVYNGwFtFs: Hey, +Matt Coombes, your book has just arrived, it looks really nicely presented! Thank you DS...
• YXEJ2eK1eTg: Ulya. Íta ulya. Ицхак Пензев May 11, 2016 (18:25) ...
• AToKWgaDnUJ: Man asyuva nin carë (Vin-)Quenya mir quétima lambë? Merin ata carpa Quenyassë as pitya yeldenya. Samin maurë rimbë vinyë quettaiva! +#DadTalksQuen...
• 5Q24ptsFAJs: Aiyä! I was trying to translate some phrases for a tattoo, but I am having little trouble, I wanted to ask you if these are correct: One Last Time:...
• PBTntJtjKmf: It's in English, not any ME language, but it's still nice: Tolkien's greeting inscription in Tengwar from a letter to G.H. Cowling (details of this...
• MHJa3sVCo3B: în aind breniannen, darthannen ne môr, a ne thrass, a vathant i haeg amar, nauthannen i vîled hen, mathathon hannaweg, das sennui aun enni, naeg a ...
• JAkL7YJZNTP: Another short, but interesting letter. Would that we could have similar correspondence with the Professor, I bet he would be inundated with questio...
• DrHPm47xEDe: I am reading the new edition of A Secret Vice, and I found in it an editorial note which comments a sentence of Tolkien in which he mentions Gothic...
• YjWFS1zk1BC: Alla! Ma alasenya ringa yú yasse oialye? Istan sa ringa Víresse lá *aia, mal í eteménen lotarwanna notime *lúmestar yá, kennen nixe laimannar ta i...
• R2CriJkzrqS: suilad, Im Arthalion (Josua) o Kananga, I am new here, I hope you all accept my request to join in this community, len hannon in advance... ...
• 1BQ8DX824nU: Alla ilin...I was looking over attested male/female animal words. Some, like rocco/rocce are easy, but I was  wondering how huo would be feminized;...
• EtqnY6oXusn: QVS main treasure: verbs and verbal roots! For Neo-Quenya purposes. Trivials like tule and kare excluded. 92 KAB kave 'can, be able' (pa. t. kambe...
• SEFabLtRq8j: PE22 offers a solution to spatio-temporal ambiguity of before/after words. Using the following roots, I made some reconstructions for Sindarin: Te...
• GmuADVLCKuq: What vowel do you people put before the locatives in a word possessing no final vowel? aran, aranVllo, kas, karVsse — what do you put? Ómataima of ...
• feFcdwgRtDc: +Paul Strack +Tamas Ferencz +Fiona Jallings Let's have a discussion of those forms here. Please inform me of any additions and possible alternate i...
• CFeRZ3FgVvo: Would you use the Qe. preposition rimni [http://eldamo.org/content/words/word-2478876553.html] in translations, or can someone suggest a replacemen...
• b6UmkMt63fU: Case, lant, "fall", in case of, vi lant oh, in that case vi land han. (Case is from latin, casus, meaning "fall/falling".  Light, as in "not heavy...
• UsHWNTaq8Kp: UPDATE 2.04.2016: Happy April Fools' Day! Hello everyone and so sorry for a long period of absence. (Especially to +Ekin Gören who constantly fail...
• Vw69hTrgdiy: A new invented language: perhaps it's another minor one along the lines of Nala Lambe and Mágol? 13 days to go. ...
• TG8mBd7Y37c: I'm making words for "lawful, law-abiding" and "law, rule" in Sindarin. Basing it off of thanya/sanya (from STAN) Quenya, I've got thain/thein for ...
• JSxB7SRjVuN: LOTR, FR, Gandalf twice uses the same words to perform a fire spell. What language are his words? What do they mean? 'The Ring Goes South': Gandal...
• ZrTBvPxP8WX: What a fantastic adventure it would be to start a similar experiment and teach Quenya in a nursery school. It would be exciting to see how the lang...
• JVFm4RU6dCX: A wonderful post at LotRPlaza about Earendil and Auzandil Ēarendil and Auzandil None ...
• H5wUEnPNJGW: Síra ná Súlimeo Ende. Yéni yá, Brutus nahtane Julius Caesar auresse sina. Ta yéni apa ta, po loaron tuksa yo yuyunque, Querie[1] *verehtane[2] Mady...
• JrgcsMx4FqJ: Any idea how to express "careful" in S or Q? It is a word that is really missing in my oppinion. ...
• Ygdg5jpeJQ7: Koire utúlie lintie[2] sina loasse - mal nemis i haime notime loallor yá[1]. [1] the second half is supposed to mean "but it seems to be the habi...
• DS5sxWfz3AL: Atarinyo hyarya talerya arákie - kaitas *hlaimardesse. Leryuvantes apa aure atta sillo... Mauya nin lemya arse tere notime otsoli - úvanye entule m...
• dULwuCBcjDH: We are launched! (Finally!) New Website, Massive Updates None ...
• JMGhmxXXP9Z: I need a word for kind (adj). I know S has milui (friendly, loving, kind), but don't know how to convert it to Q. Where could I find rules for tran...
• joQ1mZC9vdJ: Can someone help me on the word(s) olor and olos?  These appear in two etymological notes published in Unfinished Tales (copied and pasted below) ...
• FyFbCveZdAc: +#StoryOfARoot The stem, MEN, does not even appear in the Etymologies as verbal; the only thing it says about the unglossed root is that it derive...
• E2scz8LBSCG: Petri & the topic were treated in Finnish media on Tuesday, Jan. 26th. Literal meanings for the Finnish words on which he based his Quenya transla...
• HjUZE5sENmq: A new feature I propose: a regular +#StoryOfARoot . Today: TĀ, TAγ, TAR, 'tall' and 'stand'. * Late 1930s In the Etymologies, the stem TĀ, ?TAγ 'h...
• dEnwmWV3vN2: Concernig giving and thanking (and approaching). For some time when I think of Eruhantale “thanksgiving”, and similarity of Elvish words expressi...
• 9QU263Q4vJK: Neo-Sindarin word for "to taste" and "taste", based on Quenya tyav- and tyávë and KJAB: cav- and cauf. What do you think? ...
• LMtCdQMSvAs: Can we tell what would be the reflexive/passive verb equivalents ("to be ..ed") of envinyata- and *tancata- (PPQ)? Derived with –u–, perhaps, or wo...
• ajxCDivDm8i: I have not checked the translator for accuracy and I do not know who's behind the project. Tol...
• 7VfBMZ3yRrM: Some possible neologisms/derivations: *itya- "multiply, repeat" *ítea "multiple, manifold" http://eldamo.org/content/words/word-2113203683.html *...
• UX9tmHwosVu: What is the latest word (in PE22, I take it?) on how the perfect tense is formed in the passive voice in Quenya? (Still similarly to Latin?) I'm lo...
• MqRjJDeh6Tb: (After a burst of New Year's inspiration, I'm ready to present the most huge of my current plans…) What do you do when some song gets stuck into y...
• FD5EugHYgaZ: Merya yo herenya vinya loa illin! Lőrinczi Gábor ...
• VcmkuWvTb7L: An attempt at Cantor's diagonal proof. Kombe nanwë•nótion aldótima ná Kítuvalme i•tenna sina alananwa: ta polilme anta nóme lesse ilya nanwa•nóte...
• Aekodb6wWN8: How do we connect a clan with the founder's name in Quenya? Is it nosse Finweo, nosse Finweva, or even compound Finwenos/Finwenosse? (I remember No...
• 9EZiRK7FasY: I saw the question on CoE, maybe we could discuss it here. Would *tertur 'win through' be a possible solution for 'convince, persuade' (see also: h...
• RioE7FF7KS3: A sudden exploit between fandoms: originally done for the amazing Russian fan club called Drax, Brax & Strax Corner (where I am one of the admins)...
• AfFV2KAp7ec: It's that time of the year again... Christmas in a few days. So here is a Quenya translation of the song White Christmas to celebrate, and to thank...
• fKRxQpgqZUb: So MILDOR is "Wine-land" - interesting! I didn't see any discussion of this yet, though there's so much to catch up on from the past few months. I ...
• FM5Ct4qjafi: Based on PE/17, I’ve always thought that S -g is the informal (familiar) 2nd p. sg. verbal suffix, while -dh is the formal (polite) 2nd p. sg. verb...
• Wai1cSvxVMz: I have discovered this fourteenth century English poem thanks to a post by +Tom Hillman and decided to attempt a Quenya translation. The flow and r...
• hzF1pp7C3V3: Merya Hantale illin i hilyar sa!
• eErHtcvwn6F: My current field of interest, connected with the upcoming article Eldarinwe Ólamáron Allamaiti Quenta-Yestalesse, is Quenya phonology. As per PE19:...
• Qu81ycYrh6e: Íta senda sisse. Illi karaiti... Var elehtielyen? Válye hehta ni :)
• 6EUgAfHUshY: Do you think that the (separate) class of CE U-verbs remained in Sindarin? For instance, from *kham-u 'sit down': pr. hamun, pt. achovun? achovuin?...
• LeFR7FmDRRy: Have you already decided for yourselves how exactly are we going to resolve the question Tolkien himself left in a muddle: the prepositions/adverbs...
• H8Tz3JJw1Ec: The Elvish Writing Systems of J.R.R. Tolkien by Matt Coombes — Kickstarter None ...
• ddkk4pnTYwC: Finnish and Welsh might be related Indo-Uralic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ...
• DLDm4gjVSD2: It's a funny thing with Quenya as we know it how sometimes we can have an overabundance of variations for certain grammatical or vocabulary items; ...
• fuYU59HFbLm: Canvassing your thoughts how you guys would express in Quenya the adverb/adjective late, as in 'you are late' or 'late night'. EQ has the adjective...
• 93hyX3z6CuC: Random LotR passage As the second day of their riding drew on, the heaviness in the air increased. In the afternoon the dark clouds began to overt...
• eN2RprN3KyP: Random LotR paragraph from the beginning of the chapter Treebeard. Please feel free to comment on any of the neologisms or syntax. Meanwhile the h...
• M84SwtMFARU: Random LotR paragraph A Journey in the Dark It was evening, and the grey light was again waning fast, when they halted for the night. They were ve...
• Cw8D1Ynpqyr: Do you think haura from KHAWAD can be used as a verb to mean 'store, put away, stash'? Or should we employ KHEP/KHAP for this purpose, perhaps with...
• gx1Jr4uwtow: Sanye ilnome sinwa, sa erya neren arwa haura alma mauya pene vesse. ...
• YdUd2no7CZk: So, is Á þek' þak' i karpa, mekin a polite way to say Oh shut up already in Quenya?:) ...
• QVrRFmVmWLk: Another word to ponder: - to switch, swap, replace, exchange Any suggestions? ...
• eP2E7TNfPEo: A few paragraphs from LotR, randomly chosen, to flex my rusting muscles. Chapter 7, In The House Of Tom Bombadil. I am sure I got some of the trick...
• J3rTsUctamg: Hello, lovely people. Earlier this year, +Tamas Ferencz asked if you could help me out with a conundrum I had in finding a suitable name for my Eng...
• 5cwTwMwkEDP: So, I keep on trying to learn Sindarin (for many years) but things constantly come up or I have need to focus on something else. My question is ho...
• 2w6NfpoNAa8: Karinya nwalya[1]. Mauya nin *atse[2]. ------- nwalya: does this verb require an object (nwalya ni), or can it be sort of intransitive ('it hurts'...
• UTdnePnDxao: Do you think *tercara "through-doing" would be a good coinage for "thorough"? +#Quenya   ...
• 9UqAuXgEJFv: Have we seen a Quenya word for "planet" yet? (*élo- ~ ele(m)-pelya, on the basis of melumatya ?) ...
• Wx1uVCz7iLx: I want to write "WHAT I MUST TO DO?" in quenya, is it right in quenya is 'MAN GERIN CAR?' ...
• NPN6psiEPsN: Híse tópa i osto Bath síra. Hentala ter i kaimasambemmo henet amna lá kénan i armarie ampanor. Lasselanta ná náto sisse. ...
• b1fPfAKsyg3: Yárenissilaire[1] ter ilya otsole! Alkarea áre, lauka vista, lómesse kalle, ringa nikse ambarónesse. Ta loa íta mirwa nin. [1] 'old women's summer...
• K1hhbNKHrtP: I tussa ara i pelo lotarwammo sí quanta aiwion arwa luini yo maline lúpi. Estaine titmouse Ingilnóreo lambesse - ma estuvalvet Quenyasse? ...
• CMpNYc6io3D: Apa nótime astali yá eleptanelyen[1] vinya *meldakarie: kentanie. nas ta asyalya karie palta i maksa kén imbi leperinyar, ta kene i karna yulma hya...
• fJk19cwxeQq: Arinesse caimammasse caitalya etulyanen i *cava, epetai uluitanen nótime parmar ar i talan, epetai costanen as verinya. Ma ilvanya aure-yesta. ...
• KfQ1S1FYSUC: I started a new venture, this time into an often-neglected Eldarin tongue. Planning to make an article tentatively called 'Verbal tense stems in Te...
• arR4gWq1vG3: Two, possibly simple, questions to Quenya experts. 1. How do you make a genitive out of a gerund? matie-o? matio? matyo? (Same for adding -uva to ...
• 2Ga7bHCSc31: I need to delegate. I started a new job, and it's full time, and I'm completely exhausted when I get home and EVERYTHING HURTS. I'm seeing a doctor...
• 7UathnEpqnn: Ladies and gentlemen, an Italian sonnet! Completely autobiographic. +Tamas Ferencz Grammar-wise: experimenting with habitual tenses. Taurë Patail...
• QwhHJpThCyz: Síra i rea annulla, allunga, ammista ré i laireo mettallo. Merin lemya caimasse ar cenda parma ter ilya ré, hya rie sere. ...
• RKYSof8ggjk: There is in fact a previously attested verb of the ninkwis pattern seen in the +#PE22 'Common Eldarin' text, and this one postdates the emergence o...
• AeLwcfJkVH9: With PE 22, LSV4 (page 151) in mind, ebe- "can of mere possibility according to likelihood, natural probability" as root for NeoS * eb-, i-verb, us...
• 8htY18bUDHH: Language & Myth In 'A Secret Vice' Tolkien writes: '... the making of language and mythology are related functions; to give your language an indiv...
• jCLxhdjzNcJ: A preliminary draft, +#PE22 used extensively. All ecclesiastical neologisms due to Helge Fauskanger. The Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, in attemp...
• acsDYdCmGqJ: Aurissen nolweo néya, í nolwe né vinya, alqua alanye nosseya alquinkion ara passa síreo ráva i liskea nén-talmasse Sutse. "In the days [of magic l...
• M65aGPjLq9q: Has anyone heard what happened to the recording of Prof. Tolkien reading a previously unknown Quenya poem in the Netherlands? ...
• BQ8nb4hPGSd: Hi Tamas, Did not know of this community until jut now. I'd just posted the question below in the Middle-earth G+ community, but see that this is ...
• cWzLNK4WDmD: Andrew Higgins reports on lambengolmor that HarperCollins are going to release a new, annotated edition of Tokien's A Secret Vice, which will conta...
• 1JNmvNmkjaX: An elegiac. Eñget i•Aldu mi Númen: calaitë silíteye atta álet; Fíriet oialë né, euva calanta mi hón. [There were two Trees in the West: one shone...
• 1AdhBBw9Szy: Question to Quenya phonologists! What does exactly happen to the initial CE consonant H in Quenya? Checking the sources, I found an almost 50/50 re...
• cxey67e3oF5: Mellyn! I've reserved most of my attention for Sindarin the last five years, so now that I'm dabbling with Quenya (how can I not after PE22?), I re...
• R1Sbv9R3iyc: I've long longed for a way to express "most people" or "majority". Might Early N diant "most" be something to build on? If it was a Noldorin word, ...
• DYNF1oyJZvs: Neologisms for "nut", *pech, and "hazel", *pechol, and "buckwheat", *nelio or *neilof, depending on how old the compund is. Q. pekkuvo, of "nut" an...
• AaD2gAjg7Bt: A +#WBYeats poem. A seru, a lisse oie Ómar, A mene Menelo tirimonnar, Ta canya te ranya tirala nirmelya, Nár narnen turún’, tenna Lú telya; La a...
• 6dVTwVqqUxk: Elvish dictionary app(lication) Mellyn, following a session at the Omentielva Enquea about "Identifying the Requirements for a Quenya & Sindarin ...
• HTTaYdJKE4P: With the new +#PE22 information, unexpected complications arose when making statements. We were told that LA negates adjectives and verbs only, and...
• 3woMbuNTPrE: Among other things, +#PE22 is also a treasure trove of sample sentences, so I thought I will collect them in a thread, maybe they will generate s...
• SobUNQLoJQo: The Quenya verbal noun ending ndĭ/ndē (PE22:137) is very interesting in many ways: - prior to PE22 I think we only had arcande as an attested examp...
• SeC8N2UJjjj: Hi! I'm unfortunately woefully ignorant of phonology and derivation, so I'm hoping you can help me understand the verb nathla- (to welcome) I've se...
• Sbgk7P4sSm3: How should I make a cognate of Sindarin brona in Quenya? The stem is BOR(ON); should I, starting from the derivatives like vórima, consider a basic...
• ZY3BkE2khZB: Hi! This is likely something you've already discussed... if so, could you please link me to it? :) I do wonder: what is your position on -lya as a ...
• emTyhvrnXKx: Alright, I finished a small mountain of updates (still have more to go... need to finish rewriting homework assignments and making quizzes) but her...
• 6mFHntFww8x: I'll put up this thread to write down and not to forget the things of most peculiar interest I learned from +#PE22. (And I invite anyone to join!)....
• DZ8Ea7gmNhh: How would you make a verb 'become heavy'? I think to start from a CE pattern luñgu-tā? I presume that the causative formant makes a-affection and m...
• j3LwUo2mzgt: Glassui ni athar ilphen i•aur hen, eb pelin thî athragared uin ist e Pharf Edhellaim dadchaen tadui! Cambenyes sina arinessë ar férima silumë náry...
• J9nMmkWz4UN: Here are revisions of the sentences I asked about back in june: Ortuvan hendunya i carindonna (carmonna), i orontion ya lá retë Ortuvan hendunya   ...
• W3faFBMiNYC: I like it that per +#PE22 "I am sad" in Qenya is luin, whereas luin is also "blue" in other sources. Those blasted Elves have even invented the b...
• Fts43pBSDNN: To be sung to the melody of O Sole Mio Ma maira engwe, ta calina aure, Opo i raumo i hwesta milya, Lelya ve merende, i vilya ta vinya, Ma maira en...
• D5Ar1R7H1Rv: I set up a new home for Eldamo: eldamo.org. All the latest content is now hosted there. I am not sure how long it will take for the site to be visi...
• BA7jKq4cPUv: Hello! Any ideas as to what Gandalf might be saying in the scene with the dwarf? á orta fearya... ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_DOEXEjFnQ&fea...
• gUuq2hz6iar: I wonder: why wasn't it done before? For me it was hard as hell, taking both the rhythm and rhyme, retaining the wording and trying to eliminate th...
• byDaBiSCc8z: I am opening this thread to make note of words from Parma Eldalamberon 22 that - I think - have been hitherto unattested. I have not checked them a...
• GFbnxejHkkF: I have a copy of PE22 and it is amazing. It is chock full of marvelous information about Quenya and Early Eldarin verb structures. I've only begun ...
• eqYZ19rwQVy: I need some more translation help. I am trying to translate "I will lift my eyes to the maker of the mountains I can't climb." So far, I have "Ort...
• fuZTzYGj6Ey: An important announcement! After some discussion with +Tamas Ferencz we decided to establish, in addition to our Google+ posts, a discussion chat i...
• JknBzqR3AQN: I propose a discussion. Is there any established etymological derivation of the future tense -tha element in Noldorin and Sindarin? This element i...
• GjPMVGKAcAr: PE's page has announced that they'll start mailing out copies of PE22 on Monday. :) YIPPEE!!!!...
• Gu7kfYXkpNu: R.I.P. Sir Christopher Legendary actor Christopher Lee dies at the age of 93 The actor...
• 8xcKvXikTdz: Just a short piece inspired by the June weather. Húro Mitse lotsi luhtar nu i lunga wista, I asto ñol mirilya pa i mixe lassi. Ortíran. I more M...
• 4pva3senyMw: +Remi Korben +Matt Dinse +Tamas Ferencz I propose to move into a separate discussion, for we have touched a topic I've been considering on my own ...
• 2XqfBtfU52N: Hallo everyone! I’m here for the first time and I’m impressed with your linguistic skills. Forgive me my poor English, Sindarin and so on. I’m inte...
• 25Y82vMVj1S: This one affected and bothered me deeply. Written in a totally incompatible (with anything) language, about an unknown event and still perfectly sh...
• hFc9KoVkuz1: I've release Eldamo 0.4.7, which has two major updates: 1) I've analyzed the Danian language. I originally thought this would be quite easy, given...
• 4SrtZNRhQEZ: Christopher Gilson gave me permission to share his poem he had posted on Facebook recently: Sa nir ilkin ke koirestane Ve katinka súrinen Oio uist...
• gQpehRPNW3a: Even a respectable institution like Sotheby's can get things wrong... This article in the Mirror got my attention today: http://www.mirror.co.uk/...
• 2cYbsh68SLQ: I hereby release a re-fashioning of the most hastily done linnod number 20. This time not only the metre is not lame but both puns are more explici...
• TACRaz6odnw: In case folks haven't seen this, Glǽmscrafu just completely overhauled their site. http://www.jrrvf.com/~glaemscrafu/index.html ...
• cnH7eWVwL8p: Gweniant im gared hen tadphae eneg oer io ah en henion! GLÎR E-MARGAIR i en glinnar i•Ellath in•Gwaith Círdan i dartha vi Lond, eb i•Gair Vedui na...
• CbnVv8psMqK: Two lesser asclepiads. Líre nwalca macil , ulle i carne yár, Alme nyéna ve Fui, naina qualin firimon i fírimon. Cruel blade sang, the red blood s...
• QRyZtQdhnKL: Some musings to discuss. Maybe I'm involved in scholasticism right now, but I started to believe Q. han is as much a postposition as pella is. Who ...
• Ldc6jTr1gr4: Here's an older attempt of mine at Shelley's Ozymandias (from 2008): Nórello yára lendo omennenye ye eque: talu ú telco ondove haure tarir erumess...
• GLBBzaqfyGv: Tunga feanya ve quinga, la istan man tirien hí, Mailie urya i hráva mal séren milya i hón. (My soul is taut as a bow, I don't know who to heed, Th...
• 1KCfYdcw2Sw: Íta i nór ve maril, antara orya Anar, Á laitalme i Hér, envinyanta i ré! (The land is sparkling as a crystal, lofty rises the Sun, let us praise t...
• HqPQZu3q3mD: The most common kind of compound word is what's called "endocentric:" it includes the thing that it is. So a houseboat is a kind of boat; a shoe sa...
• c6fcgHEhwL1: Mudas garnen na-vedui! Nelchaen linnyd (vi lammath rim), min ilaurui egor ned, — man pen iuitha vi aur vethed? Ingassen teithad naid veleg, nal lai...
• PFn3kG6kWLF: How would you express "indeed, absolutely, definitely, verily" in Q/S? *thannui for S? thand + suffix ui, and -nd become nn, "firmly, truly". ...
• YiUsddSp8Xq: I never gave Adunaic much thought but lately I'm doing a fan-fiction that involves Numenor and find myself having to delve into this language. ...
• Ven9VwVxxvt: Lament for Akallabêth. Terbad na Annûn glennas, aurath hin raeg i•badath. [There was a straight road westwards, now all the roads are bent.] ter...
• 6SRedVZvduK: There is a PE22 web page now at http://www.eldalamberon.com/parma22.html ! Release date is announced on June 1, 2015! ...
• 1fmsn8JsZ6n: Seriously. I'll write about what I see, then? Gwall im o Pharf Edhellaim, hiniath 'lassen cenel. [Excited I am about PE, seeing the joyful news.]...
• NBbHthiCBTm: Metalinnod — quantitative! Long live the accentual verse! Othgoren im i•nadath, linnyd ach alchar uthon. [I have misdone the things, yet I shall ...
• Z6SuUYbXdmo: A few months ago, I finished a translation of "The Lay of the Children of Húrin", chapter 1, version 2. I tried to implement as much Doriathrin as ...
• WMVipVHPcPr: Windflowers When I was little and good I walked in the dappled wood Where light white windflowers grew, And hyacinths heavy and blue. The windflo...
• CQBB7fEy5Vi: I ask for help here once more. I found Early Qenya words for "spade" sampa and "axe", pelek. How to make them modern Quenya? Modern Quenya has samp...
• 1vFRBmmsyaJ: I posted tha last Aesop fable over a week ago, so now it's due time for another. I restamo ar yondoryar Atar, nála lúmesse fírieva, merne carie t...
• eLiwbQbktKt: After Gollum's riddle. Gwannar in•Yst ah Erain; orthor i•Lú or•Eryn. [Vanish the Towns and Monarchs, Time masters over mountains.] (Both quantit...
• LBtNiDBjgiJ: A free translation of one of Schubert's lieder: Soltala lúta síve alquar i vene   rilmanen mí cilintirvea sír; yé, sio lúta feanya ve i vene   mil...
• 9WsVRiUHTAi: Could Sindarin preposition be 'as, like' in ben genediad Drannail be somehow connected to Quenya direct speech particle equë 'said' with a derivati...
• K8P7fVmEGho: Something special for this day. As +Björn Fromén hinted to me, there are multiple ways to theorise upon a single example of Elvish poetry; +Roman R...
• 7ss1nrrJkzk: Another Aesop fable I atar ar selderyat Nér samne seldet, i min vertaina lótepandamon, ar i hye ambaltanon. Apa lú lendes seldenna i vertaina lót...
• TeKDM9mhQhg: Old Testament linnod of the day. (Some tweaking was necessary.) Nîn haer vi•Nuin Bablon, ias naeniel echemmim. Psalm 137:1. [Bitter [are] the wat...
• MC3eLmWDYfp: An Aesop fable. The farmer and the fox. I rermo ar i rusco Rermom i cóle nai-thelma rusconna pilie poroce-pandarya, remnesses métimavesse, ar nor...
• 5hwkxPXxzUv: "Timeo Danaos" for Tyelperinquar: another linnod of the day. Gosto i•meryn Morgoth, edregol annath golel. [Have fear of vassals of Morgoth, espec...
• VJKCq6zdKBe: An Aesop fable I pupsoli ar i lisse*cere Pupsoli tetaina lissecerenna i undupetenen sambesse mardandurwa, sortala talirya mi sa, manter milcave. ...
• X4UaDzrRG6n: Once again, if you don't find much metric poetry in Sindarin, go and write yourself. This time, the rhythm is retained, not a single line or syllab...
• fMSWQBjwuZk: From Aesop's fables: I graban ah i alph. Craban egent alph ah anírant gared i bessas vain aif an ech. Savel i i laed nim bain en alph i eniad od ...
• M1WDLjtpj9C: ns *belchorch "raven" (bel-, corch "crow") * mírchraban "magpie", mîr "jewel" (both from the fondness of glittering things and the conspicuous plum...
• TwbXuX1u831: "to put, place [something]", transitive verb, in Q and S? I first thought of penia- for S, but that seems to be more of "make sure it's fine, repai...
• 6eyi9yrmfGr: ns *athrabatha-, *athradanna-, vb, tr, "interpret, translate". ...
• dMfP8pXDquR: I needed words for stomach, and used cumb, wasit, and used (in lack of imagination) _ agor-chum_, and eyebrows, and used there hen-find, and also t...
• 7NGU4E3zLi8: I have misgivings regarding the cluster ntha- in reconstructed S words (eg *mentha- "send") *, and would prefer other solutions. The only attested ...
• 4YyNfkHUEYY: I and Ekin discussed how to express "together" when one doesn't want to have it as a prefix to another word. Eg "we shall be together", where the o...
• dk1xn5Nf4He: Is it possible to have some translations on some of the posts? (if not ALL) it would go a long way to assisting those of us just in KINDERGARTEN wh...
• ZSp4jM6C26p: Essenya Inigo Montoya. Anahtiel atarinya. Alye feryaxe firien! ...
• WmWMPRgiD1o: Hi all, Do you think torog 'troll' (Appendix F(I), PE17:136) is related to turko (Lúnaturco, a Quenya name for Barad-dûr (PE17:22)? Tolkien says t...
• D4Ha2BN3iSo: So a week ago +Hjalmar Holm asked for a Sindarin word for "strange" and I suggested G. elegrin "different, strange" with associated noun G. elm, el...
• 4mLKSE5z1yn: Elo! Sír ichíren i loth vinui echuir hen! I loth estannen roch-dal mi lam e-mbar nîn. Lat. Tussilago farfara ...
• PjqzLgNFBYW: Ekin Gören proposed NS *pentha- as "reveal, show someone something", see: http://eldamo.sourceforge.net/content/words/word-1363072765.html http://e...
• 2kF9UYWxxtr: I've run into the reconstructed S word *fel- "to feel emotion. I have sometimes missed a word for such thing as "it fels like [this or that]". On t...
• T2EixTtN4yf: An interesting article on 'Khuzdul' the secret language of the Dwarves. http://folk.uib.no/hnohf/khuzdul.htm ...
• d4yTqEKG8Qb: Do we have any botanist amongs us? Great lilies, snapdragons and laburnums? ...
• fNLNwRt18Ld: Any S word for "rare, unusual" or "weird, peculiar, curious, strange"? ...
• ggLSPkqQPzd: I have problems with the word eitha- which either means "to insult, treat with scorn, stab", or "ease, comfort". I find it very hard to understand ...
• 5hGXSojXBjY: Some Sindarin neologism ideas and adaptations to go with Tolkien Reading Day. . . (Also because "waste not", and all that.) — : — * aif adj. same...
• hfgoC5aj8st: ar illi nu Anar *olindesse nar mal Isil sí tópa Anar (Pink Floyd) _81786908_berlinreuters.jpg...
• J1HGaQXPaNr: Man nos perian? Tamas Ferencz Mar 20, 2015 (09:39)...
• a8Z7mk5QzUJ: The Road goes ever on Ed i vên ui-vâd od i fen od i heriast Hi e gwachae i vên mennast pe pelin boe de hílithon na thail verai de ruiathon na i er...
• 9iLyrJWznVq: A ns and nq word for "to lose something" and "to aquire something", like in "He lost his good reputation but he won ... something...".  Sometimes i...
• 3k6GnHgjGCn: Hm:) Q. cesta- [þ] vb. “to seek, search for” quest (n.) c.1300, "an inquest;" early 14c., "a search for something" (especially of judicial inquir...
• CcsomP1yPDG: Narn hen o manen Pogodion agor garwegas rach, a cared a peded naid bainui dír-inced. I have some trouble with this. I lack a word for "how", so I ...
• TmpAFJC4ZGh: 3/12/15 - 1 T...
• RaPpeoDgRHf: I've done an audio recording of me reading my translation of Wordsworth's Daffodils. Well I am not a native Quenya speaker nor an actor so caveat e...
• gbNNPPKxLij: I thought this would be a timely translation, with the daffodil season upon us in full. Lalmalini / Daffodils Erya ve fanya ranyanen Ya vile or a...
• R9Bb8hTMoio: Is there an attested Eldarin (or other ME language) name for the Milky Way? I have not been able to find any so far - I wonder how Tolkien would've...
• KDjhhYZ8T5g: mawedh, "glove", inspired after the English etymology of "glove" Proto-Germanic *ga- “collective and associative prefix” + Proto-Germanic *lōfô “fl...
• h2g1pBeYXd4: So I guesse I should note what could be a tradition of intoductory writing. Nai anar silya tielyannar, I have had an interest in the Tolkine langua...
• fNw4BKYWbrW: Question: is there an explanation why S. Rodon "Power, Vala" gets plural Rodyn instead of expected **Redyn? Even if *Raudon is assumed, shouldn't i...
• fEArNegg75h: I am starting a project on reconstructing the Ann-Tennath, if any think that they may help, could you please tell, it would be amazing to do such a...
• GLjqQpWPEEi: I just read about Beleg Cuthalion's bow, that is said to be named Belthronding. What does that mean? Strong something? ...
• MJeKXpgspKv: S (and Q) word for "part, piece" and "partly, to some extent". I thought of using ú-bant for the latter, but that doesn't really help me with the f...
• a7iKCkJCrek: Another minor Eldamo update (0.4.4). I know I said last week that I wasn't going to do this weekly, but +Tamas Ferencz  suggested putting the [Sear...
• HYNHiAVxFEM: I'm making a quick reference chart of Neo-Quenya and Neo-Sindarin pronouns, as well as a quick reference chart of Neo-Quenya case suffixes. Before ...
• DX5oBLWiAzx: excellent work Tamas Ferencz Feb 27, 2015 (08:54) ...
• R6krdSxdZFa: S nasarm and Q assarmë for "context". Etymology Lat. con- "with" text "text". "Writing" is the closest word to "text" that I have found. Thus as "w...
• 9mynzgB2sjs: Firielinde Nu i landa elenya ilmen, Sapa i lára ta núta inye. Merya *cuianen merya firnen, Ar nucainenye as sina nirme. A certa sina lire pa i on...
• LLHom3xKkN4: I released a small update to the Eldamo lexicon (v0.4.3). I am not planning on releasing updates on a weekly basis, but Tamas Ferencz inspired me t...
• bDpjikKmrJG: A question: when does si (here/now) get lenited into hi? Some people spell it with a long vowel, hí, what is the more correct? ...
• MPxqMUWLNuE: After reading +Hjalmar Holm's post a few days ago, I realized that I had never translated the poem "The Riddle of Strider" into Sindarin. So I deci...
• iTasHEpfRb2: I always wondered why there are so few attempts to compose accentual-syllabic poetry in Eldarin tongues retaining metre, rhythm and rhymes. Here is...
• TTBivZ3mPVj: Hey guys, I'm developing a free Android app with a Quenya translator and wordlists. I wrote the translator myself to handle sentences and correct ...
• AuiQwFjNxTU: Hi folks, I've been working on a multi-language Elvish lexicon for some time now, based on an XML data model used to generate entries for individu...
• WVHQfiFhD2j: Have anyone here translated Strider's riddle? I've seen some attempts on the internet, but trust you who are here more. ...
• MFxxnCrAHLc: Have anyone reconstructed a S word for "kind, sort, type" or similar? Perhaps from Q nostale? ...
• JGkYsAQjt9T: I found the S reconstruction pess for feather (either on a bird or on a arrow or as a primitive pen, I guess). I think it's from the Q quesse. Does...
• ApSNpW4TJ3d: I thought of a S word for squirrel: oronar (oron tree + nâr rat) and a S word for badger torechor (torech lair and -or acting suffix, as badgers a...
• GXoMNpKL26T: Mae g'ovannen! Being both a long-time JRRT fan (read The Silmarillion before learned about PJ movies existing ;) ) and a person fascinated by the b...
• fmNgPTarc1i: Melmeo Fóle Ava rice nyare melme, Melme ya úquétima; An i milya hwesta leve Úhlárima, úcénima. Equétienyes, equétienyes, órenya *pantie, *Ririhta...
• LXSf2JVgVnL: Hello!! I'm trying to translate some names of my friends, and there are some that are giving me trouble, and I would like some help... :) One is B...
• RPfgUiAVmLU: Milyas Menelwa Lannín Samumnen cé menelwa netyaine lanni, As míri sisilcala cáleva, I luine, i néce, i morne lanni i yucáleva, lómeva, cáleva, Cé ...
• QK8duVXbeUh: I need some translation help! I need a word for "climb." I couldn't find one, or a word for ascend. The only thing I can thing of is lelya in the s...
• DfQPG8jjCG2: A short poem by Stephen Donaldson. Sé i metto metta, Nin pia melehte: Nanye er kalpa. Mapan imneo axo-sáva, Tíran i ende a-urya. Sé i metto metta...
• Y2eAVv6Fvmq: Lá Lauren Eke Lemya Laure *nostaleo minya wenya I quile anurda hapien senya. Lotse ná arinya lasserya Mal er tere aure erya. Tá lasse lassen lave....
• PEYYuhdbbKv: Hiya. I'm Eothrain, but most people just call me River, 'cause they find it easier to say. I'm not a Tolkien expert and I'm just starting out on Qu...
• J9S26syWgpK: I have a question on copyright that couldn't be resolved by googling it all over the net :), so I would be happy to hear your thoughts. Let's say ...
• R8eh7ZFJKvU: How might one translate "blizzard" into Quenya? For now I'm tempted to combine hrisse and alaco somehow; any other ideas? ...
• izno96aE7Ro: A Quenya translation of a couplet by C.H. Auden I read in a John le Carré novel, and caught my imagination. Alme laita, eke ké, i *amatolya nér, m...
• N2PbhqY9Fga: I am looking for some good NeoQuenya solutions for vertical and horizontal. Any brainstorming welcome. ...
• ReEgpBgerBc: Sorry, I'm kinda new to the middle earth languages, but I'd like to be a linguist or have a foreign language degree and I was wondering how many la...
• Ew8g8bfQuos: I thought about a S word for spruce of fir trees (not a specific species, more the genuses or type of trees), i.e. a conical shaped tree. Maybe com...
• 3kqz4zQNzTc: Hey everyone, +Jeremiah Burns and I have been conversing in the past few days trying to find a suitable Sindarin name for his recently acquired lo...
• CETvFafFa8s: I'm trying to make a Sindarin cognate for the Quenya word cesta-. Taking it back to its root, it'd be KETH+TAA. I've been looking for an analogue t...
• ARdsvfmz2TT: PE17:141 lists the root √NATH and the S derivative nathal "guest". A (tentative?) form nathlo is also given. So can we suppose a Q form *naslon " g...
• b3JTS4Ujsga: This is the second stanza of Yeats's The Two Trees in Sindarin: Na cheledh haer avo diro, ah i guru chall în in Ylynn Eriar nef men reniol, Egor t...
• PQGB615dMRd: Alae, i drenarn o ethrebith i-thindrim o "I Berian: Dagor-i-lebenwaith". Er... sorry, I mean, here you can find the analysis of the Sindarin dialog...
• L3N6PQqAhmj: Today's random question - does anybody have any idea roughly how many attested Quenya words there? (To the nearest hundred/thousand/delete as appli...
• M6Yohp6MDzC: Carl Hostetter just published some interesting words. "... glossary of Elvish terms (some previously unattested) encountered in a collection of la...
• FtK644sYRu9: Anyone have any idea of a neosindarin word for bag (or similar object that one puts other object in for storage or transport)? I had the idea of tr...
• 2BchEkp8mdx: How would you translate "unique" into Quenya? There is a Sindarin verb minai "single, distinct, unique", but not knowing how to adapt it into Queny...
• EEK66bS7uRB: +Måns Björkman has added an analysis of the "later or Westron convention, in its northern variety" to his Amanye Tenceli website. ...
• CtEgMjPr1Ln: This is the first stanza of the poem The Two Trees by Yeats. The second one is a lot trickier, so it will take a bit more time. Rhyming is all over...
• EkpKQWJ35iq: Great question here that I'm sure some of the conlang historians can add to Was Tolkien the fi...
• DwVU4qzbMC3: I've just found this little Quenya tongue twister I submitted to Elfling twelve years ago :) Happy days Ilya yára kirya ya yalúme, yéni yá nu yana...
• WhgmdwBzWjw: Reconstructing a word for "choice" in Sindarin. We've got *cil-, which is deduced from /cilme/ in Quenya, borrowed into Sindarin without changes.  ...
• 8qRm46A2dkQ: Edro i chin lîn    open your eyes Tiro nin               watch me Avo bedo           don't speak ...
• R8KqYxfj8xZ: Alya yo manna vinya loa otornossen ta illin i melir Arcastaro lambi! ...
• D68RNKUKrSf: Hello! I was trying to figure out the translation for these lyrics from "Beyond the Forest" and I was wondering if any of you could help. "A, mel...
• JUqNJh9DB9f: Na alassea, merya, alya ta herenya Hristonostarelya! Elen síla lúmenn' omentielvo. Na anda vehtelya, na quanta yulmalya tenna Lúmeo metta. ...
• BgeUMEkAcj4: As some of you know, I'm a student over at +Mythgard Institute and +Signum University . Recently, Andrew Higgins (who recently completed his PhD di...
• 4nYMwwsiAio: Guys! Check out what I'm helping with! The reason I jumped into this project wasn't just because of Sindarin - I saw this as a way to make it easi...
• YMoiCvgMYxS: Hi! I'm writing a Christmas card in Quenya to a fried who I talked into learning Quenya. Is there a translation of Christmas? ...
• AdLaQjbRkkS: Might anyone be willing to provide some criticism/corrections? Elsewhere there was a translation request for a line from the Silmarillion into Quen...
• LqJ9rfx1cg2: This is the first paragraph of the Prologue of LotR - just wanted to see how translatable it was. It is certainly fun doing:) Parma sina ná amna a...
• BM7RANaCkjN: Do you think *colexe 'carry oneself' could be an acceptable neologism for 'behave'? Edit: just realized we do have an attested verb lenga- in PE17....
• jRMRUaK7TDQ: PE17:68 entry yulma has the line "_mē/wē,_ a single action, whence mie, men(d-)" Suffix mie is easy to place (Cermie can be an example?), but can...
• bUTadH86tSJ: Here is a Quenya translation of the poem Winter Comes To Nargothrond from the Lays Of Beleriand, done some years ago. Laire lencave i lómea taures...
• NfxfoDzzXyb: A +#WBYeats poem, in Sindarin DOWN by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She ...
• ERFc5m1DCJy: Aiyä! Can anyone please check if I did this correctly? :D Thank you! alassea hristonosta.png ...
• BLP8xuxzxyE: len suilon! Tamas Ferencz Nov 25, 2014 (09:35) ...
• JU8ocwFRCq4: +Tamas Ferencz 's translation for "Twelve Days of Christmas" brought me a question... how would be the correct Quenya translation of "merry Christm...
• Ru21QF7bYbs: A Yeats translation into Quenya. WHAT WAS LOST I SING what was lost and dread what was won, I walk in a battle fought over again, My king a lost k...
• 9EenNU7kh9m: Te androiri (firyavear?) uar tai kestal. I Melehte ná alwa óse. ...
• 8T4xKcYPVKM: a distichon Lip-lip-liptar i hloimie quettaryar et i péti Nuhta i luime melin, intye se metta qualit Drip-drip-drip those poisonous words from he...
• 7GA5rjTdm5F: Puff, amlug lúthannen Nan aear dorthant Vi Honah-Lee vi i chíth en-iavas Gellweg teliant... ...
• jANm31YT3mr: I *kúmakirya Philae nútuva *sóratinwenna 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko síra. Eke lyen kenda i nútie sis: ...
• EhKtXycM94Z: Is there a word in Sindarin for a measure of length in the scale of a meter, like the word ranga "yard" in Quenya? There is a word sant glossed "ya...
• 3sStfDrrAMn: Hello! I'm learning Quenya and a little of Sindarin too, but I am so well yet. Do you know something where I can learn Quenya with the newest versi...
• 9EFFK9Xe7HA: Christmas is not that far away now, so in preparation for the festivities here is my Middle Earth version of the Christmas carol Twelve Days Of Chr...
• CfWoc2kG21g: Dorwiniondil at the Plaza just shared news of an upcoming Hammond/Scull book = The Art of The Lord of the Rings: "[...] new examples of Tolkien’s ...
• YZSnaXHms39: I'm making a new section for my Quenya phrasebook on weather. How would you translate "It's raining" in Quenya? In Sindarin(Noldorin) it's "it pour...
• 6cJoF2YEzYF: mîn i Valrog ah i iâ between a rock and a hard place, between Scylla and Charybdis Sindarin saying +#Sindarin +#idioms   ...
• 9NCpTTavt18: Hello, I am very new here, so forgive me for not having the fonts correct for the translations from English to Quenya.. :-( I am trying to make su...
• PQWWPdceWCP: We're approaching Remembrance Day, and with this being the centennial anniversary of the Great War, I thought I'd give it a go and translate the po...
• Z5H49iAur4S: Can you give me some suggestions how to express 'take part, participate in something' in Quenya? I'm thinking to use the prefix ó-, e.g. *ócar-, a...
• jHcGzN6hnJ6: I *lindimaitasta Pink Floyd quetir pa enta *lindastanta 'I Síre Ú Metto'. Nas *hon-narcala an *entulcanta ta *lindasta nauva i telda - sinwa, elwe ...
• Ska4rN7thzW: Sí eke lyen menta esselyar Carnilenna - nas waldima, naite? Send Your Name on NASA's Mars Jour...
• UpT9bg76c9i: Really no word for "beer, ale" in any Eldarin language? Did yulda ever authentically include the meaning "beer" like purported here: http://goo.gl...
• eVtBD5hnbJi: Someone posted an interesting question over on FB, viz. how to say phrases like the more the merrier or the less you know the wiser you are in Quen...
• auTJJpZFyoY: A translation inspired by this post in the JRR Tolkien Fans community. It's not perfect, I can feel it, but perhaps not bad as a first attempt at t...
• DWfXqDFEP85: Ruine i Ainur lantaner; núr' raumo ranyane hrestantassen; Orco ruinínen uryala. Roy Batty in Blade Runner Fiery the angels fell; deep thunder ro...
• LD1L5qQrRgB: A much-quoted distich by Schiller, recently translated into Sindarin on the Mellyn Lammath forum. I thought it might be worth a try in Quenya too. ...
• 7zchv6Q8PZJ: I was asked to translate some sayings "into Elvish" (no language specified, alas) so I've giving the translations in both Sindarin and Quenya. I'm ...
• 4aDkcsKhTWv: In Quenya, how would you express 'for' in 'thanks[giving] to sb for sth' (hantale quenna ? nat)? Would epe or po as in epetai/potai ('therefore, fo...
• PQrzCZrzPC6: Interesting that we know kelva as 'animal' but in PE21 we get kel(e)bē > (presumably) *kelwe 'dear, hind'; this echoes English and German, in which...
• 8CWGz9jTbQr: Quettúri, PE21 gives a few words that can be of interest to the (Neo)Quenya enthusiast. We get sorasta 'equipment', clearly a collective noun, poi...
• i2HPLGKqUHA: Some time ago, and I think it was in this community, I was asking about how to express 'against' in Quenya. I am unable to find the post now. Anywa...
• MQK5df8PsvM: Hi! I'm trying to translate "under your veil," and I note that there are two prepositions I can use, namely di and nu. Do we know what the distinct...
• GK3Qf6YrNgS: Quiquie Rohande, nora as i rokkor. (When in Rohan, run with the horses.) When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Middle-Earth proverb Using Rohan as a...
• 7X2jcbdx46q: Over on the blue social network Isaac has been looking for NQ words "sugar", "potty", "delicious/tasty", "to crawl". I am copying my proposals from...
• 9AAK4zRER2D: I need some translation help: "The women will write songs about their faithful husbands."  Thanks! ...
• 587fC2pdtCX: 'tidy, orderly, composed' in NeoQuenya? or NeoSindarin possibly canna? parina/párina could be an option, but Tolkien seemed to vacillate a lot abo...
• BeJujcMx2d9: Translation of a passge from The Silmarillion, inspired by this post: https://plus.google.com/100392065433715432636/posts/fBozgQ4q5gg by +Jeremiah ...
• HPUuBMyRA7Z: Eneth Nin Endy, nice to meet you all please give me lesson around quenya language!!??  ...
• R7LEfzznChC: Burning question of the day: what is the plural of tyenya? *tyenyar 'my kinsmen', or *lenya? ...
• 9fguHAhzdqz: On page 25. of VT49 the conjugation of the preposition ar is published: anni>arni/astye/alle/arse anwe>arme/arwe/aste>arde/aste>arte anwet>armet O...
• DWGEB4e1qXt: Don't you just love it when you read an article in Vinyar Tengwar, and the editors mention something like in an essay on this-and-this found in a b...
• JgJhj8AyyRS: "If". Got a few words in Quenya, "cé/ce", "qui"... the mysterious "aiquen", and the older "mai". The Neo-Sindarin words are lacking, I think. "Ae" ...
• 3pUv4CwVf2Q: I am wondering if we can introduce a NeoQuenya verb pas- with the meaning 'slide, slip, glide'. We already have the attested passa/pasta 'smooth, g...
• SrKj3GfE4KR: I've been pondering how to say 'plan, intend' in NeoQuenya. There is the attested nir- but that seems to imply a pressure on others or an object, b...
• 4ThPsRNQnyN: I noa arandur Ingildoro Alistair Darling ar i *silúmea arandur *Escotio Alex Salmond artaquenter noa resse *palancenesse pa i nírina[1] ausatie Esc...
• TRLKp7F3sdw: Arinde caimallo, undómesse caimanna, hepe tye saila, netya, alwa. (Middle-Earth proverb) ...
• jZfA4JieDCj: Eldarin Hands, Fingers, and Numerals in VT47, on page 7 cites the root KAB- 'hold, contain, retain' (elsewhere in the editorial notes it is shown t...
• JQv8hbUKANq: Vávie ve náre nenye. They fit each other as fire fits water. Middle-Earth saying ...
• 71Vn29pmSBH: Ňona ve Nauco mi *satyasambe. "Groans like Dwarf on the loo." Beleriandic saying *satyasambe 'private chamber, privy, loo' ...
• 4QLPpk695ET: I was looking for a word for "hearth", and found the Quenya word "ruimen". Then I looked it up in its context, and found the untranslated Sindarin ...
• 32JUVjx2xwg: I've proposed this neologism over on FB in the Quenya Chat group; would like your opinions, too: *hrangie 'difficulty, trouble', modeled on sangie...
• eWS74vcTWoc: I lindimaitari Ingildoro Pink Floyd senuvar vinya *lindasta lasselantasse; The Endless River ('I Síre Ú Metto') esseya nauva. Sasse nauvar lindi he...
• Dy429CbHq1V: VQP: tag syntax When you add tags to a page in DokuWiki, the proper syntax is: {{tag>tag1 tag2 tag3}} The tag> bit is required, don't delete it/...
• MRN6bEobbkj: Is there an "official" list of semantic categories of words we should use when tagging the entries? ...
• Fn236ZCoJgs: The first part of my translation doesn't look quite right ("to more among us"); any ideas? If there was a suitable verb I wouldn't have to be tryin...
• c6jm47aQdSj: Monad modes... Quenya rendition of this Old English verse. Monad  modes lust mid mereflode                              ford to feran, þaet ic fe...
• SChHvzN5R53: If you've got 15k burning your pocket, you can have this letter beautifully handwritten by Tolkien, with analysis of Númenóre. ...
• JRyw6Uj5pof: So, I've been playing with some ideas for sections. What do you think of these new ones: Pronunciation and Prestanneth (Sindarin only) and includin...
• FyhEQLDyMgT: suggestion: penaqua adv 'almost' Roman Rausch Jul ...
• 8vjsyq78BYT: From Ecclesiastes Lúme ilquan Ilquan ea lúme, ar lúme ilye þelmain nu i menel: lúme eccuivien, ar lúme effirien; lúme empanien ar lúme leptien y...
• S1Se4pDrmm5: 'agree', 'approve', 'consent to' in Q? *olav- 'yield mutually'? ...
• 8XkUyw7c62L: *orda 'bidding, advice'? ܤܡܝ ܦܠܕܢܝܘܤ Jul 21, 2014 ...
• 6TBwt7NuMoS: For VQP Editors & Users: Wordlist Page Added I have started a page in the NeoQuenya section (and will do the same in the NeoSindarin section), whi...
• FiKQNCCLv3r: Some potential Neosindarin words for VinQuettaParma: torchal (pl. torchail) n. shark or other large predatory fish (lit. "mighty/awful fish") Etym...
• WzPKedJ1cmX: Conditional and Subjunctive in (Neo)Quenya Tolkien's highly fascinating Early Qenya Grammar in Manuscript in PE14 devotes a page to The 'condition...
• 1n4qn8yzyEj: Ya na karuva nankaruva. "What goes around comes around." Elvish proverb. ...
• eFFfCo8pcsV: Impersonal conjugation is a distinct feature of Qenya, with Tolkien including this mode in his conjugation tables. In later stages we have examples...
• JP3QDZm8kdq: Has anyone any tips how to say - someone's right (prerogative, privilege, boon, ius) - that someone is (in the) right in Quenya? Also, is the all...
• QomgrhctcvR: I hope you guys have seen that +Fiona Jallings has started to add NeoSindarin neologisms in their drones! Thanks Fiona. ...
• 9jtHABJJJYZ: Tana úpahtea, lunguhonda valme yá kenin i (fáre pella) samin loikarenen [copies]* atta i parmo imya (PE19) ! *not sure how to translate this ...
• cwgHdiEgQZ4: I love it that if you 'Quenyarize' the name Adam you get Atan. So fitting. ...
• Vtsck9xPNbT: Concerning loanwords in NeoQuenya +Kevin B Walsh and I have been having a very interesting discussion via email over the past few days about neolo...
• WPdar69gtvT: I have added some more info to the Formatting Entries instructions to make editors' lives easier a bit. ...
• 7k2MU5xiA8f: I have added a page explaining namespaces and tagging (sorry if it gets a bit technical in places). +#VQP   ...
• RmphJ7qyFD3: An emig nín Derig erui vi morn ar im - dannon sui gond Le dewin. Bith Pith dýr. Ar i ú-iston, havol vi dath hin chaer: im le awarthannen egor Eru ...
• 3exvBNp4wKU: To VQP Editors: - when you log in to the wiki, please take time to review any new entries/pages that have been added since your last visit (an eas...
• TRdBUBZTyku: Emya milya, erinqua, lisse firne sira. Nai hiruva súleya sére mi úlanwa quiquie lelya. Melinyel, emya. ...
• Xi9pJ4ibjDX: Helcelanta! Nai lá nancaruvas ilye laimar tarwammasse. Tam...
• 9FjWLEt258A: Hereby I am pleased to announce that VinQuettaParma, the new NeoQuenya and NeoSindarin wiktionary, is up and running. The whole thing is very much ...
• PzKskKZWiid: Please refresh my memory: Are there yet any clues on how to express the translative idea (one becoming, turning into, being made sth.) in Quenya? ...
• aa8f78cKReN: Me i nalme yáre, yáre yo merye, Ai ta yáre! Yénion úme, yénion úme, Ké nyarumnen ilye:   Alye anta hínin, et ilullo kéve, Melme yo quilde; Ta lómiv...
• Ax6efk7dRpK: Three Galaxies over New Zealand | Astronomy Picture of the Day No, radio dishes cannot broadcast galaxies. Although they can detect them, the above...
• 64EogkJrTRm: +Carl Hostetter has posted an invitation to a Quenya translation experiment to the +#lambengolmor  Yahoo group - not an easy task I'd say! ...
• JKa3amVTZju: Just a little lullaby inspired by this "cauca coa" we saw today in Cheshire. Arda yára Taure haura Tasse tára Cauca coa Misse mára Nessa nisse Ars...
• Pbcs9hsq5tq: Sámemme anvanima aure síra sisse mi Derbyshire - lá acca ringa, lá acca úra. Patanemme làr ere yo perta *Mulindo Nallenna, tere lairi, imbi yaxi ar...
• C4PPV9ckHKY: Vinya *etelérie parmo Quenta[1] Yarwinya Penataro tecina lo Arcastar ettuluva lasselantasse sina loava. *etelérie: 'issue, release' [1] uminye pol...
• MuQ4aURQzav: Quenya Chat group in Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/quenyachat/ Facebook Fa...
• Mkkt1XkPkbf: Ettul-maquentiër tanar i ëa Ucrainassë vinya sondamo nollo apa i minya corma. Násë "aran tyocolatwa" Péter Porohyenco. ...
• 72JfrW6WtZq: Ulya. Manan mauya sen ulya ilya merendesse? Nainima.
• CrF7RGhAct7: This is a link to the new version of my lesson on plurals in Sindarin - can you spot any mistakes? Tell me please! ...
• 1YyzUT7JxgG: 1) How much of PE21 can / must be used for Neo-Quenya purposes? 2) Do we need to revise all that we knew before, concerning declension of nouns wit...
• hVpyeeZP9zv: Vessenya yo ni, namme anwalde, an *mótahautalemma túla véna, *Lemnaresse autuvamme *andustanna Ingildoreo, ostonna Bath; maruvamme tas tere otsole,...
• Fk8GexLcuPo: Suilad, mellon nin muin. :) Mate Bokkon May 19, 20...
• 66JdYq37LHe: How would you guys say 'pass time, spend time' in Quenya? ...
• 6GBYVuMVrZU: Thanks for +Jeremiah Burns for the link +#tengwar   Marcin Przybys » Blog Archive » Tengw...
• FMsD9dR94oM: As we'll soon be able to read Tolkien's translation of Beowulf here's a Quenya rendering of the first few lines to celebrate. Ela, laitale lastane...
• iNjWBwHHTM4: Ta mára cene illi laimar alála ar losta tarwammase! Lótesse ná ammelda asta nin. ...
• 2UWycWxG9n6: Manna ta Ye lá ovanta yo olcar Hya tare úcarindoron tiesse Hya hare yo te i *yaiyar, Mal save alasse mi Héruva axan, Ar axanerya sana mi aure lómiy...
• PKz84dasoBx: Ar si vílan mi anettelea lé, Ar i éli lelyar exe siaré
• jModSfp9PQ7: *Emmin chwand a salab. Hervess nín a hên nín mad aes. Thiar maer. *ab- cook used in The Hobbit: The Unexpected Journey (Extended Edition). +#si...
• EfsKW71FTCA: Gwinig nín mad rem. Aníra salph. Annan gwinig i halph. +#sindarin ...
• JW82r1myR41: I have compiled an Adûnaic - English/English - Adûnaic dictionary, and thought I would share it here (I couldn't find another resource that had alr...
• YKDPQcQXwpC: Sui gaear tuiol nu alagos vorn gala dîn. Diliant lû. Dôl în dhannen na besseg in endrainn oltha Ilador Iladar. Bo hûn e-hên, blabel, 'ruithannen, h...
• DxTeW5SxY9b: I wrote another poem in Sindarin: Ollas nin oh Auth   I ûl osp cân annin vîn ely nîn. Cenin anin ‘Rûn, anin mâr e-dawarwaith i noss vîn. Lith haer ...
• GFmRmz3dSwK: +#WBYeats +#Quenya YA VANWA Laitan ya vanwa yo þoryan ya túrina, Menin mi ohta ena encárina, Araninya vanwa, vanwe mahtarinyar; Táli ké norir...
• 8ox5JXqgQBs: I wrote a list of new words from VT 50. Can you spot any errors or missing words in it? Oops, ...
• Y9UpCe5g4Hw: How would you express regret in Q/S? Tamas Ferencz ...
• MdQxD2FKZCp: +#Quenya   +#WBYeats Caimance-lire   Aini luhtear Caimalyanna orte; Yerne ohtallo As qualini naice.   Mi Menel Eru Marielyainen raina; Indorya ...
• ZQ1vwvXmLkE: Translating conjunctions like "antequam / prima che" into (Neo-)Quenya — has anybody else looked into this yet? It is of course another philologic...
• TTBkvn5zkPX: Sis caitalme - a mentat nossen mí Lacetaimon, Ranyar, carnelme ilya ya cáne i Nór. (Simonides) ...
• GNCeE7ASxiN: If you haven't visited the new +#Elfling forums lately, they have managed to transfer the archives of the old Elfling Yahoo-group to the new site; ...
• haTfQ1G6j7o: Aiyä! How are you all? I have a request, and I hope you can help me... Could you please translate me this phrase? "All will be well" it's like my m...
• Wba3TYhBATK: Cé lindale ná melmemat, á tyale antyálie! (Twelfth Night, 1.1) ...
• dhUCpTzWh5d: This is the translation of a popular Hungarian children's poem written by Sándor Weöres. Weöres was a virtuoso of rhyme and rhythm, who, like many ...
• bTMvnX4CJ9r: I have put my article on sound symbolism from Omentielva Cantea online, available in html: http://sindanoorie.net/art/ssymb.html and shiny pdf: htt...
• jdhaxQNW41w: Na herenya illin i loa vinya! Tamas Ferencz Dec 31...
• 5vPrZkcAfEA: Here you can find the analysis of the Sindarin dialogues from the second Hobbit movie:   http://www.elendilion.pl/2013/12/22/g-i-p-report-complete...
• ZuVqEdPAunB: Manna yo merya Hristonostare illin! Matt Dinse Dec...
• jgeDcf3zEGS: Another sleighing song, on a less serious note: Losses hortala er-rocco-raxanen,  /1/ ter i palari voro lálala, súli valtea láma nyelleron. Alasse...
• UweJvi4k1ph: I'd like to get a little critique on a translation I did (Brandon Sanderson fans might have an advantage): Cuil argwannath Bronwe arnin Lend armet...
• 12wABdwM182: I apologize in advance if I post a lot of newbie questions, but I searched the posts here and didn't see an answer to this question; is there a com...
• XTjeaNwgFL1: Did I see one of Måns Björkman's Sarati fonts used in this video? http://www.theonion.com/video/the-onion-reviews-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-sma...
• cPut9aikzig: I did this translation some years ago, now updated from our current vocabulary. The translation was done from the Hungarian original (a poem by End...
• RFFgdSiG6SP: Small nursery rhyme inspired by a robin visiting our garden yesterday. *Russambos *Capata-cat, carne tinwe Urwa ausa, wilwa sanwe Lindalinde, nar...
• QdXLsN7ECKj: David Giraudeau has compiled a list/dictionary of Q(e)nya words in Parme Eldalamberon 21; it can be fund on the attached link. +#ParmaEldalambero...
• QxvodhdYzx3: Alye illume apsene cotumolyain, làqua nwalya te ambe. Oscar Wilde ...
• PHec2YNPWRb: Carinya naica. Saunaica. Namin *vilwiste viryuva... sí mistea ette, mal nas sína ta uva lemya andave... ...
• Qjvt9e99WbH: Just a bit of fun - the Middle-Earth version of Nat King Cole's Let There Be Love Nai euva elye Nai euva ni Nai euvar lingwi Mi earon sí   Nai euv...
• eiKEif73S7A: This community doesn't seem very busy lately, but I thought I'd link this here on the chance it is of use to someone. I actually came up with the i...
• Dwmsrg7uL1d: Quenya- I am writing a poem and was wondering if "rocil" would be an appropriate word for saddle (from PQ: ROK with -la meaning "thing") Or would r...
• c62W4RsvjDF: Here's a translation of the traditional song She Moved Through The Fair. It is difficult to convey the beautifully laconic nature of the original, ...
• huUTPA1Ajzp: How would you say simple in Quenya (or Sindarin)? Go literal from simplex and coin *erastea "of a single part"? ...
• eu9aX9wG9ig: I did this translation years ago, I'm just reviving it because I am re-reading the series: Endanyasse sambi i astonen súyar Ar litsínen mí urma. M...
• AmsDC424r2E: Tasaran A High-elven adaptation of Goethe’s ”Erlkönig”. The metre is that of Galadriel’s Lament (”Namárie”). Man nortea ter lóme vailima? Nás ata...
• FJGB5TxLqh5: Aure pa aure p'ambon erinqua i nér lé persaila *raiwe aqua *serna mal úquen mere se ista cenir persaila se ar ullume nanquetisse mal i persaila p'...
• 3ohcAa4rDgg: Here's a lament sung by a self-pitying bard in Gondor, just to give the day a merry start: Sáre sanwi, a tule indonyanna, Óre, á lire nairi asalas...
• QkcmcY5hJZP: Aiyä! This was the community I was looking for! (Hope I'd be able to say that in Sindarin or Quenya sometime soon) ...
• 6th4fCZARHD: An epitaph, with R. +#letteroftheday Rhaw vi i chaudh hen e-daur vín. Rhach am i Orchoth an uir! ...
• bsJFn5qqo1K: Mae Govannen! I have just recently started to learn Sindarin. I hope that you can all help. Everyone here seems rather advanced ...
• VG5K9x3EB8s: A most welcome arrival in the post today. 9/20/13 - 1 A most welcome arrival in the po...
• QPm2MQq1uJB: Two hexameters for Q: +#letteroftheday Quélie tópa i nóre, i Quendi se ruine omentar, Quentali astar i indo, asya i hón miruvor. ...
• PB22baiMQ5M: In case you have missed the announcement, Elfling has moved from Yahoo Groups to a new location, and will no longer function as a mailing list, but...
• TaAv3CFai1n: A couplet of Asclepiads for the letter P +#letteroftheday Palpa palpie, hón! Parna i nisse sí - Paltan milyave sé, poica yo oira wén! ...
• B5ifjZPKmne: I'm wondering what Tolkien meant by "a dative of advantage" when discussing the +#Goldogrin noun declensions in PE11 p10? ...
• B5V5yXgujsi: If you're interested, I made a statistical evaluation of the Sindarin dictionary hosted at www.sindarin.de. There is some math involved and a Venn ...
• 1aFiJdkQAty: O is the star of the day. +#letteroftheday Olthon o meth en onodrim, o horthad e-daur en ogol. ...
• S1zSMkTjdWU: Here's for the letter N. Long-forgotten lament of an unnamed bard of Númenor. +#letteroftheday Nwalme onnaron             Núme quanta, Nárie vi...
• TgaHd7N9RQB: I just signed up for this course; are any of you else taking it? http://www.mythgard.org/academics/fall-2013-courses/philology-through-tolkien/ ...
• gwyzYPCjtgJ: Just celebrating the letter L +#letteroftheday laire lemya himya ena i lassinnar lorda, yerna tátarya lantalcallo linga raina caita litsenna lau...
• GP9Dw3oJpqu: I was contemplating the following snippets last night (after safely making it home, though still groggy and probably not firing on all cylinders ye...
• gYY9eRcgmWh: Parma Eldalamberon #21 will be published on 2 September.  It "presents previously unpublished writings by J.R.R. Tolkien concerning the declension ...
• AgyjdfaebKr: David Salo has posted an article on the comparison of Qenya and Quenya phonology on Elfling: Y...
• 99KN38mfWT5: Ben iuithad sui ant e-loth am malrog. Beleriandic proverb.
• 24K6xkAu5ZG: Omentielva Lempea organises a Quenya / Sindarin haiku contest. Please check the home page of Omentielva for the rules. http://www.omentielva.com/h...
• eSoPRpoVdBf: A tanca tace findilelya malda tancilden, Ta nuta ilya mistala finde; Cánen órenyallo loice óquettar: Cáreryet, aure apa aure, Maitane lumba vanesse...
• TkwNyk24Vjv: i chelyn elaig lamath i 'ardh land pannar a faer nín faug sí +#haiku
• QccT73Y6rhb: I'm thinking of starting a small project for fun - namely, to translate the LotR DVD subtitles into Quenya. I don't know if anyone would ever watch...
• UDhdpsjhe3d: In the wake of David Salo's recent blog post "The mind of the Dark Lord" on midgardsmal.com, I thought to offer some content here by jotting down s...
• QbzUeWVVBi2: Ae, VT/50 vi cam nín. Na vedui! :) Tamas Ferencz J...
• ZMAdZqx9jqd: I would like to ask is this just quenya and sindarin not Khuzdul  ...
• 6MpPuCvEyB7: Inwisti   Quelie lanta lúme, Ve licuma urina, Ta i tauri y’oronti Mápar túre, mápar túre; É inwistion mana, Mi norie, i urunosti, Atalantie? +#WB...
• LCHxY2nkVCC: Si, enutúlien.
• 4MfhZbGgYGR: Íre tullen mardemanna noa, hirnen Arcastaro "vinya" parma Arturo Talantie mí mentacolca[1]. Aiquen ehentanies? Walmea?[2] [1] 'letter (message) bo...
• 1vHCmTcwGoN: Edouard Kloczko's last book: "Le haut elfique pour les débutants" (Eng. "High Elvish for Beginners") --> http://lambenore.free.fr/downloads/HED_eng...
• SEufGXXz3yj: Colla Lírenyan colla cáren Netilion quanta Et nyarnallor yáre Telmello talmanna; Mal persailar nampentes, Nu Anar cólantes Ve intínen carna. Líre,...
• QMBz7Qxtc14: nin ólar alalvie ambor líri lo lyé alaquente ta voro viryala valto nése ya vanwa ve vangwe   en huiva ná íre eccuivan caimanya maxa ve quesse feany...
• BDmXCvtZ5Wy: The word of the day at the OED is orography "the study of mountains". Nice coincidence (if it is one). ...
• fCBGUb5CiXG: Someone stop me - I'm beginning to think that Sindarin a perfect and imperfect past tense system... based on the given conjugations of 3 words: Car...
• Y5w9v4ZBrPb: mi laica linque aiwe cacáva caserya tuileliltale eccuiva, eccuiva, eccuiva ...
• 9zs86qTWEUe: +John Garth has published an essay/review about Parma Eldalamberon issues 13 and 14. You can read it on the link below. ...
• F1hyxpAYahE: Let's have some fun... Na i Melehte olye. Sine lar i atanivear i kestal. Nán atarelya, Lúk.  (Laaaaaaaaaaaaauuuuu) A himya hilya i losse lapatte. ...
• gKNWz3EKRiu: Vi mardor nîn, n’Orbelain, i chîr amarthant i veleth an Tâd Dîr egor Tâd Diss ú-thrugar! Ni ness i vêl niss egor nîr, ar ni ro-‘lassui! Pedo nin, m...
• PCSUNZKJhcK: I'm sorry that I haven't been very active around here lately. I'm kinda scrambling to finish the latest version of my Sindarin textbook before summ...
• 6uLjMSkxZGE: Heryn arod, i dhortha na charad En i chervess vilui e-gadhad. Pent he: “Esten e, a rhû, Vi dhol dín gaw a dû, Dan sigil dín tarch sui dín achad!” ...
• BmDhWdaE2TQ: Linnod echui: Aew suilannar ethuil, megli awartha dorech. ...
• BEx1PyyQAyT: Stabat mater, continued: 11--12. Aire amille, cara sie: taca Tarwestaino harwi   indonyanna tulcave! Ánin etsate nwalmellon harna onnalyo, ye *res...
• Yya7zHpszPZ: A somewhat belated hymn for Good Friday (Stabat Mater, the first five stanzas) 1--2. Tarne amille *naicelinqua quanta nieron pó tarwe   yasse yond...
• 9u9uLpdP7J1: Im mîn o chanad gwedyr. Osgaro i dhôl nín: thuiathon, na-vedui gwannathon. Osgaro i dâl nín: gwathrathon i ardhon. Osgaro i dhôl ar i dâl nín: le b...
• 3XvxLC73WtB: Alye nyare nin, mane Tuileríve haimi nórelyasse? *Milmardinyasse i neri yalúmesse nelya aurisse Tuileríva nurtaner ca aldar var tussar, ar *nentane...
• jcoGdTcW5oA: Máre Tuiléri illin! Aníron sevigir Veren en-Ethuil vaer! M...
• gqi5KuKnK5n: Manen na estaina Quenyanen i merende ya túla otsolemettasse? (Lambenen lienyo estalmes *Hrávelóra [Húsvét]). ...
• es7NNHNfwUU: Mentali Quenyassë uar rimbë sissë… Tamas Ferencz M...
• BGPRYG3ZWry: Loss, loss ar loss. Ú-anglennatha i Echuir? :( Tamas Feren...
• T5fbRfiYFr8: First few lines of The Wanderer. Rána   "I erinqua lillume                Eruanna hire Rehtaro raine,                   *aita, rácina, sen Mauya m...
• 4wqRxMK3wYg: Athgar ben nauth nín... :) Na rîdh nim si ioe vyrn redhin, nêl nín mudar, úgarol tâd nín. Man cerin? ...
• MDgMGPBnLRr: Could someone tell me if S medennin -- colored as "attested/firm" in http://www.sindarin.de/grammatik.shtml -- is actually found in PE17 (or elsewh...
• FkcErrBfkFr: Yet another Yeats poem, reworked slighlty from an earlier version: Moripolkananda Lenkie limba I rosse, olori okómar; rihtie rúkar ehti usinwe ar...
• 1UYSMGrgEJk: Yasse Anar núta síra, a kesta i *sóratinwe Ilmende - quíta nauval mána ar hententuvalyes! How ...
• HLaPC1owUqb: Iath estent min tâd tynd, nen a gwelu il oer ha trevedir Man en estar? ...
• h85u3qqfz7x: *Wilwiste ná aqua hwiniala silume - noa hrisinye (er mitya), síra Anar cála, as lelya hwesta. Nas ringa, ananta. ...
• gHUmJYe2MsB: How would you say 'almost' in Q or S? Tamas Ferencz ...
• eNBUERhhRJ6: So, I just got VT50 in the mail. The amount of cool stuff in it is amazing, but so many question marks.... this will take a while to sort out. ...
• eUonKXBgDgJ: This will probably be complete bollox, but. We have the following sentence in the +#TúrinWrapper Area IV in +#VT50 : Sí ?a?l il cem il chem n...
• YCnQboZy2c2: D. Salo on Khuzdúl verbs: http://midgardsmal.com/paradixis/ Paradixis | Midgardsmal T...
• RWGmbVu6BNe: Yé! Sí camnenyes! Hentëan (?hénetan?) alassië. Tamas Feren...
• jTgNCgHuSQC: Ana Tol Nenisse Caurea, caurea Caurea melda, Ména ruicalasse lorie oa. Tulteas i yulmar, panyasset témanna ana tol nenisse óse merin auta. Tulte...
• VgcMKSTutN7: Ece tyen tulya i Nauco i parmanna, mal lá ece tyen mauya se paritas. Old Elvish proverb ...
• iNrryiQxWzn: Mista híseo Oiacúma penquanta Carinya síra. +#haiku
• Ew6mZGDK4Dn: Quen same erya vehte; mal cé quen care sa mai, ta erya nauva fárea.  (Mae West) https://plus.google.com/u/0/103590807509576802076/posts/XNfuc6eb...
• Xk7AGjEbCPS: Yáre neri tíraxer i nenisse   Hlarnen I yáre, yáre neri quete, ‘Ahyar illi, Ar lantuvamme mine apa mine.’ Mantar ner ve nammar, ar *occantar Cauce ...
• SPxjbhL2fEj: Quilda ar lorda ná nómë sina… Tamas Ferencz Feb 22...
• Z1PV2kYWoWy: Im sui i 'aear dan sui sarn, pigen, Ir gwannon, nandelitha gell. Man im? ...
• bHSbZTrPdtS: I like this quote: Lá i oronti i *retuval yeryuvar le, mal i sar hyapatelyasse. https://plus.google.com/u/0/109315717945244442082/posts/82YJohfvG...
• CnMhaCaxU4t: I have copied the PE19 index that +Matthew Dinse has typed up into a separate document on my Drive. The special characters show up nicely on my com...
• XNucSVk6eTQ: David Salo has announced on elfling that he has started a new blog discussing MovieEldarin, his contribution to the LotR and The Hobbit films: htt...
• 8przW93gjwB: Alla! *Wilwiste né acca vanima sina tella otsola-mettasse. Patanemme i ostonna, inye yo verinya, ta mancanemme tamnali ar matso. Noa[1] mótanemme p...
• 5W2rZsWpoab: I have just learned that it is possible now to share documents/slides from Google Drive with communities, so here I am testing this with my North S...
• d6b6PZkLC5z: This is a translation of Caedmon's Song from Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum. The OE West Saxon version and its Modern English translation a...
• KvvTnyu6d4W: Does anyone else here think the way Elvish languages evolve along with their (original) speakers is kind of... strange?? Like they're immortal but ...
• HNygJk5rsU8: Some years ago I compiled a list of words in the North Sindarin dialect, I thought to publish it here, feel free to correct any mistakes or add to ...
• DGX7N3Tpcy7: This is off, but I'd like to share this excellent article from my favourite etymology blog (and by favourite I mean 'only' :). Perhaps it and Dr Li...
• Y3djH9KLN8p: Translated a few years ago. Nóleo túlie lúmenen Quíta i lassi úmar, erya i sundo; Linganen lassi yo lotsi mi áre Ter' illi sende auri vínenyo; Sí...
• GuaGux8BrQH: I ben vinui hâf dad ar e ú-eriatha, i ben dadui him madweg ar e mâd in annath lín phain, ar i ben nelui le awartha ar e ú-nandelitha. Man in enith...
• PeJGonnoXrH: I like this quote. Eke men anta harwe atta voronwe hínin. Mine ná sundo. Exe: rámar. There are two lasting bequests we can give our children.  On...
• DmCskGMS9nM: I have typed up an alphabetized word index (words, affixes, roots) for PE19 and thought I would share it with you all: http://www.lotrplaza.com/sh...
• Znu1bGjaHFD: A well known passage: Quetin cé lambínen firion ar *angelion, mal melme lá samin, nán ve lamyala calarus var tunga nande. Samin cé apacéno anna ar...
• H9Bf7QGmhE1: Lá ricin úruva tar, Caisar, ya navilye ni mára,    lá merin ista ye nál: nulla hya nér calima. Catullus http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Poetry_o...
• Pare3duswZy: I'm setting up this new WordWheel category to have a place to put posts in about musings on etymologies, words, neologisms in any or all of the lan...
• JnWF5iEbGwn: Yesterday I was looking for a Q word to express 'companion' for my John Locke citation translation. I ended up using the attested otorno but was no...
• hLkBXUnx8KW: Has anyone heard of "Fantasy & Sci-Fi Linguistics Association"? I can't seem to find any info on them. ...
• KV11WCojMxu: Párie yesta i arato, mal parmahentie, máre otornor, ta immosúrie se telyar. https://plus.google.com/u/0/108874162516859921927/posts/2d2h5yfB6Cw ...
• gmjnYa6MxGU: Carl F. Hostetter has announced on +#lambengolmor that VT 50 is nearing completion and would be available for ordering soon. Apparently PE 21 is al...
• 27262d3QKa8: This is an older text of mine, now updated a bit. Comments welcome as always. Karnille né vanima wendinke; marnes as yáramilerya taura tauresse, t...
• WrU6uVbkPbm: Rúth 'loss, orchal, lhûg 'lain or talath luin I Rîn lain nin gaded, avo le nin charno! Man im? ...
• 5HpNCrP4htC: 'Man istadhir o ngurth? Han ú-’ostadhir, *an ú-istadhir,' ebent (1). 'Han egennim, ar han gostam,' *dambent (2). Gwannam sui i noss lín, (1); ar gw...
• CLQK9DD7Krm: There are a lot of errors that I need to fix from the extremely useful stuff you guys have been pointing out in the other thread, but the hypothese...
• 7y3bueVyydG: Airelinde 23 Héru mavarinya[1] ná: lá penin Tyareryen Tyaris[2] i kaitan laique palarissen: tulyassen tenna sende neni Feanyá asyas: tulyassen rá ...
• QuVYxsX1Wtx: This one is easy, I'm sure:) Hwinion os im[1], lhûg uguin, le chebin, le nedin, le degin, sui anírog. Man im? [1] as os- is given as a prefix, ...
• fKZZAdE7KZp: Hey friends! Perhaps you could help me out with this? Pronunciation Guides - Your Input Please...
• PCVs2sV6Dhx: Úvan lerya Váquetin aiquen pata ter indonya váre talintainen. Gandhi ...
• MoNGjFKhAAk: Ce essi alasinwe lyen, nation firuva ót istalya. (Nomina si nescis, perit et cognitio rerum. -- Linnaeus) ...
• HHN2zVZdAFv: Here's an easy one: Lodannen, si ni ú-chebithog; lodo ah im ar le puig ah e-thost vain. ...
• UPzecRG3DSy: Ae ephedidh i eneth nín, gwannon. Man im? Tamas Ferencz ...
• PpR1UZx6d41: I adan amminda nucumna pahtayasse, mal arya cardayasse. Confucius ...
• 72HZNj7DgH9: Penin mass ar penin mâr, penin vellon, penin thraw, ir ail im ú-limmidin, celeg na-chaered ribin. Negin chelch ir tôl i thrîw, alagos i chanar nín,...
• fFGuP6AA6NY: Two words to ponder: 'exact(ly), right on' - maybe one of the adjectives meaning 'sharp' could be used? 'begin, start sg' Ideas much welcome. +#...
• 2Gr4BpBi4hN: Hrisse termarne ter erinqua aure ostolmasse... Naica. Ilya ya lemya: nixe. ...
• cvKjYq35g6T: +Lőrinczi Gábor , you got a honorary mention! http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2013/01/16/68399-a-linguistic-analysis-of-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-j...
• CsxBmJ4wQZk: Ista ui handasséva anwa tanwa: intyale ná. A. Einstein
• XmuWDfJvr2v: From elsewhere on G+: Ual pole intya ma polil tenna rikuvalye. ...
• c7RrdgXN5RY: Mae, si im... *rembeth hín athgar. Lodon bo 'aear daur, luin, Ir im naer, gelais lín gellui ...
• aGdsqdZxUEC: oreramar has posted a new Quenya poem on Aglardh, worth reading: http://middangeard.org.uk/aglardh/?q=node/127 ...
• Jw13NCptyJR: "Amminda þelmalva sina kuilesse ná asya exi. Ar ké ua polilye asya aþya te, annún[1] avalye harna te." (The Dalai Lama) [1] annún = "[at the] deep...
• BUS7bkSPpxU: I have become jealous:) of +Fiona Jallings 's excellent Sindarin riddle-thread, so let's do the same in Quenya! For starters here's an (I hope) ea...
• 7oS3jASSUNz: I was thinking, how about making a community chat? Or something like a Facebook or LINE community?? ...
• 9QKqpcWD8sd: Avo nuitho i deilien i Fiona heriant... :) Alae, man dolthar i phith hin?  Medin dhrafn, bo gae *loston, blebin na rovail, vi menel revion, luith...
• G14dxTma7PC: I wonder why most people tend to just care about "late" and "LotR-compatible" material, and despise anything "early" concerning both languages and ...
• CWGr64WYZxi: Mae govannen pengelydh i-lammath! ;) Sí cîw im, dan ú-udulen pen-ist o lam i-thinnedhil. :) Harthon in ethrebith hin edlothiathar. ...
• QqTwKSx4DBm: Very exciting! http://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Cushing_Memorial_Library_and_Archives_collection&diff=225407&oldid=prev ...
• 4Q1oBnKwoi7: Ecénien sina hórista* lo Cicero se Cúcel+: "Cé samil peler** ar parmasan, samil ilya lyen mauya." * citation, quote ** garden, for want of a more...
• etub5teUMbP: I am trying to continue my translation of The Lay of the Völsungs from The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún. So far I have translated two stanzas[1] onl...
• L5uzGXR6rCh: I was wondering - for no apparent reason - how to express various algebraic operations in Quenya. 2+3=5; atta ar/yo nelde ná (nar?) lempe? 7-4=3; ...
• gFJr2G57Qy3: Hello! I'm new to this community, but I've got a long-time interest in Tolkien's languages, especially at the philological level. ...
• UsRix78sSFw: Have you read my former comment? Well, here I go! Entu, ensi, enta.xlsx None ...
• KGWKA1xVnMv: Merya Nostare, Professor Tolkien!
• SYc9Ed3ErPj: Vea nas hríve ná vaquenta Inglandesse loasse sina. Hrisinyes er erinqua auresse Ringareo, ta sí laimar tuiar et i kemello, ar aiwi lírar tuiléva li...
• UvnfHwgSfgk: Inspired by the previous chat. Shamelessly composed by me in a Paint from a picture found somewhere in the Web. The text says: "Empty heads! What i...
• hSTGbWX8ix9: A few more verses for the season to be jolly: Marda netyuvar ercassi. Asta sina tuce alassi. Coluvalme larma merya; linwi yárie a lerya! Ela turu...
• 2nqvgQQtn2d: Elendilion – Tolkienowski Serwis Informacyjny » Blog Archive » G-i-P Report: Complete analysi...
• 94PZBXDUnRe: Merya Hrístonostare illin! Tamas Ferencz Dec 25, 2...
• Lyjeh3Ywwcf: Nán lasse súrisse. Á tire ni vilie. Fiona Jallings ...
• eqY9Afp5Ubb: I also should introduce myself: I'm Maike Luthien (incidentally, both are my real christian names) and somehow the link to this circle (?) popped u...
• cuoFu235qk3: Seems fitting for this week, the first verse of Adeste Fideles: Á tule, vorondi, Túrie, alassie, Á tule, á tule Vetilehenna* Á cene nostaina Aran ...
• WC1Pg1mdepg: Ecendielye i nornoremma* I Perian? Anes mára lyen? * 'running picture = film' ...
• KHCXjqmrA9j: I wonder if the NQ word for Chritmas is Hrístonostare (as widely used), would it have eroded over the centuries of use into something like *Hrisnos...
• PPAHumgQG2Q: I have been thinking lately what the NeoQuenya word for 'weather' could be. Etymonline gives the origin of the English word as "O.E. weder, from P...
• FjNkw1ke2gV: Ae! I'm new to Google+, and heard about this place on Elfling. You may know me as dreamingfifi of realelvish.net. How is everyone today? ...
• 2hwZgUrXuYw: Analysis of the non-English lyrics in The Hobbit soundtrack (contributed by David Salo, author of Gateway to Sindarin, and non-English dialogs in t...
• isBB5wpkXjK: Tella otsolasse minya hrisse lantane sis yasse marin. Sí er pia losse lemya  - úvalve same lossea Hrístonostare, cítan. ...
• c1UxycdiYsY: mae govannon, does anyone know a good quenya online dictionary? I found a fairly comprehensive sindarin one (made by hisweloke) but I'm more into Q...
• bcX4UABF5xE: I'll start this section with posting a short poem in Quenya I wrote about a year and a half ago: enge lúme, yéni yá, quie nornen, ve nelle, annóri...
• LFPCsskdYxD: Alatulya otornasselvanna! Welcome to our community! Anyone who studies, or is interested in studying the languages created by Tolkien is welcome t...
• 88o9itYcH5v: Here are a few links if you are interested in studying Tolkien's languages, or if you would just like to find out more about them: http://www.elvi...

#quenya

• LFPCsskdYxD: Alatulya otornasselvanna! Welcome to our community! Anyone who studies, or is interested in studying the languages created by Tolkien is welcome t...

#middle-earth

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#tolkien

• jL22Vs2wqB4: Reminder: Eä Tolkien Society April 16th, 2016 Meeting 1-3 pm Pacific Time. Spokane & Online. http://tolkienscholars.org/news/ts-meet-april-16-2016 ...
• LFPCsskdYxD: Alatulya otornasselvanna! Welcome to our community! Anyone who studies, or is interested in studying the languages created by Tolkien is welcome t...

Discussion

• X5mnnJhakMA: I have created a group over at MeWe - you are very welcome to join, let's try it out if we can continue in the same spirit over there. ...
• M9RezCZViaW: There is hope after all that our data can be downloaded How to download your Google+ data befo...
• NpZLYwfesCH: I'm going to start working on a new version of Aglardh (install a brand new Drupal engine, new look etc) and make it operative before Google pulls ...
• P5a5fDQpgZx: Google will be shutting down Google+ for consumers ☹️, but will continue Google+ for enterprise customers To give people a full opportunity to tra...
• WeyhxiDqRMy: Something that has troubled me for a while now is that while social media is really great for stimulating conversations, it is terrible for long, c...
• Tcd6gmnDVNy: Another well-written blog post by etymologist Anatoly Liberman, this time about the verb lie. I am only linking it here because the post talks abou...
• ZeJB4tjRh4k: I'm not too well versed in what some "early" nouns cases mean. For instance, EQ/MQ comitative case, kiryaiko. Does this mean "with a ship"? This is...
• N9TDXV3M3Pb: My mind is muddled...how would one render "day by day" or "three by three", &c.? "By" (instrumental) doesn't seem quite right to my English ears. M...
• NX1yBpPNNtr: Is there a distinction as to when you use the strong vs the weak form of a past tense Quenya verb when it has both forms? ...
• a4gYZNUAKY8: I learned via Facebook today that there is a new page at Omniglot: http://www.omniglot.com/language/numbers/quenya.htm Those with ideas about imp...
• 49cEnvH8kk5: I envy Tolkien, he could conveniently ignore or forget the rules of his own language and it's us who're left scratching our heads:) Consider esse ú...
• H2S61QgkFrn: A question posted over at Elfdict got me thinking on our two attested words glossed as "more". We have the adjective amba and the adverb ambe and I...
• E1ifHmTHNX7: Is there now a consensus out there what the proper genitive of nouns the type of koa should be? I think most people settle on kavo but perhaps some...
• QVAyUzxZVUh: 'Elvish' and Dwarvish are going to be taught in Oxford on August 18. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/blackwells-jrr-tolkien-day-how-tolkien-first-l...
• DoBuP45rEAY: I've release Eldamo v.0.6.7 https://eldamo.org/ This includes some more Polish translations by +Remy Corbin I haven't much to say about this rel...
• G4H2FNCEuQb: A recent mention of the Craft (with links to three other stories). https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/books/review/jrr-tolkien-lord-of-the-rings-e...
• 64FcrGtFR7Y: I have a new D&D character and he has a bow named "One shot, One kill". Can someone translate this name into elvish please? ...
• aeEMv6j6Gg1: Over the past few years both +Paul Strack and +Александр Запрягаев posted several pieces of analysis of Eldarin roots, their histories, evolution, ...
• B4R3kTs9yYU: Over at Discord the other day I was chatting with Roandil about the two attested SKOR roots and how the two could coexist; now it occurred to me th...
• gSVbXRT2ut8: I have a long to do list, perhaps you can help me narrow it down? Choose the Projects I Work o...
• JyCB7HEd7Un: Here's a first-draft rendition of my recommendations for tattoo-seekers and tattoo-artists. Let me know if you spot errors or have any comments or ...
• MySA2FxrLPW: I am starting work on a series of articles aimed at seekers, artists, and translators of Elvish tattoos. I am starting it with this quiz, which I h...
• 5nppWceZiBd: Though both are listed as Middle Quenya forms at Eldamo, is the verb lah- from LAKH possibly a later/newer item than manka- from MBAKH (in the Etym...
• 94oFwAPPsLi: I had a request a couple weeks ago to allow Russian translations in Eldamo. Since then, I've been experimenting with options for including non-Engl...
• 9WrXJNLBNvm: Concerning the Eldamo entry +#pec "nut": shouldn't this be +#pet (pec-) as we see with other Q nouns with stems ending in [k]? +Paul Strack ...
• EaoiMtoTyu1: It’s well known that in Sindarin/Noldorin, the spirants [x] and [f] (the latter most probably at its earlier stage [ɸ]) became vowels before the sp...
• XNCporaQv9L: This is a followup to this post: https://plus.google.com/101464290458691045803/posts/NChiFKWfuPp Those of you that having been reading my recent ...
• ijhLpjhoa9U: My apologies for this being somewhat out of the blue, but I feel that I should mention it here. This is for anyone who has known Paul Frank from ...
• Tz6XPeDMtAm: Going over fractions...in Neo-Quenya, could those forms in -sta be adjectives and the nominal forms be in -sto (cf. PE14:51 and PE14:84-85)? ...
• daTTs5Yg14v: So what do you say, fellow lambendili, shall we prove the Professor wrong? :) Watch J.R.R. Tol...
• ZPhEo1kqKMb: I’ve been working on (Neo-)Quenya verb conjugation and specifically on some representative examples of various classes and shapes. I’m inviting fee...
• Dtf6FbD5nRV: Aimanen *merenyalles, ar aimanen estalles, merya Tuilêre, Enortalére, Keulére, Paska, hya exe illin! ...
• 4dNUcBSF3qW: I can't really make it out yet what it says in the vertical script. Kilma handas? Quilma hambas? ...
• 1VTPkFuL5wc: Posting here as it has some linguistic interest Tolkien artwork on show for first time at Bodl...
• VHHEgbTiJMN: This is a follow up to my examination Eldarin words for husband/wife, man/woman, and of BER/BES/BED as roots for “marriage”: https://plus.google.c...
• ML2zAY1rEUU: Based on the feedback to my previous post, I am having another think about Eldamo's approach to ranking neologisms, originally discussed here: htt...
• JpiEKgzSHC5: I am still working on how to handle neologisms in Eldamo. One issue I have is there are a number of “well accepted” neologisms that I think should ...
• VfS29g9JWXA: How to pronounce 'mh' in ar e aníra ennas suilannad mhellyn în phain? Is it a kind of soft mutation? I think I heard textbooks were being written ...
• S6SovAg7qVV: I'd like to ask your opinion on some info found in here (https://realelvish.net/pronunciation/sindarin/). As far as I know, LH/HL is more like voi...
• 79vXsWwBdno: What would, in your opinion, be the present perfect of the verb derived from SKEY 'pass' (whether it's *xíta or *xéya is probably irrelevant in thi...
• BpnGRGQSGdc: Since I am starting to work more seriously on assembling a coherent Neo-Eldarin vocabulary, I thought I should articulate the approach I intend to ...
• NhCSrJ2wRhg: Do you think the idea behind ahtumat may have been that it is the 'worker's meal', meaning the main meal for those who usually work through the day...
• RXKYiVBhD3y: Observation of the Day aka Certainly News to Me: Its temporal antessive use in http://eldamo.org/content/words/word-1029560541.html would indicate...
• 3fvesCvy6uH: Back to trying to make Tolkien's languages more accessible - https://academy.realelvish.net/beta/0-intro.htm (not edited, not spell-checked, curren...
• UVUfNC4Kdvn: After your post on losing and lost, I wondered if the phrase for I lost x could be "vanwa nin...x Using the same structure as Ecce nin...x and ...
• SG8XJMW2YfP: If any one is in the Seattle area, I am here for Rustycon, and I want to hang out! I am signing copies of my book there! ...
• TWz8WEgXJyd: Merya nostarë Arcastaro! Tamas Ferencz Jan 03, 201...
• hHUHw9gS8g3: Merya Mettare Len, Meldonyar! Ekin Gören Dec 31, 2...
• XUZxsExUtmv: I said I'd post more about “what's next” for Eldamo, so here it is. Given my recent posts, it’s no secret that I think we need a generally improve...
• gqYh46zCZ2w: Is there any definite solution of √KOY vs. √KUY problem? I'm under impression that the Professor hesitated till the very end. ...
• 6sc3m2Xf38h: I am thinking about changing how I use the certainty markers in the Eldamo data model. Right now I have these markers: None - the word appears in ...
• cggbNiaQpL9: Merin merya merende ilye otornoin at osellin! Na alassea Hrístonostarelda, Turuhalmelda, Hanukkalda, hya aiqua ya *merenyalde. Alye mate, yule, lir...
• cQu6Y92qhye: If we had an instant chat in Quenya, what messenger would you prefer? None None ...
• Dg9fbxfsp2W: One thing that we need to improve as a community is our abilities to add Tengwar, Sarati, and Cirth transcriptions to our websites. It's not possib...
• MtnGqRR3kAP: This is a hypothetical question to those of you who know more about programming than me - I myself amused myself a bit with some little Python year...
• XDkLpY6zZ2N: What do you think, friends? Shall we base our Neo-Quenya reconstructions on the latest ideas of the Professor found in his draft notes, or give adv...
• gbz5y85APmK: I've been exploring Q phonology and have a few questions about how morphemes combine in some educationally motivated situations: √NIK + mapa-​ + ​...
• 6DKT3ZoNeah: To all of the web design Eldar out there: I have been making a Tengwar converter webpage that takes the latin script and changes the writing into t...
• RRTVH518e1x: lalálala *hwinie tulya ólólala sívenna: *anonya Sofía "long-laughing giddyness leads to long-dreaming peace: my godchild Sofia" *hwinie modeled o...
• LKFC4TaotjU: Lookit what I made! What name should I do next? The Surprising History of Lúthien’s Name ...
• YsZP82rYaPs: This is a bit of a speculative post. Amazon recently announced a deal with the Tolkien estate for a Middle Earth TV series. Who knows how long it w...
• NyWJ18pVV7y: welp, as much as it horrifies my parents that i should learn a "made up" language (although technically all languages are made up >_>) i still want...
• TW7RvyTFQdv: Does anyone have a clue whether there's any possibility of obtaining the many out-of-print Parmar Eldalamberon? Or are there any digital copies aro...
• HvJ1kTykSoQ: Someone asked me how you would say of the Earth and the Moon in Quenya, and I demurred. They are not a natural pair, but a pair in the given contex...
• f6XpWnxU6Ug: Aiya, nildor! Once I was quite enthusiastic about [Neo-]Quenya. Then I experienced a kind of frustration, having read PE22 and totally lost in its ...
• 8mEAtF1Y8X9: Mellyn! I have updated Parf Edhellen (www.elfdict.com). The new version improves on existing functionality, and adds an entirely new section Discu...
• 5ahsfgqf8Lg: I'm looking for help translating a phrase into Elvish. It can be any version of Elvish you like. Here's the story; me and by girlfriend are nearin...
• VAp13CtxhLE: I am kinda shocked. Doriath has iâth (fence) in it. So should we pronounce it dor-yath, not like the' 'ia' in Melian like we separate 'rh' in gaur...
• LRMLbXJaVwL: Do we have any examples of what primitive *–ab–tâ, *–ab–tê, *–ab–tô would become in Sindarin? I myself am still looking. Or would a suffix variant...
• gspKFMShJ8i: A question to discuss. Do you believe that even in nominative Sindarin pronouns are unchangeably lenited? Is there enough evidence to either side? ...
• 4tqUkamGnmg: My sketch of how to update the conditional sequence of QVS into post-reverse QUenya and to Sindarin (based on the introduced Noldorin hints). Start...
• 6nFtMQH44ws: New Testament in Neo-Quenya translated by Fauskanger. Download in epub here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7LiUTtL4JLMXzRRellGTjVsOVE ...
• 5yJiSXvXEnQ: A quenya syntax question: Should I normally position and adjective describing a noun before or after the noun in question? E.g. Cenean yaule morna ...
• fTaGoVsR4ju: Would saveryet translate to he believes it? James Coish ...
• FRTz1Q6KydT: Mellyn! What do we know about the rules for lengthening vowels in compounds and inflections in Quenya? A typical example of what I am trying to und...
• B6ZMcC56U9q: Tell me about your workaround solutions for the conjunction 'so that/in order to/ut'. Or maybe there is something attested? I think this is physica...
• 3F3FJBmR2Wr: Hi! I just updated Parf Edhellen (www.elfdict.com). It is an exciting update, as it enables our community to contribute to the dictionary. All con...
• CAxqmLm4qT3: Hello! I am a come-and-go person on this community, and I am overwhelmed by the amount of links to databases that I can find here! Can anyone tell ...
• KEWBxpCw3RA: Could it be possible that +#kyerme "prayer" be a misreading of *hyamie "a praying"? ...
• 35aAhcWkwj4: The counter here on the side is telling me the community has reached half thousand members. *Perhúme! *Perveneg! Now I know very well that this nu...
• NSHgp9tvYek: Was anybody from our community at Omentielva Otsëa, like good Maester Kalimac here? http://kalimac.blogspot.fi/2017/08/omentielva-otsea.html ...
• QdFQ8gf56su: As promised, the slides with the poetic selection to the talk. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8gjHaj7Lr5WZnNINW5ucTltUkU https://drive.google...
• 3zomtd5UCF5: Hi! I've recently made a lot of changes to Parf Edhellen (www.elfdict.com) and I would like to plug my website here once more! :) I believe it ha...
• CAXobB8EUFr: Hello +Paul Strack, (+Ekin Gören, +Eryn Galen, +Roman Rausch) there's something that I would like to have your opinion about :) In the past week...
• TX8bj95Pm9r: Does anyone have any idea what "Drega", imperative for 'Flee!" might be in Quenya? Is there a root? Any guesses on what Drega might sound like in...
• QdCsvTWkwjd: Hi, new here. I would love to learn Quenya, I downloaded the text book of the net, but I always have a hard time sticking with it from a lack of ot...
• ZxzMxqJ4AEc: AS hláfweard "master of the loaf" > E lord Q massatur "master of the loaf" > *mastur > E master It's all connected 😉 ...
• UzVZRJx1mcp: +Paul Strack eldamo-data review All queries have been made on the data of eldamo v0.5.5., but as you probably have not changed anything of the ex...
• Ksho6J6y4jH: +Paul Strack +Ekin Gören +Roman Rausch +Eryn Galen et al, I updated the eldamo relational DB project on Github: https://github.com/aduial/eldamo-r...
• iUVPxbdm9Lb: Any Omentielva's programme always ends with 'The Future: we will take thought of the Omentielvar in N+2 and N+4'. Hence, I always wonder whether th...
• 1H2DsiiuWWZ: Problem of Ā/AU in Sindarin I believe we have a consensus concerning the ineffectiveness of the I-affection on non-final O[Rodyn. Yet there are two...
• hZhZia3Zihv: I've devised a Greek-type orthography for Quenya which it honestly deserves in its Classical approach. An example as follows: Αἴ. Λαύριε λάνταρ λά...
• 99KNcR1KorH: Yay I am finally done with exporting the eldamo-data! 26'494 words, attested by 74'079 references and connected with a stunning 209'458 relations (...
• jJHjoyfqq7G: Hey +Paul Strack it's me again ;) Haven't got all that much time in the past few weeks for the project, but finally I am getting close to finishing...
• D2NKGDe1uKf: “Ilya ré *​Emillere,” quente harunya hantien verirya, haruninya, onnattain quain, er ion emilinya. ‘“Every day (is) Mother’s Day,” said (habituall...
• iD3qrrFkCn4: I wonder if they will release the lyrics somewhere.. for public benefit. https://calvertjournal.com/news/show/8273/elvish-opera-to-be-performed-in...
• 6mgwyym2eui: Happy Easter, wonderful community! Have peace, fun, and prosperity wherever you are. ...
• 6tLi25owT1Y: What do you call a doomed son? A Fey Anor. Legend of Norn ...
• Neg7i6MPEAr: *Conlang Database Project* Update March 23rd Over the past few weeks I've been busy with working on a few other things, but that was a total benef...
• ToL9WhZxe9T: Linguistic wise id like some more info of calambar (like who used to words to who...elf told that to a man or so?) and silef (sounds to me like sil...
• FH7ei1hTNXR: Let's guess! How many PE issues or years will be taken until every meaningful linguistic material by Tolkien is available? Then, how far could ...
• 2KZKQ7feLQs: I’m trying to better understand how participles, gerunds, (particular) infinitives, etc. function and interrelate in Quenya. Some sample sentences:...
• ETqGma6a8U6: I have started working on a project - a primer course into Quenya, that is, to NeoQuenya (although I do not like the term). I know there are other ...
• cXpXeNQdEdi: What do you think are the properties of Ann-thennath, and why? ...
• XZ9Xd8XS8ha: At least at an earlier stage there was still the prefix http://eldamo.org/content/words/word-2252155757.html which would make sense combined with l...
• jSyFDM3xeMq: I posted this question other places but I'd like to here some more opinions. Medial NG sound. Should it be [ŋ] or [ŋg]? Tolkien said "NG represen...
• 3hantDDi9Mx: Calculating the number of verbal forms in PE22 according to the written calculations (694 (56×12)+22)) i came up with 672 (56×12). What could the...
• hevGScdr2Hu: Another quick update and some more questions for clarification to +Paul Strack... I decided to get rid of the intermediary tables which link the r...
• Fby2Z1bfjT1: Guys, I would like to pick your brains on two bits in LVS7 in PE22. 1) on p154 there is this quite generic statement "... The particular infin. wi...
• cQyRvbPXSon: Hello i am Azog , i speak Orcish 08/02/2017 ...
• SRxZhM91gPe: So quick update from my conlang database project! I've just refactored the database model to be able to include the marks (whether a word is i.e. ...
• Bg66qj3kGnE: If memory serves, this page looks a bit less Grelvishy now than the first time I checked it after it was put up. People must have been sending Omni...
• dx2yzJXndVM: Conlang Database project I'm about to be done with exporting the eldamo data, the only big thing that's left to treat now is all the relations bet...
• infpTCicoFy: So, after the christmas break I am back working on my conlang database project. Currently I am developping a java program which dissects the data f...
• cJzAQ4hdmjT: On Christmas Eve I wish you all joyous festivities, peace and happiness wherever you are - may your Twelve Days of Christmas feel as if you were in...
• cTnEd8Ux8QU: Westron ribadyan irbê–t(h)i/–di anâ ? Assuming that the /r/ is not a changed sound (no begadkefat fricativization in Adûnaic dialects? ;)) and that...
• WbaugKu3Amy: Time for some fable :) Let's make it flawless together? Máma rokkorye Máma, ye penne tó, kenne rokkor: min sakila i•lunka, exé kólo túra, métimá ...
• dhAQTxWYR9c: After going through dozens of contradictory documents for hours, I am about to give up... Here is the current version of my take on the Prestanneth...
• Dffnsng79Lb: Hey everyone! As a part of my IT apprenticeship I'm planning on realising a kind of elvish resource which I think does not exist yet in a similar ...
• FiMYGbt3r6D: After re-reading page 147 in PE 22, i thought about this "before of time. PHA, APHA. enge. 1 2 before, in front of place. KHYA .13 after {later th...
• 8WuuGtvX3nh: By all means let get started. Shall we begin with the idea to go to Quenya Chat first on the topic of 1. Describe where you live. Nation, city, k...
• RdW8ZUGSQZb: Thanks for your very interesting thoughts. Paul, Andre and others who have mentioned exactly what tends to stop the community from developing a sp...
• Dxe8uAoVhSY: How indeed could we build up a spoken (chatting) Quenya? A few months ago David Girardeau was lamenting how the new words and forms seem to actuall...
• acentjDn62a: Hello It's been a while, please check my post, I need your opinions or else support hehehe, thanks... https://elvishspeakers.wordpress.com/2016/10...
• LgxKpwEZvfg: Done a speech yesterday at the Chair of General and Comparative Linguistics, Philological Faculty, Moscow State University. The topic was announced...
• NmEctfvC9Zj: Has there been any thoughts or attestment for the entu, ensi, enta declensions? I'm noticing that tensi and tenta may be related somehow. ...
• EtojkxQbgt2: Using mathematic equations, would these be correct? nerte ar nelde na yunque 9 + 3 = 12 nerte [1]píca nelde na enque 9 - 3 = 6 nerte nellume na o...
• 25qScXdotX9: Ahhh suilad everyone I was wondering about the song "May it be" Is there any sites that has a complete updated english to quenya lyrics? ...
• ER25RmE5Eq6: This is quite interesting :) Tolkien: The Lost Recordings Joss Ackland narrates a sear...
• HMuGLCxVZpM: So I was going through the sentence-syntax lesson, editing it and preparing it for the book, and after working on it non-stop for about 12 hours (f...
• Lgv7YnigsVs: Reposting my yesterday's discussion with +Fiona Jallings . I think I might have stumbled upon what Tolkien actually was thinking while writing le l...
• 9zjmSsEDyvZ: The Tūlaiyeta Conundrum, or: Conditionals in Eldarin. Lets us speak about the peculiar Old Noldorin form from QVS, ni tūlaiyeta glossed by Tolkien...
• 9SZVfvQKo6w: Ah, some productive time I had, pondering on the complexities of Eldarin grammar. Some of the lengthier ideas I am still to release later, when I f...
• GEWj78vLDMo: Any of us in Pitsburgh? Pittsburgh Public Art Office Looking for Klingon, Elvish, and Dothraki...
• gWZGhGrikUT: Here is a list of Elvish names and phrases from The Art of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien that I think might be previously unpublished. So...
• CRUhdgwvahb: Suilad *ilphen - has anyone here done much research into the possibility of a muta cum liquida stress rule in Sindarin? I have seen it discussed el...
• ZT6K87sB1uo: I'm gunna do it. I'm really gunna do it! I'm writing a letter asking the Tolkien Estate whether they'd be opposed to me publishing my Neo-Sindarin ...
• iFu8DLV2iSb: I was translating some quotes from the Jackson films, and faltered when approaching simple questions. I first thought of "Legolas, ma chenir i chin...
• T3EJLaiGiRr: Another sketch of mine from 4 years ago... 11/7/16 - 1 Another sketch of mine from 4 y...
• WFAi4tFyh18: There is a process, when you take the basic material and let your thoughts go astray, not even attempting to recreate Tolkien's trail of thought so...
• 2K4VNXLu2kK: Has anyone heard what happened to the recording of Prof. Tolkien reading a previously unknown Quenya poem in the Netherlands? ...
• PgCxUZkW4bp: MEL: A-verb or I-verb? We see CE melā- in PE22/095;130;134 Also ᴹQ meláne in LR/061 Yet Q shows melin etc. in VT49/15;21 +Александр Запрягаев seem...
• 79sFEUUtQi7: Is anyone else heading to the Tolkien Seminar in Leeds on Sunday? (http://www.tolkiensociety.org/events/tolkien-society-seminar-2016/) There's a la...
• iBnyANQQW6q: Just working on a translation for someone into both Quenya and Sindarin of the following sentence: "If you want to be hard (i.e. "steadfast, endur...
• HRXjCzRZuPM: Made it 4 years ago. 28/6/16 - 1 Made it 4 years ago. ...
• HmvDWjupxM9: In our university, students can anonymously assess the performance of teachers, express their opinions on courses, etc. at the end of each semester...
• DiPNjkXeCSS: Well, if we lack a word, we either (1) paraphrase, or (2) derive, or (3) reconstruct. That's clear. But what shall we do, if we have two or three o...
• LdxUd1vzteb: One of the benefits of Parma Eldalamberon issue 22 is the information we got about verbal adjectives, the different adjectival endings and their me...
• VesVvgfwXSA: Angwion ie uman enwa. "The existence of dragons at one time is a fact." This must be the single coolest sample sentence ever in any of Tolkien's ...
• 9hcuYrDoJmy: Ivistien i tehta mir +#DadTalksQuenya, an i selyë hinna quilda ná. [I've changed the tag into "DadTalksQuenya, for my daughter still is silent.] ...
• BbyVbyydA1C: Intrigued by the Verbal Adjective xiéte "passing, impermanent" from PE22:155 (LVS7), as root for this one SKEY is given, what may be the verbal ste...
• FA5KaEPUoDh: If somebody wants to help me in my experiement wherein I am trying to talk a little bit Quenya to my daughter Rina (3 and a half yo), please post y...
• ACVYNGwFtFs: Hey, +Matt Coombes, your book has just arrived, it looks really nicely presented! Thank you DS...
• PBTntJtjKmf: It's in English, not any ME language, but it's still nice: Tolkien's greeting inscription in Tengwar from a letter to G.H. Cowling (details of this...
• JAkL7YJZNTP: Another short, but interesting letter. Would that we could have similar correspondence with the Professor, I bet he would be inundated with questio...
• DrHPm47xEDe: I am reading the new edition of A Secret Vice, and I found in it an editorial note which comments a sentence of Tolkien in which he mentions Gothic...
• 1BQ8DX824nU: Alla ilin...I was looking over attested male/female animal words. Some, like rocco/rocce are easy, but I was  wondering how huo would be feminized;...
• EtqnY6oXusn: QVS main treasure: verbs and verbal roots! For Neo-Quenya purposes. Trivials like tule and kare excluded. 92 KAB kave 'can, be able' (pa. t. kambe...
• eefMxunKdsp: Reconstruction of QVS pronominal affixes in verbs Basic concept: S prefix>V tense-infinitive>S number marker (r final/l medial/n 1st person object...
• jL22Vs2wqB4: Reminder: Eä Tolkien Society April 16th, 2016 Meeting 1-3 pm Pacific Time. Spokane & Online. http://tolkienscholars.org/news/ts-meet-april-16-2016 ...
• GmuADVLCKuq: What vowel do you people put before the locatives in a word possessing no final vowel? aran, aranVllo, kas, karVsse — what do you put? Ómataima of ...
• feFcdwgRtDc: +Paul Strack +Tamas Ferencz +Fiona Jallings Let's have a discussion of those forms here. Please inform me of any additions and possible alternate i...
• ThqYXGPpjPt: It is always a headache to navigate in PE17 trying to understand which texts are simultaneous and to which conceptual eras they belong. Here is my ...
• 2TNjLaEvY1n: How do you date Comparative in Eldarin — And — Umbar & Ambar in PE17? Despite the given leeway of 1964 to 1969, I started to believe they are 1965 ...
• CFeRZ3FgVvo: Would you use the Qe. preposition rimni [http://eldamo.org/content/words/word-2478876553.html] in translations, or can someone suggest a replacemen...
• 4KassLTnPZU: +Paul Strack A further thought about Tolkien's apparent temporary elimination of special case mutations in the Noldorin branch after 1930 (immediat...
• UsHWNTaq8Kp: UPDATE 2.04.2016: Happy April Fools' Day! Hello everyone and so sorry for a long period of absence. (Especially to +Ekin Gören who constantly fail...
• RhfCs3rh4Rn: Hey, I have an announcement for those of you that use GoodReads. I've made a new group, Quenya Learners, where I'd like to welcome all who are inte...
• JSxB7SRjVuN: LOTR, FR, Gandalf twice uses the same words to perform a fire spell. What language are his words? What do they mean? 'The Ring Goes South': Gandal...
• ZrTBvPxP8WX: What a fantastic adventure it would be to start a similar experiment and teach Quenya in a nursery school. It would be exciting to see how the lang...
• JVFm4RU6dCX: A wonderful post at LotRPlaza about Earendil and Auzandil Ēarendil and Auzandil None ...
• fPUqWgx15Tn: Conjectures about Nandorin, by G. Blanchard. Nandorin Elvish: Speculative Possibilities ...
• joQ1mZC9vdJ: Can someone help me on the word(s) olor and olos?  These appear in two etymological notes published in Unfinished Tales (copied and pasted below) ...
• dEnwmWV3vN2: Concernig giving and thanking (and approaching). For some time when I think of Eruhantale “thanksgiving”, and similarity of Elvish words expressi...
• LMtCdQMSvAs: Can we tell what would be the reflexive/passive verb equivalents ("to be ..ed") of envinyata- and *tancata- (PPQ)? Derived with –u–, perhaps, or wo...
• UX9tmHwosVu: What is the latest word (in PE22, I take it?) on how the perfect tense is formed in the passive voice in Quenya? (Still similarly to Latin?) I'm lo...
• JjX4Usu3ysH: Alla illin! I have been pondering how one would say "the rings of power" as in the rings forged by Sauron. √BAL or √POL don't seem to be correct. A...
• FD5EugHYgaZ: Merya yo herenya vinya loa illin! Lőrinczi Gábor ...
• Aekodb6wWN8: How do we connect a clan with the founder's name in Quenya? Is it nosse Finweo, nosse Finweva, or even compound Finwenos/Finwenosse? (I remember No...
• AfFV2KAp7ec: It's that time of the year again... Christmas in a few days. So here is a Quenya translation of the song White Christmas to celebrate, and to thank...
• fKRxQpgqZUb: So MILDOR is "Wine-land" - interesting! I didn't see any discussion of this yet, though there's so much to catch up on from the past few months. I ...
• FM5Ct4qjafi: Based on PE/17, I’ve always thought that S -g is the informal (familiar) 2nd p. sg. verbal suffix, while -dh is the formal (polite) 2nd p. sg. verb...
• hzF1pp7C3V3: Merya Hantale illin i hilyar sa!
• eErHtcvwn6F: My current field of interest, connected with the upcoming article Eldarinwe Ólamáron Allamaiti Quenta-Yestalesse, is Quenya phonology. As per PE19:...
• 6EUgAfHUshY: Do you think that the (separate) class of CE U-verbs remained in Sindarin? For instance, from *kham-u 'sit down': pr. hamun, pt. achovun? achovuin?...
• LeFR7FmDRRy: Have you already decided for yourselves how exactly are we going to resolve the question Tolkien himself left in a muddle: the prepositions/adverbs...
• H8Tz3JJw1Ec: The Elvish Writing Systems of J.R.R. Tolkien by Matt Coombes — Kickstarter None ...
• ddkk4pnTYwC: Finnish and Welsh might be related Indo-Uralic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ...
• DLDm4gjVSD2: It's a funny thing with Quenya as we know it how sometimes we can have an overabundance of variations for certain grammatical or vocabulary items; ...
• J3rTsUctamg: Hello, lovely people. Earlier this year, +Tamas Ferencz asked if you could help me out with a conundrum I had in finding a suitable name for my Eng...
• 5cwTwMwkEDP: So, I keep on trying to learn Sindarin (for many years) but things constantly come up or I have need to focus on something else. My question is ho...
• 2w6NfpoNAa8: Karinya nwalya[1]. Mauya nin *atse[2]. ------- nwalya: does this verb require an object (nwalya ni), or can it be sort of intransitive ('it hurts'...
• iSweVRcCNWJ: Is there any trustworthy list attempting to chronicle Tolkien's writings not in the publishing order, but with a tentative order of composition dat...
• KfQ1S1FYSUC: I started a new venture, this time into an often-neglected Eldarin tongue. Planning to make an article tentatively called 'Verbal tense stems in Te...
• arR4gWq1vG3: Two, possibly simple, questions to Quenya experts. 1. How do you make a genitive out of a gerund? matie-o? matio? matyo? (Same for adding -uva to ...
• 2Ga7bHCSc31: I need to delegate. I started a new job, and it's full time, and I'm completely exhausted when I get home and EVERYTHING HURTS. I'm seeing a doctor...
• RKYSof8ggjk: There is in fact a previously attested verb of the ninkwis pattern seen in the +#PE22 'Common Eldarin' text, and this one postdates the emergence o...
• aUsEr5vLE82: Doing research for my participles project. A question for those skilled in Quenya: how do a stressed éu (and, less importantly, áu ) behave in Q ph...
• 6e2EzPNJgfX: Hey Quenya wranglers! Is there a negative existence-copula in Quenya? I know that there is "ea" for a positive copula, but i'm unsure about the neg...
• 8htY18bUDHH: Language & Myth In 'A Secret Vice' Tolkien writes: '... the making of language and mythology are related functions; to give your language an indiv...
• 5yux7m91mDy: At 8:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, I'm being interviewed about my Tolkien-language work, along with a good friend of mine, The Dwarrow Scholar dwarr...
• M65aGPjLq9q: Has anyone heard what happened to the recording of Prof. Tolkien reading a previously unknown Quenya poem in the Netherlands? ...
• BQ8nb4hPGSd: Hi Tamas, Did not know of this community until jut now. I'd just posted the question below in the Middle-earth G+ community, but see that this is ...
• cWzLNK4WDmD: Andrew Higgins reports on lambengolmor that HarperCollins are going to release a new, annotated edition of Tokien's A Secret Vice, which will conta...
• 1AdhBBw9Szy: Question to Quenya phonologists! What does exactly happen to the initial CE consonant H in Quenya? Checking the sources, I found an almost 50/50 re...
• GFj7BEo1Mdq: I have a question for those more knowledgeable than me (and that is most). What is the difference between TĀ, TAL, TALTA, TALAT, and KAL, KALAT, AK...
• 6dVTwVqqUxk: Elvish dictionary app(lication) Mellyn, following a session at the Omentielva Enquea about "Identifying the Requirements for a Quenya & Sindarin ...
• HTTaYdJKE4P: With the new +#PE22 information, unexpected complications arose when making statements. We were told that LA negates adjectives and verbs only, and...
• 3woMbuNTPrE: Among other things, +#PE22 is also a treasure trove of sample sentences, so I thought I will collect them in a thread, maybe they will generate s...
• KeC2vBfFqX8:  For those of you reading PE 22, does it say much about  how ol- is used in the sense of  "to become"? Its been a long wait for a word like that. I...
• SobUNQLoJQo: The Quenya verbal noun ending ndĭ/ndē (PE22:137) is very interesting in many ways: - prior to PE22 I think we only had arcande as an attested examp...
• SeC8N2UJjjj: Hi! I'm unfortunately woefully ignorant of phonology and derivation, so I'm hoping you can help me understand the verb nathla- (to welcome) I've se...
• jjE6bd2jt3Y: Now an enquiry about Quenya. Are there any examples of Tolkien actually using the 'Last Declinable Word' rule ever in any text proper, not a gramma...
• 6mFHntFww8x: I'll put up this thread to write down and not to forget the things of most peculiar interest I learned from +#PE22. (And I invite anyone to join!)....
• WJFLHZDGKmx: Mellyn! I do love eldamo as much as the rest of you guys, so I've been working hard to try to import its XML data source into Parf Edhellen. Today,...
• W3faFBMiNYC: I like it that per +#PE22 "I am sad" in Qenya is luin, whereas luin is also "blue" in other sources. Those blasted Elves have even invented the b...
• BA7jKq4cPUv: Hello! Any ideas as to what Gandalf might be saying in the scene with the dwarf? á orta fearya... ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_DOEXEjFnQ&fea...
• jL1dqT3NP4U: +Matt Dinse What is the situation with verbal inflexions in PE22's later sources? As I understand, -of and -ab are now supposed to be 1pl. exclusiv...
• 14gwrWgh5wm: While we're all waiting for PE23, I've got a sort of (possibly, defective) idea about the pronouns. I've been studying the PE21 carefully for noun ...
• GFbnxejHkkF: I have a copy of PE22 and it is amazing. It is chock full of marvelous information about Quenya and Early Eldarin verb structures. I've only begun ...
• A6nqzPsSGGg: If I might ask a question...any ideas for the plural of aiwe? Is it aiwi, aiwer, or aiwir? ...
• fuZTzYGj6Ey: An important announcement! After some discussion with +Tamas Ferencz we decided to establish, in addition to our Google+ posts, a discussion chat i...
• JknBzqR3AQN: I propose a discussion. Is there any established etymological derivation of the future tense -tha element in Noldorin and Sindarin? This element i...
• MwpTamZxdbN: May you mind giving me a brief lesson on Sindarin grammer? I started studying this language a little while back, and I am slow when it comes to la...
• Gu7kfYXkpNu: R.I.P. Sir Christopher Legendary actor Christopher Lee dies at the age of 93 The actor...
• 4pva3senyMw: +Remi Korben +Matt Dinse +Tamas Ferencz I propose to move into a separate discussion, for we have touched a topic I've been considering on my own ...
• gQpehRPNW3a: Even a respectable institution like Sotheby's can get things wrong... This article in the Mirror got my attention today: http://www.mirror.co.uk/...
• QRyZtQdhnKL: Some musings to discuss. Maybe I'm involved in scholasticism right now, but I started to believe Q. han is as much a postposition as pella is. Who ...
• HqPQZu3q3mD: The most common kind of compound word is what's called "endocentric:" it includes the thing that it is. So a houseboat is a kind of boat; a shoe sa...
• YiUsddSp8Xq: I never gave Adunaic much thought but lately I'm doing a fan-fiction that involves Numenor and find myself having to delve into this language. ...
• 9WsVRiUHTAi: Could Sindarin preposition be 'as, like' in ben genediad Drannail be somehow connected to Quenya direct speech particle equë 'said' with a derivati...
• 7NYHEiZiawT: PE17:131: in non-Northern dialects of Sindarin and late Beleriandic speech, medial lt, mp, nt, nc 'became long voiceless lh, mh, nh, ñh', and final...
• TBoZdyrb2Yo: Rilmor ná sina nórë, apa i ohta-taurë, ailinnna falmaron falastar, arta menel eleni caitar. I alcar lómë maras sinomë, Mírivë mi néni fainar, sind...
• CVC4UeN21k1: What is the status of edledhio-cluster, neledhi and anglenno after the DEL revolution of 'Quendi and Eldar'? They are rendered totally impossible b...
• MUSKY77nfE4: Middle period Noldorin is quite similar to later period Sindarin, yes? N words can often be adopted to S with small or no changes. How do Ilkorin r...
• dk1xn5Nf4He: Is it possible to have some translations on some of the posts? (if not ALL) it would go a long way to assisting those of us just in KINDERGARTEN wh...
• WmWMPRgiD1o: Hi all, Do you think torog 'troll' (Appendix F(I), PE17:136) is related to turko (Lúnaturco, a Quenya name for Barad-dûr (PE17:22)? Tolkien says t...
• D4Ha2BN3iSo: So a week ago +Hjalmar Holm asked for a Sindarin word for "strange" and I suggested G. elegrin "different, strange" with associated noun G. elm, el...
• E4TaJSstkc4: Just in case anyone here has missed it: registration for Omentielva Enquea was opened last week, at www.omentielva.com/register.htm>. More practica...
• MFK1aRuSRwz: A random discovery as I was studying on Sindarin/Noldorin phonology. David Salo marked S. taus "thatch" as an irregular development from its primi...
• JBkWEvXn6US: I was wondering if anyone has any interest in Khuzdul? I know some things about it, namely that it's based on semetic languages, has an "old" and "...
• h2g1pBeYXd4: So I guesse I should note what could be a tradition of intoductory writing. Nai anar silya tielyannar, I have had an interest in the Tolkine langua...
• fEArNegg75h: I am starting a project on reconstructing the Ann-Tennath, if any think that they may help, could you please tell, it would be amazing to do such a...
• ZMzkPm16mYs: Is 'quenya' in technicality an adjective? Because the original term for valinorean tongue was 'quenya-lambe,' unless I am mistaken. ...
• Fitou3CDHXC: The Elvish Translator app is now out on Android for free! Check it out and learn some Quenya! ...
• DX5oBLWiAzx: excellent work Tamas Ferencz Feb 27, 2015 (08:54) ...
• gHnJCCQ1YNr: Hello,  I apologize if this is not a good forum for asking this question.  I am trying to translate my name into Sindarin.  I have found two words ...
• GXoMNpKL26T: Mae g'ovannen! Being both a long-time JRRT fan (read The Silmarillion before learned about PJ movies existing ;) ) and a person fascinated by the b...
• PEYYuhdbbKv: Hiya. I'm Eothrain, but most people just call me River, 'cause they find it easier to say. I'm not a Tolkien expert and I'm just starting out on Qu...
• J9S26syWgpK: I have a question on copyright that couldn't be resolved by googling it all over the net :), so I would be happy to hear your thoughts. Let's say ...
• ReEgpBgerBc: Sorry, I'm kinda new to the middle earth languages, but I'd like to be a linguist or have a foreign language degree and I was wondering how many la...
• 4APJ5aeRww8: +Jenna Carpenter  and I have been chatting about Sindarin pronunciation, and the bit about the pronunciation of the letter I came up, specifically ...
• 3kqz4zQNzTc: Hey everyone, +Jeremiah Burns and I have been conversing in the past few days trying to find a suitable Sindarin name for his recently acquired lo...
• Q9cHXtTT4Gg: It is completely funded, by 160%! Thank you everyone! If you want in on the brainstorming for this tool, we have a forum: http://sindarinlibrary.bo...
• PQGB615dMRd: Alae, i drenarn o ethrebith i-thindrim o "I Berian: Dagor-i-lebenwaith". Er... sorry, I mean, here you can find the analysis of the Sindarin dialog...
• EkpKQWJ35iq: Great question here that I'm sure some of the conlang historians can add to Was Tolkien the fi...
• R8KqYxfj8xZ: Alya yo manna vinya loa otornossen ta illin i melir Arcastaro lambi! ...
• 8gpVz1kvRhW: Announcement: Once we finish the first version of it, we're making it open-source! We're also running out of time, so please donate and/or spread t...
• Mj2qHQDcCoZ: Tengwar not in DTS: After looking through more of my just-received Hammond/Scull's Art of the Hobbit (2011), I noticed a page with tengwar which I...
• JUqNJh9DB9f: Na alassea, merya, alya ta herenya Hristonostarelya! Elen síla lúmenn' omentielvo. Na anda vehtelya, na quanta yulmalya tenna Lúmeo metta. ...
• BgeUMEkAcj4: As some of you know, I'm a student over at +Mythgard Institute and +Signum University . Recently, Andrew Higgins (who recently completed his PhD di...
• 4nYMwwsiAio: Guys! Check out what I'm helping with! The reason I jumped into this project wasn't just because of Sindarin - I saw this as a way to make it easi...
• YMoiCvgMYxS: Hi! I'm writing a Christmas card in Quenya to a fried who I talked into learning Quenya. Is there a translation of Christmas? ...
• jRMRUaK7TDQ: PE17:68 entry yulma has the line "_mē/wē,_ a single action, whence mie, men(d-)" Suffix mie is easy to place (Cermie can be an example?), but can...
• 3sStfDrrAMn: Hello! I'm learning Quenya and a little of Sindarin too, but I am so well yet. Do you know something where I can learn Quenya with the newest versi...
• CfWoc2kG21g: Dorwiniondil at the Plaza just shared news of an upcoming Hammond/Scull book = The Art of The Lord of the Rings: "[...] new examples of Tolkien’s ...
• 9NCpTTavt18: Hello, I am very new here, so forgive me for not having the fonts correct for the translations from English to Quenya.. :-( I am trying to make su...
• jFE4rGC4mnt: Hey all! I'm new here. I'm learning Quenya (know only some basics). Are there many people who know it well? To those who can read and write it, how...
• UpT9bg76c9i: Really no word for "beer, ale" in any Eldarin language? Did yulda ever authentically include the meaning "beer" like purported here: http://goo.gl...
• eVtBD5hnbJi: Someone posted an interesting question over on FB, viz. how to say phrases like the more the merrier or the less you know the wiser you are in Quen...
• 4aDkcsKhTWv: In Quenya, how would you express 'for' in 'thanks[giving] to sb for sth' (hantale quenna ? nat)? Would epe or po as in epetai/potai ('therefore, fo...
• PQrzCZrzPC6: Interesting that we know kelva as 'animal' but in PE21 we get kel(e)bē > (presumably) *kelwe 'dear, hind'; this echoes English and German, in which...
• MQK5df8PsvM: Hi! I'm trying to translate "under your veil," and I note that there are two prepositions I can use, namely di and nu. Do we know what the distinct...
• FWXoPcRxzHs: https://www.createspace.com/4748128 Got this in the mail yesterday. Turns out it's the essays "Guide to Adûnaic Grammar" and "Etymologies of the A...
• HPUuBMyRA7Z: Eneth Nin Endy, nice to meet you all please give me lesson around quenya language!!??  ...
• R7LEfzznChC: Burning question of the day: what is the plural of tyenya? *tyenyar 'my kinsmen', or *lenya? ...
• 9fguHAhzdqz: On page 25. of VT49 the conjugation of the preposition ar is published: anni>arni/astye/alle/arse anwe>arme/arwe/aste>arde/aste>arte anwet>armet O...
• DWGEB4e1qXt: Don't you just love it when you read an article in Vinyar Tengwar, and the editors mention something like in an essay on this-and-this found in a b...
• 93syFS5QL5b: I do not have PE/21, but I saw the EN word flinc in Roman's list on Mellyn Lammath. My question is, if this comes from a root *SLIK (or something l...
• Ki7yjKK8ccA: I was looking at RC for something, and came across S Berennyn for "Brown-lands" on p.343, from Tolkien's unfinished Index. Does anyone have any ide...
• SChHvzN5R53: If you've got 15k burning your pocket, you can have this letter beautifully handwritten by Tolkien, with analysis of Númenóre. ...
• WzPKedJ1cmX: Conditional and Subjunctive in (Neo)Quenya Tolkien's highly fascinating Early Qenya Grammar in Manuscript in PE14 devotes a page to The 'condition...
• eFFfCo8pcsV: Impersonal conjugation is a distinct feature of Qenya, with Tolkien including this mode in his conjugation tables. In later stages we have examples...
• YgknV7Q8G7j: Has anyone ever produced a satisfactory derivation for Q Vása "the Consumer"? It's been bugging me so I've looked throughout some of the older mate...
• cwgHdiEgQZ4: I love it that if you 'Quenyarize' the name Adam you get Atan. So fitting. ...
• Vtsck9xPNbT: Concerning loanwords in NeoQuenya +Kevin B Walsh and I have been having a very interesting discussion via email over the past few days about neolo...
• PzKskKZWiid: Please refresh my memory: Are there yet any clues on how to express the translative idea (one becoming, turning into, being made sth.) in Quenya? ...
• 1YyzUT7JxgG: 1) How much of PE21 can / must be used for Neo-Quenya purposes? 2) Do we need to revise all that we knew before, concerning declension of nouns wit...
• 6GBYVuMVrZU: Thanks for +Jeremiah Burns for the link +#tengwar   Marcin Przybys » Blog Archive » Tengw...
• ZQ1vwvXmLkE: Translating conjunctions like "antequam / prima che" into (Neo-)Quenya — has anybody else looked into this yet? It is of course another philologic...
• jdhaxQNW41w: Na herenya illin i loa vinya! Tamas Ferencz Dec 31...
• 5vPrZkcAfEA: Here you can find the analysis of the Sindarin dialogues from the second Hobbit movie:   http://www.elendilion.pl/2013/12/22/g-i-p-report-complete...
• ZuVqEdPAunB: Manna yo merya Hristonostare illin! Matt Dinse Dec...
• XTjeaNwgFL1: Did I see one of Måns Björkman's Sarati fonts used in this video? http://www.theonion.com/video/the-onion-reviews-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-sma...
• QkcmcY5hJZP: Aiyä! This was the community I was looking for! (Hope I'd be able to say that in Sindarin or Quenya sometime soon) ...
• 6th4fCZARHD: An epitaph, with R. +#letteroftheday Rhaw vi i chaudh hen e-daur vín. Rhach am i Orchoth an uir! ...
• VG5K9x3EB8s: A most welcome arrival in the post today. 9/20/13 - 1 A most welcome arrival in the po...
• B5ifjZPKmne: I'm wondering what Tolkien meant by "a dative of advantage" when discussing the +#Goldogrin noun declensions in PE11 p10? ...
• TgaHd7N9RQB: I just signed up for this course; are any of you else taking it? http://www.mythgard.org/academics/fall-2013-courses/philology-through-tolkien/ ...
• gYY9eRcgmWh: Parma Eldalamberon #21 will be published on 2 September.  It "presents previously unpublished writings by J.R.R. Tolkien concerning the declension ...
• 24K6xkAu5ZG: Omentielva Lempea organises a Quenya / Sindarin haiku contest. Please check the home page of Omentielva for the rules. http://www.omentielva.com/h...
• DbVF4ii9cWv: Ai mellyn! I need help, money help. The long and short of it is that my website's files are trapped on a broken harddrive, and it'll cost $1299 to ...
• QccT73Y6rhb: I'm thinking of starting a small project for fun - namely, to translate the LotR DVD subtitles into Quenya. I don't know if anyone would ever watch...
• GLXQFWo7tHr: Mmm... This also sounds like "Elvish" music to me... Faun - Königin. ❝_ Wie weit reich...
• UDhdpsjhe3d: In the wake of David Salo's recent blog post "The mind of the Dark Lord" on midgardsmal.com, I thought to offer some content here by jotting down s...
• ZMAdZqx9jqd: I would like to ask is this just quenya and sindarin not Khuzdul  ...
• PXNbMdx4QkR: Hi everyone. Im a huge fan of Tolkien's work, and Howard Shore's as well. I'm trying to understand (obsessively) some elvish lyrics that appear in ...
• LCHxY2nkVCC: Si, enutúlien.
• fCBGUb5CiXG: Someone stop me - I'm beginning to think that Sindarin a perfect and imperfect past tense system... based on the given conjugations of 3 words: Car...
• aga44eAEabA: I've been analyzing Sindarin tenses a bit, as I write homework assignments, and something occurred to me. In Sindarin: b>v>w /_# m>ɱ>v>w /_# But ...
• 9zs86qTWEUe: +John Garth has published an essay/review about Parma Eldalamberon issues 13 and 14. You can read it on the link below. ...
• PCSUNZKJhcK: I'm sorry that I haven't been very active around here lately. I'm kinda scrambling to finish the latest version of my Sindarin textbook before summ...
• PWdRu2VAx6m: Here's another Elvish music video I like. Enjoy! :) Pen Phith (Without Words) Elvish m...
• YfFxm6qM8aT: Finally, registration for Omentielva Lempea is open! At http://omentielva.com/register.htm> you can register online. Hope to see you in Helsinki in...
• jcoGdTcW5oA: Máre Tuiléri illin! Aníron sevigir Veren en-Ethuil vaer! M...
• gqi5KuKnK5n: Manen na estaina Quenyanen i merende ya túla otsolemettasse? (Lambenen lienyo estalmes *Hrávelóra [Húsvét]). ...
• Kbp9aBVfJMC: Does anyone ever heard of this composer? I've heard some of his "Eldarinwë Líri" and it's pretty much how I envision Elvish music to be like. He ha...
• MDgMGPBnLRr: Could someone tell me if S medennin -- colored as "attested/firm" in http://www.sindarin.de/grammatik.shtml -- is actually found in PE17 (or elsewh...
• eNBUERhhRJ6: So, I just got VT50 in the mail. The amount of cool stuff in it is amazing, but so many question marks.... this will take a while to sort out. ...
• eUonKXBgDgJ: This will probably be complete bollox, but. We have the following sentence in the +#TúrinWrapper Area IV in +#VT50 : Sí ?a?l il cem il chem n...
• YCnQboZy2c2: D. Salo on Khuzdúl verbs: http://midgardsmal.com/paradixis/ Paradixis | Midgardsmal T...
• RWGmbVu6BNe: Yé! Sí camnenyes! Hentëan (?hénetan?) alassië. Tamas Feren...
• XNucSVk6eTQ: David Salo has announced on elfling that he has started a new blog discussing MovieEldarin, his contribution to the LotR and The Hobbit films: htt...
• KvvTnyu6d4W: Does anyone else here think the way Elvish languages evolve along with their (original) speakers is kind of... strange?? Like they're immortal but ...
• hLkBXUnx8KW: Has anyone heard of "Fantasy & Sci-Fi Linguistics Association"? I can't seem to find any info on them. ...
• gmjnYa6MxGU: Carl F. Hostetter has announced on +#lambengolmor that VT 50 is nearing completion and would be available for ordering soon. Apparently PE 21 is al...
• CLQK9DD7Krm: There are a lot of errors that I need to fix from the extremely useful stuff you guys have been pointing out in the other thread, but the hypothese...
• fKZZAdE7KZp: Hey friends! Perhaps you could help me out with this? Pronunciation Guides - Your Input Please...
• cvKjYq35g6T: +Lőrinczi Gábor , you got a honorary mention! http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2013/01/16/68399-a-linguistic-analysis-of-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-j...
• 7oS3jASSUNz: I was thinking, how about making a community chat? Or something like a Facebook or LINE community?? ...
• G14dxTma7PC: I wonder why most people tend to just care about "late" and "LotR-compatible" material, and despise anything "early" concerning both languages and ...
• QqTwKSx4DBm: Very exciting! http://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Cushing_Memorial_Library_and_Archives_collection&diff=225407&oldid=prev ...
• P2kLTswWQwi: Did people see the neo translations of the dialog from The Hobbit movie by the Polish Tolkien Society?  ...
• L5uzGXR6rCh: I was wondering - for no apparent reason - how to express various algebraic operations in Quenya. 2+3=5; atta ar/yo nelde ná (nar?) lempe? 7-4=3; ...
• gFJr2G57Qy3: Hello! I'm new to this community, but I've got a long-time interest in Tolkien's languages, especially at the philological level. ...
• UsRix78sSFw: Have you read my former comment? Well, here I go! Entu, ensi, enta.xlsx None ...
• KGWKA1xVnMv: Merya Nostare, Professor Tolkien!
• UvnfHwgSfgk: Inspired by the previous chat. Shamelessly composed by me in a Paint from a picture found somewhere in the Web. The text says: "Empty heads! What i...
• 2nqvgQQtn2d: Elendilion – Tolkienowski Serwis Informacyjny » Blog Archive » G-i-P Report: Complete analysi...
• eqY9Afp5Ubb: I also should introduce myself: I'm Maike Luthien (incidentally, both are my real christian names) and somehow the link to this circle (?) popped u...
• KHCXjqmrA9j: I wonder if the NQ word for Chritmas is Hrístonostare (as widely used), would it have eroded over the centuries of use into something like *Hrisnos...
• PPAHumgQG2Q: I have been thinking lately what the NeoQuenya word for 'weather' could be. Etymonline gives the origin of the English word as "O.E. weder, from P...
• WndC8C16zij: I can't wait to hear a breakdown and discussion of the neo-Khudzul and Orkish in The Hobbit - I sort of wish I had an audio recorder with me! ...
• FjNkw1ke2gV: Ae! I'm new to Google+, and heard about this place on Elfling. You may know me as dreamingfifi of realelvish.net. How is everyone today? ...
• 5Ur6JzCuJ2k: Hi All! I will probably not be much of a contributor to this group, but I will definitely be lurking in the back ground, reading your posts. Nai An...
• 2hwZgUrXuYw: Analysis of the non-English lyrics in The Hobbit soundtrack (contributed by David Salo, author of Gateway to Sindarin, and non-English dialogs in t...
• LFPCsskdYxD: Alatulya otornasselvanna! Welcome to our community! Anyone who studies, or is interested in studying the languages created by Tolkien is welcome t...

#sindarin

• jModSfp9PQ7: *Emmin chwand a salab. Hervess nín a hên nín mad aes. Thiar maer. *ab- cook used in The Hobbit: The Unexpected Journey (Extended Edition). +#si...
• EfsKW71FTCA: Gwinig nín mad rem. Aníra salph. Annan gwinig i halph. +#sindarin ...
• LFPCsskdYxD: Alatulya otornasselvanna! Welcome to our community! Anyone who studies, or is interested in studying the languages created by Tolkien is welcome t...

Poetry

• 9H4RQtM6T33: In the course of my Psalmic translations, I came upon an unforseen issue: what would be the future ending of a verb in qu(a)--? The verb miqu- is ...
• YEypSH4dEjJ: This is a translation of a poem from my native Hungarian. Raxa-mentie mi lóme Ma’ nuhtana sí Isil, I lóme ma’ úna, úpa, Ma’ amlunga nánye síra, M...
• TykUv6t4HA8: Queni quetir rie tane lá loikarir i lá rikir; mal i analta loikarion ná lá rike úlume. "They say only those who don't strive don't make mistakes; ...
• 95LJJY8HQCw: Random LOTR paragraph Book II, Chapter 8. At dawn they made ready to go on. The light came grey and pale, and they did not see the rising of the ...
• iB8uNZPJT2F: Random LotR paragraph, this from the chapter A Knife in the Dark. Sam and Peregrin had not been idle. They had explored the small dell and the sur...
• EqPo9qcUTJH: An old "Middle Earth proverb" from Aglardh: Kasar sina, vesserya tana. Same thing, same difference. ...
• Va95FKtCCrH: Translation of Psalms 4 to 41 to Parmaquesta You will find below the link to the file where I'm updating my translation of the Psalms. The Psalms ...
• jgT1Wp3gwpn: Ta maira nin i fá antalya kalya, Naltarya néka mal amleuka leukaron, Quiquie quelis feanya ola marya, þosserya maika ve naika yaime maiwion. "So p...
• GS4EFf3nepH: “Kare munta úkárima: mo lá ista lúme yasse etelyanie”. “Doing nothing is difficult: you don’t know when you’re done.” “Avan hanquete tana *maquent...
• RHJc9bTDGDG: Vehte ná ve tarwa. Eke mon same ilvane *þenwar, mal lá rehta te, enga enyaliesse. "Life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not pres...
• Zk77jVe6XPB: A distichon (or enquelempelesta): Áreo poldore quéla ve koivie tique axollor; Limbali himyear en, lávar ananta moren. The strength of the sunshin...
• 14vZBJwU2FP: Polil camya ni mapaitas formalyasse. Mal lá polil camya ni mapaitas hyarmalyasse. Ma Man nán? ...
• HHpSSChsA6b: Cé matan, cuitan. Cé þúyan, cuitan. Cé yulan, firin. Ma Man nán? ...
• JcYSz3z1LzF: Quere ellume, Ita *arni eteni na, lá mittuva. Enquere, Ita *mini na, lá uþuva. Ma Man nán? *arni, prep. out of me *mini, prep. in me cf. mimme, i...
• DF331h1xT6V: Last one, I promise... Cé mo same nelde, same nelde, Cé mo same atta, same atta, Mal cé mo same min, same munta. Ma Man nán? ...
• gbdBQh2thn6: Edit: Patan telqui cantanen auresse, Patan telco attanen endauresse, Ar patan telqui neldenen andúnesse. Ma Man nán? ...
• XuzBHE4XEhJ: Lánye quete, mal samin ñolme. Lánye alda, mal samin lassi. Ar lánye fenda hya henet, mal samin *pellime. Ma Man nán? ...
• 89LYUCVp98V: This is a poem for children by Hungarian poet Zoltán Zelk that I started to translate years ago, then got stuck and stopped, and now finished it. ...
• 3nGfTwFZtmB: Translating the Book of Psalms in Quenya - Miscellanea I thought of a discussion where some points concerning my ongoing translation of the Book o...
• E8ywBWy4K43: I found this translation lurking on my drive from many years ago, a fragment from the first chapter of Winnie-the-Pooh. I have updated it a bit. Y...
• R9pf8oKroaT: Í melíte tyénen nén Tá poika, very’ anen, Tatallanente paldave Ma mai tá lenganen. Ar sí i íre xéyane Ar munta lemya nin Ta quetuvante paldave Nán...
• T12tYHCd5dW: Rie mólome ar lá tyalie care Yát lumbaro. Paul Strack ...
• 54S5sjuB4Z7: Psalm 3 in Parmaquesta Third and last example — for the time being — of my ongoing translation of the Book of Psalms. This one may be of higher in...
• SFw96yAyRC9: Psalm 2 in Parmaquesta As another example of my ongoing translation of the Book of Psalms, here is the Psalm 2. Feel free to comment, especially r...
• 3mYvdAEq1G5: I have started translating the Book of Psalms into Quenya, and more specifically Parmaquesta. As I don't read Hebrew, unfortunately, I checked a nu...
• KV7jcF4duZA: “Tuldóme né. I hluite mór Hwáner ar hwonder or i lén: Aqua nilte nér i lurtanor, Ta faltane i noltifén. Aly’ aista i Nakkanor, anon! Karkaya nerka...
• hGG2KcG6eqH: I watched Skyfall on Easter weekend, which has this quote from Tennyson's Ulysses, and thought I'd give it a go. I cannot do justice to the iambic ...
• WcoLT1Vq9Wv: Arya i ruhtala Orko lá i puhtala Nauko. Elvish pub wisdom from Eregion ...
• HcHTtcAQugx: An attempt to translate the first few lines of Earendil Was a Mariner, to challenge myself trying to preserve the syllable count. I don't quite hav...
• WY9MB1xyvkG: É nemilye, yonyo, mi ápina lé, Kénai úna nalye: na 'lassea, hér. Telinwa sí i meren. Tyalindorelvar, Ve lyen apaquenten, illi fairi nér, Ta vilyann...
• bVxuEEPPSs5: Lá eke mon nanpule i ilin minna i yaxe. Middle-Earth proverb ...
• ZcChFHjva6b: This is one of the first things that I posted here! Now you can hear me reading it! (And Lo! my R-rolling has improved!) ...
• 3gybPWCEJ38: Tíkua i hrisse to nóre, po auret nannemiéva; turulyane lóme or áre, sin askate lumbor Anar. "The snow is thawing across the land, it will be gone ...
• PpEkr4sSDVn: Rike amaríkie rike órikombe véla raita amaraikiénen raima raiweva: úkaraite ta alasaila. Hard-striving to twist a group of óreli is like ensnaring...
• YHqNGFrpjq8: A shot at the Pythagoras theorem - an interesting challenge :) Quí mo teke *kankimi[1] to *téranehtea neltilo ilye kimbar, i *kankimo *latse[2] ya...
• c63aYnAi5UK: Ilye hroar nenna sumbaine lungieltallor imya hehtar ve i ló te tínen etenírina neno lungie. Ilye engwi lemyar mi sére hya mi téra, vórima menesta ...
• 1ULWZAKyxqZ: This is silly but why not:) I recently watched this delightful movie with Danny Kaye and have been thinking since whether we can do justice to this...
• 7dCAtnDAd7A: Ambar né ufárea Melehta Alexanderen, mal i noire láne. Juvenalis ...
• 4uNYG9LAWfG: It's preposterous that I should try this, but I am in that mood today. I hope my neologisms are transparent enough. ------------- Romeo: Aike vah...
• VDuxDU1FBf5: Hande Istare síve i Frankenstein lá i úvanimo. Nolwe síve i Frankenstein i úvanimo. “Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein is not the monster. Wi...
• Cpm7uUGKkff: Er erinqua lé ea nwalya i nér yello illi avánier: á nananta sen ma hastaina. "There's only one way to hurt a man who has lost everything: give him...
• cootmTYT99J: Enwa ilúvesse sinwa sa neren arwa alta hereno mauya kesta vesse. Jane Austen ...
• QtPWhw6MfWJ: Here it is. My dedication to the Professor on his twelfty-sixth birthday, to New Year's festivities and everything in between. Written in the ancie...
• GY11nDxrNBz: And an ornamental version to follow! Aukira n-aure.tif And an ornamental version to fo...
• YzRfuhcXLgh: “A Study in √rō/oro” Tá Yavanna *alassea, ar tolunes, ortaila rankuryat menelda, ar quentes: ‘Orwe oryuvar orni Kementário, *itan Soroni i Arano e...
• anu3K5H5GzW: The annual Neo-Quenya translation of Biblical material by Helge. Real OT type of stuff! 👍 https://www.facebook.com/groups/quenyachat/permalink/155...
• HRRpCmTN2Gr: Greetings! I'm just wondering what the translation for this is in elvish, the language used, and where I can learn to translate this! ...
• 2xQaTj6NC72: Ela vinya alassie, ela vinya elmenda! Vende yondova ontaril, yondova atar úner. Vende ú nero nosta, ve marinde marin, cén sin cole míre, indil lost...
• BsbHSLr2tK4: The long-promised Omentielva's appendix on the Poetic Corner is here! https://drive.google.com/open?id=1b4gxFU8GynQ1qqqtlvcEPxCAguJl9jUO ...
• bfvsgb5muFX: This is a rough draft of a translation of the famous excerpt from Carl Sagan’s lecture on the Pale Blue Dot. I’ve experimentally used Parmaquesta (...
• EKq6o7pC1sP: Quenya nursery rhyme. The metre is - | - ^^ | - ^ | - ^^ | -^ - | - ^^ | - ^ | - ^^ | - Ter híseva landa norta olombo Ho tínila helma talta i ló...
• Eg6ssijnewT: ‘Malo olanetye lunganna, lótenya? ’Ammilke maquali leptaner ni síra.’ ’Manen athyuvan tyen *itan nauval merya?’ ’Nai netyuvan ta nette ye tá lilta...
• TKGoAvmyXH4: Just an exercise in hexameters. “Ranyamo, mallo utúlier aine yo lumbe taletyat?” “Aistana asto ni tópa, nanakka feanya hroanya.” “Á hamu sisse ta ...
• VGfrsC1Nsxt: William Shakespeare: Sonnet XVIII Ma ai sestuvanyel Laireva aurenna? Elye anírima ta ammilya ná lá se: Ráve súre Tuileo lelye tuimar rihta, Ar Lai...
• PMH848x5234: Translating names of pets friend's cat (female kitten) Bandy 'little bandit': Arpince from arpo + ​-ince 'thief, seizer (diminutive)' There's a sl...
• 9kmdXrALUbM: It's been some time since I've done a translation, so I tackled "Spirit of Life": a hymn that's basically an anthem of the Unitarian Universalist f...
• gkZkxF5ti8s: Been ages since I last translated or wrote something. So I experiment once again. And in Sindarin this time! Well, less of a translation, more of a...
• 6BH2zCD3ooC: Edited "Ilya mára nauva, ar ilya mára nauva, ar ilquaima engwi mára nauvar." "All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things...
• ffEPMYmRyPS: Styx I lunte taltea an yo nan, kíra i quilda yo passa nén. La *palma sa níra, la falma sa hilya, laika langorya rista i ló. Erinqua nán. Kanwanyo ...
• 93sfzLic57s: Nosto i-Aear, lass laeg, Legolas! Dorthannel anan nu 'aladh vi 'lass. Ae lastol i-nall e-maew 'ri falas, Gúrel ló-chiratha hîdh vi thaur dass. Leg...
• 8EQjKR5nFYc: Sunday couplet *Lustie siryear, *enwakuvindo, raike nietyar *Thanka i fenna ka ni, verkave ompa menin. *lustie adv. "emptily, in vain" *enwakuvin...
• dTcwrrBnjjb: Friday couplet Vanya *molisse a yesta si enta yo *uiala nyáre Húme yo minya i ló, nai nauvas i minya ata! "Fair slave-girl, start yet another tra...
• 1KVhQVKbuZ3: Wednesday couplet Á hora ninna, melisse, an anda i lóme en ompa; Asra Arra ta íre i lú lisse yo waltalima. "Wait for me, beloved, long is the nig...
• WnqgtsgL9QC: Tuesday couplet Orya i hísie amb’ orotingali narqueliéva Lemya erinqua oron, tíras i poika Aman. ...
• HGNK8nMuEtP: Monday couplet (distichon^) Yalle i ítila lón hendutyaye *nanhatir áre Néka i ñalta kamin, kalyas ananta ilú ------------------------------------...
• Li23zg3pVch: The Incomplete Rhythmical Translation, Completed Then sailed on his gleaming galleon Earendel upon the Sundering Wide Ocean, while cleaving easily...
• NcWQ4z6SmW4: Meldenye taná! Illí eldeon mélienye! Horan lairi nyarienna! +Roman Rausch +Paul Strack +Fiona Jallings +Christopher Gilson ...
• W4wQV81qey3: *Súrielli Yasse pitya, mára anen Yuyálea tauresse patanen Yas silima *súrielle alde Ta *iasinti luini, lunge I súrielli lintie willer Yalle wilwa...
• NXaYBmeDc7Y: To a favourite tree (from Handel's Serse, Act I) Milya ar vanima olasse melda mapalininyo, a raita tyen calambar! Nai tarítali ar raumo la terhat...
• GBMNqMxPJmi: Hello, Am very new to Sindarin, but using the many resources provided I have attempted a translation of Galadriel's ring speech to Frodo when she r...
• JCe3yji3k7t: Lótesse Lostal' asta utúlie, lóteli sí tuiar, tuileo caraitier hilyar yú imb' illi. Tai né harna nixenen, lauca vincare áre; sa cenilwe carina rim...
• efhSAsCdSQZ: Greetings all! I've been struggling on my own and have finally decided to join the community. I recently got back in to Tengwar calligraphy after ...
• CeviBfv34Ti: Lá onnaya lá yarontarerya Lá onórorya lá nilmorya Lanye aiqueno Lanye aiqueno Nanye, ve illi: tárie, Forn’ aikasse, *nulme, *aquasatie, Néka, vahá...
• fQc9f1q1yad: I can't post on Severin Zahler's page, so what does the chorus of "Nan Uye" mean??? I figured out most of the words but it doesn't make much sense?...
• 4S633LgMCG3: There is one day in any poet's life when thy become ready to write the 'Monument'. This time I attempted to write in a quantitative verse with comp...
• i469wPEEzzK: Light thickens A translation of Lady Macbeth's aria from Act II of Verdi's Macbeth. The original Italian lyrics are loosely based on Act III, Scen...
• hhf3wv321SQ: Is this correct? Yessesse, Ranta 31:49 Ar Mipsa, an quentes, I HERU ávet tire imbe, íre vanwe velto. ...
• hy5p1CoJXER: A song in Quenya. (As one can observe from the channel's videos, this is not the artists' only M-E related piece.) https://youtu.be/dfITyw-h7u8 T...
• P8LWrZLF6UK: A relatively quick translation (since much revised) of the song "I See You" from the film Avatar English lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/leo...
• Uq2n96W6fUN: I keep appreciating the beauty and carefulness of Early Qenya even more, day after day. Here is an anachronism in EQ septenarii: En veallo ni·túli...
• 41DxL8sWaze: I was listening to my favourite Vangelis record today - Earth - and thought I'd translate this short piece of lyrics. Nelme ambaquerne Rappente i ...
• cDZFbUL299H: Introducing my, doubtlessly, most ambitious Eldarin project ever! Over a month in the working! As a person who does not physically hear the length ...
• 8irA7bkgUwQ: And as a bonus: two snapshots of my favourite notebook. A glimpse of hell hiding behind the achieved completed version! :D ...
• Qe68so2D7hr: I have seen this short Burns poem today (in a comment to an article about May's visit to Trump) and decided to have a go at it. I Quáke-matindo ...
• j5Q5RLSHLU9: Translation inquiry: "Since the Elves were not going (did not intend, were not willing) to follow him, he strived against them by force." (thus not...
• CYotiKDwKXh: Á enyale Á enyale ni í vanwa nán, Háya minna i séra nóre; Í eke lyen hape mánya ambe lá, *Lahya amna autan, ta lemyan óle. Á enyale nin ni í lá ni...
• 4dXvybL21oH: This is another passage from my blended adaptation-summary of the Ainulindale and Genesis to practice with Quenya. I'm trying to use more non-Engli...
• hWo1wzGUG3E: Laitale óraviéva Tamas, I do indeed remember reading your translation of this famous passage on Aglardh. Still, I hope you don't mind another vers...
• 8PDisHnH226: Zuber quente, I hepil láqua lecilenca, ar I lecil láqua hepilenca. Endaquenten, Neri autar yúyo, hepil ar lecil. Zuber, my boss's name Hepil, too...
• Sn3pjbGFFHv: I'm new to (Neo-)Quenya and have spent some time with the Ardalambion and Parma Tyelpelassiva courses (plus Eldamo, Parma Eldaliéva, the Bible tran...
• fbaZiPHqNLf: DEATH NOR dread nor hope attend A dying animal; A man awaits his end Dreading and hoping all; Many times he died, Many times rose again. A great m...
• MdF5hQwnbM5: Before Philippi Tulmassen fírimóron ea sóla, ya luimenen hilyanwa mene almenna; útirina, ciryastier vehtento marte únúra nenna ar angayassin. Quan...
• BEA2fdUPUro: Rie erya lénen eke mon harna atan ilquo nehtaina: nananta sen ma hastaina. "There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him bac...
• TExF3uNPbbq: +#randomLotRparagraph `Well, well! ' said the wizard. `The passage is blocked behind us now and there is only one way out – on the other side of t...
• LvhCsK62yd1: +#randomLotRparagraph `As you go down the water,' he said, `you will find that the trees will fail, and you will come to a barren country. There t...
• 4CAzgoYpy2F: "At the end of everything, one must expect the company of immortals." Maybe there is someone who also considers this sentence beautiful and wise. ...
• GQzqXpFLYBR: +#randomLotRparagraph Out of the shadows a ladder was let down: it was made of rope, silver-grey and glimmering in the dark, and though it looked ...
• afqxeKBVHPy: Aaah. Increasingly hard. And lots of newer grammar as well. Athya, Tárinyar, tekitása ríkan, Lá kenilden ñwalyan i•ríkieinen, Sampan i•quettanyar,...
• BvFdXAvo5cH: I tried to scour the web, but in vain... Does anyone know of a translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, or at least the first art...
• PcRDAKzCSGw: AEROR VORN. Man nad hen, i dortha níf ni? Cant vi vorn i tentha na nin? Fer-pherno a noro lim! Henion ni i gílen îm. Law, law, law! Cant vel morn, ...
• 6u147nPdzJu: Melinduo oquetie pa filici - Ma lennuvatye? Haira en ná tindóme. I lómelinde né, lá lirulin, ye tereva hlarutya sostane. Illómea liris i marindess...
• fHpiSQyFL2G: +#randomLotRparagraph Comments are, as always, very-very welcome. At once he set off with long deliberate strides through the trees, deeper and d...
• Ae3gPKNwpww: The first two stanzas of the poem "Szózat" ("Summons") by Vörösmarty Mihály. An i mardor lîn, ae Magorion No an-uir sadar hador; Ha le onnant ar l...
• HQnisQ1DCoH: +#randomLotRparagraph The afternoon, as Sam supposed it must be called, wore on. Looking out from the covert he could see only a dun, shadowless w...
• JMXVcf1m4ZS: +#randomLotRparagraph 'Indeed yes,' said Gandalf. 'Doubly. And is not that strange? Nothing that we have endured of late has seemed so grievous ...
• CNxit4wYmEF: +#randomLotRparagraph 'I sat at night by the waters of Anduin, in the grey dark under the young pale moon, watching the ever-moving stream; and ...
• Cd5E5Z53r5c: +#randomLotRparagraph ‘There it lies’ he said, pointing away south-eastwards to where the mountains’ sides fell sheer into the shadows at their ...
• YbidHefwM3t: Ondosulpa   Yalúmesse nessa rando rananye tere i nóre. Úna yo alaherenya nés, ar *lillume la póle hire mólome ar patane tere ilya aure ú matiéva. E...
• cHkN3Hv3oUU: Pinched from the old Aglardh site; I did this translation years ago. De Profundis --------------- 1. Núrello lyenna aiálien, a Héru. 2. Héru, al...
• NmGKQStJSio: I found a translation in Quenya of Feanor's reply to Mandos' doom. Is it correct? Vanda carnelmë, ar lá ú sánala. Vanda sinanna vorondë nauvalmë. ...
• ea3iban28e6: Guys, I need help for a prayer for my deceased grandmother, both in quenya and sindarin :( thanks ...
• 17nuLLxsqdk: Made a translation of a song important to me, Co Cię Czeka by Barbara Brylska. This one I hoped to perform in Quenya, but it really calls for Sinda...
• gsq4z7fsUgi: Melmeo Naire   Imbilinkion *kossa *kosse nu i tópa, Vorolindelassion linde asalaste Quanta korna Rása yo menel elerrína, Fantaner Ardo yára yerna *...
• RtjwC4DCNUA: Here's another +#Oonagh song, in fact the only song of her that's 100% elvish! The song is actually a translation of an originally icelandic tradi...
• UCNuM7G9GpL: Got something very special to share today, just finished translating another Song for Oonagh that will be released this autumn and noone knows anyt...
• FoZvyYf5rTE: So in the past few years I got granted the chance of composing elvish lyrics for professionally produced songs, which to my and the producer's asto...
• 3mzctUkjgRA: Hello there :). I have a question regarding the translation of the quotes from Tolkien's books. Is it possible for you to translate it from english...
• dc7nFGnhaQM: This awesome!!!!! :D :D :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkrAGsHIXY4 Two Steps From Hell - E...
• Ed9aDm5R3Xb: Sí nerim i eil, teithol i fuin adh Anor, gin a im, cenedril e galad, lhaich edaid e naur, narthannen vi lû dadui a had, Istassen i eneth gîn, Ista...
• S7igkFhkJWq: Nen a! nen, ne chuil i 'lanna mael, glanno drass nín ah, panno nin na 'lass ah estel, na dathon tangant ne i-aur dolel. Water oh! water, in life t...
• 5Q24ptsFAJs: Aiyä! I was trying to translate some phrases for a tattoo, but I am having little trouble, I wanted to ask you if these are correct: One Last Time:...
• MHJa3sVCo3B: în aind breniannen, darthannen ne môr, a ne thrass, a vathant i haeg amar, nauthannen i vîled hen, mathathon hannaweg, das sennui aun enni, naeg a ...
• E2scz8LBSCG: Petri & the topic were treated in Finnish media on Tuesday, Jan. 26th. Literal meanings for the Finnish words on which he based his Quenya transla...
• aJdEqV4TdDa: I'm Polish and I love Dwarves . I love most of Thorin . Do any of you learns a dwarvish ( Khuzdul ) ? Seeking help, because the lessons are in Engl...
• MqRjJDeh6Tb: (After a burst of New Year's inspiration, I'm ready to present the most huge of my current plans…) What do you do when some song gets stuck into y...
• FsLxGAqbUR4: Ainur hlarine táriesse Manen yellor, mávari? Manen merye lingeli? Mana i menta alassea ya le valta liralen? Hláriemme táries ainur lire or palari...
• RioE7FF7KS3: A sudden exploit between fandoms: originally done for the amazing Russian fan club called Drax, Brax & Strax Corner (where I am one of the admins)...
• Wai1cSvxVMz: I have discovered this fourteenth century English poem thanks to a post by +Tom Hillman and decided to attempt a Quenya translation. The flow and r...
• 93hyX3z6CuC: Random LotR passage As the second day of their riding drew on, the heaviness in the air increased. In the afternoon the dark clouds began to overt...
• eN2RprN3KyP: Random LotR paragraph from the beginning of the chapter Treebeard. Please feel free to comment on any of the neologisms or syntax. Meanwhile the h...
• M84SwtMFARU: Random LotR paragraph A Journey in the Dark It was evening, and the grey light was again waning fast, when they halted for the night. They were ve...
• gx1Jr4uwtow: Sanye ilnome sinwa, sa erya neren arwa haura alma mauya pene vesse. ...
• eP2E7TNfPEo: A few paragraphs from LotR, randomly chosen, to flex my rusting muscles. Chapter 7, In The House Of Tom Bombadil. I am sure I got some of the trick...
• ZzcDZ4L96n8: This news item seems pretty relevant for this community. Middle-earth News – Enter our Tolkien...
• 7UathnEpqnn: Ladies and gentlemen, an Italian sonnet! Completely autobiographic. +Tamas Ferencz Grammar-wise: experimenting with habitual tenses. Taurë Patail...
• iGLtEAdfW4R: A theological wandering. There is a question often posed, whether Quenya is an ecclesiastical language. (Indeed it is.) However, one may wonder if ...
• Lxo9gm3k7KJ: For something nobody expected! The same, but adapted to 'late' Quenya of the 60s! +#PE22 Lantar úlor. Talatanye, Málinen ortanienwa, Masse Cále tu...
• jCLxhdjzNcJ: A preliminary draft, +#PE22 used extensively. All ecclesiastical neologisms due to Helge Fauskanger. The Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, in attemp...
• acsDYdCmGqJ: Aurissen nolweo néya, í nolwe né vinya, alqua alanye nosseya alquinkion ara passa síreo ráva i liskea nén-talmasse Sutse. "In the days [of magic l...
• F5cd9UL8LKp: Now it is my turn to  try with what is maybe the most translated poem: Althilia il i malthen allwanwen il i reniar alphêl i iaur i velt alphessa i...
• 1JNmvNmkjaX: An elegiac. Eñget i•Aldu mi Númen: calaitë silíteye atta álet; Fíriet oialë né, euva calanta mi hón. [There were two Trees in the West: one shone...
• 7he2HAmY3C4: Just a spontaneous play with late 40s-Quenya, as described in +#PE22. A lament of a Ñoldo returning to Valinor after the War of Wrath. (And a fulfi...
• AaD2gAjg7Bt: A +#WBYeats poem. A seru, a lisse oie Ómar, A mene Menelo tirimonnar, Ta canya te ranya tirala nirmelya, Nár narnen turún’, tenna Lú telya; La a...
• dWsdUgGx2Hv: Who by fire? A man na naur, man na nen? Man min glaw, man min daw? Man na amarthad chall, man na badhed órui? Man ned ethuil 'elir, man na thawas ...
• Fts43pBSDNN: To be sung to the melody of O Sole Mio Ma maira engwe, ta calina aure, Opo i raumo i hwesta milya, Lelya ve merende, i vilya ta vinya, Ma maira en...
• gUuq2hz6iar: I wonder: why wasn't it done before? For me it was hard as hell, taking both the rhythm and rhyme, retaining the wording and trying to eliminate th...
• ND5PwZ6bBUd: Peded laew, ach eno i Silevril ú-dhendellin Much talk and little work. ...
• 8FzWqg85yuL: Min ŷ i thannas, min nen i tharannas: En oinoi aletheia.../ in vino veritas, in aqua sanitas. *ŷ from MQ io, "wine". **tarannas from tharan  + -a...
• HpMoMFynCzD: Ae Anor! Sír celidh nan 'lawar aglareb athan in oer eithyr in idhrinn! ...
• 1T1bELtgbe5: 'Tis a piece not planned or written Out of conscious mind's decision, Though I thought of long this metre, Noble trochee of the sagas, Of the Finni...
• 8xcKvXikTdz: Just a short piece inspired by the June weather. Húro Mitse lotsi luhtar nu i lunga wista, I asto ñol mirilya pa i mixe lassi. Ortíran. I more M...
• 25Y82vMVj1S: This one affected and bothered me deeply. Written in a totally incompatible (with anything) language, about an unknown event and still perfectly sh...
• 4SrtZNRhQEZ: Christopher Gilson gave me permission to share his poem he had posted on Facebook recently: Sa nir ilkin ke koirestane Ve katinka súrinen Oio uist...
• cnH7eWVwL8p: Gweniant im gared hen tadphae eneg oer io ah en henion! GLÎR E-MARGAIR i en glinnar i•Ellath in•Gwaith Círdan i dartha vi Lond, eb i•Gair Vedui na...
• CbnVv8psMqK: Two lesser asclepiads. Líre nwalca macil , ulle i carne yár, Alme nyéna ve Fui, naina qualin firimon i fírimon. Cruel blade sang, the red blood s...
• Ldc6jTr1gr4: Here's an older attempt of mine at Shelley's Ozymandias (from 2008): Nórello yára lendo omennenye ye eque: talu ú telco ondove haure tarir erumess...
• GLBBzaqfyGv: Tunga feanya ve quinga, la istan man tirien hí, Mailie urya i hráva mal séren milya i hón. (My soul is taut as a bow, I don't know who to heed, Th...
• 1KCfYdcw2Sw: Íta i nór ve maril, antara orya Anar, Á laitalme i Hér, envinyanta i ré! (The land is sparkling as a crystal, lofty rises the Sun, let us praise t...
• VKSr9sh2ttw: I do not love thee… Gen ú-velin im, Herdir Fell, Ú-bedithon i•gaethad del, Mal iston hen, pen-adbedel: Gen ú-velin im, Herdir Fell. caethad 'reas...
• WMVipVHPcPr: Windflowers When I was little and good I walked in the dappled wood Where light white windflowers grew, And hyacinths heavy and blue. The windflo...
• 1vFRBmmsyaJ: I posted tha last Aesop fable over a week ago, so now it's due time for another. I restamo ar yondoryar Atar, nála lúmesse fírieva, merne carie t...
• LBtNiDBjgiJ: A free translation of one of Schubert's lieder: Soltala lúta síve alquar i vene   rilmanen mí cilintirvea sír; yé, sio lúta feanya ve i vene   mil...
• 7ss1nrrJkzk: Another Aesop fable I atar ar selderyat Nér samne seldet, i min vertaina lótepandamon, ar i hye ambaltanon. Apa lú lendes seldenna i vertaina lót...
• MC3eLmWDYfp: An Aesop fable. The farmer and the fox. I rermo ar i rusco Rermom i cóle nai-thelma rusconna pilie poroce-pandarya, remnesses métimavesse, ar nor...
• VJKCq6zdKBe: An Aesop fable I pupsoli ar i lisse*cere Pupsoli tetaina lissecerenna i undupetenen sambesse mardandurwa, sortala talirya mi sa, manter milcave. ...
• X4UaDzrRG6n: Once again, if you don't find much metric poetry in Sindarin, go and write yourself. This time, the rhythm is retained, not a single line or syllab...
• fMSWQBjwuZk: From Aesop's fables: I graban ah i alph. Craban egent alph ah anírant gared i bessas vain aif an ech. Savel i i laed nim bain en alph i eniad od ...
• cvYwF8f7F6R: Na toled anwareb aur ab vinuial io annan min dîn Ardhon, ned i ennas 'lam ú-laew a chalen laew athan hí, adh in pherinain rem adh ...
• hfgoC5aj8st: ar illi nu Anar *olindesse nar mal Isil sí tópa Anar (Pink Floyd) _81786908_berlinreuters.jpg...
• HpbEQG4s22g: Sleeping Sun I anor losta dínen Hí minlû ned idhrinn chost           Aear ídhrol bell a ross                                                     M...
• a8Z7mk5QzUJ: The Road goes ever on Ed i vên ui-vâd od i fen od i heriast Hi e gwachae i vên mennast pe pelin boe de hílithon na thail verai de ruiathon na i er...
• CcsomP1yPDG: Narn hen o manen Pogodion agor garwegas rach, a cared a peded naid bainui dír-inced. I have some trouble with this. I lack a word for "how", so I ...
• TmpAFJC4ZGh: 3/12/15 - 1 T...
• RaPpeoDgRHf: I've done an audio recording of me reading my translation of Wordsworth's Daffodils. Well I am not a native Quenya speaker nor an actor so caveat e...
• gbNNPPKxLij: I thought this would be a timely translation, with the daffodil season upon us in full. Lalmalini / Daffodils Erya ve fanya ranyanen Ya vile or a...
• a8KoQqFn6y7: Hello!! How would you say "May God bless you and keep you' in Q.? Would "Cé Eru laitatye ar rethatye" be correct? ...
• 9mynzgB2sjs: Firielinde Nu i landa elenya ilmen, Sapa i lára ta núta inye. Merya *cuianen merya firnen, Ar nucainenye as sina nirme. A certa sina lire pa i on...
• MPxqMUWLNuE: After reading +Hjalmar Holm's post a few days ago, I realized that I had never translated the poem "The Riddle of Strider" into Sindarin. So I deci...
• iTasHEpfRb2: I always wondered why there are so few attempts to compose accentual-syllabic poetry in Eldarin tongues retaining metre, rhythm and rhymes. Here is...
• WVHQfiFhD2j: Have anyone here translated Strider's riddle? I've seen some attempts on the internet, but trust you who are here more. ...
• fmNgPTarc1i: Melmeo Fóle Ava rice nyare melme, Melme ya úquétima; An i milya hwesta leve Úhlárima, úcénima. Equétienyes, equétienyes, órenya *pantie, *Ririhta...
• LXSf2JVgVnL: Hello!! I'm trying to translate some names of my friends, and there are some that are giving me trouble, and I would like some help... :) One is B...
• RPfgUiAVmLU: Milyas Menelwa Lannín Samumnen cé menelwa netyaine lanni, As míri sisilcala cáleva, I luine, i néce, i morne lanni i yucáleva, lómeva, cáleva, Cé ...
• DfQPG8jjCG2: A short poem by Stephen Donaldson. Sé i metto metta, Nin pia melehte: Nanye er kalpa. Mapan imneo axo-sáva, Tíran i ende a-urya. Sé i metto metta...
• Y2eAVv6Fvmq: Lá Lauren Eke Lemya Laure *nostaleo minya wenya I quile anurda hapien senya. Lotse ná arinya lasserya Mal er tere aure erya. Tá lasse lassen lave....
• R8eh7ZFJKvU: How might one translate "blizzard" into Quenya? For now I'm tempted to combine hrisse and alaco somehow; any other ideas? ...
• izno96aE7Ro: A Quenya translation of a couplet by C.H. Auden I read in a John le Carré novel, and caught my imagination. Alme laita, eke ké, i *amatolya nér, m...
• b3JTS4Ujsga: This is the second stanza of Yeats's The Two Trees in Sindarin: Na cheledh haer avo diro, ah i guru chall în in Ylynn Eriar nef men reniol, Egor t...
• CtEgMjPr1Ln: This is the first stanza of the poem The Two Trees by Yeats. The second one is a lot trickier, so it will take a bit more time. Rhyming is all over...
• DwVU4qzbMC3: I've just found this little Quenya tongue twister I submitted to Elfling twelve years ago :) Happy days Ilya yára kirya ya yalúme, yéni yá nu yana...
• 8qRm46A2dkQ: Edro i chin lîn    open your eyes Tiro nin               watch me Avo bedo           don't speak ...
• D68RNKUKrSf: Hello! I was trying to figure out the translation for these lyrics from "Beyond the Forest" and I was wondering if any of you could help. "A, mel...
• Hid793bdYW7: Hello!!  Can anyone please find out what are they saying during 0:57 to 1:03? Thanks a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLU71C60wf8 ...
• AdLaQjbRkkS: Might anyone be willing to provide some criticism/corrections? Elsewhere there was a translation request for a line from the Silmarillion into Quen...
• LqJ9rfx1cg2: This is the first paragraph of the Prologue of LotR - just wanted to see how translatable it was. It is certainly fun doing:) Parma sina ná amna a...
• bUTadH86tSJ: Here is a Quenya translation of the poem Winter Comes To Nargothrond from the Lays Of Beleriand, done some years ago. Laire lencave i lómea taures...
• NfxfoDzzXyb: A +#WBYeats poem, in Sindarin DOWN by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She ...
• ERFc5m1DCJy: Aiyä! Can anyone please check if I did this correctly? :D Thank you! alassea hristonosta.png ...
• JU8ocwFRCq4: +Tamas Ferencz 's translation for "Twelve Days of Christmas" brought me a question... how would be the correct Quenya translation of "merry Christm...
• Ru21QF7bYbs: A Yeats translation into Quenya. WHAT WAS LOST I SING what was lost and dread what was won, I walk in a battle fought over again, My king a lost k...
• 9EFFK9Xe7HA: Christmas is not that far away now, so in preparation for the festivities here is my Middle Earth version of the Christmas carol Twelve Days Of Chr...
• 6cJoF2YEzYF: mîn i Valrog ah i iâ between a rock and a hard place, between Scylla and Charybdis Sindarin saying +#Sindarin +#idioms   ...
• PQWWPdceWCP: We're approaching Remembrance Day, and with this being the centennial anniversary of the Great War, I thought I'd give it a go and translate the po...
• auTJJpZFyoY: A translation inspired by this post in the JRR Tolkien Fans community. It's not perfect, I can feel it, but perhaps not bad as a first attempt at t...
• DWfXqDFEP85: Ruine i Ainur lantaner; núr' raumo ranyane hrestantassen; Orco ruinínen uryala. Roy Batty in Blade Runner Fiery the angels fell; deep thunder ro...
• LD1L5qQrRgB: A much-quoted distich by Schiller, recently translated into Sindarin on the Mellyn Lammath forum. I thought it might be worth a try in Quenya too. ...
• GK3Qf6YrNgS: Quiquie Rohande, nora as i rokkor. (When in Rohan, run with the horses.) When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Middle-Earth proverb Using Rohan as a...
• BeJujcMx2d9: Translation of a passge from The Silmarillion, inspired by this post: https://plus.google.com/100392065433715432636/posts/fBozgQ4q5gg by +Jeremiah ...
• TRLKp7F3sdw: Arinde caimallo, undómesse caimanna, hepe tye saila, netya, alwa. (Middle-Earth proverb) ...
• Fn236ZCoJgs: The first part of my translation doesn't look quite right ("to more among us"); any ideas? If there was a suitable verb I wouldn't have to be tryin...
• c6jm47aQdSj: Monad modes... Quenya rendition of this Old English verse. Monad  modes lust mid mereflode                              ford to feran, þaet ic fe...
• 8vjsyq78BYT: From Ecclesiastes Lúme ilquan Ilquan ea lúme, ar lúme ilye þelmain nu i menel: lúme eccuivien, ar lúme effirien; lúme empanien ar lúme leptien y...
• RmphJ7qyFD3: An emig nín Derig erui vi morn ar im - dannon sui gond Le dewin. Bith Pith dýr. Ar i ú-iston, havol vi dath hin chaer: im le awarthannen egor Eru ...
• 3r7qffYG96F: Airelindë 121° 1. Lírë tyelleron. Ortan hendunyat i oronnar: Mallo nin tuluva aşië? 2. Aşienya ná i HERULLO, ontala Menel Cemenyë. 3. Uas lavë tal...
• Bk7qXA76d5k: Airelindë 134° (quérina Heveryallo) 1. Lírë tyelleron. Yé! A laita i HERU, ilyë núror HERUO, i tarir coassë HERUO i lómissë. 2. Orta máldat ainast...
• aa8f78cKReN: Me i nalme yáre, yáre yo merye, Ai ta yáre! Yénion úme, yénion úme, Ké nyarumnen ilye:   Alye anta hínin, et ilullo kéve, Melme yo quilde; Ta lómiv...
• 64EogkJrTRm: +Carl Hostetter has posted an invitation to a Quenya translation experiment to the +#lambengolmor  Yahoo group - not an easy task I'd say! ...
• JKa3amVTZju: Just a little lullaby inspired by this "cauca coa" we saw today in Cheshire. Arda yára Taure haura Tasse tára Cauca coa Misse mára Nessa nisse Ars...
• FMsD9dR94oM: As we'll soon be able to read Tolkien's translation of Beowulf here's a Quenya rendering of the first few lines to celebrate. Ela, laitale lastane...
• dXuHJckjik8: Lothron, mae govannen ad vi milbar vín, Lothron vain, ad ammen mellon teilien! [From "May Song" by Johan Ludvig Runeberg] ...
• 2UWycWxG9n6: Manna ta Ye lá ovanta yo olcar Hya tare úcarindoron tiesse Hya hare yo te i *yaiyar, Mal save alasse mi Héruva axan, Ar axanerya sana mi aure lómiy...
• PKz84dasoBx: Ar si vílan mi anettelea lé, Ar i éli lelyar exe siaré
• YKDPQcQXwpC: Sui gaear tuiol nu alagos vorn gala dîn. Diliant lû. Dôl în dhannen na besseg in endrainn oltha Ilador Iladar. Bo hûn e-hên, blabel, 'ruithannen, h...
• DxTeW5SxY9b: I wrote another poem in Sindarin: Ollas nin oh Auth   I ûl osp cân annin vîn ely nîn. Cenin anin ‘Rûn, anin mâr e-dawarwaith i noss vîn. Lith haer ...
• GFmRmz3dSwK: +#WBYeats +#Quenya YA VANWA Laitan ya vanwa yo þoryan ya túrina, Menin mi ohta ena encárina, Araninya vanwa, vanwe mahtarinyar; Táli ké norir...
• MdQxD2FKZCp: +#Quenya   +#WBYeats Caimance-lire   Aini luhtear Caimalyanna orte; Yerne ohtallo As qualini naice.   Mi Menel Eru Marielyainen raina; Indorya ...
• TTBkvn5zkPX: Sis caitalme - a mentat nossen mí Lacetaimon, Ranyar, carnelme ilya ya cáne i Nór. (Simonides) ...
• haTfQ1G6j7o: Aiyä! How are you all? I have a request, and I hope you can help me... Could you please translate me this phrase? "All will be well" it's like my m...
• Wba3TYhBATK: Cé lindale ná melmemat, á tyale antyálie! (Twelfth Night, 1.1) ...
• dhUCpTzWh5d: This is the translation of a popular Hungarian children's poem written by Sándor Weöres. Weöres was a virtuoso of rhyme and rhythm, who, like many ...
• jgeDcf3zEGS: Another sleighing song, on a less serious note: Losses hortala er-rocco-raxanen,  /1/ ter i palari voro lálala, súli valtea láma nyelleron. Alasse...
• cPut9aikzig: I did this translation some years ago, now updated from our current vocabulary. The translation was done from the Hungarian original (a poem by End...
• RFFgdSiG6SP: Small nursery rhyme inspired by a robin visiting our garden yesterday. *Russambos *Capata-cat, carne tinwe Urwa ausa, wilwa sanwe Lindalinde, nar...
• QxvodhdYzx3: Alye illume apsene cotumolyain, làqua nwalya te ambe. Oscar Wilde ...
• Qjvt9e99WbH: Just a bit of fun - the Middle-Earth version of Nat King Cole's Let There Be Love Nai euva elye Nai euva ni Nai euvar lingwi Mi earon sí   Nai euv...
• c62W4RsvjDF: Here's a translation of the traditional song She Moved Through The Fair. It is difficult to convey the beautifully laconic nature of the original, ...
• eu9aX9wG9ig: I did this translation years ago, I'm just reviving it because I am re-reading the series: Endanyasse sambi i astonen súyar Ar litsínen mí urma. M...
• AmsDC424r2E: Tasaran A High-elven adaptation of Goethe’s ”Erlkönig”. The metre is that of Galadriel’s Lament (”Namárie”). Man nortea ter lóme vailima? Nás ata...
• FJGB5TxLqh5: Aure pa aure p'ambon erinqua i nér lé persaila *raiwe aqua *serna mal úquen mere se ista cenir persaila se ar ullume nanquetisse mal i persaila p'...
• 3ohcAa4rDgg: Here's a lament sung by a self-pitying bard in Gondor, just to give the day a merry start: Sáre sanwi, a tule indonyanna, Óre, á lire nairi asalas...
• QPm2MQq1uJB: Two hexameters for Q: +#letteroftheday Quélie tópa i nóre, i Quendi se ruine omentar, Quentali astar i indo, asya i hón miruvor. ...
• TaAv3CFai1n: A couplet of Asclepiads for the letter P +#letteroftheday Palpa palpie, hón! Parna i nisse sí - Paltan milyave sé, poica yo oira wén! ...
• 1aFiJdkQAty: O is the star of the day. +#letteroftheday Olthon o meth en onodrim, o horthad e-daur en ogol. ...
• S1zSMkTjdWU: Here's for the letter N. Long-forgotten lament of an unnamed bard of Númenor. +#letteroftheday Nwalme onnaron             Núme quanta, Nárie vi...
• gwyzYPCjtgJ: Just celebrating the letter L +#letteroftheday laire lemya himya ena i lassinnar lorda, yerna tátarya lantalcallo linga raina caita litsenna lau...
• eSoPRpoVdBf: A tanca tace findilelya malda tancilden, Ta nuta ilya mistala finde; Cánen órenyallo loice óquettar: Cáreryet, aure apa aure, Maitane lumba vanesse...
• 6MpPuCvEyB7: Inwisti   Quelie lanta lúme, Ve licuma urina, Ta i tauri y’oronti Mápar túre, mápar túre; É inwistion mana, Mi norie, i urunosti, Atalantie? +#WB...
• SEufGXXz3yj: Colla Lírenyan colla cáren Netilion quanta Et nyarnallor yáre Telmello talmanna; Mal persailar nampentes, Nu Anar cólantes Ve intínen carna. Líre,...
• QMBz7Qxtc14: nin ólar alalvie ambor líri lo lyé alaquente ta voro viryala valto nése ya vanwa ve vangwe   en huiva ná íre eccuivan caimanya maxa ve quesse feany...
• Y5w9v4ZBrPb: mi laica linque aiwe cacáva caserya tuileliltale eccuiva, eccuiva, eccuiva ...
• F1hyxpAYahE: Let's have some fun... Na i Melehte olye. Sine lar i atanivear i kestal. Nán atarelya, Lúk.  (Laaaaaaaaaaaaauuuuu) A himya hilya i losse lapatte. ...
• BmDhWdaE2TQ: Linnod echui: Aew suilannar ethuil, megli awartha dorech. ...
• BEx1PyyQAyT: Stabat mater, continued: 11--12. Aire amille, cara sie: taca Tarwestaino harwi   indonyanna tulcave! Ánin etsate nwalmellon harna onnalyo, ye *res...
• Yya7zHpszPZ: A somewhat belated hymn for Good Friday (Stabat Mater, the first five stanzas) 1--2. Tarne amille *naicelinqua quanta nieron pó tarwe   yasse yond...
• T5fbRfiYFr8: First few lines of The Wanderer. Rána   "I erinqua lillume                Eruanna hire Rehtaro raine,                   *aita, rácina, sen Mauya m...
• FkcErrBfkFr: Yet another Yeats poem, reworked slighlty from an earlier version: Moripolkananda Lenkie limba I rosse, olori okómar; rihtie rúkar ehti usinwe ar...
• cjD7av2UyPV: Another try at a Yeats poem, this time in Sindarin: IDHRIND An echuir nallam trí lú rhîw, trí ethuil nallam ui an laer; ir *laegi evyr gleiniar, ...
• jTgNCgHuSQC: Ana Tol Nenisse Caurea, caurea Caurea melda, Ména ruicalasse lorie oa. Tulteas i yulmar, panyasset témanna ana tol nenisse óse merin auta. Tulte...
• Ew6mZGDK4Dn: Quen same erya vehte; mal cé quen care sa mai, ta erya nauva fárea.  (Mae West) https://plus.google.com/u/0/103590807509576802076/posts/XNfuc6eb...
• Xk7AGjEbCPS: Yáre neri tíraxer i nenisse   Hlarnen I yáre, yáre neri quete, ‘Ahyar illi, Ar lantuvamme mine apa mine.’ Mantar ner ve nammar, ar *occantar Cauce ...
• bHSbZTrPdtS: I like this quote: Lá i oronti i *retuval yeryuvar le, mal i sar hyapatelyasse. https://plus.google.com/u/0/109315717945244442082/posts/82YJohfvG...
• d6b6PZkLC5z: This is a translation of Caedmon's Song from Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum. The OE West Saxon version and its Modern English translation a...
• Y3djH9KLN8p: Translated a few years ago. Nóleo túlie lúmenen Quíta i lassi úmar, erya i sundo; Linganen lassi yo lotsi mi áre Ter' illi sende auri vínenyo; Sí...
• PeJGonnoXrH: I like this quote. Eke men anta harwe atta voronwe hínin. Mine ná sundo. Exe: rámar. There are two lasting bequests we can give our children.  On...
• Znu1bGjaHFD: A well known passage: Quetin cé lambínen firion ar *angelion, mal melme lá samin, nán ve lamyala calarus var tunga nande. Samin cé apacéno anna ar...
• H9Bf7QGmhE1: Lá ricin úruva tar, Caisar, ya navilye ni mára,    lá merin ista ye nál: nulla hya nér calima. Catullus http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Poetry_o...
• KV11WCojMxu: Párie yesta i arato, mal parmahentie, máre otornor, ta immosúrie se telyar. https://plus.google.com/u/0/108874162516859921927/posts/2d2h5yfB6Cw ...
• 27262d3QKa8: This is an older text of mine, now updated a bit. Comments welcome as always. Karnille né vanima wendinke; marnes as yáramilerya taura tauresse, t...
• 7y3bueVyydG: Airelinde 23 Héru mavarinya[1] ná: lá penin Tyareryen Tyaris[2] i kaitan laique palarissen: tulyassen tenna sende neni Feanyá asyas: tulyassen rá ...
• PCVs2sV6Dhx: Úvan lerya Váquetin aiquen pata ter indonya váre talintainen. Gandhi ...
• MoNGjFKhAAk: Ce essi alasinwe lyen, nation firuva ót istalya. (Nomina si nescis, perit et cognitio rerum. -- Linnaeus) ...
• PpR1UZx6d41: I adan amminda nucumna pahtayasse, mal arya cardayasse. Confucius ...
• FGt2XicEkbb: Coirea ná i virya, ar ilvana ná i rimbave ivírie. John Henry Newman
• CsxBmJ4wQZk: Ista ui handasséva anwa tanwa: intyale ná. A. Einstein
• XmuWDfJvr2v: From elsewhere on G+: Ual pole intya ma polil tenna rikuvalye. ...
• aGdsqdZxUEC: oreramar has posted a new Quenya poem on Aglardh, worth reading: http://middangeard.org.uk/aglardh/?q=node/127 ...
• Jw13NCptyJR: "Amminda þelmalva sina kuilesse ná asya exi. Ar ké ua polilye asya aþya te, annún[1] avalye harna te." (The Dalai Lama) [1] annún = "[at the] deep...
• etub5teUMbP: I am trying to continue my translation of The Lay of the Völsungs from The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún. So far I have translated two stanzas[1] onl...
• hSTGbWX8ix9: A few more verses for the season to be jolly: Marda netyuvar ercassi. Asta sina tuce alassi. Coluvalme larma merya; linwi yárie a lerya! Ela turu...
• hNmNR5tgCdS: I've been working on a translation for a while now, (it's not done, but I figured that I could show a few verses now. I Chiril os Salod[1] – The L...
• cuoFu235qk3: Seems fitting for this week, the first verse of Adeste Fideles: Á tule, vorondi, Túrie, alassie, Á tule, á tule Vetilehenna* Á cene nostaina Aran ...
• bcX4UABF5xE: I'll start this section with posting a short poem in Quenya I wrote about a year and a half ago: enge lúme, yéni yá, quie nornen, ve nelle, annóri...

translations

• 9H4RQtM6T33: In the course of my Psalmic translations, I came upon an unforseen issue: what would be the future ending of a verb in qu(a)--? The verb miqu- is ...
• YEypSH4dEjJ: This is a translation of a poem from my native Hungarian. Raxa-mentie mi lóme Ma’ nuhtana sí Isil, I lóme ma’ úna, úpa, Ma’ amlunga nánye síra, M...
• TykUv6t4HA8: Queni quetir rie tane lá loikarir i lá rikir; mal i analta loikarion ná lá rike úlume. "They say only those who don't strive don't make mistakes; ...
• 95LJJY8HQCw: Random LOTR paragraph Book II, Chapter 8. At dawn they made ready to go on. The light came grey and pale, and they did not see the rising of the ...
• iB8uNZPJT2F: Random LotR paragraph, this from the chapter A Knife in the Dark. Sam and Peregrin had not been idle. They had explored the small dell and the sur...
• EqPo9qcUTJH: An old "Middle Earth proverb" from Aglardh: Kasar sina, vesserya tana. Same thing, same difference. ...
• Va95FKtCCrH: Translation of Psalms 4 to 41 to Parmaquesta You will find below the link to the file where I'm updating my translation of the Psalms. The Psalms ...
• jgT1Wp3gwpn: Ta maira nin i fá antalya kalya, Naltarya néka mal amleuka leukaron, Quiquie quelis feanya ola marya, þosserya maika ve naika yaime maiwion. "So p...
• GS4EFf3nepH: “Kare munta úkárima: mo lá ista lúme yasse etelyanie”. “Doing nothing is difficult: you don’t know when you’re done.” “Avan hanquete tana *maquent...
• RHJc9bTDGDG: Vehte ná ve tarwa. Eke mon same ilvane *þenwar, mal lá rehta te, enga enyaliesse. "Life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not pres...
• Zk77jVe6XPB: A distichon (or enquelempelesta): Áreo poldore quéla ve koivie tique axollor; Limbali himyear en, lávar ananta moren. The strength of the sunshin...
• 14vZBJwU2FP: Polil camya ni mapaitas formalyasse. Mal lá polil camya ni mapaitas hyarmalyasse. Ma Man nán? ...
• HHpSSChsA6b: Cé matan, cuitan. Cé þúyan, cuitan. Cé yulan, firin. Ma Man nán? ...
• JcYSz3z1LzF: Quere ellume, Ita *arni eteni na, lá mittuva. Enquere, Ita *mini na, lá uþuva. Ma Man nán? *arni, prep. out of me *mini, prep. in me cf. mimme, i...
• DF331h1xT6V: Last one, I promise... Cé mo same nelde, same nelde, Cé mo same atta, same atta, Mal cé mo same min, same munta. Ma Man nán? ...
• gbdBQh2thn6: Edit: Patan telqui cantanen auresse, Patan telco attanen endauresse, Ar patan telqui neldenen andúnesse. Ma Man nán? ...
• XuzBHE4XEhJ: Lánye quete, mal samin ñolme. Lánye alda, mal samin lassi. Ar lánye fenda hya henet, mal samin *pellime. Ma Man nán? ...
• 89LYUCVp98V: This is a poem for children by Hungarian poet Zoltán Zelk that I started to translate years ago, then got stuck and stopped, and now finished it. ...
• 3nGfTwFZtmB: Translating the Book of Psalms in Quenya - Miscellanea I thought of a discussion where some points concerning my ongoing translation of the Book o...
• E8ywBWy4K43: I found this translation lurking on my drive from many years ago, a fragment from the first chapter of Winnie-the-Pooh. I have updated it a bit. Y...
• R9pf8oKroaT: Í melíte tyénen nén Tá poika, very’ anen, Tatallanente paldave Ma mai tá lenganen. Ar sí i íre xéyane Ar munta lemya nin Ta quetuvante paldave Nán...
• T12tYHCd5dW: Rie mólome ar lá tyalie care Yát lumbaro. Paul Strack ...
• 54S5sjuB4Z7: Psalm 3 in Parmaquesta Third and last example — for the time being — of my ongoing translation of the Book of Psalms. This one may be of higher in...
• SFw96yAyRC9: Psalm 2 in Parmaquesta As another example of my ongoing translation of the Book of Psalms, here is the Psalm 2. Feel free to comment, especially r...
• 3mYvdAEq1G5: I have started translating the Book of Psalms into Quenya, and more specifically Parmaquesta. As I don't read Hebrew, unfortunately, I checked a nu...
• KV7jcF4duZA: “Tuldóme né. I hluite mór Hwáner ar hwonder or i lén: Aqua nilte nér i lurtanor, Ta faltane i noltifén. Aly’ aista i Nakkanor, anon! Karkaya nerka...
• hGG2KcG6eqH: I watched Skyfall on Easter weekend, which has this quote from Tennyson's Ulysses, and thought I'd give it a go. I cannot do justice to the iambic ...
• WcoLT1Vq9Wv: Arya i ruhtala Orko lá i puhtala Nauko. Elvish pub wisdom from Eregion ...
• HcHTtcAQugx: An attempt to translate the first few lines of Earendil Was a Mariner, to challenge myself trying to preserve the syllable count. I don't quite hav...
• WY9MB1xyvkG: É nemilye, yonyo, mi ápina lé, Kénai úna nalye: na 'lassea, hér. Telinwa sí i meren. Tyalindorelvar, Ve lyen apaquenten, illi fairi nér, Ta vilyann...
• bVxuEEPPSs5: Lá eke mon nanpule i ilin minna i yaxe. Middle-Earth proverb ...
• ZcChFHjva6b: This is one of the first things that I posted here! Now you can hear me reading it! (And Lo! my R-rolling has improved!) ...
• 3gybPWCEJ38: Tíkua i hrisse to nóre, po auret nannemiéva; turulyane lóme or áre, sin askate lumbor Anar. "The snow is thawing across the land, it will be gone ...
• PpEkr4sSDVn: Rike amaríkie rike órikombe véla raita amaraikiénen raima raiweva: úkaraite ta alasaila. Hard-striving to twist a group of óreli is like ensnaring...
• YHqNGFrpjq8: A shot at the Pythagoras theorem - an interesting challenge :) Quí mo teke *kankimi[1] to *téranehtea neltilo ilye kimbar, i *kankimo *latse[2] ya...
• c63aYnAi5UK: Ilye hroar nenna sumbaine lungieltallor imya hehtar ve i ló te tínen etenírina neno lungie. Ilye engwi lemyar mi sére hya mi téra, vórima menesta ...
• 1ULWZAKyxqZ: This is silly but why not:) I recently watched this delightful movie with Danny Kaye and have been thinking since whether we can do justice to this...
• 7dCAtnDAd7A: Ambar né ufárea Melehta Alexanderen, mal i noire láne. Juvenalis ...
• 4uNYG9LAWfG: It's preposterous that I should try this, but I am in that mood today. I hope my neologisms are transparent enough. ------------- Romeo: Aike vah...
• VDuxDU1FBf5: Hande Istare síve i Frankenstein lá i úvanimo. Nolwe síve i Frankenstein i úvanimo. “Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein is not the monster. Wi...
• Cpm7uUGKkff: Er erinqua lé ea nwalya i nér yello illi avánier: á nananta sen ma hastaina. "There's only one way to hurt a man who has lost everything: give him...
• cootmTYT99J: Enwa ilúvesse sinwa sa neren arwa alta hereno mauya kesta vesse. Jane Austen ...
• QtPWhw6MfWJ: Here it is. My dedication to the Professor on his twelfty-sixth birthday, to New Year's festivities and everything in between. Written in the ancie...
• GY11nDxrNBz: And an ornamental version to follow! Aukira n-aure.tif And an ornamental version to fo...
• YzRfuhcXLgh: “A Study in √rō/oro” Tá Yavanna *alassea, ar tolunes, ortaila rankuryat menelda, ar quentes: ‘Orwe oryuvar orni Kementário, *itan Soroni i Arano e...
• anu3K5H5GzW: The annual Neo-Quenya translation of Biblical material by Helge. Real OT type of stuff! 👍 https://www.facebook.com/groups/quenyachat/permalink/155...
• HRRpCmTN2Gr: Greetings! I'm just wondering what the translation for this is in elvish, the language used, and where I can learn to translate this! ...
• 2xQaTj6NC72: Ela vinya alassie, ela vinya elmenda! Vende yondova ontaril, yondova atar úner. Vende ú nero nosta, ve marinde marin, cén sin cole míre, indil lost...
• BsbHSLr2tK4: The long-promised Omentielva's appendix on the Poetic Corner is here! https://drive.google.com/open?id=1b4gxFU8GynQ1qqqtlvcEPxCAguJl9jUO ...
• bfvsgb5muFX: This is a rough draft of a translation of the famous excerpt from Carl Sagan’s lecture on the Pale Blue Dot. I’ve experimentally used Parmaquesta (...
• EKq6o7pC1sP: Quenya nursery rhyme. The metre is - | - ^^ | - ^ | - ^^ | -^ - | - ^^ | - ^ | - ^^ | - Ter híseva landa norta olombo Ho tínila helma talta i ló...
• Eg6ssijnewT: ‘Malo olanetye lunganna, lótenya? ’Ammilke maquali leptaner ni síra.’ ’Manen athyuvan tyen *itan nauval merya?’ ’Nai netyuvan ta nette ye tá lilta...
• TKGoAvmyXH4: Just an exercise in hexameters. “Ranyamo, mallo utúlier aine yo lumbe taletyat?” “Aistana asto ni tópa, nanakka feanya hroanya.” “Á hamu sisse ta ...
• VGfrsC1Nsxt: William Shakespeare: Sonnet XVIII Ma ai sestuvanyel Laireva aurenna? Elye anírima ta ammilya ná lá se: Ráve súre Tuileo lelye tuimar rihta, Ar Lai...
• PMH848x5234: Translating names of pets friend's cat (female kitten) Bandy 'little bandit': Arpince from arpo + ​-ince 'thief, seizer (diminutive)' There's a sl...
• 9kmdXrALUbM: It's been some time since I've done a translation, so I tackled "Spirit of Life": a hymn that's basically an anthem of the Unitarian Universalist f...
• gkZkxF5ti8s: Been ages since I last translated or wrote something. So I experiment once again. And in Sindarin this time! Well, less of a translation, more of a...
• 6BH2zCD3ooC: Edited "Ilya mára nauva, ar ilya mára nauva, ar ilquaima engwi mára nauvar." "All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things...
• ffEPMYmRyPS: Styx I lunte taltea an yo nan, kíra i quilda yo passa nén. La *palma sa níra, la falma sa hilya, laika langorya rista i ló. Erinqua nán. Kanwanyo ...
• 93sfzLic57s: Nosto i-Aear, lass laeg, Legolas! Dorthannel anan nu 'aladh vi 'lass. Ae lastol i-nall e-maew 'ri falas, Gúrel ló-chiratha hîdh vi thaur dass. Leg...
• 8EQjKR5nFYc: Sunday couplet *Lustie siryear, *enwakuvindo, raike nietyar *Thanka i fenna ka ni, verkave ompa menin. *lustie adv. "emptily, in vain" *enwakuvin...
• dTcwrrBnjjb: Friday couplet Vanya *molisse a yesta si enta yo *uiala nyáre Húme yo minya i ló, nai nauvas i minya ata! "Fair slave-girl, start yet another tra...
• 1KVhQVKbuZ3: Wednesday couplet Á hora ninna, melisse, an anda i lóme en ompa; Asra Arra ta íre i lú lisse yo waltalima. "Wait for me, beloved, long is the nig...
• WnqgtsgL9QC: Tuesday couplet Orya i hísie amb’ orotingali narqueliéva Lemya erinqua oron, tíras i poika Aman. ...
• HGNK8nMuEtP: Monday couplet (distichon^) Yalle i ítila lón hendutyaye *nanhatir áre Néka i ñalta kamin, kalyas ananta ilú ------------------------------------...
• Li23zg3pVch: The Incomplete Rhythmical Translation, Completed Then sailed on his gleaming galleon Earendel upon the Sundering Wide Ocean, while cleaving easily...
• NcWQ4z6SmW4: Meldenye taná! Illí eldeon mélienye! Horan lairi nyarienna! +Roman Rausch +Paul Strack +Fiona Jallings +Christopher Gilson ...
• W4wQV81qey3: *Súrielli Yasse pitya, mára anen Yuyálea tauresse patanen Yas silima *súrielle alde Ta *iasinti luini, lunge I súrielli lintie willer Yalle wilwa...
• NXaYBmeDc7Y: To a favourite tree (from Handel's Serse, Act I) Milya ar vanima olasse melda mapalininyo, a raita tyen calambar! Nai tarítali ar raumo la terhat...
• GBMNqMxPJmi: Hello, Am very new to Sindarin, but using the many resources provided I have attempted a translation of Galadriel's ring speech to Frodo when she r...
• JCe3yji3k7t: Lótesse Lostal' asta utúlie, lóteli sí tuiar, tuileo caraitier hilyar yú imb' illi. Tai né harna nixenen, lauca vincare áre; sa cenilwe carina rim...
• efhSAsCdSQZ: Greetings all! I've been struggling on my own and have finally decided to join the community. I recently got back in to Tengwar calligraphy after ...
• CeviBfv34Ti: Lá onnaya lá yarontarerya Lá onórorya lá nilmorya Lanye aiqueno Lanye aiqueno Nanye, ve illi: tárie, Forn’ aikasse, *nulme, *aquasatie, Néka, vahá...
• fQc9f1q1yad: I can't post on Severin Zahler's page, so what does the chorus of "Nan Uye" mean??? I figured out most of the words but it doesn't make much sense?...
• 4S633LgMCG3: There is one day in any poet's life when thy become ready to write the 'Monument'. This time I attempted to write in a quantitative verse with comp...
• i469wPEEzzK: Light thickens A translation of Lady Macbeth's aria from Act II of Verdi's Macbeth. The original Italian lyrics are loosely based on Act III, Scen...
• hhf3wv321SQ: Is this correct? Yessesse, Ranta 31:49 Ar Mipsa, an quentes, I HERU ávet tire imbe, íre vanwe velto. ...
• hy5p1CoJXER: A song in Quenya. (As one can observe from the channel's videos, this is not the artists' only M-E related piece.) https://youtu.be/dfITyw-h7u8 T...
• P8LWrZLF6UK: A relatively quick translation (since much revised) of the song "I See You" from the film Avatar English lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/leo...
• Uq2n96W6fUN: I keep appreciating the beauty and carefulness of Early Qenya even more, day after day. Here is an anachronism in EQ septenarii: En veallo ni·túli...
• 41DxL8sWaze: I was listening to my favourite Vangelis record today - Earth - and thought I'd translate this short piece of lyrics. Nelme ambaquerne Rappente i ...
• cDZFbUL299H: Introducing my, doubtlessly, most ambitious Eldarin project ever! Over a month in the working! As a person who does not physically hear the length ...
• 8irA7bkgUwQ: And as a bonus: two snapshots of my favourite notebook. A glimpse of hell hiding behind the achieved completed version! :D ...
• Qe68so2D7hr: I have seen this short Burns poem today (in a comment to an article about May's visit to Trump) and decided to have a go at it. I Quáke-matindo ...
• j5Q5RLSHLU9: Translation inquiry: "Since the Elves were not going (did not intend, were not willing) to follow him, he strived against them by force." (thus not...
• CYotiKDwKXh: Á enyale Á enyale ni í vanwa nán, Háya minna i séra nóre; Í eke lyen hape mánya ambe lá, *Lahya amna autan, ta lemyan óle. Á enyale nin ni í lá ni...
• 4dXvybL21oH: This is another passage from my blended adaptation-summary of the Ainulindale and Genesis to practice with Quenya. I'm trying to use more non-Engli...
• hWo1wzGUG3E: Laitale óraviéva Tamas, I do indeed remember reading your translation of this famous passage on Aglardh. Still, I hope you don't mind another vers...
• 8PDisHnH226: Zuber quente, I hepil láqua lecilenca, ar I lecil láqua hepilenca. Endaquenten, Neri autar yúyo, hepil ar lecil. Zuber, my boss's name Hepil, too...
• Sn3pjbGFFHv: I'm new to (Neo-)Quenya and have spent some time with the Ardalambion and Parma Tyelpelassiva courses (plus Eldamo, Parma Eldaliéva, the Bible tran...
• fbaZiPHqNLf: DEATH NOR dread nor hope attend A dying animal; A man awaits his end Dreading and hoping all; Many times he died, Many times rose again. A great m...
• MdF5hQwnbM5: Before Philippi Tulmassen fírimóron ea sóla, ya luimenen hilyanwa mene almenna; útirina, ciryastier vehtento marte únúra nenna ar angayassin. Quan...
• BEA2fdUPUro: Rie erya lénen eke mon harna atan ilquo nehtaina: nananta sen ma hastaina. "There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him bac...
• TExF3uNPbbq: +#randomLotRparagraph `Well, well! ' said the wizard. `The passage is blocked behind us now and there is only one way out – on the other side of t...
• LvhCsK62yd1: +#randomLotRparagraph `As you go down the water,' he said, `you will find that the trees will fail, and you will come to a barren country. There t...
• 4CAzgoYpy2F: "At the end of everything, one must expect the company of immortals." Maybe there is someone who also considers this sentence beautiful and wise. ...
• GQzqXpFLYBR: +#randomLotRparagraph Out of the shadows a ladder was let down: it was made of rope, silver-grey and glimmering in the dark, and though it looked ...
• afqxeKBVHPy: Aaah. Increasingly hard. And lots of newer grammar as well. Athya, Tárinyar, tekitása ríkan, Lá kenilden ñwalyan i•ríkieinen, Sampan i•quettanyar,...
• BvFdXAvo5cH: I tried to scour the web, but in vain... Does anyone know of a translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, or at least the first art...
• PcRDAKzCSGw: AEROR VORN. Man nad hen, i dortha níf ni? Cant vi vorn i tentha na nin? Fer-pherno a noro lim! Henion ni i gílen îm. Law, law, law! Cant vel morn, ...
• 6u147nPdzJu: Melinduo oquetie pa filici - Ma lennuvatye? Haira en ná tindóme. I lómelinde né, lá lirulin, ye tereva hlarutya sostane. Illómea liris i marindess...
• fHpiSQyFL2G: +#randomLotRparagraph Comments are, as always, very-very welcome. At once he set off with long deliberate strides through the trees, deeper and d...
• Ae3gPKNwpww: The first two stanzas of the poem "Szózat" ("Summons") by Vörösmarty Mihály. An i mardor lîn, ae Magorion No an-uir sadar hador; Ha le onnant ar l...
• HQnisQ1DCoH: +#randomLotRparagraph The afternoon, as Sam supposed it must be called, wore on. Looking out from the covert he could see only a dun, shadowless w...
• JMXVcf1m4ZS: +#randomLotRparagraph 'Indeed yes,' said Gandalf. 'Doubly. And is not that strange? Nothing that we have endured of late has seemed so grievous ...
• CNxit4wYmEF: +#randomLotRparagraph 'I sat at night by the waters of Anduin, in the grey dark under the young pale moon, watching the ever-moving stream; and ...
• Cd5E5Z53r5c: +#randomLotRparagraph ‘There it lies’ he said, pointing away south-eastwards to where the mountains’ sides fell sheer into the shadows at their ...
• YbidHefwM3t: Ondosulpa   Yalúmesse nessa rando rananye tere i nóre. Úna yo alaherenya nés, ar *lillume la póle hire mólome ar patane tere ilya aure ú matiéva. E...
• cHkN3Hv3oUU: Pinched from the old Aglardh site; I did this translation years ago. De Profundis --------------- 1. Núrello lyenna aiálien, a Héru. 2. Héru, al...
• NmGKQStJSio: I found a translation in Quenya of Feanor's reply to Mandos' doom. Is it correct? Vanda carnelmë, ar lá ú sánala. Vanda sinanna vorondë nauvalmë. ...
• ea3iban28e6: Guys, I need help for a prayer for my deceased grandmother, both in quenya and sindarin :( thanks ...
• 17nuLLxsqdk: Made a translation of a song important to me, Co Cię Czeka by Barbara Brylska. This one I hoped to perform in Quenya, but it really calls for Sinda...
• gsq4z7fsUgi: Melmeo Naire   Imbilinkion *kossa *kosse nu i tópa, Vorolindelassion linde asalaste Quanta korna Rása yo menel elerrína, Fantaner Ardo yára yerna *...
• RtjwC4DCNUA: Here's another +#Oonagh song, in fact the only song of her that's 100% elvish! The song is actually a translation of an originally icelandic tradi...
• UCNuM7G9GpL: Got something very special to share today, just finished translating another Song for Oonagh that will be released this autumn and noone knows anyt...
• FoZvyYf5rTE: So in the past few years I got granted the chance of composing elvish lyrics for professionally produced songs, which to my and the producer's asto...
• 3mzctUkjgRA: Hello there :). I have a question regarding the translation of the quotes from Tolkien's books. Is it possible for you to translate it from english...
• dc7nFGnhaQM: This awesome!!!!! :D :D :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkrAGsHIXY4 Two Steps From Hell - E...
• Ed9aDm5R3Xb: Sí nerim i eil, teithol i fuin adh Anor, gin a im, cenedril e galad, lhaich edaid e naur, narthannen vi lû dadui a had, Istassen i eneth gîn, Ista...
• S7igkFhkJWq: Nen a! nen, ne chuil i 'lanna mael, glanno drass nín ah, panno nin na 'lass ah estel, na dathon tangant ne i-aur dolel. Water oh! water, in life t...
• 5Q24ptsFAJs: Aiyä! I was trying to translate some phrases for a tattoo, but I am having little trouble, I wanted to ask you if these are correct: One Last Time:...
• MHJa3sVCo3B: în aind breniannen, darthannen ne môr, a ne thrass, a vathant i haeg amar, nauthannen i vîled hen, mathathon hannaweg, das sennui aun enni, naeg a ...
• E2scz8LBSCG: Petri & the topic were treated in Finnish media on Tuesday, Jan. 26th. Literal meanings for the Finnish words on which he based his Quenya transla...
• aJdEqV4TdDa: I'm Polish and I love Dwarves . I love most of Thorin . Do any of you learns a dwarvish ( Khuzdul ) ? Seeking help, because the lessons are in Engl...
• MqRjJDeh6Tb: (After a burst of New Year's inspiration, I'm ready to present the most huge of my current plans…) What do you do when some song gets stuck into y...
• FsLxGAqbUR4: Ainur hlarine táriesse Manen yellor, mávari? Manen merye lingeli? Mana i menta alassea ya le valta liralen? Hláriemme táries ainur lire or palari...
• RioE7FF7KS3: A sudden exploit between fandoms: originally done for the amazing Russian fan club called Drax, Brax & Strax Corner (where I am one of the admins)...
• Wai1cSvxVMz: I have discovered this fourteenth century English poem thanks to a post by +Tom Hillman and decided to attempt a Quenya translation. The flow and r...
• 93hyX3z6CuC: Random LotR passage As the second day of their riding drew on, the heaviness in the air increased. In the afternoon the dark clouds began to overt...
• eN2RprN3KyP: Random LotR paragraph from the beginning of the chapter Treebeard. Please feel free to comment on any of the neologisms or syntax. Meanwhile the h...
• M84SwtMFARU: Random LotR paragraph A Journey in the Dark It was evening, and the grey light was again waning fast, when they halted for the night. They were ve...
• gx1Jr4uwtow: Sanye ilnome sinwa, sa erya neren arwa haura alma mauya pene vesse. ...
• eP2E7TNfPEo: A few paragraphs from LotR, randomly chosen, to flex my rusting muscles. Chapter 7, In The House Of Tom Bombadil. I am sure I got some of the trick...
• ZzcDZ4L96n8: This news item seems pretty relevant for this community. Middle-earth News – Enter our Tolkien...
• 7UathnEpqnn: Ladies and gentlemen, an Italian sonnet! Completely autobiographic. +Tamas Ferencz Grammar-wise: experimenting with habitual tenses. Taurë Patail...
• iGLtEAdfW4R: A theological wandering. There is a question often posed, whether Quenya is an ecclesiastical language. (Indeed it is.) However, one may wonder if ...
• Lxo9gm3k7KJ: For something nobody expected! The same, but adapted to 'late' Quenya of the 60s! +#PE22 Lantar úlor. Talatanye, Málinen ortanienwa, Masse Cále tu...
• jCLxhdjzNcJ: A preliminary draft, +#PE22 used extensively. All ecclesiastical neologisms due to Helge Fauskanger. The Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, in attemp...
• acsDYdCmGqJ: Aurissen nolweo néya, í nolwe né vinya, alqua alanye nosseya alquinkion ara passa síreo ráva i liskea nén-talmasse Sutse. "In the days [of magic l...
• F5cd9UL8LKp: Now it is my turn to  try with what is maybe the most translated poem: Althilia il i malthen allwanwen il i reniar alphêl i iaur i velt alphessa i...
• 1JNmvNmkjaX: An elegiac. Eñget i•Aldu mi Númen: calaitë silíteye atta álet; Fíriet oialë né, euva calanta mi hón. [There were two Trees in the West: one shone...
• 7he2HAmY3C4: Just a spontaneous play with late 40s-Quenya, as described in +#PE22. A lament of a Ñoldo returning to Valinor after the War of Wrath. (And a fulfi...
• AaD2gAjg7Bt: A +#WBYeats poem. A seru, a lisse oie Ómar, A mene Menelo tirimonnar, Ta canya te ranya tirala nirmelya, Nár narnen turún’, tenna Lú telya; La a...
• dWsdUgGx2Hv: Who by fire? A man na naur, man na nen? Man min glaw, man min daw? Man na amarthad chall, man na badhed órui? Man ned ethuil 'elir, man na thawas ...
• Fts43pBSDNN: To be sung to the melody of O Sole Mio Ma maira engwe, ta calina aure, Opo i raumo i hwesta milya, Lelya ve merende, i vilya ta vinya, Ma maira en...
• gUuq2hz6iar: I wonder: why wasn't it done before? For me it was hard as hell, taking both the rhythm and rhyme, retaining the wording and trying to eliminate th...
• ND5PwZ6bBUd: Peded laew, ach eno i Silevril ú-dhendellin Much talk and little work. ...
• 8FzWqg85yuL: Min ŷ i thannas, min nen i tharannas: En oinoi aletheia.../ in vino veritas, in aqua sanitas. *ŷ from MQ io, "wine". **tarannas from tharan  + -a...
• HpMoMFynCzD: Ae Anor! Sír celidh nan 'lawar aglareb athan in oer eithyr in idhrinn! ...
• 1T1bELtgbe5: 'Tis a piece not planned or written Out of conscious mind's decision, Though I thought of long this metre, Noble trochee of the sagas, Of the Finni...
• 8xcKvXikTdz: Just a short piece inspired by the June weather. Húro Mitse lotsi luhtar nu i lunga wista, I asto ñol mirilya pa i mixe lassi. Ortíran. I more M...
• 25Y82vMVj1S: This one affected and bothered me deeply. Written in a totally incompatible (with anything) language, about an unknown event and still perfectly sh...
• 4SrtZNRhQEZ: Christopher Gilson gave me permission to share his poem he had posted on Facebook recently: Sa nir ilkin ke koirestane Ve katinka súrinen Oio uist...
• cnH7eWVwL8p: Gweniant im gared hen tadphae eneg oer io ah en henion! GLÎR E-MARGAIR i en glinnar i•Ellath in•Gwaith Círdan i dartha vi Lond, eb i•Gair Vedui na...
• CbnVv8psMqK: Two lesser asclepiads. Líre nwalca macil , ulle i carne yár, Alme nyéna ve Fui, naina qualin firimon i fírimon. Cruel blade sang, the red blood s...
• Ldc6jTr1gr4: Here's an older attempt of mine at Shelley's Ozymandias (from 2008): Nórello yára lendo omennenye ye eque: talu ú telco ondove haure tarir erumess...
• GLBBzaqfyGv: Tunga feanya ve quinga, la istan man tirien hí, Mailie urya i hráva mal séren milya i hón. (My soul is taut as a bow, I don't know who to heed, Th...
• 1KCfYdcw2Sw: Íta i nór ve maril, antara orya Anar, Á laitalme i Hér, envinyanta i ré! (The land is sparkling as a crystal, lofty rises the Sun, let us praise t...
• VKSr9sh2ttw: I do not love thee… Gen ú-velin im, Herdir Fell, Ú-bedithon i•gaethad del, Mal iston hen, pen-adbedel: Gen ú-velin im, Herdir Fell. caethad 'reas...
• WMVipVHPcPr: Windflowers When I was little and good I walked in the dappled wood Where light white windflowers grew, And hyacinths heavy and blue. The windflo...
• 1vFRBmmsyaJ: I posted tha last Aesop fable over a week ago, so now it's due time for another. I restamo ar yondoryar Atar, nála lúmesse fírieva, merne carie t...
• LBtNiDBjgiJ: A free translation of one of Schubert's lieder: Soltala lúta síve alquar i vene   rilmanen mí cilintirvea sír; yé, sio lúta feanya ve i vene   mil...
• 7ss1nrrJkzk: Another Aesop fable I atar ar selderyat Nér samne seldet, i min vertaina lótepandamon, ar i hye ambaltanon. Apa lú lendes seldenna i vertaina lót...
• MC3eLmWDYfp: An Aesop fable. The farmer and the fox. I rermo ar i rusco Rermom i cóle nai-thelma rusconna pilie poroce-pandarya, remnesses métimavesse, ar nor...
• VJKCq6zdKBe: An Aesop fable I pupsoli ar i lisse*cere Pupsoli tetaina lissecerenna i undupetenen sambesse mardandurwa, sortala talirya mi sa, manter milcave. ...
• X4UaDzrRG6n: Once again, if you don't find much metric poetry in Sindarin, go and write yourself. This time, the rhythm is retained, not a single line or syllab...
• fMSWQBjwuZk: From Aesop's fables: I graban ah i alph. Craban egent alph ah anírant gared i bessas vain aif an ech. Savel i i laed nim bain en alph i eniad od ...
• cvYwF8f7F6R: Na toled anwareb aur ab vinuial io annan min dîn Ardhon, ned i ennas 'lam ú-laew a chalen laew athan hí, adh in pherinain rem adh ...
• hfgoC5aj8st: ar illi nu Anar *olindesse nar mal Isil sí tópa Anar (Pink Floyd) _81786908_berlinreuters.jpg...
• HpbEQG4s22g: Sleeping Sun I anor losta dínen Hí minlû ned idhrinn chost           Aear ídhrol bell a ross                                                     M...
• a8Z7mk5QzUJ: The Road goes ever on Ed i vên ui-vâd od i fen od i heriast Hi e gwachae i vên mennast pe pelin boe de hílithon na thail verai de ruiathon na i er...
• CcsomP1yPDG: Narn hen o manen Pogodion agor garwegas rach, a cared a peded naid bainui dír-inced. I have some trouble with this. I lack a word for "how", so I ...
• TmpAFJC4ZGh: 3/12/15 - 1 T...
• RaPpeoDgRHf: I've done an audio recording of me reading my translation of Wordsworth's Daffodils. Well I am not a native Quenya speaker nor an actor so caveat e...
• gbNNPPKxLij: I thought this would be a timely translation, with the daffodil season upon us in full. Lalmalini / Daffodils Erya ve fanya ranyanen Ya vile or a...
• a8KoQqFn6y7: Hello!! How would you say "May God bless you and keep you' in Q.? Would "Cé Eru laitatye ar rethatye" be correct? ...
• 9mynzgB2sjs: Firielinde Nu i landa elenya ilmen, Sapa i lára ta núta inye. Merya *cuianen merya firnen, Ar nucainenye as sina nirme. A certa sina lire pa i on...
• MPxqMUWLNuE: After reading +Hjalmar Holm's post a few days ago, I realized that I had never translated the poem "The Riddle of Strider" into Sindarin. So I deci...
• iTasHEpfRb2: I always wondered why there are so few attempts to compose accentual-syllabic poetry in Eldarin tongues retaining metre, rhythm and rhymes. Here is...
• WVHQfiFhD2j: Have anyone here translated Strider's riddle? I've seen some attempts on the internet, but trust you who are here more. ...
• fmNgPTarc1i: Melmeo Fóle Ava rice nyare melme, Melme ya úquétima; An i milya hwesta leve Úhlárima, úcénima. Equétienyes, equétienyes, órenya *pantie, *Ririhta...
• LXSf2JVgVnL: Hello!! I'm trying to translate some names of my friends, and there are some that are giving me trouble, and I would like some help... :) One is B...
• RPfgUiAVmLU: Milyas Menelwa Lannín Samumnen cé menelwa netyaine lanni, As míri sisilcala cáleva, I luine, i néce, i morne lanni i yucáleva, lómeva, cáleva, Cé ...
• DfQPG8jjCG2: A short poem by Stephen Donaldson. Sé i metto metta, Nin pia melehte: Nanye er kalpa. Mapan imneo axo-sáva, Tíran i ende a-urya. Sé i metto metta...
• Y2eAVv6Fvmq: Lá Lauren Eke Lemya Laure *nostaleo minya wenya I quile anurda hapien senya. Lotse ná arinya lasserya Mal er tere aure erya. Tá lasse lassen lave....
• R8eh7ZFJKvU: How might one translate "blizzard" into Quenya? For now I'm tempted to combine hrisse and alaco somehow; any other ideas? ...
• izno96aE7Ro: A Quenya translation of a couplet by C.H. Auden I read in a John le Carré novel, and caught my imagination. Alme laita, eke ké, i *amatolya nér, m...
• b3JTS4Ujsga: This is the second stanza of Yeats's The Two Trees in Sindarin: Na cheledh haer avo diro, ah i guru chall în in Ylynn Eriar nef men reniol, Egor t...
• CtEgMjPr1Ln: This is the first stanza of the poem The Two Trees by Yeats. The second one is a lot trickier, so it will take a bit more time. Rhyming is all over...
• DwVU4qzbMC3: I've just found this little Quenya tongue twister I submitted to Elfling twelve years ago :) Happy days Ilya yára kirya ya yalúme, yéni yá nu yana...
• 8qRm46A2dkQ: Edro i chin lîn    open your eyes Tiro nin               watch me Avo bedo           don't speak ...
• D68RNKUKrSf: Hello! I was trying to figure out the translation for these lyrics from "Beyond the Forest" and I was wondering if any of you could help. "A, mel...
• Hid793bdYW7: Hello!!  Can anyone please find out what are they saying during 0:57 to 1:03? Thanks a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLU71C60wf8 ...
• AdLaQjbRkkS: Might anyone be willing to provide some criticism/corrections? Elsewhere there was a translation request for a line from the Silmarillion into Quen...
• LqJ9rfx1cg2: This is the first paragraph of the Prologue of LotR - just wanted to see how translatable it was. It is certainly fun doing:) Parma sina ná amna a...
• bUTadH86tSJ: Here is a Quenya translation of the poem Winter Comes To Nargothrond from the Lays Of Beleriand, done some years ago. Laire lencave i lómea taures...
• NfxfoDzzXyb: A +#WBYeats poem, in Sindarin DOWN by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She ...
• ERFc5m1DCJy: Aiyä! Can anyone please check if I did this correctly? :D Thank you! alassea hristonosta.png ...
• JU8ocwFRCq4: +Tamas Ferencz 's translation for "Twelve Days of Christmas" brought me a question... how would be the correct Quenya translation of "merry Christm...
• Ru21QF7bYbs: A Yeats translation into Quenya. WHAT WAS LOST I SING what was lost and dread what was won, I walk in a battle fought over again, My king a lost k...
• 9EFFK9Xe7HA: Christmas is not that far away now, so in preparation for the festivities here is my Middle Earth version of the Christmas carol Twelve Days Of Chr...
• 6cJoF2YEzYF: mîn i Valrog ah i iâ between a rock and a hard place, between Scylla and Charybdis Sindarin saying +#Sindarin +#idioms   ...
• PQWWPdceWCP: We're approaching Remembrance Day, and with this being the centennial anniversary of the Great War, I thought I'd give it a go and translate the po...
• auTJJpZFyoY: A translation inspired by this post in the JRR Tolkien Fans community. It's not perfect, I can feel it, but perhaps not bad as a first attempt at t...
• DWfXqDFEP85: Ruine i Ainur lantaner; núr' raumo ranyane hrestantassen; Orco ruinínen uryala. Roy Batty in Blade Runner Fiery the angels fell; deep thunder ro...
• LD1L5qQrRgB: A much-quoted distich by Schiller, recently translated into Sindarin on the Mellyn Lammath forum. I thought it might be worth a try in Quenya too. ...
• GK3Qf6YrNgS: Quiquie Rohande, nora as i rokkor. (When in Rohan, run with the horses.) When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Middle-Earth proverb Using Rohan as a...
• BeJujcMx2d9: Translation of a passge from The Silmarillion, inspired by this post: https://plus.google.com/100392065433715432636/posts/fBozgQ4q5gg by +Jeremiah ...
• TRLKp7F3sdw: Arinde caimallo, undómesse caimanna, hepe tye saila, netya, alwa. (Middle-Earth proverb) ...
• Fn236ZCoJgs: The first part of my translation doesn't look quite right ("to more among us"); any ideas? If there was a suitable verb I wouldn't have to be tryin...
• c6jm47aQdSj: Monad modes... Quenya rendition of this Old English verse. Monad  modes lust mid mereflode                              ford to feran, þaet ic fe...
• 8vjsyq78BYT: From Ecclesiastes Lúme ilquan Ilquan ea lúme, ar lúme ilye þelmain nu i menel: lúme eccuivien, ar lúme effirien; lúme empanien ar lúme leptien y...
• RmphJ7qyFD3: An emig nín Derig erui vi morn ar im - dannon sui gond Le dewin. Bith Pith dýr. Ar i ú-iston, havol vi dath hin chaer: im le awarthannen egor Eru ...
• 3r7qffYG96F: Airelindë 121° 1. Lírë tyelleron. Ortan hendunyat i oronnar: Mallo nin tuluva aşië? 2. Aşienya ná i HERULLO, ontala Menel Cemenyë. 3. Uas lavë tal...
• Bk7qXA76d5k: Airelindë 134° (quérina Heveryallo) 1. Lírë tyelleron. Yé! A laita i HERU, ilyë núror HERUO, i tarir coassë HERUO i lómissë. 2. Orta máldat ainast...
• aa8f78cKReN: Me i nalme yáre, yáre yo merye, Ai ta yáre! Yénion úme, yénion úme, Ké nyarumnen ilye:   Alye anta hínin, et ilullo kéve, Melme yo quilde; Ta lómiv...
• 64EogkJrTRm: +Carl Hostetter has posted an invitation to a Quenya translation experiment to the +#lambengolmor  Yahoo group - not an easy task I'd say! ...
• JKa3amVTZju: Just a little lullaby inspired by this "cauca coa" we saw today in Cheshire. Arda yára Taure haura Tasse tára Cauca coa Misse mára Nessa nisse Ars...
• FMsD9dR94oM: As we'll soon be able to read Tolkien's translation of Beowulf here's a Quenya rendering of the first few lines to celebrate. Ela, laitale lastane...
• dXuHJckjik8: Lothron, mae govannen ad vi milbar vín, Lothron vain, ad ammen mellon teilien! [From "May Song" by Johan Ludvig Runeberg] ...
• 2UWycWxG9n6: Manna ta Ye lá ovanta yo olcar Hya tare úcarindoron tiesse Hya hare yo te i *yaiyar, Mal save alasse mi Héruva axan, Ar axanerya sana mi aure lómiy...
• PKz84dasoBx: Ar si vílan mi anettelea lé, Ar i éli lelyar exe siaré
• YKDPQcQXwpC: Sui gaear tuiol nu alagos vorn gala dîn. Diliant lû. Dôl în dhannen na besseg in endrainn oltha Ilador Iladar. Bo hûn e-hên, blabel, 'ruithannen, h...
• DxTeW5SxY9b: I wrote another poem in Sindarin: Ollas nin oh Auth   I ûl osp cân annin vîn ely nîn. Cenin anin ‘Rûn, anin mâr e-dawarwaith i noss vîn. Lith haer ...
• GFmRmz3dSwK: +#WBYeats +#Quenya YA VANWA Laitan ya vanwa yo þoryan ya túrina, Menin mi ohta ena encárina, Araninya vanwa, vanwe mahtarinyar; Táli ké norir...
• MdQxD2FKZCp: +#Quenya   +#WBYeats Caimance-lire   Aini luhtear Caimalyanna orte; Yerne ohtallo As qualini naice.   Mi Menel Eru Marielyainen raina; Indorya ...
• TTBkvn5zkPX: Sis caitalme - a mentat nossen mí Lacetaimon, Ranyar, carnelme ilya ya cáne i Nór. (Simonides) ...
• haTfQ1G6j7o: Aiyä! How are you all? I have a request, and I hope you can help me... Could you please translate me this phrase? "All will be well" it's like my m...
• Wba3TYhBATK: Cé lindale ná melmemat, á tyale antyálie! (Twelfth Night, 1.1) ...
• dhUCpTzWh5d: This is the translation of a popular Hungarian children's poem written by Sándor Weöres. Weöres was a virtuoso of rhyme and rhythm, who, like many ...
• jgeDcf3zEGS: Another sleighing song, on a less serious note: Losses hortala er-rocco-raxanen,  /1/ ter i palari voro lálala, súli valtea láma nyelleron. Alasse...
• cPut9aikzig: I did this translation some years ago, now updated from our current vocabulary. The translation was done from the Hungarian original (a poem by End...
• RFFgdSiG6SP: Small nursery rhyme inspired by a robin visiting our garden yesterday. *Russambos *Capata-cat, carne tinwe Urwa ausa, wilwa sanwe Lindalinde, nar...
• QxvodhdYzx3: Alye illume apsene cotumolyain, làqua nwalya te ambe. Oscar Wilde ...
• Qjvt9e99WbH: Just a bit of fun - the Middle-Earth version of Nat King Cole's Let There Be Love Nai euva elye Nai euva ni Nai euvar lingwi Mi earon sí   Nai euv...
• c62W4RsvjDF: Here's a translation of the traditional song She Moved Through The Fair. It is difficult to convey the beautifully laconic nature of the original, ...
• eu9aX9wG9ig: I did this translation years ago, I'm just reviving it because I am re-reading the series: Endanyasse sambi i astonen súyar Ar litsínen mí urma. M...
• AmsDC424r2E: Tasaran A High-elven adaptation of Goethe’s ”Erlkönig”. The metre is that of Galadriel’s Lament (”Namárie”). Man nortea ter lóme vailima? Nás ata...
• FJGB5TxLqh5: Aure pa aure p'ambon erinqua i nér lé persaila *raiwe aqua *serna mal úquen mere se ista cenir persaila se ar ullume nanquetisse mal i persaila p'...
• 3ohcAa4rDgg: Here's a lament sung by a self-pitying bard in Gondor, just to give the day a merry start: Sáre sanwi, a tule indonyanna, Óre, á lire nairi asalas...
• QPm2MQq1uJB: Two hexameters for Q: +#letteroftheday Quélie tópa i nóre, i Quendi se ruine omentar, Quentali astar i indo, asya i hón miruvor. ...
• TaAv3CFai1n: A couplet of Asclepiads for the letter P +#letteroftheday Palpa palpie, hón! Parna i nisse sí - Paltan milyave sé, poica yo oira wén! ...
• 1aFiJdkQAty: O is the star of the day. +#letteroftheday Olthon o meth en onodrim, o horthad e-daur en ogol. ...
• S1zSMkTjdWU: Here's for the letter N. Long-forgotten lament of an unnamed bard of Númenor. +#letteroftheday Nwalme onnaron             Núme quanta, Nárie vi...
• gwyzYPCjtgJ: Just celebrating the letter L +#letteroftheday laire lemya himya ena i lassinnar lorda, yerna tátarya lantalcallo linga raina caita litsenna lau...
• eSoPRpoVdBf: A tanca tace findilelya malda tancilden, Ta nuta ilya mistala finde; Cánen órenyallo loice óquettar: Cáreryet, aure apa aure, Maitane lumba vanesse...
• 6MpPuCvEyB7: Inwisti   Quelie lanta lúme, Ve licuma urina, Ta i tauri y’oronti Mápar túre, mápar túre; É inwistion mana, Mi norie, i urunosti, Atalantie? +#WB...
• SEufGXXz3yj: Colla Lírenyan colla cáren Netilion quanta Et nyarnallor yáre Telmello talmanna; Mal persailar nampentes, Nu Anar cólantes Ve intínen carna. Líre,...
• QMBz7Qxtc14: nin ólar alalvie ambor líri lo lyé alaquente ta voro viryala valto nése ya vanwa ve vangwe   en huiva ná íre eccuivan caimanya maxa ve quesse feany...
• Y5w9v4ZBrPb: mi laica linque aiwe cacáva caserya tuileliltale eccuiva, eccuiva, eccuiva ...
• F1hyxpAYahE: Let's have some fun... Na i Melehte olye. Sine lar i atanivear i kestal. Nán atarelya, Lúk.  (Laaaaaaaaaaaaauuuuu) A himya hilya i losse lapatte. ...
• BmDhWdaE2TQ: Linnod echui: Aew suilannar ethuil, megli awartha dorech. ...
• BEx1PyyQAyT: Stabat mater, continued: 11--12. Aire amille, cara sie: taca Tarwestaino harwi   indonyanna tulcave! Ánin etsate nwalmellon harna onnalyo, ye *res...
• Yya7zHpszPZ: A somewhat belated hymn for Good Friday (Stabat Mater, the first five stanzas) 1--2. Tarne amille *naicelinqua quanta nieron pó tarwe   yasse yond...
• T5fbRfiYFr8: First few lines of The Wanderer. Rána   "I erinqua lillume                Eruanna hire Rehtaro raine,                   *aita, rácina, sen Mauya m...
• FkcErrBfkFr: Yet another Yeats poem, reworked slighlty from an earlier version: Moripolkananda Lenkie limba I rosse, olori okómar; rihtie rúkar ehti usinwe ar...
• cjD7av2UyPV: Another try at a Yeats poem, this time in Sindarin: IDHRIND An echuir nallam trí lú rhîw, trí ethuil nallam ui an laer; ir *laegi evyr gleiniar, ...
• jTgNCgHuSQC: Ana Tol Nenisse Caurea, caurea Caurea melda, Ména ruicalasse lorie oa. Tulteas i yulmar, panyasset témanna ana tol nenisse óse merin auta. Tulte...
• Ew6mZGDK4Dn: Quen same erya vehte; mal cé quen care sa mai, ta erya nauva fárea.  (Mae West) https://plus.google.com/u/0/103590807509576802076/posts/XNfuc6eb...
• Xk7AGjEbCPS: Yáre neri tíraxer i nenisse   Hlarnen I yáre, yáre neri quete, ‘Ahyar illi, Ar lantuvamme mine apa mine.’ Mantar ner ve nammar, ar *occantar Cauce ...
• bHSbZTrPdtS: I like this quote: Lá i oronti i *retuval yeryuvar le, mal i sar hyapatelyasse. https://plus.google.com/u/0/109315717945244442082/posts/82YJohfvG...
• d6b6PZkLC5z: This is a translation of Caedmon's Song from Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum. The OE West Saxon version and its Modern English translation a...
• Y3djH9KLN8p: Translated a few years ago. Nóleo túlie lúmenen Quíta i lassi úmar, erya i sundo; Linganen lassi yo lotsi mi áre Ter' illi sende auri vínenyo; Sí...
• PeJGonnoXrH: I like this quote. Eke men anta harwe atta voronwe hínin. Mine ná sundo. Exe: rámar. There are two lasting bequests we can give our children.  On...
• Znu1bGjaHFD: A well known passage: Quetin cé lambínen firion ar *angelion, mal melme lá samin, nán ve lamyala calarus var tunga nande. Samin cé apacéno anna ar...
• H9Bf7QGmhE1: Lá ricin úruva tar, Caisar, ya navilye ni mára,    lá merin ista ye nál: nulla hya nér calima. Catullus http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Poetry_o...
• KV11WCojMxu: Párie yesta i arato, mal parmahentie, máre otornor, ta immosúrie se telyar. https://plus.google.com/u/0/108874162516859921927/posts/2d2h5yfB6Cw ...
• 27262d3QKa8: This is an older text of mine, now updated a bit. Comments welcome as always. Karnille né vanima wendinke; marnes as yáramilerya taura tauresse, t...
• 7y3bueVyydG: Airelinde 23 Héru mavarinya[1] ná: lá penin Tyareryen Tyaris[2] i kaitan laique palarissen: tulyassen tenna sende neni Feanyá asyas: tulyassen rá ...
• PCVs2sV6Dhx: Úvan lerya Váquetin aiquen pata ter indonya váre talintainen. Gandhi ...
• MoNGjFKhAAk: Ce essi alasinwe lyen, nation firuva ót istalya. (Nomina si nescis, perit et cognitio rerum. -- Linnaeus) ...
• PpR1UZx6d41: I adan amminda nucumna pahtayasse, mal arya cardayasse. Confucius ...
• FGt2XicEkbb: Coirea ná i virya, ar ilvana ná i rimbave ivírie. John Henry Newman
• CsxBmJ4wQZk: Ista ui handasséva anwa tanwa: intyale ná. A. Einstein
• XmuWDfJvr2v: From elsewhere on G+: Ual pole intya ma polil tenna rikuvalye. ...
• aGdsqdZxUEC: oreramar has posted a new Quenya poem on Aglardh, worth reading: http://middangeard.org.uk/aglardh/?q=node/127 ...
• Jw13NCptyJR: "Amminda þelmalva sina kuilesse ná asya exi. Ar ké ua polilye asya aþya te, annún[1] avalye harna te." (The Dalai Lama) [1] annún = "[at the] deep...
• etub5teUMbP: I am trying to continue my translation of The Lay of the Völsungs from The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún. So far I have translated two stanzas[1] onl...
• hSTGbWX8ix9: A few more verses for the season to be jolly: Marda netyuvar ercassi. Asta sina tuce alassi. Coluvalme larma merya; linwi yárie a lerya! Ela turu...
• hNmNR5tgCdS: I've been working on a translation for a while now, (it's not done, but I figured that I could show a few verses now. I Chiril os Salod[1] – The L...
• cuoFu235qk3: Seems fitting for this week, the first verse of Adeste Fideles: Á tule, vorondi, Túrie, alassie, Á tule, á tule Vetilehenna* Á cene nostaina Aran ...
• bcX4UABF5xE: I'll start this section with posting a short poem in Quenya I wrote about a year and a half ago: enge lúme, yéni yá, quie nornen, ve nelle, annóri...

Quenya Chat

• DyM2kp9tUKk: Kennen karneambor mate erdeli to i *matyar tarwammasse senna lúme yá. Senyave lá tulinte tere i laire, mal *vilwiste olane ringa ar mauya ten hire ...
• Tfdo4xEcTmv: Notes on LE The hymn to Elbereth, as sung in Rivendell, contains a peculiar form that is often under-estimated in its puzzling nature: Fanuilos, ...
• eyhiBr4VRUr: Noa as vessenya kendanemme i tyalie Venetio Makar ló Shakespeare mi Cambridge. Nése láta *tyalmardesse: tarwa né i *tyaltalan, to sa rie orne ar ta...
• SFEhkyKrurP: Handen sisnome epe *komputerinya as *hlarmar or hlarunya lastala liennar quete, quete, ar tá quete amba. Hlarunya nwalyat. *hlarma "listening devi...
• 9TY39cDmL6N: Síra *kalkunen *kennasseli - enar ustauvanyet urnanyasse. Mauyuva sen *annún lúmi otso hya toldo anya tyeller húme *yutuxa, ta lúmi yunque ambe *ri...
• 57NQNKAtC8t: Epe asta mine yo perta fanyar nar i vilyasse. Kénai kelyuva si lómisse? ...
• 1PJS3QMMh5G: Minaþurindor utúvier ondova pelma[1] sé i taras Tintagel Angalnóresse, karina otsea haranyes, arwa quettar tekine Latinya, Hellenya, Keltya lambess...
• C9bvFoYtPit: Hyarna Georgia ná tolle Atalantea Earonde, ambaro hyarna *perkoronde. I tolle ná nu Angalnóreo ortúre. *Os koranari *yutuxa néya vinye *marindor tu...
• V2x1AVuHrsq: Síra as vessenya eméniemme i Fitzwilliam *autamardenna mi Cambridge. Tana *autamar lá haura, mal hepe anvanime engwion úme - *tekemmar maitarion ve...
• 6qJXuxAaWec: *Minaþurindor *eyestanier *rikwe ekkese ké i *kumma *metan mo kime Karnilesse ontaina ondoinen hya veoinen. Kénai tuvuvante i hanquetta tulyuvas ve...
• 1mr11p5A52P: *Minaþurindor utúvier sa i Ingaran *Pengwin pole lemya nu nén ambela *perlúme *pellúme. *Pengwini nar *lawilíti aiwi i mo kime to Ambaro hyarna *pe...
• MpF7BRRpdEz: Sina hliasse merin sa nyaruvalve min exen pá parma ya *lanéya ehentanielve. Nyaruvan len pá parma tékina ló nyarnamaitar ye mine i ammelde nyarnama...
• dqy8B8SyGpt: I Nakie-téma Navillo *pepella i tauresse sa i morko akárie nakie-téma ar nakuva ilye nastor i nar i témasse, ha þosta i kelvar. Mettasse i nauro l...
• CHRjd79y8Rh: Merin nyare len pá i osto yasse sí séran: Budapest. Sí rie *naþumo nán sisse, an háran Angalnóresse. Nostaina ostosse lárion lepenquain oa, túlelm...
• 759Yod9RH2S: Lá merin moia enar. Tamas Ferencz Apr 16, 2018 (11...
• ixFfAL58UWN: Aipio-olóte 20180413_140850.jpg Aipio-olóte ...
• A63s4Yw3E4r: Manen estuvalve si lotse? Esserya eirien Sindarinesse, hetheglon Goldogrinesse. Naike ora men kile aqua exa esse *minome querieryo. ...
• WrtN21n8ez5: Síve kalina, aurea i telda otsole né, tambe hiswa, lumna, nenda sina otsole. Ekelyanelye noa arinello. Penin indo kare aiqua... Oruváne nin (should...
• hCedG1fkbvg: Foronaire (North Sea), noa. Nemis íta ringa ar *úfasta mal, lauvane kénai i polda vaiwa, nauvane lauka. ...
• EWWn6sT4oaK: Yallume, tuiléva laiti! Orni, lalmalini ta exe lotser, wilwarindi, tuimar, nete, nete, nete sé Anglesey Abbey síra. ...
• G3vbEBfmtVL: Armaronya panyea anda kapsa *immenwaryanna; karaperyo tyarwenen quítan feryaxes mene lingwi raitien. Apánies *annúra vandili otso hya toldo i immen...
• fLvFsSaCYdu: Lúmequentanduri *lanéya utúvier yára opele la háya i nomello yasse háran. Ente, utúvielte opele atta: i minya opele late or anyára ya linyenwa kora...
• dM3urqF5ZmE: It's a fitting song now that Spring is here (albeit briefly I understand) :) Kenin askénie, i úlo lá, Keninye ilye *nuquar meninyas, Vanwe i lumbo...
• N8z1CMTUmYc: Kuluina hrisse tópa i amboni ar nandor nómelissen Hróna Europasse - neme litse hlapuina Sahara erumello avahtanie i hrisse. Tankave nuhtalima *ehte...
• JxpmtvD3y6S: Síra *nostarenya! Nostanen koranári kanta *nelquean auta. Olólan ambe linyenwa ilya koranarnen; merin i nólenya olóluva yó koranarinyar. ...
• NvtaEWKNJ3C: Horala i tyalien, noa lómisse. DSC_1018.JPG I tyalienna horala, no lómisse. ...
• Nhk8JCo1pTV: I emma ya nún *ihimtanien tea *élikombet lan ertear - hya, amna naitienna, ertanier, an nalte *kalayéni *lindóra auve. I *palantilla Hubble akárie ...
• KyR9cRGxnYM: Tatallálima manen nostale ivírie *italo hrisse tompe ilqua noa otsolesse; i hrisse aqua itíquie, anar kale, Tuileo *níse lemya i vilyasse: nostale ...
• epva78fG6xA: Telda lómisse yallume hrinse, ta sí ninde hrisse untúpa i maller, tarwar, immenwar. Kesyalima nóme yasse oian: ailume lúre, hrisse, alako, oloire ^...
• 6iZuKZ5eGBM: Háramme to *angaraxa Londonna... Ménamme tyalmardenna Pintero tyalie kendien. Valyalima! Merin samuvamme fárea lúme fai í tyalio yesta limpeo yulma...
• jVWT12P8j4N: Enar mauya nin anta *tanasteli (presentations) ar *partale (teaching, training) amna aþumonyain lepenque - xéyuvas ter i quanta aure. Ente, namin h...
• 58CWiZ62WKB: Samin Isilya-lumbe. Sinome háman opo nonwanya, mauya men moia, lanye. *Hentópanyat lunge; sanarinya hísea; uiúlien yulmali *kofio quanta, la káre m...
• QMNj7kxeH68: Possible Quenya linear measurements? UPDATED lár a league; 3 miles *larnelesta a mile; 1 mile (> NQNT) rangwe a fathom; 6 feet ranga a yard; 3 fee...
• NmZbQ5j7YKv: Elye yú awalde nar pá i kúmakirya Elennero vilie i Mareso mentienna? Titta karne immenwa kíra Kúmasse - ké istan mai oloities Mares, ar ménas ambel...
• QuCraX47oTi: Síra í métima ré yas nauvan Formenya Karolinasse: auviluvan sinyesse. Lauvas arra, an túliéva, feluvan ata sinye náse, ono tenta rie ingare... Nami...
• hKH4Da84phn: Karaitienya ké píkuva ter nótima lúme: urda nin teke. Lá samin i alme náve ataformaite. Helke utúrie ni tana lusse, mal koire tuluva yo laluvan lye...
• e5VUNmuQBwF: Ata hrisya sisse (ar amna ilya lómisse hrinse), potai hrisse tópa ilqua Vurapestesse - hequa I maller an aþahanya tikunes nu i immenwar. ...
• G4AHbsTQpVw: Fasta nin, an akávien (have succeeded) kame *mittahyalin (entry-paper, ticket [rather clumsy, any better ideas?]) atta i *tyalmardenna (tyalmard-, ...
• FGsSUtJpr2L: Síra ménen kame keura lendalávanya (passport) [1]; fastalima vanta né: síra lauka lá noa, i hrisse tikune [2] astasse mal i maller lá níti; ente An...
• 4yNJM1MdAox: I hrissea Budapest as i síre Anduna, kénina (kenna?) atarinyo henetello, sí. 16/01/2018 ...
• E1PU4oPEo7D: Síra lelyan Matyarnórenna; sinye nauva tenna utúliévan. Alassea nán sa enkenuvan atarinya, mal lá mára nin i quanta lenda keluva (will flow = last)...
• 9Z6kwWVB3tn: I fasta hesto apsa as i kapsa as i apsa nan apta lepta i silma yulma to i talma. ...
• ZizdPiHQYTG: Valarya nauváne alassea an otsola-metta anya, ananta félan lunga. Askénie (obviously) lá aþya sa hiswa ava, lumbuli lumnar i vilyasse, ilquáresse i...
• DV8JZrXqd4W: *Arinwatenna (for breakfast) manten massa yo úle, lingwe usquenen *vortaina (preserved, made lasting), ar kolosta; yúlen *kulorvo (of tomato, golde...
• EuEGXCARWB6: Raumo Eleanor amna oantie sillo (i súre turka en), mal okólie luime. Síre sirya ara i osto, ar i anta rávasse palda palar, senyave wenya salquenen ...
• XJZFKoW3kZ5: Ekénielde sina *ardaemma (ardemma?) (map) i limesse nún? Lelyalima (enchanting, amazing) manen i viríte (various) ear kelussi siryar yo hwinyar ter...
• HQ9vgWsYuCP: Just out of curiosity: What is "The Last Jedi" in Quenya? I know that this might be an impossible translation, because Jedi probably isn't accounte...
• 8ghCj45SzZ2: An koranallor nelde Disney milyave leryane i vinya Elenye Ohtar *menemma (moving picture) ara (around) nostarenya, olólie haimenna sa tirimme i vin...
• duNk1pWzkti: Tékanen síra'r karne rea VinQuenyarin quetta “*equétiévanítas” i mahta *Ingillin [English language] quettar toldo: ‘to have been about to have said...
• PzoLuccRdUP: Laqui loinamin, coantur hosto sino samë nostarérya síra. Valima nostarë, +Tamas Ferencz! getty...
• 77YsVzqGaNc: Lungo hrísa Kievessë. I caltengwa carna ara i pustalë *nutalamna angamallëo ("metro") lá haiya coanyallo. ...
• 1ujxZD7ao7t: Atalatyanente (atalatanyente?) Ambaro anyára parmakoa. I koranari amna min húme lempe tuxa linyenwa ampano tare Kemetesse (Hakapta? Egypt, see http...
• hrrRaHnFYAK: Hentean sa helleondo (asteroid) mine ar perya lár palda úva Ambarenna, ar lahtuva ara me enyar. Nauvas ena aqua háya ananta: nauvas yurastalume i ...
• YPGS11aav1v: Kesyalima ná ma laimyave lie aistar Hristonostare/Turuhalme sinome Ingilnóresse ar mélamarinyasse (Madyarnóre). Madyarnóresse quéni ortar i Turuhal...
• jQ598gy2h1c: Sina i sulpa porcelleva ya manten síra. IMG_20171214_160456.jpg Sina i sulpa porcellev...
• UdPCjHgmyLf: Tiruvan Elenye Ohtar, Toldea Asta - I Telle Yedir Isilyasse, olean walda ve hína 😊 ...
• 3aEfARitrb1: Ehentanien sa Atan naike entuluva Isilenna rongo. Awalda nán - Untale Isilenna né nessenyo alta autas ya tirnen palantiresse. ...
• 1fy8gkStkSe: Mai - ta menya "losse hríve" lemenye aure atta, ar tensi avánie... Namarie, losse hrisse, alla, ulo! ...
• cB8AWA1A1jJ: Akárien porokelle-sulpa síra. Hanten porokelle-rámar tambenna, napannen *viríte (varying, various) sulkar ar laiqui, ta *asahanya (easily understoo...
• jnpAHFpNmMz: Hrizya. Namin minya lómisse nótime loallor, hrizya - haura, tiuka hrissequessínen. Nas tensi tál-núra. Maxuvan massa síra. Senyave maxan ta mastan...
• iVbVEnyopXb: Merya Hrívesse illin! gplus1191345519.jpg Merya Hrívesse illin! ...
• MXXG5rhUTQA: Lumba nán. Hiswa ava, miste lanta, nique. Xáran nanwene kaimanna. ...
• fE3fxY7XWLU: Ya istalme, limba ná; ya lalme, earon. Just heard this very profoundly deep quote on a TV show. ...
• Txg7b2pm88V: Ta enwa koivie Hya er intyale? *Kentaltasse raina Anwiello la rehtie Á latya hendutya Hellenna amtira, á kene, Nán er úna yondo, la merin ófelme An...
• D8THNhsWv4A: Telyanen i Eldarin tië online métimavë! Epë parië atta loain ar perya, polin quetë ambi quettar sa sanan pollen úne parne. Sí merin parë rimba ambë...
• PbDLYmM5ohV: Maira ré lyen illin! Nique sisse. I kemen faren helka, sie erendien *parkataine lóki, ar erdi i aiwin. Samimme "vére" aiwi i lillume tulir lotarwam...
• fkGPkRawqcV: Got bread? None None ...
• SDnWXGCRvvR: Rike luke Nauko i haurallo "Try dragging a Dwarf away from the hoard" (="you are asking for something impossible") Middle Earth saying ...
• 1jT7FfUQf6X: Greetings! I am wondering if anyone knows how to use the double dots for a "y" in the Tengwar Annatar font without having spaces between letters an...
• TXxuZd9uL8m: Is there ever a consonant-vowel cluster of "quu"? Tamas Fe...
• R7BaHWpSaXL: Andanéya, harunya quente nin quenta: Roquen atta yestat sé lár atta. Ilya roquen norta i exenna min lár ilya lúmesse. Pí yesta min roquende ar vil...
• Qhr7Vq7bvbW: Qui i kassa la kamta karelya vá kole sa. "If the helmet does not fit on your head don't wear it." Middle-Earth proverb ...
• F2e4PkwmeRV: Enno onna enno enne. "A person's child is a person's purpose." Middle-Earth saying ...
• 9Qr31KKGUhB: Aiya, mára meldo! Merin maquetital quettalion ata, an ranyal rimbavë! In a textbook I was reading, I read "epë = after (of time), and nó = before (...
• BMoesZAGkb4: Á *rahta maqualya orkonna, aunakuvasses. Give an orc your hand and it will bite it off. Middle-Earth proverb. ...
• PMP6zb2hGfM: Eke len tulya Nauko *findimaitarenna, mal lá eke len mauya se hyare fangarya. You can take a Dwarf to the barber, but you can't make him shave. M...
• G4YZgpPkicm: Aiya! Maquetin le quetto. In the book "Quentin i Lambë Eldaiva", upon the fourth lesson I fell upon the word "virya-", which means to change. Howe...
• 2t8BvRe43Pp: Ette atto; ta ette etta atto. Atto atto otto: etta atto atto ette. ...
• 24wohKYKK6H: Greetings fellow Eldar! I am in a dilemma. I am unsure of the usage of plural and dual pronominal forms for the 1st person. Is it inclusive plural,...
• Mz6cY6MyBRK: Essenya Kevin. Páranyë Quenya an alassëa. Nas lenca. Istëanyë nótima quettar. Mal páranye quiquië lertëanyë. ...
• bacEhyejNVH: Greetings! I am afraid I have received a faulty copy of the 2015 edition for Quetin i Lambë Eldaiva English Royal by Thorsten Renk after buying it ...
• cLAVQyhmp2o: Hello! I am wondering how to use the Tengwar for others to see on a webpage!!! Can anyone tell me how to do so??? Also, if it involves programming...
• aFyMrLspSax: Where did you first begin to study Quenya? None None ...
• YbBa1L1gfBd: Nai kalambar Omentielwa Otsea. Tamas Ferencz Aug 1...
• iXSMEG93yei: Tamo móta koammasse tella otsolello *quilyaila i mitye rambar, ta ilye fendi yo *hendeli. Tanka ná i koa oluva annetya mal terhaties koiviemma ter ...
• hcj7U8b43eg: Maiku vanen erühini Tamas Ferencz Jun 22, 2017 (10...
• dHdYq1JFUzB: Hi! I'm very new to all of this, and I am trying to work on translating Gandalf's quote, "all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is...
• UbsTpcqZrri: "Long will the warriors praise the countries." Here is my translation: "Anda i mahtari laituvar i nóri." Did I do this correctly, because I kinda m...
• XXqyiwLBdZe: Hello! I was wondering what you would use in Quenya for the word "bearing" in this sentence: "You have seen them bearing the cloaks of lords!" This...
• P6d8hHQt5yx: Lá peresa nin. Tamas Ferencz May 01, 2017 (00:29) ...
• 2gGo9padw7G: Helkenen kelya. Arkean lá palpas i laimar íta... Robert Re...
• Q1KsEB8ntz4: Alako Doris ména ter Ingilnóre. Tulle arinesse ar neme tensi náse melehteo ingasse. Amna anarkie nótime laimar et i kemello tarwammasse. Hlarin núm...
• dPDtm8irDdk: I loava minya nieninque *lotarwasse DSC_0694.JPG I loava minya nieninque *lotarwasse...
• 2BwMC8WPotq: Ma mantelde *arimmatienna? Inye mante massa, manya yo tyur, ar yúle kuluma pirya. *Oraureanna sulpa nauva. ---- *arimmatie n. "morning meal, br...
• eFz6Sqy5nUQ: Síra aure ustiéva - ustean (mastean?) *kentamnar - yulmar, salpar - i urnasse. Ta anda menie: mauya san perya ré *laukata tenna i kentamnar nar run...
• i3i2U2V1zQn: *Millume sina hrívesse: hríza! Kenuvaila [1] sa i hrisse quí lemyuva talamesse. -------------------- *millume adv "first, for the first time"; mi...
• 8XoecYtMx7R: Ortean yulmanya miruvóreo quanta i atano nostare enyalien ye sina otornasseo *tyarme ar i tyáro alasseo, valmeo, márieo, sanweo, nainieo ta melme...
• A8isSrV8yAS: *Indosatienya i vinya loan: lá karuvan *aimanima *indosatie i vinya loan. ------------------------- *indosatie n. "resolution, decision" indo "(s...
• WSB1MpWecFT: Ilye maitarín, lindimaitarín, kallonyar vínelmaron, Alan Rickman, David Bowie, Prince, George Michael, Lemmy, nete, nete, nete, nete, nete, ar ilye...
• VgZfjmyrK9h: *Oroparmen Marquette Napána Okombieryanna Arkastaro I *oroparmen nyarne i akámie minya *lerie parmo I Perian. Ta erya parmaron min yo perta *menk...
• Ub5ZdikfkUz: Nér akárie tatallálima emma lossea "helyanweo" hya "hísekúmo" nindatalmasse Rannoch Scotiasse. 'Ta quílenka helyanwe karinwa titta limbaron i karir...
• 4fPHc5rAWTK: +Jim Coish it appears your post about maths can't be commented; I just wanted to note that instead of píca one could possibly simply use the prepos...
• GHYrUGWGRJy: The "Ainulindalë" and part of the "Valaquenta" written in Quenya. http://archiveofourown.org/works/1384744/chapters/2899936%EF%BB%BF ...
• eW4U6iBqYUN: onotinwa, onotinwa, *luntanwa, kirinwa - is this a fair translation of mene mene tekel upharsin? - there is a Gnomish verb luntha- 'balance, weig...
• X9dErpE9jL4: Oath of Feanor in Quenya translation by taenia http://archiveofourown.org/works/1384744/chapters/3718166 Nas cotumo hya meldo, nas ulca hya poica ...
• JEMxS7HcdRc: Hello :) Can anyone translate this in Quenya? "We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treas...
• NLszY983tCx: Urya. Anúrie urya. Nemis sina ré i anúrea Aldearon tensi sina loasse. Télemme mene ar tire latópina tyalie [1] sina lómesse, mal ló i úre vamme. Ma...
• 2tGws68sXTL: Elfling firin. Ninque Nuru utúries. Matt Dinse Sep...
• FRe6ckscvtS: Alta sorno ríke mapa nappayanten vinyamo, karnelya kirisse-harwe i vinyamo kendelenna. Herenyanen i sorno la etélie ta auvíle. A large eagle tried...
• cnPwvATEzkc: Íta waltalima sa i *tamnarána Juno *anwéna Silindonna; enwa, tensi utúlies ar peluvas Silindo ter amna loa atta ar karuvas emmar pa sa ar ránaryar,...
• MyGKLXEevCb: Vinya masse luxo[1] utúlie mancarellor. Ecuva nin care vinye centamnar sina otsolasse quermasse, cé *wilviste mára. [1] EQ 'mud' >> 'clay' ...
• bTBXiasupHK: Manten lingwe *undomatienna. Ar *cemorvar. Severin Zahler ...
• Gy9ZiCzPy4d: Mana estuvalme sina laima? (Digitalis purpurea) 20160627_122954.jpg Mana estuvalme sin...
• W68NiKrZTzW: Maiwion yaime astáre olorinyar telda lómisse. Nánye i falassea ostosse Fowey hyarmenesse Ingilnóreo sina otsolasse. ...
• 5NLwf3Kyv44: nanweneste utúrie *opomeneste
• UYHf6D4g7yL: Tavar ya ece len *loicene rá calca Nolmor autier vinya erma lo vistale tavaro. *Ápente tavar *laimye piryassen andave, epetai i erma 'lignin' ya a...
• 52Uca6yo8Ya: Nas íta ringa rá Nárie (sinome Ilngilnóresse). Quetir i *vilwiste[1] *laukantuva[2] otsolamettasse. Merinyes. Telin kate nótime kentamnar tere i ot...
• bLVwGEez2eS: Yúlan *kaffa yo ilin yo *liste. Sina i nelya kaffa síra. Samin himíte haime kaffan. ...
• 4fRVW9JVcZ1: Aldea ná i vinya Isilya...: - ulya - urda - hiswa - sapsarrima[3] I erinqua *laituvaina[1] engwe ná ta er *mótari[2] nelde lembe tenn' otsolemett...
• ZbLTdr1pJq9: Tensi enequellume enenquellume yurasta ar enenque otornor nar otornasselmasse! (Naite: nótime samir otornor atatye essi) ...
• e1dWTyZemxs: Nótime árillor né *tittaiwi [1] tutúlier tutullier [2] lotarwammanna. Níke, linte, karaiti, maline-morne-ninqui, ta kólime i polinte kape lótello l...
• YXEJ2eK1eTg: Ulya. Íta ulya. Ицхак Пензев May 11, 2016 (18:25) ...
• AToKWgaDnUJ: Man asyuva nin carë (Vin-)Quenya mir quétima lambë? Merin ata carpa Quenyassë as pitya yeldenya. Samin maurë rimbë vinyë quettaiva! +#DadTalksQuen...
• YjWFS1zk1BC: Alla! Ma alasenya ringa yú yasse oialye? Istan sa ringa Víresse lá *aia, mal í eteménen lotarwanna notime *lúmestar yá, kennen nixe laimannar ta i...
• aEMFW7bJU46: Another fandom's Namárie! Á lasta, Susan, mekin. Atohólien in•andor. Lá kavitye mitta. Nantulá sí, hínanya, yanna kenitat kavin. Ter ilye loar tir...
• TATWjhpuspw: +#Alighieri Ter inye men' i•ñwalmea ostonnar, Ter inye men' i•mettencanna naike, Ter inye men' i•vanwa•fírimonnar. In•Axan nár támonyo hendi maika...
• H5wUEnPNJGW: Síra ná Súlimeo Ende. Yéni yá, Brutus nahtane Julius Caesar auresse sina. Ta yéni apa ta, po loaron tuksa yo yuyunque, Querie[1] *verehtane[2] Mady...
• Ygdg5jpeJQ7: Koire utúlie lintie[2] sina loasse - mal nemis i haime notime loallor yá[1]. [1] the second half is supposed to mean "but it seems to be the habi...
• DS5sxWfz3AL: Atarinyo hyarya talerya arákie - kaitas *hlaimardesse. Leryuvantes apa aure atta sillo... Mauya nin lemya arse tere notime otsoli - úvanye entule m...
• dfAYA3i7Wew: mae covennan, eneth nin endy!
• JMGhmxXXP9Z: I need a word for kind (adj). I know S has milui (friendly, loving, kind), but don't know how to convert it to Q. Where could I find rules for tran...
• VcmkuWvTb7L: An attempt at Cantor's diagonal proof. Kombe nanwë•nótion aldótima ná Kítuvalme i•tenna sina alananwa: ta polilme anta nóme lesse ilya nanwa•nóte...
• Qu81ycYrh6e: Íta senda sisse. Illi karaiti... Var elehtielyen? Válye hehta ni :)
• YdUd2no7CZk: So, is Á þek' þak' i karpa, mekin a polite way to say Oh shut up already in Quenya?:) ...
• Wx1uVCz7iLx: I want to write "WHAT I MUST TO DO?" in quenya, is it right in quenya is 'MAN GERIN CAR?' ...
• NPN6psiEPsN: Híse tópa i osto Bath síra. Hentala ter i kaimasambemmo henet amna lá kénan i armarie ampanor. Lasselanta ná náto sisse. ...
• b1fPfAKsyg3: Yárenissilaire[1] ter ilya otsole! Alkarea áre, lauka vista, lómesse kalle, ringa nikse ambarónesse. Ta loa íta mirwa nin. [1] 'old women's summer...
• K1hhbNKHrtP: I tussa ara i pelo lotarwammo sí quanta aiwion arwa luini yo maline lúpi. Estaine titmouse Ingilnóreo lambesse - ma estuvalvet Quenyasse? ...
• CMpNYc6io3D: Apa nótime astali yá eleptanelyen[1] vinya *meldakarie: kentanie. nas ta asyalya karie palta i maksa kén imbi leperinyar, ta kene i karna yulma hya...
• fJk19cwxeQq: Arinesse caimammasse caitalya etulyanen i *cava, epetai uluitanen nótime parmar ar i talan, epetai costanen as verinya. Ma ilvanya aure-yesta. ...
• QwhHJpThCyz: Síra i rea annulla, allunga, ammista ré i laireo mettallo. Merin lemya caimasse ar cenda parma ter ilya ré, hya rie sere. ...
• cxey67e3oF5: Mellyn! I've reserved most of my attention for Sindarin the last five years, so now that I'm dabbling with Quenya (how can I not after PE22?), I re...
• ZY3BkE2khZB: Hi! This is likely something you've already discussed... if so, could you please link me to it? :) I do wonder: what is your position on -lya as a ...
• J9nMmkWz4UN: Here are revisions of the sentences I asked about back in june: Ortuvan hendunya i carindonna (carmonna), i orontion ya lá retë Ortuvan hendunya   ...
• KvCtSCpWvBf: Mai omentaina illi, I would like to ask what is the genitive of nouns ending in -oa, like coa or hroa. For me it's a complicated case because, for ...
• eqYZ19rwQVy: I need some more translation help. I am trying to translate "I will lift my eyes to the maker of the mountains I can't climb." So far, I have "Ort...
• 1oMWSSnChJU: How do I express "The farmer and his two daughters"? The closest i got was this: I rermo ar i seldet ...
• ZSp4jM6C26p: Essenya Inigo Montoya. Anahtiel atarinya. Alye feryaxe firien! ...
• FBWEMLvd77L: I released a small update to the Eldamo lexicon (v0.4.3). I am not planning on releasing updates on a weekly basis, but Tamas Ferencz inspired me t...
• QK8duVXbeUh: I need some translation help! I need a word for "climb." I couldn't find one, or a word for ascend. The only thing I can thing of is lelya in the s...
• L3N6PQqAhmj: Today's random question - does anybody have any idea roughly how many attested Quenya words there? (To the nearest hundred/thousand/delete as appli...
• EkBJZ2N97uH: Anyone know if there's a Quenya word for "Imladris"? I can't find one, and I'm thinking of just translating it into Imbirisse. ...
• 9EenNU7kh9m: Te androiri (firyavear?) uar tai kestal. I Melehte ná alwa óse. ...
• 8T4xKcYPVKM: a distichon Lip-lip-liptar i hloimie quettaryar et i péti Nuhta i luime melin, intye se metta qualit Drip-drip-drip those poisonous words from he...
• jANm31YT3mr: I *kúmakirya Philae nútuva *sóratinwenna 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko síra. Eke lyen kenda i nútie sis: ...
• jHcGzN6hnJ6: I *lindimaitasta Pink Floyd quetir pa enta *lindastanta 'I Síre Ú Metto'. Nas *hon-narcala an *entulcanta ta *lindasta nauva i telda - sinwa, elwe ...
• Ska4rN7thzW: Sí eke lyen menta esselyar Carnilenna - nas waldima, naite? Send Your Name on NASA's Mars Jour...
• 7zchv6Q8PZJ: I was asked to translate some sayings "into Elvish" (no language specified, alas) so I've giving the translations in both Sindarin and Quenya. I'm ...
• 9AAK4zRER2D: I need some translation help: "The women will write songs about their faithful husbands."  Thanks! ...
• 4ThPsRNQnyN: I noa arandur Ingildoro Alistair Darling ar i *silúmea arandur *Escotio Alex Salmond artaquenter noa resse *palancenesse pa i nírina[1] ausatie Esc...
• JQv8hbUKANq: Vávie ve náre nenye. They fit each other as fire fits water. Middle-Earth saying ...
• 71Vn29pmSBH: Ňona ve Nauco mi *satyasambe. "Groans like Dwarf on the loo." Beleriandic saying *satyasambe 'private chamber, privy, loo' ...
• eWS74vcTWoc: I lindimaitari Ingildoro Pink Floyd senuvar vinya *lindasta lasselantasse; The Endless River ('I Síre Ú Metto') esseya nauva. Sasse nauvar lindi he...
• 1n4qn8yzyEj: Ya na karuva nankaruva. "What goes around comes around." Elvish proverb. ...
• 9jtHABJJJYZ: Tana úpahtea, lunguhonda valme yá kenin i (fáre pella) samin loikarenen [copies]* atta i parmo imya (PE19) ! *not sure how to translate this ...
• TRdBUBZTyku: Emya milya, erinqua, lisse firne sira. Nai hiruva súleya sére mi úlanwa quiquie lelya. Melinyel, emya. ...
• Xi9pJ4ibjDX: Helcelanta! Nai lá nancaruvas ilye laimar tarwammasse. Tam...
• Ax6efk7dRpK: Three Galaxies over New Zealand | Astronomy Picture of the Day No, radio dishes cannot broadcast galaxies. Although they can detect them, the above...
• Pbcs9hsq5tq: Sámemme anvanima aure síra sisse mi Derbyshire - lá acca ringa, lá acca úra. Patanemme làr ere yo perta *Mulindo Nallenna, tere lairi, imbi yaxi ar...
• C4PPV9ckHKY: Vinya *etelérie parmo Quenta[1] Yarwinya Penataro tecina lo Arcastar ettuluva lasselantasse sina loava. *etelérie: 'issue, release' [1] uminye pol...
• Mkkt1XkPkbf: Ettul-maquentiër tanar i ëa Ucrainassë vinya sondamo nollo apa i minya corma. Násë "aran tyocolatwa" Péter Porohyenco. ...
• 72JfrW6WtZq: Ulya. Manan mauya sen ulya ilya merendesse? Nainima.
• hVpyeeZP9zv: Vessenya yo ni, namme anwalde, an *mótahautalemma túla véna, *Lemnaresse autuvamme *andustanna Ingildoreo, ostonna Bath; maruvamme tas tere otsole,...
• iNjWBwHHTM4: Ta mára cene illi laimar alála ar losta tarwammase! Lótesse ná ammelda asta nin. ...
• PHec2YNPWRb: Carinya naica. Saunaica. Namin *vilwiste viryuva... sí mistea ette, mal nas sína ta uva lemya andave... ...
• 4MfhZbGgYGR: Íre tullen mardemanna noa, hirnen Arcastaro "vinya" parma Arturo Talantie mí mentacolca[1]. Aiquen ehentanies? Walmea?[2] [1] 'letter (message) bo...
• 3XvxLC73WtB: Alye nyare nin, mane Tuileríve haimi nórelyasse? *Milmardinyasse i neri yalúmesse nelya aurisse Tuileríva nurtaner ca aldar var tussar, ar *nentane...
• es7NNHNfwUU: Mentali Quenyassë uar rimbë sissë… Tamas Ferencz M...
• 1UYSMGrgEJk: Yasse Anar núta síra, a kesta i *sóratinwe Ilmende - quíta nauval mána ar hententuvalyes! How ...
• h85u3qqfz7x: *Wilwiste ná aqua hwiniala silume - noa hrisinye (er mitya), síra Anar cála, as lelya hwesta. Nas ringa, ananta. ...
• JF29Eome5dG: Tule ne die huisse ole niqistine; íne ando ni·sapandie n·niqissa (tyá tiqilindie) raktentar ya nótiende ankassealdas talakūmet. I qanta paliste sil...
• VgcMKSTutN7: Ece tyen tulya i Nauco i parmanna, mal lá ece tyen mauya se paritas. Old Elvish proverb ...
• iNrryiQxWzn: Mista híseo Oiacúma penquanta Carinya síra. +#haiku
• SPxjbhL2fEj: Quilda ar lorda ná nómë sina… Tamas Ferencz Feb 22...
• 8przW93gjwB: Alla! *Wilwiste né acca vanima sina tella otsola-mettasse. Patanemme i ostonna, inye yo verinya, ta mancanemme tamnali ar matso. Noa[1] mótanemme p...
• fFGuP6AA6NY: Two words to ponder: 'exact(ly), right on' - maybe one of the adjectives meaning 'sharp' could be used? 'begin, start sg' Ideas much welcome. +#...
• 2Gr4BpBi4hN: Hrisse termarne ter erinqua aure ostolmasse... Naica. Ilya ya lemya: nixe. ...
• BUS7bkSPpxU: I have become jealous:) of +Fiona Jallings 's excellent Sindarin riddle-thread, so let's do the same in Quenya! For starters here's an (I hope) ea...
• 4Q1oBnKwoi7: Ecénien sina hórista* lo Cicero se Cúcel+: "Cé samil peler** ar parmasan, samil ilya lyen mauya." * citation, quote ** garden, for want of a more...
• SYc9Ed3ErPj: Vea nas hríve ná vaquenta Inglandesse loasse sina. Hrisinyes er erinqua auresse Ringareo, ta sí laimar tuiar et i kemello, ar aiwi lírar tuiléva li...
• 94PZBXDUnRe: Merya Hrístonostare illin! Tamas Ferencz Dec 25, 2...
• Lyjeh3Ywwcf: Nán lasse súrisse. Á tire ni vilie. Fiona Jallings ...
• WC1Pg1mdepg: Ecendielye i nornoremma* I Perian? Anes mára lyen? * 'running picture = film' ...
• isBB5wpkXjK: Tella otsolasse minya hrisse lantane sis yasse marin. Sí er pia losse lemya  - úvalve same lossea Hrístonostare, cítan. ...
• c1UxycdiYsY: mae govannon, does anyone know a good quenya online dictionary? I found a fairly comprehensive sindarin one (made by hisweloke) but I'm more into Q...

Jenna Carpenter

• d3CUuDspq2J: Good news! We have established a Skype chat for Eldarin linguistic discussions! Please join if you also wish to participate! +Christopher Gilson +...
• cXpXeNQdEdi: What do you think are the properties of Ann-thennath, and why? ...
• XZ9Xd8XS8ha: At least at an earlier stage there was still the prefix http://eldamo.org/content/words/word-2252155757.html which would make sense combined with l...
• JMXVcf1m4ZS: +#randomLotRparagraph 'Indeed yes,' said Gandalf. 'Doubly. And is not that strange? Nothing that we have endured of late has seemed so grievous ...
• ER25RmE5Eq6: This is quite interesting :) Tolkien: The Lost Recordings Joss Ackland narrates a sear...
• Dw5uJfojsQE: Some animal names based on their CE equivalents (see PE/21:82): S *celef (deer, stag) kel(e)bē (deer, hind), kelebō (hart, stag) S *naeag (goat) n...
• 79sFEUUtQi7: Is anyone else heading to the Tolkien Seminar in Leeds on Sunday? (http://www.tolkiensociety.org/events/tolkien-society-seminar-2016/) There's a la...
• S7igkFhkJWq: Nen a! nen, ne chuil i 'lanna mael, glanno drass nín ah, panno nin na 'lass ah estel, na dathon tangant ne i-aur dolel. Water oh! water, in life t...
• JrgcsMx4FqJ: Any idea how to express "careful" in S or Q? It is a word that is really missing in my oppinion. ...
• ddkk4pnTYwC: Finnish and Welsh might be related Indo-Uralic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ...
• 5cwTwMwkEDP: So, I keep on trying to learn Sindarin (for many years) but things constantly come up or I have need to focus on something else. My question is ho...
• Xvy9djmSNWN: Two pieces of very tricky derivations. • 'Bone' n.: adha ...
• GFbnxejHkkF: I have a copy of PE22 and it is amazing. It is chock full of marvelous information about Quenya and Early Eldarin verb structures. I've only begun ...
• HqPQZu3q3mD: The most common kind of compound word is what's called "endocentric:" it includes the thing that it is. So a houseboat is a kind of boat; a shoe sa...
• Z9QXKJaXsyg: Continuing the topic: actually, the invocations to Elbereth did work, and it's 21 Celcius outdoors now. So: flee, Winter! Morgothyth adorthornen; ...
• U9TBa81Wfd5: Mathematical linnod of the day. Iladar nodath agor, egel nan Edain carnen. L. Cronecker [Allfather created the Numbers, other (things) are made ...
• ggfWjZ7KgY8: Hogwarts motto, anyone? Behold the linnod of the day! Cíniel faulug lorel, avo echuiad vertho! [Having seen a sleeping dragon, don't dare to wake...
• M1WDLjtpj9C: ns *belchorch "raven" (bel-, corch "crow") * mírchraban "magpie", mîr "jewel" (both from the fondness of glittering things and the conspicuous plum...
• D4Ha2BN3iSo: So a week ago +Hjalmar Holm asked for a Sindarin word for "strange" and I suggested G. elegrin "different, strange" with associated noun G. elm, el...
• aEvdKzQGnTs: Why is it necessary to use the definite article when indicating possessive when one is using a pronoun, like in i ennyn dîn, "his doors", since it'...
• QMavNNmjGZL: I've released version 0.4.5 of Eldamo. The major milestone in this release is that I finished analyzing the Ilkorin/Doriathrin languages. This mea...
• 2kF9UYWxxtr: I've run into the reconstructed S word *fel- "to feel emotion. I have sometimes missed a word for such thing as "it fels like [this or that]". On t...
• fNLNwRt18Ld: Any S word for "rare, unusual" or "weird, peculiar, curious, strange"? ...
• 3k6GnHgjGCn: Hm:) Q. cesta- [þ] vb. “to seek, search for” quest (n.) c.1300, "an inquest;" early 14c., "a search for something" (especially of judicial inquir...
• R9Bb8hTMoio: Is there an attested Eldarin (or other ME language) name for the Milky Way? I have not been able to find any so far - I wonder how Tolkien would've...
• cj1UgBEX4so: I tried to make a word for "sap, resin" with the root KHIM (the thought being of vaurse that sap and resin is sticky and viscous) and the suffix -l...
• MJeKXpgspKv: S (and Q) word for "part, piece" and "partly, to some extent". I thought of using ú-bant for the latter, but that doesn't really help me with the f...
• gHnJCCQ1YNr: Hello,  I apologize if this is not a good forum for asking this question.  I am trying to translate my name into Sindarin.  I have found two words ...
• AuiQwFjNxTU: Hi folks, I've been working on a multi-language Elvish lexicon for some time now, based on an XML data model used to generate entries for individu...
• JGkYsAQjt9T: I found the S reconstruction pess for feather (either on a bird or on a arrow or as a primitive pen, I guess). I think it's from the Q quesse. Does...
• ApSNpW4TJ3d: I thought of a S word for squirrel: oronar (oron tree + nâr rat) and a S word for badger torechor (torech lair and -or acting suffix, as badgers a...
• Ew8g8bfQuos: I thought about a S word for spruce of fir trees (not a specific species, more the genuses or type of trees), i.e. a conical shaped tree. Maybe com...
• 4APJ5aeRww8: +Jenna Carpenter  and I have been chatting about Sindarin pronunciation, and the bit about the pronunciation of the letter I came up, specifically ...
• PQGB615dMRd: Alae, i drenarn o ethrebith i-thindrim o "I Berian: Dagor-i-lebenwaith". Er... sorry, I mean, here you can find the analysis of the Sindarin dialog...
• L3N6PQqAhmj: Today's random question - does anybody have any idea roughly how many attested Quenya words there? (To the nearest hundred/thousand/delete as appli...
• 8gpVz1kvRhW: Announcement: Once we finish the first version of it, we're making it open-source! We're also running out of time, so please donate and/or spread t...
• D68RNKUKrSf: Hello! I was trying to figure out the translation for these lyrics from "Beyond the Forest" and I was wondering if any of you could help. "A, mel...
• JU8ocwFRCq4: +Tamas Ferencz 's translation for "Twelve Days of Christmas" brought me a question... how would be the correct Quenya translation of "merry Christm...
• 6cJoF2YEzYF: mîn i Valrog ah i iâ between a rock and a hard place, between Scylla and Charybdis Sindarin saying +#Sindarin +#idioms   ...
• 9FjWLEt258A: Hereby I am pleased to announce that VinQuettaParma, the new NeoQuenya and NeoSindarin wiktionary, is up and running. The whole thing is very much ...
• JW82r1myR41: I have compiled an Adûnaic - English/English - Adûnaic dictionary, and thought I would share it here (I couldn't find another resource that had alr...
• eiKEif73S7A: This community doesn't seem very busy lately, but I thought I'd link this here on the chance it is of use to someone. I actually came up with the i...
• PCSUNZKJhcK: I'm sorry that I haven't been very active around here lately. I'm kinda scrambling to finish the latest version of my Sindarin textbook before summ...
• eUonKXBgDgJ: This will probably be complete bollox, but. We have the following sentence in the +#TúrinWrapper Area IV in +#VT50 : Sí ?a?l il cem il chem n...
• YCnQboZy2c2: D. Salo on Khuzdúl verbs: http://midgardsmal.com/paradixis/ Paradixis | Midgardsmal T...
• KvvTnyu6d4W: Does anyone else here think the way Elvish languages evolve along with their (original) speakers is kind of... strange?? Like they're immortal but ...
• gmjnYa6MxGU: Carl F. Hostetter has announced on +#lambengolmor that VT 50 is nearing completion and would be available for ordering soon. Apparently PE 21 is al...
• QuVYxsX1Wtx: This one is easy, I'm sure:) Hwinion os im[1], lhûg uguin, le chebin, le nedin, le degin, sui anírog. Man im? [1] as os- is given as a prefix, ...
• cTy91NsLN5Y: Im i *onnad en-úmarth, i enedh e-lûm, ar i vethed e-lû. Man im? ...
• fKZZAdE7KZp: Hey friends! Perhaps you could help me out with this? Pronunciation Guides - Your Input Please...
• HHN2zVZdAFv: Here's an easy one: Lodannen, si ni ú-chebithog; lodo ah im ar le puig ah e-thost vain. ...
• UPzecRG3DSy: Ae ephedidh i eneth nín, gwannon. Man im? Tamas Ferencz ...
• 72HZNj7DgH9: Penin mass ar penin mâr, penin vellon, penin thraw, ir ail im ú-limmidin, celeg na-chaered ribin. Negin chelch ir tôl i thrîw, alagos i chanar nín,...
• c7RrdgXN5RY: Mae, si im... *rembeth hín athgar. Lodon bo 'aear daur, luin, Ir im naer, gelais lín gellui ...
• 9QKqpcWD8sd: Avo nuitho i deilien i Fiona heriant... :) Alae, man dolthar i phith hin?  Medin dhrafn, bo gae *loston, blebin na rovail, vi menel revion, luith...
• G14dxTma7PC: I wonder why most people tend to just care about "late" and "LotR-compatible" material, and despise anything "early" concerning both languages and ...
• CWGr64WYZxi: Mae govannen pengelydh i-lammath! ;) Sí cîw im, dan ú-udulen pen-ist o lam i-thinnedhil. :) Harthon in ethrebith hin edlothiathar. ...
• L5uzGXR6rCh: I was wondering - for no apparent reason - how to express various algebraic operations in Quenya. 2+3=5; atta ar/yo nelde ná (nar?) lempe? 7-4=3; ...
• hNmNR5tgCdS: I've been working on a translation for a while now, (it's not done, but I figured that I could show a few verses now. I Chiril os Salod[1] – The L...
• 2hwZgUrXuYw: Analysis of the non-English lyrics in The Hobbit soundtrack (contributed by David Salo, author of Gateway to Sindarin, and non-English dialogs in t...

Fiona Jallings

• 9H4RQtM6T33: In the course of my Psalmic translations, I came upon an unforseen issue: what would be the future ending of a verb in qu(a)--? The verb miqu- is ...
• WeyhxiDqRMy: Something that has troubled me for a while now is that while social media is really great for stimulating conversations, it is terrible for long, c...
• L5coSCPMVzG: I made a little keyboard to make typing in Tolkien's languages easier! The info is all on this page: https://academy.realelvish.net/keyboard/ ...
• HHpSSChsA6b: Cé matan, cuitan. Cé þúyan, cuitan. Cé yulan, firin. Ma Man nán? ...
• B7QXQAvSCLX: Please comment: > √SER to love nisserme n. a gay woman, lesbian illiserme n. a pansexual woman yuserme n. a bisexual woman láserme n. an asexual ...
• KEs3SFxCvtr: I'm doing it! Please spread the word and hopefully we can fund a whole year's worth of improvements to Realelvish.net! BTW, the banner picture is o...
• gSVbXRT2ut8: I have a long to do list, perhaps you can help me narrow it down? Choose the Projects I Work o...
• JyCB7HEd7Un: Here's a first-draft rendition of my recommendations for tattoo-seekers and tattoo-artists. Let me know if you spot errors or have any comments or ...
• MySA2FxrLPW: I am starting work on a series of articles aimed at seekers, artists, and translators of Elvish tattoos. I am starting it with this quiz, which I h...
• S6SovAg7qVV: I'd like to ask your opinion on some info found in here (https://realelvish.net/pronunciation/sindarin/). As far as I know, LH/HL is more like voi...
• ZcChFHjva6b: This is one of the first things that I posted here! Now you can hear me reading it! (And Lo! my R-rolling has improved!) ...
• 3fvesCvy6uH: Back to trying to make Tolkien's languages more accessible - https://academy.realelvish.net/beta/0-intro.htm (not edited, not spell-checked, curren...
• SG8XJMW2YfP: If any one is in the Seattle area, I am here for Rustycon, and I want to hang out! I am signing copies of my book there! ...
• HRRpCmTN2Gr: Greetings! I'm just wondering what the translation for this is in elvish, the language used, and where I can learn to translate this! ...
• cQu6Y92qhye: If we had an instant chat in Quenya, what messenger would you prefer? None None ...
• JCpuDyPLLPL: I think it is important (1) to find and fill the gaps in the basic vocabulary and (2) make choices on different variations of certain words (like "...
• Dg9fbxfsp2W: One thing that we need to improve as a community is our abilities to add Tengwar, Sarati, and Cirth transcriptions to our websites. It's not possib...
• LKFC4TaotjU: Lookit what I made! What name should I do next? The Surprising History of Lúthien’s Name ...
• YsZP82rYaPs: This is a bit of a speculative post. Amazon recently announced a deal with the Tolkien estate for a Middle Earth TV series. Who knows how long it w...
• f6XpWnxU6Ug: Aiya, nildor! Once I was quite enthusiastic about [Neo-]Quenya. Then I experienced a kind of frustration, having read PE22 and totally lost in its ...
• 26cWvi8YPQt: Greetings! I am quite an enthusiast about the elvish languages (particularly Quenya) and I know there are others out there who are like me. However...
• 8ah1djvSSMa: I'm making a list of things for the second edition of "A Fan's Guide to Neo-Sindarin"! For the...
• aFyMrLspSax: Where did you first begin to study Quenya? None None ...
• NSHgp9tvYek: Was anybody from our community at Omentielva Otsëa, like good Maester Kalimac here? http://kalimac.blogspot.fi/2017/08/omentielva-otsea.html ...
• QdFQ8gf56su: As promised, the slides with the poetic selection to the talk. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8gjHaj7Lr5WZnNINW5ucTltUkU https://drive.google...
• NcWQ4z6SmW4: Meldenye taná! Illí eldeon mélienye! Horan lairi nyarienna! +Roman Rausch +Paul Strack +Fiona Jallings +Christopher Gilson ...
• ZxzMxqJ4AEc: AS hláfweard "master of the loaf" > E lord Q massatur "master of the loaf" > *mastur > E master It's all connected 😉 ...
• 2e9wXEvTbZW: This was a lot of fun to do! https://youtu.be/JjkphPmTJfk A Special Announcement (In Elvish!) ...
• UbsTpcqZrri: "Long will the warriors praise the countries." Here is my translation: "Anda i mahtari laituvar i nóri." Did I do this correctly, because I kinda m...
• H16BFE4zxqv: After a long week of ripping all of the formatting out of the book, the e-book is finally available! ...
• ErfQMsF2MZw: It is done it's done it's done it's done it's done! Hard Copies of “A Fan’s Guide to Neo-Sinda...
• FGtGrDBXz3W: Just searching for a Sindarin word for "nobody", stumbled across uvan, sources given are TI/281,283,314. I have no access to the Treason of Isengar...
• 7TqCgATPU5S: http://academy.realelvish.net/2017/04/05/first-glimpse-of-cover-art/ First Glimpse of Cover Ar...
• V4HdfPkuba1: Any help would be greatly appreciated! Help Rename the Website! (Poll inside!) Teitho ...
• dTZaL3Ta6VZ: I am sooooo tired. Might just sleep a week. Textbook Re-write Complete It’s 1AM, and I...
• Yah5kLfenM5: The Realelvish.net Sindarin phrasebooks are now available in German! Sindarin Phrasebooks Upda...
• cXpXeNQdEdi: What do you think are the properties of Ann-thennath, and why? ...
• iAd19NGaFLT: I în hen delu. Ni *basseril, a bin laew tangadanner i ni fuiar. Ach guion eno. Avon *daved an delos. Limmidin i thîr în na nim a vudas. *Aden i 'wa...
• Dffnsng79Lb: Hey everyone! As a part of my IT apprenticeship I'm planning on realising a kind of elvish resource which I think does not exist yet in a similar ...
• a5jkwCd7rhn: Sindarinists: what do you make of the (plural) forms athof, athab paired with the "usual" 1st sg athon on p167 of PE22? Ephemeral variants? ...
• Qh3m17dsRiJ: A counter-proposition to Jallings' law-words: I'd much rather have it *thain (Q cognate sanye) as "law" and *thaineb as "lawful, law-abiding", than...
• Sv9es65vW4n: Huge updates to Your (Neo)Sindarin Textbook coming this fall! I went into detail in this post on my website, if you're curious. http://your-sindari...
• HMuGLCxVZpM: So I was going through the sentence-syntax lesson, editing it and preparing it for the book, and after working on it non-stop for about 12 hours (f...
• YXxJxqQPcYX: Vi eryn reniant i randír ravaed, ir i roch în na riss hon rithant. (Teilien na phith (egor lam-gonathras) 'ni chîn i newir epheded i 'lim 'R'.) ...
• Lgv7YnigsVs: Reposting my yesterday's discussion with +Fiona Jallings . I think I might have stumbled upon what Tolkien actually was thinking while writing le l...
• 9SZVfvQKo6w: Ah, some productive time I had, pondering on the complexities of Eldarin grammar. Some of the lengthier ideas I am still to release later, when I f...
• GEWj78vLDMo: Any of us in Pitsburgh? Pittsburgh Public Art Office Looking for Klingon, Elvish, and Dothraki...
• Qsh3KqSUapv: Here's a difficult one - how to translate "honor"? I've been thinking of using "name" to refer to reputation, as in "good name/bad name", but I'm ...
• ZT6K87sB1uo: I'm gunna do it. I'm really gunna do it! I'm writing a letter asking the Tolkien Estate whether they'd be opposed to me publishing my Neo-Sindarin ...
• iFu8DLV2iSb: I was translating some quotes from the Jackson films, and faltered when approaching simple questions. I first thought of "Legolas, ma chenir i chin...
• 7thaeLkyp8C: I have just finished a coffee pouch, made out of leather, and thought of writing "coffee" on it. However, we lack a word for that in eldarin, don't...
• aMj9znM23sp: The LotRO Neo-Sindarin Plugin is finally complete and available for download! Details are in the link below. ...
• feFcdwgRtDc: +Paul Strack +Tamas Ferencz +Fiona Jallings Let's have a discussion of those forms here. Please inform me of any additions and possible alternate i...
• UsHWNTaq8Kp: UPDATE 2.04.2016: Happy April Fools' Day! Hello everyone and so sorry for a long period of absence. (Especially to +Ekin Gören who constantly fail...
• TG8mBd7Y37c: I'm making words for "lawful, law-abiding" and "law, rule" in Sindarin. Basing it off of thanya/sanya (from STAN) Quenya, I've got thain/thein for ...
• JSxB7SRjVuN: LOTR, FR, Gandalf twice uses the same words to perform a fire spell. What language are his words? What do they mean? 'The Ring Goes South': Gandal...
• fhdjTBaTtjC: BTW, if you linked to specific pages on my website, you'll have to update the URLs. For example, what used to be: http://realelvish.net/phrasebooks...
• dULwuCBcjDH: We are launched! (Finally!) New Website, Massive Updates None ...
• HjUZE5sENmq: A new feature I propose: a regular +#StoryOfARoot . Today: TĀ, TAγ, TAR, 'tall' and 'stand'. * Late 1930s In the Etymologies, the stem TĀ, ?TAγ 'h...
• 9QU263Q4vJK: Neo-Sindarin word for "to taste" and "taste", based on Quenya tyav- and tyávë and KJAB: cav- and cauf. What do you think? ...
• 7VfBMZ3yRrM: Some possible neologisms/derivations: *itya- "multiply, repeat" *ítea "multiple, manifold" http://eldamo.org/content/words/word-2113203683.html *...
• FM5Ct4qjafi: Based on PE/17, I’ve always thought that S -g is the informal (familiar) 2nd p. sg. verbal suffix, while -dh is the formal (polite) 2nd p. sg. verb...
• ddkk4pnTYwC: Finnish and Welsh might be related Indo-Uralic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ...
• 5cwTwMwkEDP: So, I keep on trying to learn Sindarin (for many years) but things constantly come up or I have need to focus on something else. My question is ho...
• Wx1uVCz7iLx: I want to write "WHAT I MUST TO DO?" in quenya, is it right in quenya is 'MAN GERIN CAR?' ...
• ZzcDZ4L96n8: This news item seems pretty relevant for this community. Middle-earth News – Enter our Tolkien...
• 2Ga7bHCSc31: I need to delegate. I started a new job, and it's full time, and I'm completely exhausted when I get home and EVERYTHING HURTS. I'm seeing a doctor...
• 6e2EzPNJgfX: Hey Quenya wranglers! Is there a negative existence-copula in Quenya? I know that there is "ea" for a positive copula, but i'm unsure about the neg...
• 5yux7m91mDy: At 8:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, I'm being interviewed about my Tolkien-language work, along with a good friend of mine, The Dwarrow Scholar dwarr...
• SeC8N2UJjjj: Hi! I'm unfortunately woefully ignorant of phonology and derivation, so I'm hoping you can help me understand the verb nathla- (to welcome) I've se...
• emTyhvrnXKx: Alright, I finished a small mountain of updates (still have more to go... need to finish rewriting homework assignments and making quizzes) but her...
• 6mFHntFww8x: I'll put up this thread to write down and not to forget the things of most peculiar interest I learned from +#PE22. (And I invite anyone to join!)....
• GFbnxejHkkF: I have a copy of PE22 and it is amazing. It is chock full of marvelous information about Quenya and Early Eldarin verb structures. I've only begun ...
• NpjZqdNViAx: Thorsten Renk's site has just moved to http://www.science-and-fiction.org/elvish/index.html ! Please update your bookmarks. ...
• 4pva3senyMw: +Remi Korben +Matt Dinse +Tamas Ferencz I propose to move into a separate discussion, for we have touched a topic I've been considering on my own ...
• gQpehRPNW3a: Even a respectable institution like Sotheby's can get things wrong... This article in the Mirror got my attention today: http://www.mirror.co.uk/...
• TACRaz6odnw: In case folks haven't seen this, Glǽmscrafu just completely overhauled their site. http://www.jrrvf.com/~glaemscrafu/index.html ...
• 7J7SGaJn8kU: Considering the word "be" in S, what forms do people here use? Are Salo's paradigm found in the Gateway still viable? ...
• NBbHthiCBTm: Metalinnod — quantitative! Long live the accentual verse! Othgoren im i•nadath, linnyd ach alchar uthon. [I have misdone the things, yet I shall ...
• 9WsVRiUHTAi: Could Sindarin preposition be 'as, like' in ben genediad Drannail be somehow connected to Quenya direct speech particle equë 'said' with a derivati...
• fmP7EcgFJr8: Exciting news from Facebook! Timeline Photos - Adam Christensen | Facebook New from Pa...
• ggfWjZ7KgY8: Hogwarts motto, anyone? Behold the linnod of the day! Cíniel faulug lorel, avo echuiad vertho! [Having seen a sleeping dragon, don't dare to wake...
• X4UaDzrRG6n: Once again, if you don't find much metric poetry in Sindarin, go and write yourself. This time, the rhythm is retained, not a single line or syllab...
• G7XM8FEba4s: Hi everyone! Remember that kick-starter a while back? Well, this is the sort of website you can make with it! Below is a link to a translation of T...
• Ej4QoMacHkT: Working on the Sindarin Dual Plural some more, based on some helpful comments by you guys. I'm having difficulty with words that would have ended w...
• 2kF9UYWxxtr: I've run into the reconstructed S word *fel- "to feel emotion. I have sometimes missed a word for such thing as "it fels like [this or that]". On t...
• fNLNwRt18Ld: Any S word for "rare, unusual" or "weird, peculiar, curious, strange"? ...
• EVfZQdmZpAe: NS ed- + toltha- --> etholtha-, "take away, make come out, remove something, move something". ...
• JBkWEvXn6US: I was wondering if anyone has any interest in Khuzdul? I know some things about it, namely that it's based on semetic languages, has an "old" and "...
• HS8xn8eq8BP: The completed Pronouns and Quenya Cases lists are up. Thanks for the corrections everyone! (Especially with Quenya!) Here's the announcement with a...
• TmpAFJC4ZGh: 3/12/15 - 1 T...
• KDjhhYZ8T5g: mawedh, "glove", inspired after the English etymology of "glove" Proto-Germanic *ga- “collective and associative prefix” + Proto-Germanic *lōfô “fl...
• HYNHiAVxFEM: I'm making a quick reference chart of Neo-Quenya and Neo-Sindarin pronouns, as well as a quick reference chart of Neo-Quenya case suffixes. Before ...
• AuiQwFjNxTU: Hi folks, I've been working on a multi-language Elvish lexicon for some time now, based on an XML data model used to generate entries for individu...
• J9S26syWgpK: I have a question on copyright that couldn't be resolved by googling it all over the net :), so I would be happy to hear your thoughts. Let's say ...
• 4APJ5aeRww8: +Jenna Carpenter  and I have been chatting about Sindarin pronunciation, and the bit about the pronunciation of the letter I came up, specifically ...
• CETvFafFa8s: I'm trying to make a Sindarin cognate for the Quenya word cesta-. Taking it back to its root, it'd be KETH+TAA. I've been looking for an analogue t...
• Q9cHXtTT4Gg: It is completely funded, by 160%! Thank you everyone! If you want in on the brainstorming for this tool, we have a forum: http://sindarinlibrary.bo...
• EkBJZ2N97uH: Anyone know if there's a Quenya word for "Imladris"? I can't find one, and I'm thinking of just translating it into Imbirisse. ...
• WhgmdwBzWjw: Reconstructing a word for "choice" in Sindarin. We've got *cil-, which is deduced from /cilme/ in Quenya, borrowed into Sindarin without changes.  ...
• 8qRm46A2dkQ: Edro i chin lîn    open your eyes Tiro nin               watch me Avo bedo           don't speak ...
• 8gpVz1kvRhW: Announcement: Once we finish the first version of it, we're making it open-source! We're also running out of time, so please donate and/or spread t...
• 4nYMwwsiAio: Guys! Check out what I'm helping with! The reason I jumped into this project wasn't just because of Sindarin - I saw this as a way to make it easi...
• YZSnaXHms39: I'm making a new section for my Quenya phrasebook on weather. How would you translate "It's raining" in Quenya? In Sindarin(Noldorin) it's "it pour...
• 9NCpTTavt18: Hello, I am very new here, so forgive me for not having the fonts correct for the translations from English to Quenya.. :-( I am trying to make su...
• 7zchv6Q8PZJ: I was asked to translate some sayings "into Elvish" (no language specified, alas) so I've giving the translations in both Sindarin and Quenya. I'm ...
• RMdHwCCrh1W: Hi guys! I'm revisiting another of my lessons in my Neo-Sindarin textbook. Since the last time it went so well,  I submit to you another chapter fo...
• DWGEB4e1qXt: Don't you just love it when you read an article in Vinyar Tengwar, and the editors mention something like in an essay on this-and-this found in a b...
• PrgkpVhkMRq: "still, quiet" in Sindarin: Fiona suggests *pell from QL qilda (cp. PE21's qilir), but I might like something a bit later that might not clash wit...
• JgJhj8AyyRS: "If". Got a few words in Quenya, "cé/ce", "qui"... the mysterious "aiquen", and the older "mai". The Neo-Sindarin words are lacking, I think. "Ae" ...
• 4QLPpk695ET: I was looking for a word for "hearth", and found the Quenya word "ruimen". Then I looked it up in its context, and found the untranslated Sindarin ...
• MRN6bEobbkj: Is there an "official" list of semantic categories of words we should use when tagging the entries? ...
• JRyw6Uj5pof: So, I've been playing with some ideas for sections. What do you think of these new ones: Pronunciation and Prestanneth (Sindarin only) and includin...
• S1Se4pDrmm5: 'agree', 'approve', 'consent to' in Q? *olav- 'yield mutually'? ...
• PZaXp8VQRZV: A long, long time ago I made the Neo-Sindarin word *maega- 'to kneed, soften' based off of the root MASAG. I now see that it was a big mistake.How ...
• QomgrhctcvR: I hope you guys have seen that +Fiona Jallings has started to add NeoSindarin neologisms in their drones! Thanks Fiona. ...
• Vtsck9xPNbT: Concerning loanwords in NeoQuenya +Kevin B Walsh and I have been having a very interesting discussion via email over the past few days about neolo...
• 3exvBNp4wKU: To VQP Editors: - when you log in to the wiki, please take time to review any new entries/pages that have been added since your last visit (an eas...
• 8VH9wdWkN27: Hey Guys! I'm trying a little experiment. Before you start editing the spreadsheet, READ THE COMMENTS! If you share this link with others, tell the...
• TNB4TQuFsfX: I vír nin. Gyűjteményem/ my collection ...
• GrwKS567ZfJ: Just saw this: "This Page has been removed at the request of the Tolkien Estate." WHAT??? Why? Anyone know? ...
• CrF7RGhAct7: This is a link to the new version of my lesson on plurals in Sindarin - can you spot any mistakes? Tell me please! ...
• jModSfp9PQ7: *Emmin chwand a salab. Hervess nín a hên nín mad aes. Thiar maer. *ab- cook used in The Hobbit: The Unexpected Journey (Extended Edition). +#si...
• EfsKW71FTCA: Gwinig nín mad rem. Aníra salph. Annan gwinig i halph. +#sindarin ...
• DxTeW5SxY9b: I wrote another poem in Sindarin: Ollas nin oh Auth   I ûl osp cân annin vîn ely nîn. Cenin anin ‘Rûn, anin mâr e-dawarwaith i noss vîn. Lith haer ...
• 8ox5JXqgQBs: I wrote a list of new words from VT 50. Can you spot any errors or missing words in it? Oops, ...
• Me5kyQ73AgF: So I was half asleep on the way home, and thinking about my Pathfinder character Lennel, who's a bard, and came up with a silly pun/play on words. ...
• GP9Dw3oJpqu: I was contemplating the following snippets last night (after safely making it home, though still groggy and probably not firing on all cylinders ye...
• 24K6xkAu5ZG: Omentielva Lempea organises a Quenya / Sindarin haiku contest. Please check the home page of Omentielva for the rules. http://www.omentielva.com/h...
• DbVF4ii9cWv: Ai mellyn! I need help, money help. The long and short of it is that my website's files are trapped on a broken harddrive, and it'll cost $1299 to ...
• fCBGUb5CiXG: Someone stop me - I'm beginning to think that Sindarin a perfect and imperfect past tense system... based on the given conjugations of 3 words: Car...
• aga44eAEabA: I've been analyzing Sindarin tenses a bit, as I write homework assignments, and something occurred to me. In Sindarin: b>v>w /_# m>ɱ>v>w /_# But ...
• WJBmqRWUtB9: Mae gevennin, gellyr i laim edhellin. Im Leonard od i Vellonath Daeron. Melin i lam Thindrim ar i lam Ódhellim, ar harthon i hirithon had na had he...
• Qi1uFLGAgEA: Sîr, tirithon Nîr Angren adh i mellyn în. Hwinion! Måns Bj...
• gKNWz3EKRiu: Vi mardor nîn, n’Orbelain, i chîr amarthant i veleth an Tâd Dîr egor Tâd Diss ú-thrugar! Ni ness i vêl niss egor nîr, ar ni ro-‘lassui! Pedo nin, m...
• PCSUNZKJhcK: I'm sorry that I haven't been very active around here lately. I'm kinda scrambling to finish the latest version of my Sindarin textbook before summ...
• eNBUERhhRJ6: So, I just got VT50 in the mail. The amount of cool stuff in it is amazing, but so many question marks.... this will take a while to sort out. ...
• eUonKXBgDgJ: This will probably be complete bollox, but. We have the following sentence in the +#TúrinWrapper Area IV in +#VT50 : Sí ?a?l il cem il chem n...
• DmCskGMS9nM: I have typed up an alphabetized word index (words, affixes, roots) for PE19 and thought I would share it with you all: http://www.lotrplaza.com/sh...
• hLkBXUnx8KW: Has anyone heard of "Fantasy & Sci-Fi Linguistics Association"? I can't seem to find any info on them. ...
• gmjnYa6MxGU: Carl F. Hostetter has announced on +#lambengolmor that VT 50 is nearing completion and would be available for ordering soon. Apparently PE 21 is al...
• CLQK9DD7Krm: There are a lot of errors that I need to fix from the extremely useful stuff you guys have been pointing out in the other thread, but the hypothese...
• Wa42VzXqMiL: Try out this Sindarin tongue-twister: Cabor laba lavan. Lavan lala, a lobor laba i gabor! ...
• fKZZAdE7KZp: Hey friends! Perhaps you could help me out with this? Pronunciation Guides - Your Input Please...
• BUS7bkSPpxU: I have become jealous:) of +Fiona Jallings 's excellent Sindarin riddle-thread, so let's do the same in Quenya! For starters here's an (I hope) ea...
• G14dxTma7PC: I wonder why most people tend to just care about "late" and "LotR-compatible" material, and despise anything "early" concerning both languages and ...
• 2nqvgQQtn2d: Elendilion – Tolkienowski Serwis Informacyjny » Blog Archive » G-i-P Report: Complete analysi...
• UswMfJCrq65: (a riddle for you) Ae mellonath! Sîr, evennin aew veleg a thûg od Amériga. Ir evennin i aew, ni lom a phant! Sí ídhron postad. Man i aew? ...
• Lyjeh3Ywwcf: Nán lasse súrisse. Á tire ni vilie. Fiona Jallings ...
• hNmNR5tgCdS: I've been working on a translation for a while now, (it's not done, but I figured that I could show a few verses now. I Chiril os Salod[1] – The L...
• eqY9Afp5Ubb: I also should introduce myself: I'm Maike Luthien (incidentally, both are my real christian names) and somehow the link to this circle (?) popped u...
• WC1Pg1mdepg: Ecendielye i nornoremma* I Perian? Anes mára lyen? * 'running picture = film' ...
• FjNkw1ke2gV: Ae! I'm new to Google+, and heard about this place on Elfling. You may know me as dreamingfifi of realelvish.net. How is everyone today? ...
• 2hwZgUrXuYw: Analysis of the non-English lyrics in The Hobbit soundtrack (contributed by David Salo, author of Gateway to Sindarin, and non-English dialogs in t...

Måns Björkman

• JyCB7HEd7Un: Here's a first-draft rendition of my recommendations for tattoo-seekers and tattoo-artists. Let me know if you spot errors or have any comments or ...
• d3CUuDspq2J: Good news! We have established a Skype chat for Eldarin linguistic discussions! Please join if you also wish to participate! +Christopher Gilson +...
• arR4gWq1vG3: Two, possibly simple, questions to Quenya experts. 1. How do you make a genitive out of a gerund? matie-o? matio? matyo? (Same for adding -uva to ...
• AeLwcfJkVH9: With PE 22, LSV4 (page 151) in mind, ebe- "can of mere possibility according to likelihood, natural probability" as root for NeoS * eb-, i-verb, us...
• EEK66bS7uRB: +Måns Björkman has added an analysis of the "later or Westron convention, in its northern variety" to his Amanye Tenceli website. ...
• 12wABdwM182: I apologize in advance if I post a lot of newbie questions, but I searched the posts here and didn't see an answer to this question; is there a com...
• XTjeaNwgFL1: Did I see one of Måns Björkman's Sarati fonts used in this video? http://www.theonion.com/video/the-onion-reviews-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-sma...
• Qi1uFLGAgEA: Sîr, tirithon Nîr Angren adh i mellyn în. Hwinion! Måns Bj...
• 2hwZgUrXuYw: Analysis of the non-English lyrics in The Hobbit soundtrack (contributed by David Salo, author of Gateway to Sindarin, and non-English dialogs in t...

Laurinda Gallant

• 5Ur6JzCuJ2k: Hi All! I will probably not be much of a contributor to this group, but I will definitely be lurking in the back ground, reading your posts. Nai An...

G. Hussain Chinoy

• 8ccgrHhgSTY: I've release v0.5.4 of Eldamo. Now that PE22 is done, I gone back to working on earlier material. I finished up some left overs in PE12, and made ...
• 79sFEUUtQi7: Is anyone else heading to the Tolkien Seminar in Leeds on Sunday? (http://www.tolkiensociety.org/events/tolkien-society-seminar-2016/) There's a la...
• hLJk5PWYXiq: Benjamin Babut has release a new transcription tool on the Glaemscrafu web-site: Glaemscribe. It is extremely nice (link below). He also has an AP...
• H8Tz3JJw1Ec: The Elvish Writing Systems of J.R.R. Tolkien by Matt Coombes — Kickstarter None ...
• WJFLHZDGKmx: Mellyn! I do love eldamo as much as the rest of you guys, so I've been working hard to try to import its XML data source into Parf Edhellen. Today,...
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• M6Yohp6MDzC: Carl Hostetter just published some interesting words. "... glossary of Elvish terms (some previously unattested) encountered in a collection of la...
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• 54S5sjuB4Z7: Psalm 3 in Parmaquesta Third and last example — for the time being — of my ongoing translation of the Book of Psalms. This one may be of higher in...
• 3mYvdAEq1G5: I have started translating the Book of Psalms into Quenya, and more specifically Parmaquesta. As I don't read Hebrew, unfortunately, I checked a nu...
• 5nppWceZiBd: Though both are listed as Middle Quenya forms at Eldamo, is the verb lah- from LAKH possibly a later/newer item than manka- from MBAKH (in the Etym...
• 1AFoNqFVJ4Z: morna ve orko *katassa mi felko "as dark as an orc's arsehole in a cave" Gondorian catchphrase *katassa: ka/kata 'behind, at back of place' + a...
• gKj5F62QFZw: The next +#1000words entry is gas. I recently coined the word *kumma from KUM, based on the etymology of the international word gas. Any other (p...
• aQBXFxzQnB6: The next +#1000words entry up for discussion is example. My first idea is *hókilme "outtake, selection". ...
• 9WrXJNLBNvm: Concerning the Eldamo entry +#pec "nut": shouldn't this be +#pet (pec-) as we see with other Q nouns with stems ending in [k]? +Paul Strack ...
• TBExZWGdhU9: This words analysis has to do with negations. It is a problem that has been hashed to death, and in terms of the historical analysis I have little ...
• HPskg5fcrGY: This word analysis is focused on the Eldarin roots having to do with “go” and “walk”, centered around three canonical Elvish words: Q. avánier “has...
• JpiEKgzSHC5: I am still working on how to handle neologisms in Eldamo. One issue I have is there are a number of “well accepted” neologisms that I think should ...
• c63aYnAi5UK: Ilye hroar nenna sumbaine lungieltallor imya hehtar ve i ló te tínen etenírina neno lungie. Ilye engwi lemyar mi sére hya mi téra, vórima menesta ...
• BpnGRGQSGdc: Since I am starting to work more seriously on assembling a coherent Neo-Eldarin vocabulary, I thought I should articulate the approach I intend to ...
• 58CWiZ62WKB: Samin Isilya-lumbe. Sinome háman opo nonwanya, mauya men moia, lanye. *Hentópanyat lunge; sanarinya hísea; uiúlien yulmali *kofio quanta, la káre m...
• cfJ8ngEERt5: I am exploring the conflux of Eldarin words having to do “man/woman, husband/wife, bride/groom”. In Quenya, I think Q. nér “man” is quite well est...
• VzU2c5yV36k: Throwing in a few words to munch on: surprise recognize to get to know, acquaint get, acquire ...
• QMNj7kxeH68: Possible Quenya linear measurements? UPDATED lár a league; 3 miles *larnelesta a mile; 1 mile (> NQNT) rangwe a fathom; 6 feet ranga a yard; 3 fee...
• RWLi5paEPwE: If qua is "something, a thing", and -sta is "close grouping", could *quasta be "group"? ...
• eXiNcPeEnjC: "trousers, pants" NQ *rotset? cf. E hose, G Hose? Ras Al...
• NhCSrJ2wRhg: Do you think the idea behind ahtumat may have been that it is the 'worker's meal', meaning the main meal for those who usually work through the day...
• H7YjoduGuPc: More Eldamo beta stuff. I’ve sort of got the mobile navigation how I want. The vertical view is working for me, but the landscape view looks bad on...
• QuCraX47oTi: Síra í métima ré yas nauvan Formenya Karolinasse: auviluvan sinyesse. Lauvas arra, an túliéva, feluvan ata sinye náse, ono tenta rie ingare... Nami...
• RXKYiVBhD3y: Observation of the Day aka Certainly News to Me: Its temporal antessive use in http://eldamo.org/content/words/word-1029560541.html would indicate...
• fv9KjeomqSn: Putting the problem out here as well, for folks who are less 'instant ', like myself: verbs for "to buy" and "to sell"in Quenya. ...
• FH1FnhhK2Mx: I'm experimenting with a new search page for Eldamo. The beta is here: http://eldamo.org/beta/content/search/search.html The major changes are: ...
• 3fvesCvy6uH: Back to trying to make Tolkien's languages more accessible - https://academy.realelvish.net/beta/0-intro.htm (not edited, not spell-checked, curren...
• cvY6jd4tQvn: A conceptual question. We know that in Q adjectives can act as nouns (A Vanimar etc.). Would you agree that the same concept could be true for adj...
• 7dCAtnDAd7A: Ambar né ufárea Melehta Alexanderen, mal i noire láne. Juvenalis ...
• G4AHbsTQpVw: Fasta nin, an akávien (have succeeded) kame *mittahyalin (entry-paper, ticket [rather clumsy, any better ideas?]) atta i *tyalmardenna (tyalmard-, ...
• FGsSUtJpr2L: Síra ménen kame keura lendalávanya (passport) [1]; fastalima vanta né: síra lauka lá noa, i hrisse tikune [2] astasse mal i maller lá níti; ente An...
• 4yNJM1MdAox: I hrissea Budapest as i síre Anduna, kénina (kenna?) atarinyo henetello, sí. 16/01/2018 ...
• XjR26vcvAX3: I am in the middle of a major overhaul of the Eldamo data model to reflect its new “dual mission” of both (1) describing Elvish as Tolkien wrote it...
• E1PU4oPEo7D: Síra lelyan Matyarnórenna; sinye nauva tenna utúliévan. Alassea nán sa enkenuvan atarinya, mal lá mára nin i quanta lenda keluva (will flow = last)...
• 7SpsgEPRQtN: Suggestion: *virda "variant" (cf. Gn. brigli); *karpavirda, lambevirda "dialect". Looking at the discussions on discord we will need a word like t...
• UVUfNC4Kdvn: After your post on losing and lost, I wondered if the phrase for I lost x could be "vanwa nin...x Using the same structure as Ecce nin...x and ...
• 9Z6kwWVB3tn: I fasta hesto apsa as i kapsa as i apsa nan apta lepta i silma yulma to i talma. ...
• ZizdPiHQYTG: Valarya nauváne alassea an otsola-metta anya, ananta félan lunga. Askénie (obviously) lá aþya sa hiswa ava, lumbuli lumnar i vilyasse, ilquáresse i...
• Cpm7uUGKkff: Er erinqua lé ea nwalya i nér yello illi avánier: á nananta sen ma hastaina. "There's only one way to hurt a man who has lost everything: give him...
• CUnXt294SJU: A word for "minute", I beg you! All I can imagine is smth like nilco (nilcu-) ...
• RVhhNDCkrn4: Need a word for an non-causative "join (v)". Tamas Ferencz...
• DV8JZrXqd4W: *Arinwatenna (for breakfast) manten massa yo úle, lingwe usquenen *vortaina (preserved, made lasting), ar kolosta; yúlen *kulorvo (of tomato, golde...
• RYFZKaFMcK6: For "puppy", what would roa + -ince become? Ravince? Or would huo + ince become huince? ...
• TWz8WEgXJyd: Merya nostarë Arcastaro! Tamas Ferencz Jan 03, 201...
• EAqiLzLU928: Culuma (culu-ma) is orange; could malma (mal-ma) be lemon, and laingwa (laic-ma) be lime? ...
• 66ZNVytFcA1: We now have a Discord Server! Please join us following this link: https://discord.gg/Dhmyzrf For those who don't know, Discord is a messenger appl...
• gfPcv2tD8Ae: Since my wordlist is provisionally suspended, I want to make inquiries about particular words here. My first question is "sausage"! How will you ca...
• YzRfuhcXLgh: “A Study in √rō/oro” Tá Yavanna *alassea, ar tolunes, ortaila rankuryat menelda, ar quentes: ‘Orwe oryuvar orni Kementário, *itan Soroni i Arano e...
• WYoafgAaZcg: I am just wondering how do you say "fun" in Neo-Quenya? Can we make smth usable from EN. gairuid? ...
• hHUHw9gS8g3: Merya Mettare Len, Meldonyar! Ekin Gören Dec 31, 2...
• PFgSQyJoiqy: +Ицхак Пензев Yitzik, your latest post and list of words has inspired me to start something similar (and I do not want to hijack your dictionary ...
• iU1dqDYwN7k: I've finished Release 0.6.0 of Eldamo. This release has nearly all of Tolkien's attested word forms from the existing published material. Only a fe...
• XUZxsExUtmv: I said I'd post more about “what's next” for Eldamo, so here it is. Given my recent posts, it’s no secret that I think we need a generally improve...
• LqCcqGNpqcT: One could think that adapting Quenya for modern age is difficult because of science and technology. Yet it seems that the "weak link" is in the com...
• gqYh46zCZ2w: Is there any definite solution of √KOY vs. √KUY problem? I'm under impression that the Professor hesitated till the very end. ...
• 6sc3m2Xf38h: I am thinking about changing how I use the certainty markers in the Eldamo data model. Right now I have these markers: None - the word appears in ...
• HQ9vgWsYuCP: Just out of curiosity: What is "The Last Jedi" in Quenya? I know that this might be an impossible translation, because Jedi probably isn't accounte...
• fv7ybPk7sVB: men- 'go, proceed'+ -ma 'implement' > *memma 'vehicle'? Pa...
• 8ghCj45SzZ2: An koranallor nelde Disney milyave leryane i vinya Elenye Ohtar *menemma (moving picture) ara (around) nostarenya, olólie haimenna sa tirimme i vin...
• PzoLuccRdUP: Laqui loinamin, coantur hosto sino samë nostarérya síra. Valima nostarë, +Tamas Ferencz! getty...
• GqJXkMznaar: For Q chatting it would seem fitting to have a Q word for the English language. There is the very early Q word Ingilnóre "England" that seems based...
• 77YsVzqGaNc: Lungo hrísa Kievessë. I caltengwa carna ara i pustalë *nutalamna angamallëo ("metro") lá haiya coanyallo. ...
• 1ujxZD7ao7t: Atalatyanente (atalatanyente?) Ambaro anyára parmakoa. I koranari amna min húme lempe tuxa linyenwa ampano tare Kemetesse (Hakapta? Egypt, see http...
• bfvsgb5muFX: This is a rough draft of a translation of the famous excerpt from Carl Sagan’s lecture on the Pale Blue Dot. I’ve experimentally used Parmaquesta (...
• YPGS11aav1v: Kesyalima ná ma laimyave lie aistar Hristonostare/Turuhalme sinome Ingilnóresse ar mélamarinyasse (Madyarnóre). Madyarnóresse quéni ortar i Turuhal...
• jQ598gy2h1c: Sina i sulpa porcelleva ya manten síra. IMG_20171214_160456.jpg Sina i sulpa porcellev...
• cQu6Y92qhye: If we had an instant chat in Quenya, what messenger would you prefer? None None ...
• UdPCjHgmyLf: Tiruvan Elenye Ohtar, Toldea Asta - I Telle Yedir Isilyasse, olean walda ve hína 😊 ...
• 3aEfARitrb1: Ehentanien sa Atan naike entuluva Isilenna rongo. Awalda nán - Untale Isilenna né nessenyo alta autas ya tirnen palantiresse. ...
• 1fy8gkStkSe: Mai - ta menya "losse hríve" lemenye aure atta, ar tensi avánie... Namarie, losse hrisse, alla, ulo! ...
• JCpuDyPLLPL: I think it is important (1) to find and fill the gaps in the basic vocabulary and (2) make choices on different variations of certain words (like "...
• jnpAHFpNmMz: Hrizya. Namin minya lómisse nótime loallor, hrizya - haura, tiuka hrissequessínen. Nas tensi tál-núra. Maxuvan massa síra. Senyave maxan ta mastan...
• MtnGqRR3kAP: This is a hypothetical question to those of you who know more about programming than me - I myself amused myself a bit with some little Python year...
• AZqD6wAPivt: How would you say "forget" in Q? lerya sanarello? hehta sanarello? Gnomish has this very interesting root: ...
• XDkLpY6zZ2N: What do you think, friends? Shall we base our Neo-Quenya reconstructions on the latest ideas of the Professor found in his draft notes, or give adv...
• Txg7b2pm88V: Ta enwa koivie Hya er intyale? *Kentaltasse raina Anwiello la rehtie Á latya hendutya Hellenna amtira, á kene, Nán er úna yondo, la merin ófelme An...
• D8THNhsWv4A: Telyanen i Eldarin tië online métimavë! Epë parië atta loain ar perya, polin quetë ambi quettar sa sanan pollen úne parne. Sí merin parë rimba ambë...
• AjYcybmiRHy: OK: our word or words to ponder for today is: though, although, albeit ...
• YsZP82rYaPs: This is a bit of a speculative post. Amazon recently announced a deal with the Tolkien estate for a Middle Earth TV series. Who knows how long it w...
• TW7RvyTFQdv: Does anyone have a clue whether there's any possibility of obtaining the many out-of-print Parmar Eldalamberon? Or are there any digital copies aro...
• R7BaHWpSaXL: Andanéya, harunya quente nin quenta: Roquen atta yestat sé lár atta. Ilya roquen norta i exenna min lár ilya lúmesse. Pí yesta min roquende ar vil...
• Eg6ssijnewT: ‘Malo olanetye lunganna, lótenya? ’Ammilke maquali leptaner ni síra.’ ’Manen athyuvan tyen *itan nauval merya?’ ’Nai netyuvan ta nette ye tá lilta...
• f6XpWnxU6Ug: Aiya, nildor! Once I was quite enthusiastic about [Neo-]Quenya. Then I experienced a kind of frustration, having read PE22 and totally lost in its ...
• QdCsvTWkwjd: Hi, new here. I would love to learn Quenya, I downloaded the text book of the net, but I always have a hard time sticking with it from a lack of ot...
• NTZa3iG2Zex: Word proposal: Q *minome adv., prep. + Gen. "instead, in place of, in exchange for" ...
• iD3qrrFkCn4: I wonder if they will release the lyrics somewhere.. for public benefit. https://calvertjournal.com/news/show/8273/elvish-opera-to-be-performed-in...
• CeviBfv34Ti: Lá onnaya lá yarontarerya Lá onórorya lá nilmorya Lanye aiqueno Lanye aiqueno Nanye, ve illi: tárie, Forn’ aikasse, *nulme, *aquasatie, Néka, vahá...
• cdwX8SCqC6f: Someone put up a question on another forum whether there's a word for "fool, foolish" in Quenya,and it got me thinking. There are the EQ noun and a...
• RUMDRQCDvEV: How would you guys say "side" (noun) in Eldarin? Ицхак Пе...
• YbidHefwM3t: Ondosulpa   Yalúmesse nessa rando rananye tere i nóre. Úna yo alaherenya nés, ar *lillume la póle hire mólome ar patane tere ilya aure ú matiéva. E...
• RBmnT8kkwai: To swim. Early root LUT, "to float" exists, but from it is derived lunte/lunt "boat" in Q and S, and lhoda- in N. The latter could be used for S, ...
• PgCxUZkW4bp: MEL: A-verb or I-verb? We see CE melā- in PE22/095;130;134 Also ᴹQ meláne in LR/061 Yet Q shows melin etc. in VT49/15;21 +Александр Запрягаев seem...
• bTBXiasupHK: Manten lingwe *undomatienna. Ar *cemorvar. Severin Zahler ...
• Gy9ZiCzPy4d: Mana estuvalme sina laima? (Digitalis purpurea) 20160627_122954.jpg Mana estuvalme sin...
• UYHf6D4g7yL: Tavar ya ece len *loicene rá calca Nolmor autier vinya erma lo vistale tavaro. *Ápente tavar *laimye piryassen andave, epetai i erma 'lignin' ya a...
• DiPNjkXeCSS: Well, if we lack a word, we either (1) paraphrase, or (2) derive, or (3) reconstruct. That's clear. But what shall we do, if we have two or three o...
• 7thaeLkyp8C: I have just finished a coffee pouch, made out of leather, and thought of writing "coffee" on it. However, we lack a word for that in eldarin, don't...
• Jvwuv8kfpCb: Looking for simple ways to express the following adverbs in Q (or S, for that matter): at all (al)though at least ...
• e1dWTyZemxs: Nótime árillor né *tittaiwi [1] tutúlier tutullier [2] lotarwammanna. Níke, linte, karaiti, maline-morne-ninqui, ta kólime i polinte kape lótello l...
• 9hcuYrDoJmy: Ivistien i tehta mir +#DadTalksQuenya, an i selyë hinna quilda ná. [I've changed the tag into "DadTalksQuenya, for my daughter still is silent.] ...
• BbyVbyydA1C: Intrigued by the Verbal Adjective xiéte "passing, impermanent" from PE22:155 (LVS7), as root for this one SKEY is given, what may be the verbal ste...
• FA5KaEPUoDh: If somebody wants to help me in my experiement wherein I am trying to talk a little bit Quenya to my daughter Rina (3 and a half yo), please post y...
• 6hhaSePSvvV: Trying to correct a mistake. According to QL:49, "culmarin" turned out to be a mere "orange (fruit)". Shall we call tomato *malmarin, then? ...
• YXEJ2eK1eTg: Ulya. Íta ulya. Ицхак Пензев May 11, 2016 (18:25) ...
• AToKWgaDnUJ: Man asyuva nin carë (Vin-)Quenya mir quétima lambë? Merin ata carpa Quenyassë as pitya yeldenya. Samin maurë rimbë vinyë quettaiva! +#DadTalksQuen...
• YjWFS1zk1BC: Alla! Ma alasenya ringa yú yasse oialye? Istan sa ringa Víresse lá *aia, mal í eteménen lotarwanna notime *lúmestar yá, kennen nixe laimannar ta i...
• eefMxunKdsp: Reconstruction of QVS pronominal affixes in verbs Basic concept: S prefix>V tense-infinitive>S number marker (r final/l medial/n 1st person object...
• feFcdwgRtDc: +Paul Strack +Tamas Ferencz +Fiona Jallings Let's have a discussion of those forms here. Please inform me of any additions and possible alternate i...
• ThqYXGPpjPt: It is always a headache to navigate in PE17 trying to understand which texts are simultaneous and to which conceptual eras they belong. Here is my ...
• ZrTBvPxP8WX: What a fantastic adventure it would be to start a similar experiment and teach Quenya in a nursery school. It would be exciting to see how the lang...
• H5wUEnPNJGW: Síra ná Súlimeo Ende. Yéni yá, Brutus nahtane Julius Caesar auresse sina. Ta yéni apa ta, po loaron tuksa yo yuyunque, Querie[1] *verehtane[2] Mady...
• FD5EugHYgaZ: Merya yo herenya vinya loa illin! Lőrinczi Gábor ...
• LeFR7FmDRRy: Have you already decided for yourselves how exactly are we going to resolve the question Tolkien himself left in a muddle: the prepositions/adverbs...
• arR4gWq1vG3: Two, possibly simple, questions to Quenya experts. 1. How do you make a genitive out of a gerund? matie-o? matio? matyo? (Same for adding -uva to ...
• J9S26syWgpK: I have a question on copyright that couldn't be resolved by googling it all over the net :), so I would be happy to hear your thoughts. Let's say ...
• i2HPLGKqUHA: Some time ago, and I think it was in this community, I was asking about how to express 'against' in Quenya. I am unable to find the post now. Anywa...
• 7X2jcbdx46q: Over on the blue social network Isaac has been looking for NQ words "sugar", "potty", "delicious/tasty", "to crawl". I am copying my proposals from...
• 587fC2pdtCX: 'tidy, orderly, composed' in NeoQuenya? or NeoSindarin possibly canna? parina/párina could be an option, but Tolkien seemed to vacillate a lot abo...
• HPUuBMyRA7Z: Eneth Nin Endy, nice to meet you all please give me lesson around quenya language!!??  ...
• DWGEB4e1qXt: Don't you just love it when you read an article in Vinyar Tengwar, and the editors mention something like in an essay on this-and-this found in a b...
• 4ThPsRNQnyN: I noa arandur Ingildoro Alistair Darling ar i *silúmea arandur *Escotio Alex Salmond artaquenter noa resse *palancenesse pa i nírina[1] ausatie Esc...
• FyhEQLDyMgT: suggestion: penaqua adv 'almost' Roman Rausch Jul ...
• WzPKedJ1cmX: Conditional and Subjunctive in (Neo)Quenya Tolkien's highly fascinating Early Qenya Grammar in Manuscript in PE14 devotes a page to The 'condition...
• 1n4qn8yzyEj: Ya na karuva nankaruva. "What goes around comes around." Elvish proverb. ...
• JP3QDZm8kdq: Has anyone any tips how to say - someone's right (prerogative, privilege, boon, ius) - that someone is (in the) right in Quenya? Also, is the all...
• Vtsck9xPNbT: Concerning loanwords in NeoQuenya +Kevin B Walsh and I have been having a very interesting discussion via email over the past few days about neolo...
• TRdBUBZTyku: Emya milya, erinqua, lisse firne sira. Nai hiruva súleya sére mi úlanwa quiquie lelya. Melinyel, emya. ...
• 9FjWLEt258A: Hereby I am pleased to announce that VinQuettaParma, the new NeoQuenya and NeoSindarin wiktionary, is up and running. The whole thing is very much ...
• 3r7qffYG96F: Airelindë 121° 1. Lírë tyelleron. Ortan hendunyat i oronnar: Mallo nin tuluva aşië? 2. Aşienya ná i HERULLO, ontala Menel Cemenyë. 3. Uas lavë tal...
• PzKskKZWiid: Please refresh my memory: Are there yet any clues on how to express the translative idea (one becoming, turning into, being made sth.) in Quenya? ...
• Bk7qXA76d5k: Airelindë 134° (quérina Heveryallo) 1. Lírë tyelleron. Yé! A laita i HERU, ilyë núror HERUO, i tarir coassë HERUO i lómissë. 2. Orta máldat ainast...
• 64EogkJrTRm: +Carl Hostetter has posted an invitation to a Quenya translation experiment to the +#lambengolmor  Yahoo group - not an easy task I'd say! ...
• Pbcs9hsq5tq: Sámemme anvanima aure síra sisse mi Derbyshire - lá acca ringa, lá acca úra. Patanemme làr ere yo perta *Mulindo Nallenna, tere lairi, imbi yaxi ar...
• GrwKS567ZfJ: Just saw this: "This Page has been removed at the request of the Tolkien Estate." WHAT??? Why? Anyone know? ...
• MuQ4aURQzav: Quenya Chat group in Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/quenyachat/ Facebook Fa...
• Mkkt1XkPkbf: Ettul-maquentiër tanar i ëa Ucrainassë vinya sondamo nollo apa i minya corma. Násë "aran tyocolatwa" Péter Porohyenco. ...
• 1YyzUT7JxgG: 1) How much of PE21 can / must be used for Neo-Quenya purposes? 2) Do we need to revise all that we knew before, concerning declension of nouns wit...
• hVpyeeZP9zv: Vessenya yo ni, namme anwalde, an *mótahautalemma túla véna, *Lemnaresse autuvamme *andustanna Ingildoreo, ostonna Bath; maruvamme tas tere otsole,...
• 66JdYq37LHe: How would you guys say 'pass time, spend time' in Quenya? ...
• 6GBYVuMVrZU: Thanks for +Jeremiah Burns for the link +#tengwar   Marcin Przybys » Blog Archive » Tengw...
• QdXLsN7ECKj: David Giraudeau has compiled a list/dictionary of Q(e)nya words in Parme Eldalamberon 21; it can be fund on the attached link. +#ParmaEldalambero...
• gqi5KuKnK5n: Manen na estaina Quenyanen i merende ya túla otsolemettasse? (Lambenen lienyo estalmes *Hrávelóra [Húsvét]). ...
• es7NNHNfwUU: Mentali Quenyassë uar rimbë sissë… Tamas Ferencz M...
• h85u3qqfz7x: *Wilwiste ná aqua hwiniala silume - noa hrisinye (er mitya), síra Anar cála, as lelya hwesta. Nas ringa, ananta. ...
• SPxjbhL2fEj: Quilda ar lorda ná nómë sina… Tamas Ferencz Feb 22...
• Znu1bGjaHFD: A well known passage: Quetin cé lambínen firion ar *angelion, mal melme lá samin, nán ve lamyala calarus var tunga nande. Samin cé apacéno anna ar...
• Pare3duswZy: I'm setting up this new WordWheel category to have a place to put posts in about musings on etymologies, words, neologisms in any or all of the lan...
• fFGuP6AA6NY: Two words to ponder: 'exact(ly), right on' - maybe one of the adjectives meaning 'sharp' could be used? 'begin, start sg' Ideas much welcome. +#...
• G14dxTma7PC: I wonder why most people tend to just care about "late" and "LotR-compatible" material, and despise anything "early" concerning both languages and ...
• 4Q1oBnKwoi7: Ecénien sina hórista* lo Cicero se Cúcel+: "Cé samil peler** ar parmasan, samil ilya lyen mauya." * citation, quote ** garden, for want of a more...
• P2kLTswWQwi: Did people see the neo translations of the dialog from The Hobbit movie by the Polish Tolkien Society?  ...
• L5uzGXR6rCh: I was wondering - for no apparent reason - how to express various algebraic operations in Quenya. 2+3=5; atta ar/yo nelde ná (nar?) lempe? 7-4=3; ...
• gFJr2G57Qy3: Hello! I'm new to this community, but I've got a long-time interest in Tolkien's languages, especially at the philological level. ...
• SYc9Ed3ErPj: Vea nas hríve ná vaquenta Inglandesse loasse sina. Hrisinyes er erinqua auresse Ringareo, ta sí laimar tuiar et i kemello, ar aiwi lírar tuiléva li...
• UvnfHwgSfgk: Inspired by the previous chat. Shamelessly composed by me in a Paint from a picture found somewhere in the Web. The text says: "Empty heads! What i...
• hSTGbWX8ix9: A few more verses for the season to be jolly: Marda netyuvar ercassi. Asta sina tuce alassi. Coluvalme larma merya; linwi yárie a lerya! Ela turu...
• Lyjeh3Ywwcf: Nán lasse súrisse. Á tire ni vilie. Fiona Jallings ...
• WC1Pg1mdepg: Ecendielye i nornoremma* I Perian? Anes mára lyen? * 'running picture = film' ...
• KHCXjqmrA9j: I wonder if the NQ word for Chritmas is Hrístonostare (as widely used), would it have eroded over the centuries of use into something like *Hrisnos...

Lúthien Merilin

• ijhLpjhoa9U: My apologies for this being somewhat out of the blue, but I feel that I should mention it here. This is for anyone who has known Paul Frank from ...
• iU1dqDYwN7k: I've finished Release 0.6.0 of Eldamo. This release has nearly all of Tolkien's attested word forms from the existing published material. Only a fe...
• YsZP82rYaPs: This is a bit of a speculative post. Amazon recently announced a deal with the Tolkien estate for a Middle Earth TV series. Who knows how long it w...
• UN1LcSxwyqh: I've release v0.5.7 of my Elvish lexicon Eldamo. This version has data from PE16. Of the major publications, only PE18, PE19 and PE21 remain. I've...
• CAXobB8EUFr: Hello +Paul Strack, (+Ekin Gören, +Eryn Galen, +Roman Rausch) there's something that I would like to have your opinion about :) In the past week...
• DnRptDKCTZK: Update: I'm getting the dictionary application ready for the Omentielva, where Roman Rausch will present it. Here's a little screencast video: ht...
• UPdzGw7oyi9: I've done a "data cleanup" release of Eldamo (v0.5.6.1?). This "release" is targeted exclusively at programmers. I didn't do the work to update the...
• EgrBPuy6sVU: +Paul Strack +Eryn Galen +Ekin Gören +Roman Rausch updated the database with Paul's new 0.5.6 release. There are some other changes: I switched fr...
• 7Z8zeKSueQR: I've release v0.5.6 of my Elvish lexicon Eldamo. This version has data from PE15. Of the major publications, only PE16, PE18, PE19 and PE21 remain...
• Ksho6J6y4jH: +Paul Strack +Ekin Gören +Roman Rausch +Eryn Galen et al, I updated the eldamo relational DB project on Github: https://github.com/aduial/eldamo-r...
• dkPFfLVwKUr: I've release v0.5.5 of Eldamo. This release finishes both PE14 and the early Qenya name analysis. I've also done some cleanup on the XSD schema de...
• Neg7i6MPEAr: *Conlang Database Project* Update March 23rd Over the past few weeks I've been busy with working on a few other things, but that was a total benef...
• dTZaL3Ta6VZ: I am sooooo tired. Might just sleep a week. Textbook Re-write Complete It’s 1AM, and I...
• FH7ei1hTNXR: Let's guess! How many PE issues or years will be taken until every meaningful linguistic material by Tolkien is available? Then, how far could ...
• 8ccgrHhgSTY: I've release v0.5.4 of Eldamo. Now that PE22 is done, I gone back to working on earlier material. I finished up some left overs in PE12, and made ...
• cGodJ3gCNYY: Warning! +Roman Rausch 's site at http://www.sindanoorie.net/ is suddenly down! Only a Web Archive copy remains. ...
• UgZgNhYA3TM: I've release v0.5.3 of Eldamo. It's been an embarrassingly long time since I've done anything with the lexicon, as I've been obsessed with other t...
• Dffnsng79Lb: Hey everyone! As a part of my IT apprenticeship I'm planning on realising a kind of elvish resource which I think does not exist yet in a similar ...
• Dxe8uAoVhSY: How indeed could we build up a spoken (chatting) Quenya? A few months ago David Girardeau was lamenting how the new words and forms seem to actuall...
• ZrTBvPxP8WX: What a fantastic adventure it would be to start a similar experiment and teach Quenya in a nursery school. It would be exciting to see how the lang...
• 6dVTwVqqUxk: Elvish dictionary app(lication) Mellyn, following a session at the Omentielva Enquea about "Identifying the Requirements for a Quenya & Sindarin ...
• Kbp9aBVfJMC: Does anyone ever heard of this composer? I've heard some of his "Eldarinwë Líri" and it's pretty much how I envision Elvish music to be like. He ha...
• hSTGbWX8ix9: A few more verses for the season to be jolly: Marda netyuvar ercassi. Asta sina tuce alassi. Coluvalme larma merya; linwi yárie a lerya! Ela turu...
• UswMfJCrq65: (a riddle for you) Ae mellonath! Sîr, evennin aew veleg a thûg od Amériga. Ir evennin i aew, ni lom a phant! Sí ídhron postad. Man i aew? ...
• eqY9Afp5Ubb: I also should introduce myself: I'm Maike Luthien (incidentally, both are my real christian names) and somehow the link to this circle (?) popped u...

Sindarin Chat

• hXTgUzWEe6B: New member, still very much an amateur in Sindarin but doing my best. I am doing a translation of some/all of the Episcopal wedding ceremony for ...
• Fv25SgwYXDN: Hi. I'd like to have some charm on my number plate holder. E.g. i rasg hen ah i rasgon di veriad e-Mbelain onen I have not yet decided, though. Cou...
• 8oo3a3s4RMP: How do folks think initial primitive tl- and dl- developed in Sindarin? In Gnomish, there are no initial tl-, and there are some of examples of cl...
• 8ah1djvSSMa: I'm making a list of things for the second edition of "A Fan's Guide to Neo-Sindarin"! For the...
• 2e9wXEvTbZW: This was a lot of fun to do! https://youtu.be/JjkphPmTJfk A Special Announcement (In Elvish!) ...
• eyHDJ8SMiVu: Hey guys does anyone know where to learn Sindarin? Would like to learn ...
• FGtGrDBXz3W: Just searching for a Sindarin word for "nobody", stumbled across uvan, sources given are TI/281,283,314. I have no access to the Treason of Isengar...
• aUWvydsGRPM: I've been having a nerdy debate with someone about the correct pronunciation of the name "Maedhros". Do you pronounce it Mah-eeh-dhros or Mah-eh-dh...
• iAd19NGaFLT: I în hen delu. Ni *basseril, a bin laew tangadanner i ni fuiar. Ach guion eno. Avon *daved an delos. Limmidin i thîr în na nim a vudas. *Aden i 'wa...
• 7zmW42dZiXu: Negrenig iuithar gae, lais egor chwand sui gaef coled 'lî dan na i dorech dîn. Ach idhrin i negrenig, ar ui cewir i ngaef i maer mîn ngaef. https:...
• YXxJxqQPcYX: Vi eryn reniant i randír ravaed, ir i roch în na riss hon rithant. (Teilien na phith (egor lam-gonathras) 'ni chîn i newir epheded i 'lim 'R'.) ...
• SbXbzdP7aMP: Hi! I don't know very well the Sindarin, but I'm trying to improve them. Could someone translate for me these phrases? "Everything happens for a re...
• K412KebrKDg: Mae govannen! Im Ballansidh! Tamas Ferencz May 29,...
• KnQS1kr6nrC: Ú-inn ða v'im mudad sír. Lőrinczi Gábor May 27, 20...
• R2CriJkzrqS: suilad, Im Arthalion (Josua) o Kananga, I am new here, I hope you all accept my request to join in this community, len hannon in advance... ...
• WXET73QNktz: Ceno in yngyl dhaer! Does this work, or does it seem like an appeal to go and see them? ...
• j3LwUo2mzgt: Glassui ni athar ilphen i•aur hen, eb pelin thî athragared uin ist e Pharf Edhellaim dadchaen tadui! Cambenyes sina arinessë ar férima silumë náry...
• RPEJSCzzw5J: Does anyone have an idea of how to express "goal, target, objective"? ...
• 3BAaitWk1h7: Maer arad Ekin Gören Jun 11, 2015 (02:13) ...
• 2XqfBtfU52N: Hallo everyone! I’m here for the first time and I’m impressed with your linguistic skills. Forgive me my poor English, Sindarin and so on. I’m inte...
• 2cYbsh68SLQ: I hereby release a re-fashioning of the most hastily done linnod number 20. This time not only the metre is not lame but both puns are more explici...
• 3bkmwBxXsYt: A lament of King Midas: quantitative. Ŷngin ed ylvath eryd, iuithathon eithil erui. [I used to drink from kingly goblets, now only springs are of...
• TnJVo3zkJ32: Hi, ab•doled i•laiss galen caleneb ach eb•doled in eithbi, nan Anor calel nabant aur a dû, cuiad milui. tolel, gerund of tol- "coming, arrival", *...
• 7J7SGaJn8kU: Considering the word "be" in S, what forms do people here use? Are Salo's paradigm found in the Gateway still viable? ...
• H8o9z519wj7: I cannot abstain from doing more word-puns. Gwanwen i•Thrîw delothui, ferthol i•duil tharan. [Gone is the detestable Winter, promptly comes the v...
• 1WEXj8ja98y: Hi, ab eryd imp nan eiled, tôl galed en Anor. 'lass enni!
• c6fcgHEhwL1: Mudas garnen na-vedui! Nelchaen linnyd (vi lammath rim), min ilaurui egor ned, — man pen iuitha vi aur vethed? Ingassen teithad naid veleg, nal lai...
• WXUmkDSjgDS: A self-explanatory one. Cenin i•vethed mudad, ephedist lindhed írui. [I see the end of the task, two desired songs are remaining.] For -st see P...
• G9LqybeLPHr: All of us desire to do that one day, don't we? Credit to +Ekin Gören ! Golodlam ah in•Eglain geliad ídhranc panui! [Tongues of the Noldor and the...
• ecNdXuggRjr: More experimenting, friends! I have to start from somewhere… I guessed Quenya is much more fit for quantitative verse, but it's nice to have both! ...
• GPTnYbAbE65: Inspired by Quenya Átaremma. Imagine an old loremaster, patiently explaining cosmology to his apprentice… Eruvan ú-na Menel, Iladar athar Ardhon. ...
• Ven9VwVxxvt: Lament for Akallabêth. Terbad na Annûn glennas, aurath hin raeg i•badath. [There was a straight road westwards, now all the roads are bent.] ter...
• 1fmsn8JsZ6n: Seriously. I'll write about what I see, then? Gwall im o Pharf Edhellaim, hiniath 'lassen cenel. [Excited I am about PE, seeing the joyful news.]...
• CeKYiCbF9vE: Seriously, I'm at loss. Seven more… I really don't have a set of pre-made ones for quite a long time… Penin in•ingath linnyd, menno in•ingath enni...
• NBbHthiCBTm: Metalinnod — quantitative! Long live the accentual verse! Othgoren im i•nadath, linnyd ach alchar uthon. [I have misdone the things, yet I shall ...
• Z6SuUYbXdmo: A few months ago, I finished a translation of "The Lay of the Children of Húrin", chapter 1, version 2. I tried to implement as much Doriathrin as ...
• 9Q8DzFHvm7E: Who guesses the purpose of the next one?.. Suil lelir linnath Lindon, lúthiol Ros ar Menel. [Winds laugh the songs of Lindon, enchanting the Sea-...
• drhRAFtidPz: A Númenorean saying, Shakespeare-inspired. Henion naeg Annúnnor: thaw i•naid e•Thol hi nar. [So I understand the pain of Westernesse: something i...
• CuyMDgQvFvX: A Gnomish saying. Duinin a Luath legyr, úben in•Gwenyn darthar. PE11:53 [Neither Flood nor Time waits for anyone.] ...
• NHour3VXoRD: The frustration of Pengolodh. Eichiar laim edhellin, ah in•gwaith hain agwistar. [Elvish languages change, and the people keep changing them furt...
• 1zPMHuMsGQR: Stunt performed by a professional madman, do not attempt at home! Sairen a•'Lingol i•'Ôf, tauli in•Ûna Uril. [Fiery Golden Tree's Fruit, the Sun-...
• eLiwbQbktKt: After Gollum's riddle. Gwannar in•Yst ah Erain; orthor i•Lú or•Eryn. [Vanish the Towns and Monarchs, Time masters over mountains.] (Both quantit...
• DCofHAvdN23: An expected linnod of the day. Linnant im lathrim mallen, lathrim egennin galol. FotR 2:8 [I sang golden leaves, and saw leaves growing.] (I ass...
• WqBXzse9iUB: A linnod with further plans. Cenitha man i•Margair, círol i•falas vethen? [Who shall see the Ark leaving the last shore?] (m)bargair 'ark' naerg...
• K8P7fVmEGho: Something special for this day. As +Björn Fromén hinted to me, there are multiple ways to theorise upon a single example of Elvish poetry; +Roman R...
• ELnSDnTFfDq: Some Tolkien for a change, eh?.. Hiro i•Vegil rangen, i vi Imladris dortha! [Seek for a Sword that was broken, in Imladris it dwells!] rangen 'b...
• FdoyuhZWsoi: Nothing is achieved without failures… Erui carth eingarnen ingon i•dass ú-onnen. [A single deed perfectly done I believe to be the task which nev...
• dDfA5estv6V: I always believed that linnyd are perfectly fit for epitaphs. So, a tomb-stone: Sîdhren no, lith uivellen, sí dartho ten i 'Ellor. (N. Karamzin) ...
• TeKDM9mhQhg: Old Testament linnod of the day. (Some tweaking was necessary.) Nîn haer vi•Nuin Bablon, ias naeniel echemmim. Psalm 137:1. [Bitter [are] the wat...
• Z9QXKJaXsyg: Continuing the topic: actually, the invocations to Elbereth did work, and it's 21 Celcius outdoors now. So: flee, Winter! Morgothyth adorthornen; ...
• gFjLGmkLiQK: A week ago, looking out of the window, I exclaimed: Lossen i•thîn vi 'Wirith; ringas edlenno, Híril! [Snowy is April evening; banish the coldness...
• U9TBa81Wfd5: Mathematical linnod of the day. Iladar nodath agor, egel nan Edain carnen. L. Cronecker [Allfather created the Numbers, other (things) are made ...
• UyJuPfNgWQo: When in Rome… linnod of the day. Athar i•Lest ech dorthal, caro be iathrim cerir. [If you happen to dwell across the Girdle, do as the Fence-Peop...
• ggfWjZ7KgY8: Hogwarts motto, anyone? Behold the linnod of the day! Cíniel faulug lorel, avo echuiad vertho! [Having seen a sleeping dragon, don't dare to wake...
• 5hwkxPXxzUv: "Timeo Danaos" for Tyelperinquar: another linnod of the day. Gosto i•meryn Morgoth, edregol annath golel. [Have fear of vassals of Morgoth, espec...
• RtfUCwiM3fY: Biblical linnod of the day. Cenig i•fîn vi chennen, golvoth vi dhîn gen uig. [You see a hair in my eye, not seeing a huge branch in yours.] Matth...
• ZRSxsZMtZkg: A random linnod of the day (I'm going to challenge myself with writing one more every day for a month). Dengwith bain mael istennin — hiro i•vabet...
• Tcr8btWVbKg: A further question. What is the underlying verb in mae govannen? In the Etymologies, the answer is trivially bad- from BAT, but since then, no deri...
• 7NGU4E3zLi8: I have misgivings regarding the cluster ntha- in reconstructed S words (eg *mentha- "send") *, and would prefer other solutions. The only attested ...
• 4YyNfkHUEYY: I and Ekin discussed how to express "together" when one doesn't want to have it as a prefix to another word. Eg "we shall be together", where the o...
• KcNLUgSRE6T: Pennas Cuilen. Lend ú-ídhrannen nîn. Ennad a dassed, ah Naid en-Ablú. Berthais leben Periain. Narn e-Belegorf nam Milvon Pogodion echarnen od Tiria...
• 4mLKSE5z1yn: Elo! Sír ichíren i loth vinui echuir hen! I loth estannen roch-dal mi lam e-mbar nîn. Lat. Tussilago farfara ...
• aEvdKzQGnTs: Why is it necessary to use the definite article when indicating possessive when one is using a pronoun, like in i ennyn dîn, "his doors", since it'...
• J7TCF7FWh2k: Does this work? Ennas adh a-dandolen. Narn perian. Алекса...
• ggLSPkqQPzd: I have problems with the word eitha- which either means "to insult, treat with scorn, stab", or "ease, comfort". I find it very hard to understand ...
• LWuQEUsqkHz: NS Linnas, "music, art of song".
• J1HGaQXPaNr: Man nos perian? Tamas Ferencz Mar 20, 2015 (09:39)...
• fNw4BKYWbrW: Question: is there an explanation why S. Rodon "Power, Vala" gets plural Rodyn instead of expected **Redyn? Even if *Raudon is assumed, shouldn't i...
• GLjqQpWPEEi: I just read about Beleg Cuthalion's bow, that is said to be named Belthronding. What does that mean? Strong something? ...
• bDpjikKmrJG: A question: when does si (here/now) get lenited into hi? Some people spell it with a long vowel, hí, what is the more correct? ...
• FtK644sYRu9: Anyone have any idea of a neosindarin word for bag (or similar object that one puts other object in for storage or transport)? I had the idea of tr...
• BLP8xuxzxyE: len suilon! Tamas Ferencz Nov 25, 2014 (09:35) ...
• 7GA5rjTdm5F: Puff, amlug lúthannen Nan aear dorthant Vi Honah-Lee vi i chíth en-iavas Gellweg teliant... ...
• FiKQNCCLv3r: Some potential Neosindarin words for VinQuettaParma: torchal (pl. torchail) n. shark or other large predatory fish (lit. "mighty/awful fish") Etym...
• eDyptgtvDjc: Ónen 'alu erin be-a-canaden Laer.
• TNB4TQuFsfX: I vír nin. Gyűjteményem/ my collection ...
• fjDUKacJ4M1: Suilad mellyn. :) im ceredir.  2014. 06. 08. ...
• Fk8GexLcuPo: Suilad, mellon nin muin. :) Mate Bokkon May 19, 20...
• jModSfp9PQ7: *Emmin chwand a salab. Hervess nín a hên nín mad aes. Thiar maer. *ab- cook used in The Hobbit: The Unexpected Journey (Extended Edition). +#si...
• EfsKW71FTCA: Gwinig nín mad rem. Aníra salph. Annan gwinig i halph. +#sindarin ...
• KCRbiwaEiti: Sindarin is sexy! :) http://teamcoco.com/video/conan-highlight-evangeline-lilly-sexy-elvish E...
• UweJvi4k1ph: I'd like to get a little critique on a translation I did (Brandon Sanderson fans might have an advantage): Cuil argwannath Bronwe arnin Lend armet...
• 12wABdwM182: I apologize in advance if I post a lot of newbie questions, but I searched the posts here and didn't see an answer to this question; is there a com...
• eiKEif73S7A: This community doesn't seem very busy lately, but I thought I'd link this here on the chance it is of use to someone. I actually came up with the i...
• bsJFn5qqo1K: Mae Govannen! I have just recently started to learn Sindarin. I hope that you can all help. Everyone here seems rather advanced ...
• Me5kyQ73AgF: So I was half asleep on the way home, and thinking about my Pathfinder character Lennel, who's a bard, and came up with a silly pun/play on words. ...
• GP9Dw3oJpqu: I was contemplating the following snippets last night (after safely making it home, though still groggy and probably not firing on all cylinders ye...
• 99KN38mfWT5: Ben iuithad sui ant e-loth am malrog. Beleriandic proverb.
• TkwNyk24Vjv: i chelyn elaig lamath i 'ardh land pannar a faer nín faug sí +#haiku
• QbzUeWVVBi2: Ae, VT/50 vi cam nín. Na vedui! :) Tamas Ferencz J...
• WJBmqRWUtB9: Mae gevennin, gellyr i laim edhellin. Im Leonard od i Vellonath Daeron. Melin i lam Thindrim ar i lam Ódhellim, ar harthon i hirithon had na had he...
• Qi1uFLGAgEA: Sîr, tirithon Nîr Angren adh i mellyn în. Hwinion! Måns Bj...
• gKNWz3EKRiu: Vi mardor nîn, n’Orbelain, i chîr amarthant i veleth an Tâd Dîr egor Tâd Diss ú-thrugar! Ni ness i vêl niss egor nîr, ar ni ro-‘lassui! Pedo nin, m...
• 6uLjMSkxZGE: Heryn arod, i dhortha na charad En i chervess vilui e-gadhad. Pent he: “Esten e, a rhû, Vi dhol dín gaw a dû, Dan sigil dín tarch sui dín achad!” ...
• 9u9uLpdP7J1: Im mîn o chanad gwedyr. Osgaro i dhôl nín: thuiathon, na-vedui gwannathon. Osgaro i dâl nín: gwathrathon i ardhon. Osgaro i dhôl ar i dâl nín: le b...
• VsYYMahPQtK: Ai! Le suilon!  Im Brann! Aniron ped edhellen an hiril vuin Mallwen! Pedim sindarin Peditham hi sui vellyn? N'i lû tôl , posto vae ~Brann~ ...
• BGPRYG3ZWry: Loss, loss ar loss. Ú-anglennatha i Echuir? :( Tamas Feren...
• 4wqRxMK3wYg: Athgar ben nauth nín... :) Na rîdh nim si ioe vyrn redhin, nêl nín mudar, úgarol tâd nín. Man cerin? ...
• HLaPC1owUqb: Iath estent min tâd tynd, nen a gwelu il oer ha trevedir Man en estar? ...
• 3fafPqCxCYw: Ring egor laug yrin, thion luin dan gruin im. Man i eneth nín? ...
• Z1PV2kYWoWy: Im sui i 'aear dan sui sarn, pigen, Ir gwannon, nandelitha gell. Man im? ...
• 5W2rZsWpoab: I have just learned that it is possible now to share documents/slides from Google Drive with communities, so here I am testing this with my North S...
• HNygJk5rsU8: Some years ago I compiled a list of words in the North Sindarin dialect, I thought to publish it here, feel free to correct any mistakes or add to ...
• GuaGux8BrQH: I ben vinui hâf dad ar e ú-eriatha, i ben dadui him madweg ar e mâd in annath lín phain, ar i ben nelui le awartha ar e ú-nandelitha. Man in enith...
• WrU6uVbkPbm: Rúth 'loss, orchal, lhûg 'lain or talath luin I Rîn lain nin gaded, avo le nin charno! Man im? ...
• 5HpNCrP4htC: 'Man istadhir o ngurth? Han ú-’ostadhir, *an ú-istadhir,' ebent (1). 'Han egennim, ar han gostam,' *dambent (2). Gwannam sui i noss lín, (1); ar gw...
• QuVYxsX1Wtx: This one is easy, I'm sure:) Hwinion os im[1], lhûg uguin, le chebin, le nedin, le degin, sui anírog. Man im? [1] as os- is given as a prefix, ...
• cTy91NsLN5Y: Im i *onnad en-úmarth, i enedh e-lûm, ar i vethed e-lû. Man im? ...
• Wa42VzXqMiL: Try out this Sindarin tongue-twister: Cabor laba lavan. Lavan lala, a lobor laba i gabor! ...
• HHN2zVZdAFv: Here's an easy one: Lodannen, si ni ú-chebithog; lodo ah im ar le puig ah e-thost vain. ...
• UPzecRG3DSy: Ae ephedidh i eneth nín, gwannon. Man im? Tamas Ferencz ...
• 72HZNj7DgH9: Penin mass ar penin mâr, penin vellon, penin thraw, ir ail im ú-limmidin, celeg na-chaered ribin. Negin chelch ir tôl i thrîw, alagos i chanar nín,...
• c7RrdgXN5RY: Mae, si im... *rembeth hín athgar. Lodon bo 'aear daur, luin, Ir im naer, gelais lín gellui ...
• 9QKqpcWD8sd: Avo nuitho i deilien i Fiona heriant... :) Alae, man dolthar i phith hin?  Medin dhrafn, bo gae *loston, blebin na rovail, vi menel revion, luith...
• CWGr64WYZxi: Mae govannen pengelydh i-lammath! ;) Sí cîw im, dan ú-udulen pen-ist o lam i-thinnedhil. :) Harthon in ethrebith hin edlothiathar. ...
• UswMfJCrq65: (a riddle for you) Ae mellonath! Sîr, evennin aew veleg a thûg od Amériga. Ir evennin i aew, ni lom a phant! Sí ídhron postad. Man i aew? ...

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• UswMfJCrq65: (a riddle for you) Ae mellonath! Sîr, evennin aew veleg a thûg od Amériga. Ir evennin i aew, ni lom a phant! Sí ídhron postad. Man i aew? ...

Björn Fromén

• YEypSH4dEjJ: This is a translation of a poem from my native Hungarian. Raxa-mentie mi lóme Ma’ nuhtana sí Isil, I lóme ma’ úna, úpa, Ma’ amlunga nánye síra, M...
• NX1yBpPNNtr: Is there a distinction as to when you use the strong vs the weak form of a past tense Quenya verb when it has both forms? ...
• H2S61QgkFrn: A question posted over at Elfdict got me thinking on our two attested words glossed as "more". We have the adjective amba and the adverb ambe and I...
• 14vZBJwU2FP: Polil camya ni mapaitas formalyasse. Mal lá polil camya ni mapaitas hyarmalyasse. Ma Man nán? ...
• LNNrMTJpCPA: The next +#1000words entry I put up for discussion is detail. Going on the Hungarian word for detail Is say something from SAT "fraction, part"; o...
• hGG2KcG6eqH: I watched Skyfall on Easter weekend, which has this quote from Tennyson's Ulysses, and thought I'd give it a go. I cannot do justice to the iambic ...
• KGg8JHqLYSN: What do you suggest for 'move, shift' (transitive)? Rúma- appears to be intransitive, and it is too specific for large and heavy things. Strictly s...
• 4dNUcBSF3qW: I can't really make it out yet what it says in the vertical script. Kilma handas? Quilma hambas? ...
• WY9MB1xyvkG: É nemilye, yonyo, mi ápina lé, Kénai úna nalye: na 'lassea, hér. Telinwa sí i meren. Tyalindorelvar, Ve lyen apaquenten, illi fairi nér, Ta vilyann...
• NmZbQ5j7YKv: Elye yú awalde nar pá i kúmakirya Elennero vilie i Mareso mentienna? Titta karne immenwa kíra Kúmasse - ké istan mai oloities Mares, ar ménas ambel...
• fv9KjeomqSn: Putting the problem out here as well, for folks who are less 'instant ', like myself: verbs for "to buy" and "to sell"in Quenya. ...
• 4uNYG9LAWfG: It's preposterous that I should try this, but I am in that mood today. I hope my neologisms are transparent enough. ------------- Romeo: Aike vah...
• UVUfNC4Kdvn: After your post on losing and lost, I wondered if the phrase for I lost x could be "vanwa nin...x Using the same structure as Ecce nin...x and ...
• cootmTYT99J: Enwa ilúvesse sinwa sa neren arwa alta hereno mauya kesta vesse. Jane Austen ...
• 2xQaTj6NC72: Ela vinya alassie, ela vinya elmenda! Vende yondova ontaril, yondova atar úner. Vende ú nero nosta, ve marinde marin, cén sin cole míre, indil lost...
• fv7ybPk7sVB: men- 'go, proceed'+ -ma 'implement' > *memma 'vehicle'? Pa...
• 1ujxZD7ao7t: Atalatyanente (atalatanyente?) Ambaro anyára parmakoa. I koranari amna min húme lempe tuxa linyenwa ampano tare Kemetesse (Hakapta? Egypt, see http...
• YPGS11aav1v: Kesyalima ná ma laimyave lie aistar Hristonostare/Turuhalme sinome Ingilnóresse ar mélamarinyasse (Madyarnóre). Madyarnóresse quéni ortar i Turuhal...
• AZqD6wAPivt: How would you say "forget" in Q? lerya sanarello? hehta sanarello? Gnomish has this very interesting root: ...
• dddV2RGKWm3: I wonder if tolya "prominent" (lit. sticking up) could be a good kenning for "proud, haughty" ...
• SDnWXGCRvvR: Rike luke Nauko i haurallo "Try dragging a Dwarf away from the hoard" (="you are asking for something impossible") Middle Earth saying ...
• cfayKHbFjNr: Any suggestions for the verb "glide, slide" in Q, and, consequently, 'sleigh'? At one point I coined pas- and it's in VQP but now we have that with...
• PMH848x5234: Translating names of pets friend's cat (female kitten) Bandy 'little bandit': Arpince from arpo + ​-ince 'thief, seizer (diminutive)' There's a sl...
• 9kmdXrALUbM: It's been some time since I've done a translation, so I tackled "Spirit of Life": a hymn that's basically an anthem of the Unitarian Universalist f...
• fTaGoVsR4ju: Would saveryet translate to he believes it? James Coish ...
• 93sfzLic57s: Nosto i-Aear, lass laeg, Legolas! Dorthannel anan nu 'aladh vi 'lass. Ae lastol i-nall e-maew 'ri falas, Gúrel ló-chiratha hîdh vi thaur dass. Leg...
• 8EQjKR5nFYc: Sunday couplet *Lustie siryear, *enwakuvindo, raike nietyar *Thanka i fenna ka ni, verkave ompa menin. *lustie adv. "emptily, in vain" *enwakuvin...
• 1KVhQVKbuZ3: Wednesday couplet Á hora ninna, melisse, an anda i lóme en ompa; Asra Arra ta íre i lú lisse yo waltalima. "Wait for me, beloved, long is the nig...
• HGNK8nMuEtP: Monday couplet (distichon^) Yalle i ítila lón hendutyaye *nanhatir áre Néka i ñalta kamin, kalyas ananta ilú ------------------------------------...
• W4wQV81qey3: *Súrielli Yasse pitya, mára anen Yuyálea tauresse patanen Yas silima *súrielle alde Ta *iasinti luini, lunge I súrielli lintie willer Yalle wilwa...
• NXaYBmeDc7Y: To a favourite tree (from Handel's Serse, Act I) Milya ar vanima olasse melda mapalininyo, a raita tyen calambar! Nai tarítali ar raumo la terhat...
• iXSMEG93yei: Tamo móta koammasse tella otsolello *quilyaila i mitye rambar, ta ilye fendi yo *hendeli. Tanka ná i koa oluva annetya mal terhaties koiviemma ter ...
• G8WMXLJqAiK: Looking for ideas how you guys would say "chaos, disorder, mess, confusion, havoc, tohuvabohu" and related adjectives etc. in Quenya (or Sindarin)....
• XXqyiwLBdZe: Hello! I was wondering what you would use in Quenya for the word "bearing" in this sentence: "You have seen them bearing the cloaks of lords!" This...
• 1H2DsiiuWWZ: Problem of Ā/AU in Sindarin I believe we have a consensus concerning the ineffectiveness of the I-affection on non-final O[Rodyn. Yet there are two...
• JCe3yji3k7t: Lótesse Lostal' asta utúlie, lóteli sí tuiar, tuileo caraitier hilyar yú imb' illi. Tai né harna nixenen, lauca vincare áre; sa cenilwe carina rim...
• CeviBfv34Ti: Lá onnaya lá yarontarerya Lá onórorya lá nilmorya Lanye aiqueno Lanye aiqueno Nanye, ve illi: tárie, Forn’ aikasse, *nulme, *aquasatie, Néka, vahá...
• d3CUuDspq2J: Good news! We have established a Skype chat for Eldarin linguistic discussions! Please join if you also wish to participate! +Christopher Gilson +...
• i469wPEEzzK: Light thickens A translation of Lady Macbeth's aria from Act II of Verdi's Macbeth. The original Italian lyrics are loosely based on Act III, Scen...
• 2KZKQ7feLQs: I’m trying to better understand how participles, gerunds, (particular) infinitives, etc. function and interrelate in Quenya. Some sample sentences:...
• hy5p1CoJXER: A song in Quenya. (As one can observe from the channel's videos, this is not the artists' only M-E related piece.) https://youtu.be/dfITyw-h7u8 T...
• XZ9Xd8XS8ha: At least at an earlier stage there was still the prefix http://eldamo.org/content/words/word-2252155757.html which would make sense combined with l...
• 41DxL8sWaze: I was listening to my favourite Vangelis record today - Earth - and thought I'd translate this short piece of lyrics. Nelme ambaquerne Rappente i ...
• WL2sbW2up37: Since the English "in love" is an adjective would the Quenya equivalent be melwa? ...
• CYotiKDwKXh: Á enyale Á enyale ni í vanwa nán, Háya minna i séra nóre; Í eke lyen hape mánya ambe lá, *Lahya amna autan, ta lemyan óle. Á enyale nin ni í lá ni...
• VgZfjmyrK9h: *Oroparmen Marquette Napána Okombieryanna Arkastaro I *oroparmen nyarne i akámie minya *lerie parmo I Perian. Ta erya parmaron min yo perta *menk...
• hWo1wzGUG3E: Laitale óraviéva Tamas, I do indeed remember reading your translation of this famous passage on Aglardh. Still, I hope you don't mind another vers...
• BrPBoNPf468: I was given a task to translate lock and key. In I Vinya Vere, Helge translates key as latil, something that opens. I'm curious what lock or somet...
• fbaZiPHqNLf: DEATH NOR dread nor hope attend A dying animal; A man awaits his end Dreading and hoping all; Many times he died, Many times rose again. A great m...
• MdF5hQwnbM5: Before Philippi Tulmassen fírimóron ea sóla, ya luimenen hilyanwa mene almenna; útirina, ciryastier vehtento marte únúra nenna ar angayassin. Quan...
• BEA2fdUPUro: Rie erya lénen eke mon harna atan ilquo nehtaina: nananta sen ma hastaina. "There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him bac...
• TExF3uNPbbq: +#randomLotRparagraph `Well, well! ' said the wizard. `The passage is blocked behind us now and there is only one way out – on the other side of t...
• 4CAzgoYpy2F: "At the end of everything, one must expect the company of immortals." Maybe there is someone who also considers this sentence beautiful and wise. ...
• afqxeKBVHPy: Aaah. Increasingly hard. And lots of newer grammar as well. Athya, Tárinyar, tekitása ríkan, Lá kenilden ñwalyan i•ríkieinen, Sampan i•quettanyar,...
• 6u147nPdzJu: Melinduo oquetie pa filici - Ma lennuvatye? Haira en ná tindóme. I lómelinde né, lá lirulin, ye tereva hlarutya sostane. Illómea liris i marindess...
• fHpiSQyFL2G: +#randomLotRparagraph Comments are, as always, very-very welcome. At once he set off with long deliberate strides through the trees, deeper and d...
• Ae3gPKNwpww: The first two stanzas of the poem "Szózat" ("Summons") by Vörösmarty Mihály. An i mardor lîn, ae Magorion No an-uir sadar hador; Ha le onnant ar l...
• cnPwvATEzkc: Íta waltalima sa i *tamnarána Juno *anwéna Silindonna; enwa, tensi utúlies ar peluvas Silindo ter amna loa atta ar karuvas emmar pa sa ar ránaryar,...
• gsq4z7fsUgi: Melmeo Naire   Imbilinkion *kossa *kosse nu i tópa, Vorolindelassion linde asalaste Quanta korna Rása yo menel elerrína, Fantaner Ardo yára yerna *...
• VesVvgfwXSA: Angwion ie uman enwa. "The existence of dragons at one time is a fact." This must be the single coolest sample sentence ever in any of Tolkien's ...
• ZbLTdr1pJq9: Tensi enequellume enenquellume yurasta ar enenque otornor nar otornasselmasse! (Naite: nótime samir otornor atatye essi) ...
• BbyVbyydA1C: Intrigued by the Verbal Adjective xiéte "passing, impermanent" from PE22:155 (LVS7), as root for this one SKEY is given, what may be the verbal ste...
• S7igkFhkJWq: Nen a! nen, ne chuil i 'lanna mael, glanno drass nín ah, panno nin na 'lass ah estel, na dathon tangant ne i-aur dolel. Water oh! water, in life t...
• C3dRYQh77EC: To congratulate, congratulations (on celebrations, birthday parties et.c.). go + _mereth_ mirroring the etymology of "congratulation", --> govertha...
• 6hhaSePSvvV: Trying to correct a mistake. According to QL:49, "culmarin" turned out to be a mere "orange (fruit)". Shall we call tomato *malmarin, then? ...
• MHJa3sVCo3B: în aind breniannen, darthannen ne môr, a ne thrass, a vathant i haeg amar, nauthannen i vîled hen, mathathon hannaweg, das sennui aun enni, naeg a ...
• VNh3nZR6hvS: Considring the map that +Matt Dinse linked to in a post some weeks ago, should my entry in the VQP for "wine" be rendered, and in that case, how? I...
• 7VfBMZ3yRrM: Some possible neologisms/derivations: *itya- "multiply, repeat" *ítea "multiple, manifold" http://eldamo.org/content/words/word-2113203683.html *...
• JjX4Usu3ysH: Alla illin! I have been pondering how one would say "the rings of power" as in the rings forged by Sauron. √BAL or √POL don't seem to be correct. A...
• FsLxGAqbUR4: Ainur hlarine táriesse Manen yellor, mávari? Manen merye lingeli? Mana i menta alassea ya le valta liralen? Hláriemme táries ainur lire or palari...
• AfFV2KAp7ec: It's that time of the year again... Christmas in a few days. So here is a Quenya translation of the song White Christmas to celebrate, and to thank...
• LeFR7FmDRRy: Have you already decided for yourselves how exactly are we going to resolve the question Tolkien himself left in a muddle: the prepositions/adverbs...
• DLDm4gjVSD2: It's a funny thing with Quenya as we know it how sometimes we can have an overabundance of variations for certain grammatical or vocabulary items; ...
• fuYU59HFbLm: Canvassing your thoughts how you guys would express in Quenya the adverb/adjective late, as in 'you are late' or 'late night'. EQ has the adjective...
• 93hyX3z6CuC: Random LotR passage As the second day of their riding drew on, the heaviness in the air increased. In the afternoon the dark clouds began to overt...
• eN2RprN3KyP: Random LotR paragraph from the beginning of the chapter Treebeard. Please feel free to comment on any of the neologisms or syntax. Meanwhile the h...
• Cw8D1Ynpqyr: Do you think haura from KHAWAD can be used as a verb to mean 'store, put away, stash'? Or should we employ KHEP/KHAP for this purpose, perhaps with...
• gx1Jr4uwtow: Sanye ilnome sinwa, sa erya neren arwa haura alma mauya pene vesse. ...
• 2w6NfpoNAa8: Karinya nwalya[1]. Mauya nin *atse[2]. ------- nwalya: does this verb require an object (nwalya ni), or can it be sort of intransitive ('it hurts'...
• UTdnePnDxao: Do you think *tercara "through-doing" would be a good coinage for "thorough"? +#Quenya   ...
• Wx1uVCz7iLx: I want to write "WHAT I MUST TO DO?" in quenya, is it right in quenya is 'MAN GERIN CAR?' ...
• AeLwcfJkVH9: With PE 22, LSV4 (page 151) in mind, ebe- "can of mere possibility according to likelihood, natural probability" as root for NeoS * eb-, i-verb, us...
• jCLxhdjzNcJ: A preliminary draft, +#PE22 used extensively. All ecclesiastical neologisms due to Helge Fauskanger. The Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, in attemp...
• 1AdhBBw9Szy: Question to Quenya phonologists! What does exactly happen to the initial CE consonant H in Quenya? Checking the sources, I found an almost 50/50 re...
• fzKAPEmHzuX: Since al- is now "not", then alwed as "prosperous, well-being" doesn't work anymore. Any ideas for a substitution or reconstruction? ...
• GFbnxejHkkF: I have a copy of PE22 and it is amazing. It is chock full of marvelous information about Quenya and Early Eldarin verb structures. I've only begun ...
• ND5PwZ6bBUd: Peded laew, ach eno i Silevril ú-dhendellin Much talk and little work. ...
• eqYZ19rwQVy: I need some more translation help. I am trying to translate "I will lift my eyes to the maker of the mountains I can't climb." So far, I have "Ort...
• 8xcKvXikTdz: Just a short piece inspired by the June weather. Húro Mitse lotsi luhtar nu i lunga wista, I asto ñol mirilya pa i mixe lassi. Ortíran. I more M...
• TnJVo3zkJ32: Hi, ab•doled i•laiss galen caleneb ach eb•doled in eithbi, nan Anor calel nabant aur a dû, cuiad milui. tolel, gerund of tol- "coming, arrival", *...
• CbnVv8psMqK: Two lesser asclepiads. Líre nwalca macil , ulle i carne yár, Alme nyéna ve Fui, naina qualin firimon i fírimon. Cruel blade sang, the red blood s...
• GLBBzaqfyGv: Tunga feanya ve quinga, la istan man tirien hí, Mailie urya i hráva mal séren milya i hón. (My soul is taut as a bow, I don't know who to heed, Th...
• 1KCfYdcw2Sw: Íta i nór ve maril, antara orya Anar, Á laitalme i Hér, envinyanta i ré! (The land is sparkling as a crystal, lofty rises the Sun, let us praise t...
• HqPQZu3q3mD: The most common kind of compound word is what's called "endocentric:" it includes the thing that it is. So a houseboat is a kind of boat; a shoe sa...
• VKSr9sh2ttw: I do not love thee… Gen ú-velin im, Herdir Fell, Ú-bedithon i•gaethad del, Mal iston hen, pen-adbedel: Gen ú-velin im, Herdir Fell. caethad 'reas...
• Ven9VwVxxvt: Lament for Akallabêth. Terbad na Annûn glennas, aurath hin raeg i•badath. [There was a straight road westwards, now all the roads are bent.] ter...
• WMVipVHPcPr: Windflowers When I was little and good I walked in the dappled wood Where light white windflowers grew, And hyacinths heavy and blue. The windflo...
• LBtNiDBjgiJ: A free translation of one of Schubert's lieder: Soltala lúta síve alquar i vene   rilmanen mí cilintirvea sír; yé, sio lúta feanya ve i vene   mil...
• K8P7fVmEGho: Something special for this day. As +Björn Fromén hinted to me, there are multiple ways to theorise upon a single example of Elvish poetry; +Roman R...
• 7ss1nrrJkzk: Another Aesop fable I atar ar selderyat Nér samne seldet, i min vertaina lótepandamon, ar i hye ambaltanon. Apa lú lendes seldenna i vertaina lót...
• SQdPA2L887o: A modern Q word for laqa-? Should we expect lac-?  http://eldamo.sourceforge.net/content/words/word-3384693239.html ...
• 5hwkxPXxzUv: "Timeo Danaos" for Tyelperinquar: another linnod of the day. Gosto i•meryn Morgoth, edregol annath golel. [Have fear of vassals of Morgoth, espec...
• fNw4BKYWbrW: Question: is there an explanation why S. Rodon "Power, Vala" gets plural Rodyn instead of expected **Redyn? Even if *Raudon is assumed, shouldn't i...
• 9mynzgB2sjs: Firielinde Nu i landa elenya ilmen, Sapa i lára ta núta inye. Merya *cuianen merya firnen, Ar nucainenye as sina nirme. A certa sina lire pa i on...
• RPfgUiAVmLU: Milyas Menelwa Lannín Samumnen cé menelwa netyaine lanni, As míri sisilcala cáleva, I luine, i néce, i morne lanni i yucáleva, lómeva, cáleva, Cé ...
• b3JTS4Ujsga: This is the second stanza of Yeats's The Two Trees in Sindarin: Na cheledh haer avo diro, ah i guru chall în in Ylynn Eriar nef men reniol, Egor t...
• Mj2qHQDcCoZ: Tengwar not in DTS: After looking through more of my just-received Hammond/Scull's Art of the Hobbit (2011), I noticed a page with tengwar which I...
• AdLaQjbRkkS: Might anyone be willing to provide some criticism/corrections? Elsewhere there was a translation request for a line from the Silmarillion into Quen...
• BM7RANaCkjN: Do you think *colexe 'carry oneself' could be an acceptable neologism for 'behave'? Edit: just realized we do have an attested verb lenga- in PE17....
• ERFc5m1DCJy: Aiyä! Can anyone please check if I did this correctly? :D Thank you! alassea hristonosta.png ...
• JU8ocwFRCq4: +Tamas Ferencz 's translation for "Twelve Days of Christmas" brought me a question... how would be the correct Quenya translation of "merry Christm...
• 8T4xKcYPVKM: a distichon Lip-lip-liptar i hloimie quettaryar et i péti Nuhta i luime melin, intye se metta qualit Drip-drip-drip those poisonous words from he...
• LD1L5qQrRgB: A much-quoted distich by Schiller, recently translated into Sindarin on the Mellyn Lammath forum. I thought it might be worth a try in Quenya too. ...
• 7zchv6Q8PZJ: I was asked to translate some sayings "into Elvish" (no language specified, alas) so I've giving the translations in both Sindarin and Quenya. I'm ...
• 4aDkcsKhTWv: In Quenya, how would you express 'for' in 'thanks[giving] to sb for sth' (hantale quenna ? nat)? Would epe or po as in epetai/potai ('therefore, fo...
• MQK5df8PsvM: Hi! I'm trying to translate "under your veil," and I note that there are two prepositions I can use, namely di and nu. Do we know what the distinct...
• R7LEfzznChC: Burning question of the day: what is the plural of tyenya? *tyenyar 'my kinsmen', or *lenya? ...
• RmphJ7qyFD3: An emig nín Derig erui vi morn ar im - dannon sui gond Le dewin. Bith Pith dýr. Ar i ú-iston, havol vi dath hin chaer: im le awarthannen egor Eru ...
• dXuHJckjik8: Lothron, mae govannen ad vi milbar vín, Lothron vain, ad ammen mellon teilien! [From "May Song" by Johan Ludvig Runeberg] ...
• YKDPQcQXwpC: Sui gaear tuiol nu alagos vorn gala dîn. Diliant lû. Dôl în dhannen na besseg in endrainn oltha Ilador Iladar. Bo hûn e-hên, blabel, 'ruithannen, h...
• TTBkvn5zkPX: Sis caitalme - a mentat nossen mí Lacetaimon, Ranyar, carnelme ilya ya cáne i Nór. (Simonides) ...
• Wba3TYhBATK: Cé lindale ná melmemat, á tyale antyálie! (Twelfth Night, 1.1) ...
• jdhaxQNW41w: Na herenya illin i loa vinya! Tamas Ferencz Dec 31...
• 5vPrZkcAfEA: Here you can find the analysis of the Sindarin dialogues from the second Hobbit movie:   http://www.elendilion.pl/2013/12/22/g-i-p-report-complete...
• jgeDcf3zEGS: Another sleighing song, on a less serious note: Losses hortala er-rocco-raxanen,  /1/ ter i palari voro lálala, súli valtea láma nyelleron. Alasse...
• cPut9aikzig: I did this translation some years ago, now updated from our current vocabulary. The translation was done from the Hungarian original (a poem by End...
• QxvodhdYzx3: Alye illume apsene cotumolyain, làqua nwalya te ambe. Oscar Wilde ...
• c62W4RsvjDF: Here's a translation of the traditional song She Moved Through The Fair. It is difficult to convey the beautifully laconic nature of the original, ...
• huUTPA1Ajzp: How would you say simple in Quenya (or Sindarin)? Go literal from simplex and coin *erastea "of a single part"? ...
• eu9aX9wG9ig: I did this translation years ago, I'm just reviving it because I am re-reading the series: Endanyasse sambi i astonen súyar Ar litsínen mí urma. M...
• AmsDC424r2E: Tasaran A High-elven adaptation of Goethe’s ”Erlkönig”. The metre is that of Galadriel’s Lament (”Namárie”). Man nortea ter lóme vailima? Nás ata...
• FJGB5TxLqh5: Aure pa aure p'ambon erinqua i nér lé persaila *raiwe aqua *serna mal úquen mere se ista cenir persaila se ar ullume nanquetisse mal i persaila p'...
• VG5K9x3EB8s: A most welcome arrival in the post today. 9/20/13 - 1 A most welcome arrival in the po...
• QPm2MQq1uJB: Two hexameters for Q: +#letteroftheday Quélie tópa i nóre, i Quendi se ruine omentar, Quentali astar i indo, asya i hón miruvor. ...
• S1zSMkTjdWU: Here's for the letter N. Long-forgotten lament of an unnamed bard of Númenor. +#letteroftheday Nwalme onnaron             Núme quanta, Nárie vi...
• gwyzYPCjtgJ: Just celebrating the letter L +#letteroftheday laire lemya himya ena i lassinnar lorda, yerna tátarya lantalcallo linga raina caita litsenna lau...
• gYY9eRcgmWh: Parma Eldalamberon #21 will be published on 2 September.  It "presents previously unpublished writings by J.R.R. Tolkien concerning the declension ...
• eSoPRpoVdBf: A tanca tace findilelya malda tancilden, Ta nuta ilya mistala finde; Cánen órenyallo loice óquettar: Cáreryet, aure apa aure, Maitane lumba vanesse...
• SEufGXXz3yj: Colla Lírenyan colla cáren Netilion quanta Et nyarnallor yáre Telmello talmanna; Mal persailar nampentes, Nu Anar cólantes Ve intínen carna. Líre,...
• QMBz7Qxtc14: nin ólar alalvie ambor líri lo lyé alaquente ta voro viryala valto nése ya vanwa ve vangwe   en huiva ná íre eccuivan caimanya maxa ve quesse feany...
• aga44eAEabA: I've been analyzing Sindarin tenses a bit, as I write homework assignments, and something occurred to me. In Sindarin: b>v>w /_# m>ɱ>v>w /_# But ...
• Y5w9v4ZBrPb: mi laica linque aiwe cacáva caserya tuileliltale eccuiva, eccuiva, eccuiva ...
• F1hyxpAYahE: Let's have some fun... Na i Melehte olye. Sine lar i atanivear i kestal. Nán atarelya, Lúk.  (Laaaaaaaaaaaaauuuuu) A himya hilya i losse lapatte. ...
• BmDhWdaE2TQ: Linnod echui: Aew suilannar ethuil, megli awartha dorech. ...
• BEx1PyyQAyT: Stabat mater, continued: 11--12. Aire amille, cara sie: taca Tarwestaino harwi   indonyanna tulcave! Ánin etsate nwalmellon harna onnalyo, ye *res...
• Yya7zHpszPZ: A somewhat belated hymn for Good Friday (Stabat Mater, the first five stanzas) 1--2. Tarne amille *naicelinqua quanta nieron pó tarwe   yasse yond...
• gqi5KuKnK5n: Manen na estaina Quenyanen i merende ya túla otsolemettasse? (Lambenen lienyo estalmes *Hrávelóra [Húsvét]). ...
• T5fbRfiYFr8: First few lines of The Wanderer. Rána   "I erinqua lillume                Eruanna hire Rehtaro raine,                   *aita, rácina, sen Mauya m...
• eUonKXBgDgJ: This will probably be complete bollox, but. We have the following sentence in the +#TúrinWrapper Area IV in +#VT50 : Sí ?a?l il cem il chem n...
• cjD7av2UyPV: Another try at a Yeats poem, this time in Sindarin: IDHRIND An echuir nallam trí lú rhîw, trí ethuil nallam ui an laer; ir *laegi evyr gleiniar, ...
• Ew6mZGDK4Dn: Quen same erya vehte; mal cé quen care sa mai, ta erya nauva fárea.  (Mae West) https://plus.google.com/u/0/103590807509576802076/posts/XNfuc6eb...
• 5W2rZsWpoab: I have just learned that it is possible now to share documents/slides from Google Drive with communities, so here I am testing this with my North S...
• Y3djH9KLN8p: Translated a few years ago. Nóleo túlie lúmenen Quíta i lassi úmar, erya i sundo; Linganen lassi yo lotsi mi áre Ter' illi sende auri vínenyo; Sí...
• Znu1bGjaHFD: A well known passage: Quetin cé lambínen firion ar *angelion, mal melme lá samin, nán ve lamyala calarus var tunga nande. Samin cé apacéno anna ar...
• H9Bf7QGmhE1: Lá ricin úruva tar, Caisar, ya navilye ni mára,    lá merin ista ye nál: nulla hya nér calima. Catullus http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Poetry_o...
• JnWF5iEbGwn: Yesterday I was looking for a Q word to express 'companion' for my John Locke citation translation. I ended up using the attested otorno but was no...
• 7y3bueVyydG: Airelinde 23 Héru mavarinya[1] ná: lá penin Tyareryen Tyaris[2] i kaitan laique palarissen: tulyassen tenna sende neni Feanyá asyas: tulyassen rá ...
• fKZZAdE7KZp: Hey friends! Perhaps you could help me out with this? Pronunciation Guides - Your Input Please...
• PCVs2sV6Dhx: Úvan lerya Váquetin aiquen pata ter indonya váre talintainen. Gandhi ...
• MoNGjFKhAAk: Ce essi alasinwe lyen, nation firuva ót istalya. (Nomina si nescis, perit et cognitio rerum. -- Linnaeus) ...
• FGt2XicEkbb: Coirea ná i virya, ar ilvana ná i rimbave ivírie. John Henry Newman
• fFGuP6AA6NY: Two words to ponder: 'exact(ly), right on' - maybe one of the adjectives meaning 'sharp' could be used? 'begin, start sg' Ideas much welcome. +#...
• XmuWDfJvr2v: From elsewhere on G+: Ual pole intya ma polil tenna rikuvalye. ...
• Jw13NCptyJR: "Amminda þelmalva sina kuilesse ná asya exi. Ar ké ua polilye asya aþya te, annún[1] avalye harna te." (The Dalai Lama) [1] annún = "[at the] deep...
• BUS7bkSPpxU: I have become jealous:) of +Fiona Jallings 's excellent Sindarin riddle-thread, so let's do the same in Quenya! For starters here's an (I hope) ea...
• SYc9Ed3ErPj: Vea nas hríve ná vaquenta Inglandesse loasse sina. Hrisinyes er erinqua auresse Ringareo, ta sí laimar tuiar et i kemello, ar aiwi lírar tuiléva li...
• hSTGbWX8ix9: A few more verses for the season to be jolly: Marda netyuvar ercassi. Asta sina tuce alassi. Coluvalme larma merya; linwi yárie a lerya! Ela turu...

Olga García

• T3EJLaiGiRr: Another sketch of mine from 4 years ago... 11/7/16 - 1 Another sketch of mine from 4 y...
• HRXjCzRZuPM: Made it 4 years ago. 28/6/16 - 1 Made it 4 years ago. ...
• ddkk4pnTYwC: Finnish and Welsh might be related Indo-Uralic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ...
• M65aGPjLq9q: Has anyone heard what happened to the recording of Prof. Tolkien reading a previously unknown Quenya poem in the Netherlands? ...
• 4APJ5aeRww8: +Jenna Carpenter  and I have been chatting about Sindarin pronunciation, and the bit about the pronunciation of the letter I came up, specifically ...
• DyadG8seCkQ: An interesting  podcast to watch; it might be up your alley. +Olga García  Travels on the Olo...
• PB22baiMQ5M: In case you have missed the announcement, Elfling has moved from Yahoo Groups to a new location, and will no longer function as a mailing list, but...
• gYY9eRcgmWh: Parma Eldalamberon #21 will be published on 2 September.  It "presents previously unpublished writings by J.R.R. Tolkien concerning the declension ...
• QccT73Y6rhb: I'm thinking of starting a small project for fun - namely, to translate the LotR DVD subtitles into Quenya. I don't know if anyone would ever watch...
• GLXQFWo7tHr: Mmm... This also sounds like "Elvish" music to me... Faun - Königin. ❝_ Wie weit reich...
• PWdRu2VAx6m: Here's another Elvish music video I like. Enjoy! :) Pen Phith (Without Words) Elvish m...
• Kbp9aBVfJMC: Does anyone ever heard of this composer? I've heard some of his "Eldarinwë Líri" and it's pretty much how I envision Elvish music to be like. He ha...
• SJ5RR7eCLkM: Don't know if this would be allowed, but I find it very useful for any Tolkien fan/scholar as it contains a lot of digitalized material: https://fo...
• MDgMGPBnLRr: Could someone tell me if S medennin -- colored as "attested/firm" in http://www.sindarin.de/grammatik.shtml -- is actually found in PE17 (or elsewh...
• JF29Eome5dG: Tule ne die huisse ole niqistine; íne ando ni·sapandie n·niqissa (tyá tiqilindie) raktentar ya nótiende ankassealdas talakūmet. I qanta paliste sil...
• RWGmbVu6BNe: Yé! Sí camnenyes! Hentëan (?hénetan?) alassië. Tamas Feren...
• CnMhaCaxU4t: I have copied the PE19 index that +Matthew Dinse has typed up into a separate document on my Drive. The special characters show up nicely on my com...
• 8przW93gjwB: Alla! *Wilwiste né acca vanima sina tella otsola-mettasse. Patanemme i ostonna, inye yo verinya, ta mancanemme tamnali ar matso. Noa[1] mótanemme p...
• 5W2rZsWpoab: I have just learned that it is possible now to share documents/slides from Google Drive with communities, so here I am testing this with my North S...
• KvvTnyu6d4W: Does anyone else here think the way Elvish languages evolve along with their (original) speakers is kind of... strange?? Like they're immortal but ...
• HNygJk5rsU8: Some years ago I compiled a list of words in the North Sindarin dialect, I thought to publish it here, feel free to correct any mistakes or add to ...
• fKZZAdE7KZp: Hey friends! Perhaps you could help me out with this? Pronunciation Guides - Your Input Please...
• 7oS3jASSUNz: I was thinking, how about making a community chat? Or something like a Facebook or LINE community?? ...
• G14dxTma7PC: I wonder why most people tend to just care about "late" and "LotR-compatible" material, and despise anything "early" concerning both languages and ...
• L5uzGXR6rCh: I was wondering - for no apparent reason - how to express various algebraic operations in Quenya. 2+3=5; atta ar/yo nelde ná (nar?) lempe? 7-4=3; ...
• gFJr2G57Qy3: Hello! I'm new to this community, but I've got a long-time interest in Tolkien's languages, especially at the philological level. ...
• UsRix78sSFw: Have you read my former comment? Well, here I go! Entu, ensi, enta.xlsx None ...

Ryszard Derdziński

• d3CUuDspq2J: Good news! We have established a Skype chat for Eldarin linguistic discussions! Please join if you also wish to participate! +Christopher Gilson +...
• gmjnYa6MxGU: Carl F. Hostetter has announced on +#lambengolmor that VT 50 is nearing completion and would be available for ordering soon. Apparently PE 21 is al...
• P2kLTswWQwi: Did people see the neo translations of the dialog from The Hobbit movie by the Polish Tolkien Society?  ...

#lambengolmor

• 64EogkJrTRm: +Carl Hostetter has posted an invitation to a Quenya translation experiment to the +#lambengolmor  Yahoo group - not an easy task I'd say! ...
• gmjnYa6MxGU: Carl F. Hostetter has announced on +#lambengolmor that VT 50 is nearing completion and would be available for ordering soon. Apparently PE 21 is al...
• QqTwKSx4DBm: Very exciting! http://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Cushing_Memorial_Library_and_Archives_collection&diff=225407&oldid=prev ...

Lőrinczi Gábor

• 93sfzLic57s: Nosto i-Aear, lass laeg, Legolas! Dorthannel anan nu 'aladh vi 'lass. Ae lastol i-nall e-maew 'ri falas, Gúrel ló-chiratha hîdh vi thaur dass. Leg...
• G8WMXLJqAiK: Looking for ideas how you guys would say "chaos, disorder, mess, confusion, havoc, tohuvabohu" and related adjectives etc. in Quenya (or Sindarin)....
• d3CUuDspq2J: Good news! We have established a Skype chat for Eldarin linguistic discussions! Please join if you also wish to participate! +Christopher Gilson +...
• 7zmW42dZiXu: Negrenig iuithar gae, lais egor chwand sui gaef coled 'lî dan na i dorech dîn. Ach idhrin i negrenig, ar ui cewir i ngaef i maer mîn ngaef. https:...
• cJzAQ4hdmjT: On Christmas Eve I wish you all joyous festivities, peace and happiness wherever you are - may your Twelve Days of Christmas feel as if you were in...
• a5jkwCd7rhn: Sindarinists: what do you make of the (plural) forms athof, athab paired with the "usual" 1st sg athon on p167 of PE22? Ephemeral variants? ...
• Ae3gPKNwpww: The first two stanzas of the poem "Szózat" ("Summons") by Vörösmarty Mihály. An i mardor lîn, ae Magorion No an-uir sadar hador; Ha le onnant ar l...
• HMuGLCxVZpM: So I was going through the sentence-syntax lesson, editing it and preparing it for the book, and after working on it non-stop for about 12 hours (f...
• YXxJxqQPcYX: Vi eryn reniant i randír ravaed, ir i roch în na riss hon rithant. (Teilien na phith (egor lam-gonathras) 'ni chîn i newir epheded i 'lim 'R'.) ...
• Dw5uJfojsQE: Some animal names based on their CE equivalents (see PE/21:82): S *celef (deer, stag) kel(e)bē (deer, hind), kelebō (hart, stag) S *naeag (goat) n...
• iFu8DLV2iSb: I was translating some quotes from the Jackson films, and faltered when approaching simple questions. I first thought of "Legolas, ma chenir i chin...
• FRe6ckscvtS: Alta sorno ríke mapa nappayanten vinyamo, karnelya kirisse-harwe i vinyamo kendelenna. Herenyanen i sorno la etélie ta auvíle. A large eagle tried...
• PgCxUZkW4bp: MEL: A-verb or I-verb? We see CE melā- in PE22/095;130;134 Also ᴹQ meláne in LR/061 Yet Q shows melin etc. in VT49/15;21 +Александр Запрягаев seem...
• iBnyANQQW6q: Just working on a translation for someone into both Quenya and Sindarin of the following sentence: "If you want to be hard (i.e. "steadfast, endur...
• HmvDWjupxM9: In our university, students can anonymously assess the performance of teachers, express their opinions on courses, etc. at the end of each semester...
• SbXbzdP7aMP: Hi! I don't know very well the Sindarin, but I'm trying to improve them. Could someone translate for me these phrases? "Everything happens for a re...
• 3mzctUkjgRA: Hello there :). I have a question regarding the translation of the quotes from Tolkien's books. Is it possible for you to translate it from english...
• 7thaeLkyp8C: I have just finished a coffee pouch, made out of leather, and thought of writing "coffee" on it. However, we lack a word for that in eldarin, don't...
• KnQS1kr6nrC: Ú-inn ða v'im mudad sír. Lőrinczi Gábor May 27, 20...
• Jvwuv8kfpCb: Looking for simple ways to express the following adverbs in Q (or S, for that matter): at all (al)though at least ...
• b6UmkMt63fU: Case, lant, "fall", in case of, vi lant oh, in that case vi land han. (Case is from latin, casus, meaning "fall/falling".  Light, as in "not heavy...
• WXET73QNktz: Ceno in yngyl dhaer! Does this work, or does it seem like an appeal to go and see them? ...
• JrgcsMx4FqJ: Any idea how to express "careful" in S or Q? It is a word that is really missing in my oppinion. ...
• VNh3nZR6hvS: Considring the map that +Matt Dinse linked to in a post some weeks ago, should my entry in the VQP for "wine" be rendered, and in that case, how? I...
• FD5EugHYgaZ: Merya yo herenya vinya loa illin! Lőrinczi Gábor ...
• AfFV2KAp7ec: It's that time of the year again... Christmas in a few days. So here is a Quenya translation of the song White Christmas to celebrate, and to thank...
• FM5Ct4qjafi: Based on PE/17, I’ve always thought that S -g is the informal (familiar) 2nd p. sg. verbal suffix, while -dh is the formal (polite) 2nd p. sg. verb...
• J3rTsUctamg: Hello, lovely people. Earlier this year, +Tamas Ferencz asked if you could help me out with a conundrum I had in finding a suitable name for my Eng...
• d4yTqEKG8Qb: Do we have any botanist amongs us? Great lilies, snapdragons and laburnums? ...
• fNLNwRt18Ld: Any S word for "rare, unusual" or "weird, peculiar, curious, strange"? ...
• bDpjikKmrJG: A question: when does si (here/now) get lenited into hi? Some people spell it with a long vowel, hí, what is the more correct? ...
• MPxqMUWLNuE: After reading +Hjalmar Holm's post a few days ago, I realized that I had never translated the poem "The Riddle of Strider" into Sindarin. So I deci...
• ApSNpW4TJ3d: I thought of a S word for squirrel: oronar (oron tree + nâr rat) and a S word for badger torechor (torech lair and -or acting suffix, as badgers a...
• GXoMNpKL26T: Mae g'ovannen! Being both a long-time JRRT fan (read The Silmarillion before learned about PJ movies existing ;) ) and a person fascinated by the b...
• R8eh7ZFJKvU: How might one translate "blizzard" into Quenya? For now I'm tempted to combine hrisse and alaco somehow; any other ideas? ...
• Ew8g8bfQuos: I thought about a S word for spruce of fir trees (not a specific species, more the genuses or type of trees), i.e. a conical shaped tree. Maybe com...
• 3kqz4zQNzTc: Hey everyone, +Jeremiah Burns and I have been conversing in the past few days trying to find a suitable Sindarin name for his recently acquired lo...
• ZnHobk8P1P1: I am working on a translation of America the Beautiful in Sindarin, and I need one word: "proved". Is there such a word in Sindarin? ...
• b3JTS4Ujsga: This is the second stanza of Yeats's The Two Trees in Sindarin: Na cheledh haer avo diro, ah i guru chall în in Ylynn Eriar nef men reniol, Egor t...
• PQGB615dMRd: Alae, i drenarn o ethrebith i-thindrim o "I Berian: Dagor-i-lebenwaith". Er... sorry, I mean, here you can find the analysis of the Sindarin dialog...
• R8KqYxfj8xZ: Alya yo manna vinya loa otornossen ta illin i melir Arcastaro lambi! ...
• D68RNKUKrSf: Hello! I was trying to figure out the translation for these lyrics from "Beyond the Forest" and I was wondering if any of you could help. "A, mel...
• JUqNJh9DB9f: Na alassea, merya, alya ta herenya Hristonostarelya! Elen síla lúmenn' omentielvo. Na anda vehtelya, na quanta yulmalya tenna Lúmeo metta. ...
• Hid793bdYW7: Hello!!  Can anyone please find out what are they saying during 0:57 to 1:03? Thanks a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLU71C60wf8 ...
• MQK5df8PsvM: Hi! I'm trying to translate "under your veil," and I note that there are two prepositions I can use, namely di and nu. Do we know what the distinct...
• 587fC2pdtCX: 'tidy, orderly, composed' in NeoQuenya? or NeoSindarin possibly canna? parina/párina could be an option, but Tolkien seemed to vacillate a lot abo...
• PrgkpVhkMRq: "still, quiet" in Sindarin: Fiona suggests *pell from QL qilda (cp. PE21's qilir), but I might like something a bit later that might not clash wit...
• 93syFS5QL5b: I do not have PE/21, but I saw the EN word flinc in Roman's list on Mellyn Lammath. My question is, if this comes from a root *SLIK (or something l...
• 71Vn29pmSBH: Ňona ve Nauco mi *satyasambe. "Groans like Dwarf on the loo." Beleriandic saying *satyasambe 'private chamber, privy, loo' ...
• 4QLPpk695ET: I was looking for a word for "hearth", and found the Quenya word "ruimen". Then I looked it up in its context, and found the untranslated Sindarin ...
• MRN6bEobbkj: Is there an "official" list of semantic categories of words we should use when tagging the entries? ...
• FiKQNCCLv3r: Some potential Neosindarin words for VinQuettaParma: torchal (pl. torchail) n. shark or other large predatory fish (lit. "mighty/awful fish") Etym...
• Fk8GexLcuPo: Suilad, mellon nin muin. :) Mate Bokkon May 19, 20...
• dhUCpTzWh5d: This is the translation of a popular Hungarian children's poem written by Sándor Weöres. Weöres was a virtuoso of rhyme and rhythm, who, like many ...
• jdhaxQNW41w: Na herenya illin i loa vinya! Tamas Ferencz Dec 31...
• 5vPrZkcAfEA: Here you can find the analysis of the Sindarin dialogues from the second Hobbit movie:   http://www.elendilion.pl/2013/12/22/g-i-p-report-complete...
• ZuVqEdPAunB: Manna yo merya Hristonostare illin! Matt Dinse Dec...
• KCRbiwaEiti: Sindarin is sexy! :) http://teamcoco.com/video/conan-highlight-evangeline-lilly-sexy-elvish E...
• UweJvi4k1ph: I'd like to get a little critique on a translation I did (Brandon Sanderson fans might have an advantage): Cuil argwannath Bronwe arnin Lend armet...
• huUTPA1Ajzp: How would you say simple in Quenya (or Sindarin)? Go literal from simplex and coin *erastea "of a single part"? ...
• QccT73Y6rhb: I'm thinking of starting a small project for fun - namely, to translate the LotR DVD subtitles into Quenya. I don't know if anyone would ever watch...
• QbzUeWVVBi2: Ae, VT/50 vi cam nín. Na vedui! :) Tamas Ferencz J...
• aga44eAEabA: I've been analyzing Sindarin tenses a bit, as I write homework assignments, and something occurred to me. In Sindarin: b>v>w /_# m>ɱ>v>w /_# But ...
• BmDhWdaE2TQ: Linnod echui: Aew suilannar ethuil, megli awartha dorech. ...
• 9u9uLpdP7J1: Im mîn o chanad gwedyr. Osgaro i dhôl nín: thuiathon, na-vedui gwannathon. Osgaro i dâl nín: gwathrathon i ardhon. Osgaro i dhôl ar i dâl nín: le b...
• jcoGdTcW5oA: Máre Tuiléri illin! Aníron sevigir Veren en-Ethuil vaer! M...
• VsYYMahPQtK: Ai! Le suilon!  Im Brann! Aniron ped edhellen an hiril vuin Mallwen! Pedim sindarin Peditham hi sui vellyn? N'i lû tôl , posto vae ~Brann~ ...
• BGPRYG3ZWry: Loss, loss ar loss. Ú-anglennatha i Echuir? :( Tamas Feren...
• 4wqRxMK3wYg: Athgar ben nauth nín... :) Na rîdh nim si ioe vyrn redhin, nêl nín mudar, úgarol tâd nín. Man cerin? ...
• HLaPC1owUqb: Iath estent min tâd tynd, nen a gwelu il oer ha trevedir Man en estar? ...
• gHUmJYe2MsB: How would you say 'almost' in Q or S? Tamas Ferencz ...
• 3fafPqCxCYw: Ring egor laug yrin, thion luin dan gruin im. Man i eneth nín? ...
• eUonKXBgDgJ: This will probably be complete bollox, but. We have the following sentence in the +#TúrinWrapper Area IV in +#VT50 : Sí ?a?l il cem il chem n...
• cjD7av2UyPV: Another try at a Yeats poem, this time in Sindarin: IDHRIND An echuir nallam trí lú rhîw, trí ethuil nallam ui an laer; ir *laegi evyr gleiniar, ...
• Z1PV2kYWoWy: Im sui i 'aear dan sui sarn, pigen, Ir gwannon, nandelitha gell. Man im? ...
• GuaGux8BrQH: I ben vinui hâf dad ar e ú-eriatha, i ben dadui him madweg ar e mâd in annath lín phain, ar i ben nelui le awartha ar e ú-nandelitha. Man in enith...
• gmjnYa6MxGU: Carl F. Hostetter has announced on +#lambengolmor that VT 50 is nearing completion and would be available for ordering soon. Apparently PE 21 is al...
• WrU6uVbkPbm: Rúth 'loss, orchal, lhûg 'lain or talath luin I Rîn lain nin gaded, avo le nin charno! Man im? ...
• 5HpNCrP4htC: 'Man istadhir o ngurth? Han ú-’ostadhir, *an ú-istadhir,' ebent (1). 'Han egennim, ar han gostam,' *dambent (2). Gwannam sui i noss lín, (1); ar gw...
• QuVYxsX1Wtx: This one is easy, I'm sure:) Hwinion os im[1], lhûg uguin, le chebin, le nedin, le degin, sui anírog. Man im? [1] as os- is given as a prefix, ...
• cTy91NsLN5Y: Im i *onnad en-úmarth, i enedh e-lûm, ar i vethed e-lû. Man im? ...
• Wa42VzXqMiL: Try out this Sindarin tongue-twister: Cabor laba lavan. Lavan lala, a lobor laba i gabor! ...
• fKZZAdE7KZp: Hey friends! Perhaps you could help me out with this? Pronunciation Guides - Your Input Please...
• HHN2zVZdAFv: Here's an easy one: Lodannen, si ni ú-chebithog; lodo ah im ar le puig ah e-thost vain. ...
• UPzecRG3DSy: Ae ephedidh i eneth nín, gwannon. Man im? Tamas Ferencz ...
• 72HZNj7DgH9: Penin mass ar penin mâr, penin vellon, penin thraw, ir ail im ú-limmidin, celeg na-chaered ribin. Negin chelch ir tôl i thrîw, alagos i chanar nín,...
• cvKjYq35g6T: +Lőrinczi Gábor , you got a honorary mention! http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2013/01/16/68399-a-linguistic-analysis-of-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-j...
• c7RrdgXN5RY: Mae, si im... *rembeth hín athgar. Lodon bo 'aear daur, luin, Ir im naer, gelais lín gellui ...
• 9QKqpcWD8sd: Avo nuitho i deilien i Fiona heriant... :) Alae, man dolthar i phith hin?  Medin dhrafn, bo gae *loston, blebin na rovail, vi menel revion, luith...
• CWGr64WYZxi: Mae govannen pengelydh i-lammath! ;) Sí cîw im, dan ú-udulen pen-ist o lam i-thinnedhil. :) Harthon in ethrebith hin edlothiathar. ...

#TheHobbit

• G14dxTma7PC: I wonder why most people tend to just care about "late" and "LotR-compatible" material, and despise anything "early" concerning both languages and ...

Xandarien Elanessa

• 72HZNj7DgH9: Penin mass ar penin mâr, penin vellon, penin thraw, ir ail im ú-limmidin, celeg na-chaered ribin. Negin chelch ir tôl i thrîw, alagos i chanar nín,...
• c7RrdgXN5RY: Mae, si im... *rembeth hín athgar. Lodon bo 'aear daur, luin, Ir im naer, gelais lín gellui ...
• G14dxTma7PC: I wonder why most people tend to just care about "late" and "LotR-compatible" material, and despise anything "early" concerning both languages and ...

#NeoQuenya

• Vtsck9xPNbT: Concerning loanwords in NeoQuenya +Kevin B Walsh and I have been having a very interesting discussion via email over the past few days about neolo...
• fFGuP6AA6NY: Two words to ponder: 'exact(ly), right on' - maybe one of the adjectives meaning 'sharp' could be used? 'begin, start sg' Ideas much welcome. +#...

Nik May

• R9Bb8hTMoio: Is there an attested Eldarin (or other ME language) name for the Milky Way? I have not been able to find any so far - I wonder how Tolkien would've...
• GNCeE7ASxiN: If you haven't visited the new +#Elfling forums lately, they have managed to transfer the archives of the old Elfling Yahoo-group to the new site; ...
• bTMvnX4CJ9r: I have put my article on sound symbolism from Omentielva Cantea online, available in html: http://sindanoorie.net/art/ssymb.html and shiny pdf: htt...
• PpR1UZx6d41: I adan amminda nucumna pahtayasse, mal arya cardayasse. Confucius ...

Damien Bador

• 9H4RQtM6T33: In the course of my Psalmic translations, I came upon an unforseen issue: what would be the future ending of a verb in qu(a)--? The verb miqu- is ...
• X5mnnJhakMA: I have created a group over at MeWe - you are very welcome to join, let's try it out if we can continue in the same spirit over there. ...
• NpZLYwfesCH: I'm going to start working on a new version of Aglardh (install a brand new Drupal engine, new look etc) and make it operative before Google pulls ...
• Q3AnDG77CgJ: I’m looking for sources of Neo-Quenya and Neo-Sindarin neologisms. I’m nearly done with my first pass through Eldamo neologisms, and I’m pretty com...
• Va95FKtCCrH: Translation of Psalms 4 to 41 to Parmaquesta You will find below the link to the file where I'm updating my translation of the Psalms. The Psalms ...
• DoBuP45rEAY: I've release Eldamo v.0.6.7 https://eldamo.org/ This includes some more Polish translations by +Remy Corbin I haven't much to say about this rel...
• 3nGfTwFZtmB: Translating the Book of Psalms in Quenya - Miscellanea I thought of a discussion where some points concerning my ongoing translation of the Book o...
• V8oHpiN3yZq: A Psalmist Wordlist To support my work on translating the Book of Psalms, I've built a specific wordlist on Google Sheets, which identifies all wor...
• gYPgpCrrfkP: Next topic regarding Eldamo 0.6.6: internationalized search Eldamo now has two non-English search page variants (Polish and Russian), thanks to +R...
• CTmDGcqJqnc: This is the last general post on Eldamo 0.6.6. It is more technical in nature, and it therefore primarily of interest for those who work with the r...
• T12tYHCd5dW: Rie mólome ar lá tyalie care Yát lumbaro. Paul Strack ...
• 54S5sjuB4Z7: Psalm 3 in Parmaquesta Third and last example — for the time being — of my ongoing translation of the Book of Psalms. This one may be of higher in...
• SFw96yAyRC9: Psalm 2 in Parmaquesta As another example of my ongoing translation of the Book of Psalms, here is the Psalm 2. Feel free to comment, especially r...
• 3mYvdAEq1G5: I have started translating the Book of Psalms into Quenya, and more specifically Parmaquesta. As I don't read Hebrew, unfortunately, I checked a nu...
• H73E6GASbtR: I wonder if the almost throwaway emendation of the gloss of CE *anak to 'against, opposite' in PE21 offers us any opportunity to use it in this new...
• PFgSQyJoiqy: +Ицхак Пензев Yitzik, your latest post and list of words has inspired me to start something similar (and I do not want to hijack your dictionary ...
• KEWBxpCw3RA: Could it be possible that +#kyerme "prayer" be a misreading of *hyamie "a praying"? ...
• cHkN3Hv3oUU: Pinched from the old Aglardh site; I did this translation years ago. De Profundis --------------- 1. Núrello lyenna aiálien, a Héru. 2. Héru, al...
• 7y3bueVyydG: Airelinde 23 Héru mavarinya[1] ná: lá penin Tyareryen Tyaris[2] i kaitan laique palarissen: tulyassen tenna sende neni Feanyá asyas: tulyassen rá ...

Matthew Dinse

• QccT73Y6rhb: I'm thinking of starting a small project for fun - namely, to translate the LotR DVD subtitles into Quenya. I don't know if anyone would ever watch...
• jcoGdTcW5oA: Máre Tuiléri illin! Aníron sevigir Veren en-Ethuil vaer! M...
• eUonKXBgDgJ: This will probably be complete bollox, but. We have the following sentence in the +#TúrinWrapper Area IV in +#VT50 : Sí ?a?l il cem il chem n...
• CnMhaCaxU4t: I have copied the PE19 index that +Matthew Dinse has typed up into a separate document on my Drive. The special characters show up nicely on my com...
• gmjnYa6MxGU: Carl F. Hostetter has announced on +#lambengolmor that VT 50 is nearing completion and would be available for ordering soon. Apparently PE 21 is al...

WordWheel

• PuX6AFVsvni: *hroanaicele n. a physical pain or anguish *indonaicele n. a mental pain or anguish *feanaicele n. a pain or anguish of the spirit ...
• C8Xo12Lo25p: I have four rhyming words for you to give me ideas on, how to say them in Quenya: fame shame blame tame Discuss :) ...
• ZS62ErZjVzg: I am in need of a word for "hinge". The closest I can come up with is peltas "pivot" but that seems too vague for a door. Any ideas? ...
• Gpb3yDUEv21: ‘Hike’ The etymology gives a meaning “to walk vigorously”, and that meaning feels right to me. It could also mean ‘powerwalk’, but that could perh...
• bncLhe55Mjr: *keþula: adj. "inquisitive, curious" *kostula: adj. "quarrelsome, belligerent" ...
• ZLwZnCtPDFX: “absolutely” Someone asked me to translate “she is absolutely adorable” for her boyfriend to say of her. For “adorable” I’ve used mélima but “abso...
• VzU2c5yV36k: Throwing in a few words to munch on: surprise recognize to get to know, acquaint get, acquire ...
• ctvC4VBia6b: Square/rectangle and cube. There is neltil for triangle, so *kantil would be logical, but that also means 'fourth finger'. Perhaps that's not a bi...
• RWLi5paEPwE: If qua is "something, a thing", and -sta is "close grouping", could *quasta be "group"? ...
• DWPK9Lox8yC: I'm watching the Six Nations rugby championship on the telly, and on the dot I have named the game rikkoron "try-ball", because of the nature of t...
• eXiNcPeEnjC: "trousers, pants" NQ *rotset? cf. E hose, G Hose? Ras Al...
• fv9KjeomqSn: Putting the problem out here as well, for folks who are less 'instant ', like myself: verbs for "to buy" and "to sell"in Quenya. ...
• XmnyDZy4wcs: As Q sumba- is glossed "submerge" it would be a neat joke to translate "submarine" as *sumbarin ;) ...
• GHeGND2uJm8: Is there any rule that would prevent medial nh in Q? I can't find any but wanted to confirm... Would a form like *nanhalya- 'unveil, reveal' be fin...
• Tsn9vHV3hEL: If lá can be enclitic with ké and become kéla could it do the same with yú and mean nor/neither? ...
• FKhB9jKkKR2: Working on the 1000 top English words translations makes you sometimes realise how many different meanings, hues can be sometimes attributed to a s...
• CUnXt294SJU: A word for "minute", I beg you! All I can imagine is smth like nilco (nilcu-) ...
• RVhhNDCkrn4: Need a word for an non-causative "join (v)". Tamas Ferencz...
• WYoafgAaZcg: I am just wondering how do you say "fun" in Neo-Quenya? Can we make smth usable from EN. gairuid? ...
• fv7ybPk7sVB: men- 'go, proceed'+ -ma 'implement' > *memma 'vehicle'? Pa...
• GqJXkMznaar: For Q chatting it would seem fitting to have a Q word for the English language. There is the very early Q word Ingilnóre "England" that seems based...
• UfqBSzcFdxq: How do you interpret autas? I mean, pit it in a sentence for me please:) I have a lot of questions today... ...
• AZqD6wAPivt: How would you say "forget" in Q? lerya sanarello? hehta sanarello? Gnomish has this very interesting root: ...
• Q3ezKDK4FZi: Seldom, rarely - do you have a suggestion for these, other than saying larimbave? Or rare, for that matter. Few. ...
• G6uVRvdrHyT: A Quenya word for "special, particular" would be helpful, especially as an adverb "especially, particularly" :) I see Sindarin edregol "in especial...
• AjYcybmiRHy: OK: our word or words to ponder for today is: though, although, albeit ...
• dddV2RGKWm3: I wonder if tolya "prominent" (lit. sticking up) could be a good kenning for "proud, haughty" ...
• MsYGmx9nULz: Following Tamas's post from earlier I made up this list of pronouns ma? what? (interrogative pronoun) man? who? mana? what? (adj.) mó? whose, what...
• Qb6Hb3nY9ZF: I think we now have attested Quenya interrogative/demonstrative/relative pronouns for most situations (who, what, whose, where, whence, whither, ho...
• V2AcupLZCeD: I don't get it... Not a single word for 'back' (a part of body) in any language since Leeds? And none for 'stomach' ever? ...
• dbSsaCVxswb: ᴹQ. horta- v. “to send flying, speed, urge” Definition of exhort transitive verb : to incite by argument or advice : urge strongly ...
• NTZa3iG2Zex: Word proposal: Q *minome adv., prep. + Gen. "instead, in place of, in exchange for" ...
• G8WMXLJqAiK: Looking for ideas how you guys would say "chaos, disorder, mess, confusion, havoc, tohuvabohu" and related adjectives etc. in Quenya (or Sindarin)....
• cdwX8SCqC6f: Someone put up a question on another forum whether there's a word for "fool, foolish" in Quenya,and it got me thinking. There are the EQ noun and a...
• RUMDRQCDvEV: How would you guys say "side" (noun) in Eldarin? Ицхак Пе...
• QbBdpouBAKE: In his Outline of Phonetic Development, on page 58 of PE19 Tolkien introduces the somewhat unexpected (for me) compound word tálgárta "high boot", ...
• 9yqLKQYLRwK: Eldamo glosses the Quenya word to as an adverb meaning "as a rule" based on the Q sentence lairesse nihare to tarassi, yo unta hrívesse landannar i...
• a5jkwCd7rhn: Sindarinists: what do you make of the (plural) forms athof, athab paired with the "usual" 1st sg athon on p167 of PE22? Ephemeral variants? ...
• Qh3m17dsRiJ: A counter-proposition to Jallings' law-words: I'd much rather have it *thain (Q cognate sanye) as "law" and *thaineb as "lawful, law-abiding", than...
• FXimPthQi2t: What do you think fíta and fifíta on PE22:132 could mean? ...
• JEBCAtVjDeU: As usual, as I was working on the translation of the Rock-soup tale, some questions surfaced - maybe you guys will have some good ideas: - opele i...
• Dw5uJfojsQE: Some animal names based on their CE equivalents (see PE/21:82): S *celef (deer, stag) kel(e)bē (deer, hind), kelebō (hart, stag) S *naeag (goat) n...
• 9jKBrFW6s5P: Loew, "moss", from root LOG, "swampy, soaked". Related to S. words loen "swampy, soaked" and lô/hlô "fenland, flood". In my native tongue, "fen, mi...
• RBmnT8kkwai: To swim. Early root LUT, "to float" exists, but from it is derived lunte/lunt "boat" in Q and S, and lhoda- in N. The latter could be used for S, ...
• ihyRhPiYa11: If martan is a 'dwelling house', can *tantan be a 'workshop'? ...
• 7thaeLkyp8C: I have just finished a coffee pouch, made out of leather, and thought of writing "coffee" on it. However, we lack a word for that in eldarin, don't...
• Jvwuv8kfpCb: Looking for simple ways to express the following adverbs in Q (or S, for that matter): at all (al)though at least ...
• C3dRYQh77EC: To congratulate, congratulations (on celebrations, birthday parties et.c.). go + _mereth_ mirroring the etymology of "congratulation", --> govertha...
• 6hhaSePSvvV: Trying to correct a mistake. According to QL:49, "culmarin" turned out to be a mere "orange (fruit)". Shall we call tomato *malmarin, then? ...
• b6UmkMt63fU: Case, lant, "fall", in case of, vi lant oh, in that case vi land han. (Case is from latin, casus, meaning "fall/falling".  Light, as in "not heavy...
• JrgcsMx4FqJ: Any idea how to express "careful" in S or Q? It is a word that is really missing in my oppinion. ...
• U9d7oPkPoLV: For S, from KWER, perna- transitive "to turn", to be used in a wider sense (e.g. to turn a Wheel, to turn one's coat, the Sun turns the trolls into...
• VNh3nZR6hvS: Considring the map that +Matt Dinse linked to in a post some weeks ago, should my entry in the VQP for "wine" be rendered, and in that case, how? I...
• 7VfBMZ3yRrM: Some possible neologisms/derivations: *itya- "multiply, repeat" *ítea "multiple, manifold" http://eldamo.org/content/words/word-2113203683.html *...
• 9EZiRK7FasY: I saw the question on CoE, maybe we could discuss it here. Would *tertur 'win through' be a possible solution for 'convince, persuade' (see also: h...
• fuYU59HFbLm: Canvassing your thoughts how you guys would express in Quenya the adverb/adjective late, as in 'you are late' or 'late night'. EQ has the adjective...
• Cw8D1Ynpqyr: Do you think haura from KHAWAD can be used as a verb to mean 'store, put away, stash'? Or should we employ KHEP/KHAP for this purpose, perhaps with...
• QVrRFmVmWLk: Another word to ponder: - to switch, swap, replace, exchange Any suggestions? ...
• UTdnePnDxao: Do you think *tercara "through-doing" would be a good coinage for "thorough"? +#Quenya   ...
• 9UqAuXgEJFv: Have we seen a Quenya word for "planet" yet? (*élo- ~ ele(m)-pelya, on the basis of melumatya ?) ...
• VgX3mBjMPvV: Some Black Speech like corruptions for Monday: ~ *bárz-- (adj) ripe, ready (marn 'ripe' : cp. B.S. búrz- [= morn-]; shar(k)- [= Q. yára, We. za(a...
• AK77w3iSwAM: In my quest to name the plants in Elvish: Having read the legumes article in Arda philology 4, I soon came up with the following ideas: erdhwaed (o...
• LbLvaaukxWQ: Quasi-Adûnaic tentatives for Westron Wednesday (lol) : (C = some consonant, V = some vowel) *a(a)dash / *idash (n) frost, cold weather (zagar) — ...
• AeLwcfJkVH9: With PE 22, LSV4 (page 151) in mind, ebe- "can of mere possibility according to likelihood, natural probability" as root for NeoS * eb-, i-verb, us...
• fzKAPEmHzuX: Since al- is now "not", then alwed as "prosperous, well-being" doesn't work anymore. Any ideas for a substitution or reconstruction? ...
• R1Sbv9R3iyc: I've long longed for a way to express "most people" or "majority". Might Early N diant "most" be something to build on? If it was a Noldorin word, ...
• DYNF1oyJZvs: Neologisms for "nut", *pech, and "hazel", *pechol, and "buckwheat", *nelio or *neilof, depending on how old the compund is. Q. pekkuvo, of "nut" an...
• h2LMWYb8Cbd: If S bell is actually just an adaption from N belt, wouldn't it rather be S belt and S belthas "strength"? Counterpart malt + orn --> malthorn? ...
• UhPmfFPwKYR: After some discussion with +Ekin Gören , I thought of reconstruct a word for "berry", (or maybe rather "berries") *pigin, with CE root PIK, common ...
• Sbgk7P4sSm3: How should I make a cognate of Sindarin brona in Quenya? The stem is BOR(ON); should I, starting from the derivatives like vórima, consider a basic...
• DZ8Ea7gmNhh: How would you make a verb 'become heavy'? I think to start from a CE pattern luñgu-tā? I presume that the causative formant makes a-affection and m...
• byDaBiSCc8z: I am opening this thread to make note of words from Parma Eldalamberon 22 that - I think - have been hitherto unattested. I have not checked them a...
• YYw8PTK24um: I think of adding my reconstruction *ŷ from MQ io, "wine". from MQ io, "wine" to the VQP. I feel a bit insecure about it since the only place I've ...
• PFn3kG6kWLF: How would you express "indeed, absolutely, definitely, verily" in Q/S? *thannui for S? thand + suffix ui, and -nd become nn, "firmly, truly". ...
• CQBB7fEy5Vi: I ask for help here once more. I found Early Qenya words for "spade" sampa and "axe", pelek. How to make them modern Quenya? Modern Quenya has samp...
• SQdPA2L887o: A modern Q word for laqa-? Should we expect lac-?  http://eldamo.sourceforge.net/content/words/word-3384693239.html ...
• PT3soQC2ZHv: Q and S word for "choke, drown". I found EQ qosta- and qoro-, but they do not follow moderns Q rules, and I don't know how to make modern cognates....
• h29eMrtQs5m: I thougt of *ardbarlas or *arpharlas as "map", from ardh and *parlas (see the vqp). ...
• M1WDLjtpj9C: ns *belchorch "raven" (bel-, corch "crow") * mírchraban "magpie", mîr "jewel" (both from the fondness of glittering things and the conspicuous plum...
• TwbXuX1u831: "to put, place [something]", transitive verb, in Q and S? I first thought of penia- for S, but that seems to be more of "make sure it's fine, repai...
• 6eyi9yrmfGr: ns *athrabatha-, *athradanna-, vb, tr, "interpret, translate". ...
• dMfP8pXDquR: I needed words for stomach, and used cumb, wasit, and used (in lack of imagination) _ agor-chum_, and eyebrows, and used there hen-find, and also t...
• UmeiE3oE9GA: I have added words to the VQP from a previous post. I want to add one of these, but I can't make up my mind. Preferences, anyone? * ogod; och; ugu...
• QrmnHNCpNAF: Is there a way to express "It is propable that, it may be that" in S? I thought of using *ce as in Q cé "may be" as opposed to NS *pe "if". ...
• PjqzLgNFBYW: Ekin Gören proposed NS *pentha- as "reveal, show someone something", see: http://eldamo.sourceforge.net/content/words/word-1363072765.html http://e...
• 2kF9UYWxxtr: I've run into the reconstructed S word *fel- "to feel emotion. I have sometimes missed a word for such thing as "it fels like [this or that]". On t...
• d4yTqEKG8Qb: Do we have any botanist amongs us? Great lilies, snapdragons and laburnums? ...
• VZaipSa2tR8: Just a tiny funny coincidence that just occurred to me. A word for "path, track (when travelling on foot)" could easily also be *path [ ...
• efWMDLG6X4i: ns iaethwedh "scarf, necktie". Paul Strack Mar 30,...
• fNLNwRt18Ld: Any S word for "rare, unusual" or "weird, peculiar, curious, strange"? ...
• EVfZQdmZpAe: NS ed- + toltha- --> etholtha-, "take away, make come out, remove something, move something". ...
• 5hGXSojXBjY: Some Sindarin neologism ideas and adaptations to go with Tolkien Reading Day. . . (Also because "waste not", and all that.) — : — * aif adj. same...
• 9iLyrJWznVq: A ns and nq word for "to lose something" and "to aquire something", like in "He lost his good reputation but he won ... something...".  Sometimes i...
• 3k6GnHgjGCn: Hm:) Q. cesta- [þ] vb. “to seek, search for” quest (n.) c.1300, "an inquest;" early 14c., "a search for something" (especially of judicial inquir...
• R9Bb8hTMoio: Is there an attested Eldarin (or other ME language) name for the Milky Way? I have not been able to find any so far - I wonder how Tolkien would've...
• cj1UgBEX4so: I tried to make a word for "sap, resin" with the root KHIM (the thought being of vaurse that sap and resin is sticky and viscous) and the suffix -l...
• KDjhhYZ8T5g: mawedh, "glove", inspired after the English etymology of "glove" Proto-Germanic *ga- “collective and associative prefix” + Proto-Germanic *lōfô “fl...
• MJeKXpgspKv: S (and Q) word for "part, piece" and "partly, to some extent". I thought of using ú-bant for the latter, but that doesn't really help me with the f...
• R6krdSxdZFa: S nasarm and Q assarmë for "context". Etymology Lat. con- "with" text "text". "Writing" is the closest word to "text" that I have found. Thus as "w...
• MFxxnCrAHLc: Have anyone reconstructed a S word for "kind, sort, type" or similar? Perhaps from Q nostale? ...
• N2PbhqY9Fga: I am looking for some good NeoQuenya solutions for vertical and horizontal. Any brainstorming welcome. ...
• ARdsvfmz2TT: PE17:141 lists the root √NATH and the S derivative nathal "guest". A (tentative?) form nathlo is also given. So can we suppose a Q form *naslon " g...
• ZnHobk8P1P1: I am working on a translation of America the Beautiful in Sindarin, and I need one word: "proved". Is there such a word in Sindarin? ...
• BM7RANaCkjN: Do you think *colexe 'carry oneself' could be an acceptable neologism for 'behave'? Edit: just realized we do have an attested verb lenga- in PE17....
• Z5H49iAur4S: Can you give me some suggestions how to express 'take part, participate in something' in Quenya? I'm thinking to use the prefix ó-, e.g. *ócar-, a...
• 8CWGz9jTbQr: Quettúri, PE21 gives a few words that can be of interest to the (Neo)Quenya enthusiast. We get sorasta 'equipment', clearly a collective noun, poi...
• i2HPLGKqUHA: Some time ago, and I think it was in this community, I was asking about how to express 'against' in Quenya. I am unable to find the post now. Anywa...
• 7X2jcbdx46q: Over on the blue social network Isaac has been looking for NQ words "sugar", "potty", "delicious/tasty", "to crawl". I am copying my proposals from...
• 587fC2pdtCX: 'tidy, orderly, composed' in NeoQuenya? or NeoSindarin possibly canna? parina/párina could be an option, but Tolkien seemed to vacillate a lot abo...
• 3pUv4CwVf2Q: I am wondering if we can introduce a NeoQuenya verb pas- with the meaning 'slide, slip, glide'. We already have the attested passa/pasta 'smooth, g...
• SrKj3GfE4KR: I've been pondering how to say 'plan, intend' in NeoQuenya. There is the attested nir- but that seems to imply a pressure on others or an object, b...
• jZfA4JieDCj: Eldarin Hands, Fingers, and Numerals in VT47, on page 7 cites the root KAB- 'hold, contain, retain' (elsewhere in the editorial notes it is shown t...
• 32JUVjx2xwg: I've proposed this neologism over on FB in the Quenya Chat group; would like your opinions, too: *hrangie 'difficulty, trouble', modeled on sangie...
• FyhEQLDyMgT: suggestion: penaqua adv 'almost' Roman Rausch Jul ...
• S1Se4pDrmm5: 'agree', 'approve', 'consent to' in Q? *olav- 'yield mutually'? ...
• 8XkUyw7c62L: *orda 'bidding, advice'? ܤܡܝ ܦܠܕܢܝܘܤ Jul 21, 2014 ...
• JP3QDZm8kdq: Has anyone any tips how to say - someone's right (prerogative, privilege, boon, ius) - that someone is (in the) right in Quenya? Also, is the all...
• 4g1Xm73eq3S:  Un nuevo blog sobre ideolenguas en español. LAS LENGUAS DE TOLKIEN LAS LENGUAS DE TOL...
• 66JdYq37LHe: How would you guys say 'pass time, spend time' in Quenya? ...
• Y9UpCe5g4Hw: How would you express regret in Q/S? Tamas Ferencz ...
• Dwmsrg7uL1d: Quenya- I am writing a poem and was wondering if "rocil" would be an appropriate word for saddle (from PQ: ROK with -la meaning "thing") Or would r...
• huUTPA1Ajzp: How would you say simple in Quenya (or Sindarin)? Go literal from simplex and coin *erastea "of a single part"? ...
• BDmXCvtZ5Wy: The word of the day at the OED is orography "the study of mountains". Nice coincidence (if it is one). ...
• gHUmJYe2MsB: How would you say 'almost' in Q or S? Tamas Ferencz ...
• DGX7N3Tpcy7: This is off, but I'd like to share this excellent article from my favourite etymology blog (and by favourite I mean 'only' :). Perhaps it and Dr Li...
• Pare3duswZy: I'm setting up this new WordWheel category to have a place to put posts in about musings on etymologies, words, neologisms in any or all of the lan...
• JnWF5iEbGwn: Yesterday I was looking for a Q word to express 'companion' for my John Locke citation translation. I ended up using the attested otorno but was no...

Jeremiah Burns

• JSxB7SRjVuN: LOTR, FR, Gandalf twice uses the same words to perform a fire spell. What language are his words? What do they mean? 'The Ring Goes South': Gandal...
• J3rTsUctamg: Hello, lovely people. Earlier this year, +Tamas Ferencz asked if you could help me out with a conundrum I had in finding a suitable name for my Eng...
• 3kqz4zQNzTc: Hey everyone, +Jeremiah Burns and I have been conversing in the past few days trying to find a suitable Sindarin name for his recently acquired lo...
• BeJujcMx2d9: Translation of a passge from The Silmarillion, inspired by this post: https://plus.google.com/100392065433715432636/posts/fBozgQ4q5gg by +Jeremiah ...
• 6GBYVuMVrZU: Thanks for +Jeremiah Burns for the link +#tengwar   Marcin Przybys » Blog Archive » Tengw...
• FMsD9dR94oM: As we'll soon be able to read Tolkien's translation of Beowulf here's a Quenya rendering of the first few lines to celebrate. Ela, laitale lastane...
• d6b6PZkLC5z: This is a translation of Caedmon's Song from Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum. The OE West Saxon version and its Modern English translation a...

Andrew Daws

• NcDk7eu9EEE: I am happy to announce the release of my NeoQuenya textbook Atanquesta - a NeoQuenya Primer. The work is aimed at beginner and intermediate student...
• 5W2rZsWpoab: I have just learned that it is possible now to share documents/slides from Google Drive with communities, so here I am testing this with my North S...

#Lambengolmor

• CnMhaCaxU4t: I have copied the PE19 index that +Matthew Dinse has typed up into a separate document on my Drive. The special characters show up nicely on my com...

Joseph McKellar

• gHUmJYe2MsB: How would you say 'almost' in Q or S? Tamas Ferencz ...
• CnMhaCaxU4t: I have copied the PE19 index that +Matthew Dinse has typed up into a separate document on my Drive. The special characters show up nicely on my com...

#WBYeats

• AaD2gAjg7Bt: A +#WBYeats poem. A seru, a lisse oie Ómar, A mene Menelo tirimonnar, Ta canya te ranya tirala nirmelya, Nár narnen turún’, tenna Lú telya; La a...
• RPfgUiAVmLU: Milyas Menelwa Lannín Samumnen cé menelwa netyaine lanni, As míri sisilcala cáleva, I luine, i néce, i morne lanni i yucáleva, lómeva, cáleva, Cé ...
• NfxfoDzzXyb: A +#WBYeats poem, in Sindarin DOWN by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She ...
• aa8f78cKReN: Me i nalme yáre, yáre yo merye, Ai ta yáre! Yénion úme, yénion úme, Ké nyarumnen ilye:   Alye anta hínin, et ilullo kéve, Melme yo quilde; Ta lómiv...
• GFmRmz3dSwK: +#WBYeats +#Quenya YA VANWA Laitan ya vanwa yo þoryan ya túrina, Menin mi ohta ena encárina, Araninya vanwa, vanwe mahtarinyar; Táli ké norir...
• MdQxD2FKZCp: +#Quenya   +#WBYeats Caimance-lire   Aini luhtear Caimalyanna orte; Yerne ohtallo As qualini naice.   Mi Menel Eru Marielyainen raina; Indorya ...
• eSoPRpoVdBf: A tanca tace findilelya malda tancilden, Ta nuta ilya mistala finde; Cánen órenyallo loice óquettar: Cáreryet, aure apa aure, Maitane lumba vanesse...
• 6MpPuCvEyB7: Inwisti   Quelie lanta lúme, Ve licuma urina, Ta i tauri y’oronti Mápar túre, mápar túre; É inwistion mana, Mi norie, i urunosti, Atalantie? +#WB...
• Xk7AGjEbCPS: Yáre neri tíraxer i nenisse   Hlarnen I yáre, yáre neri quete, ‘Ahyar illi, Ar lantuvamme mine apa mine.’ Mantar ner ve nammar, ar *occantar Cauce ...

#haiku

• TkwNyk24Vjv: i chelyn elaig lamath i 'ardh land pannar a faer nín faug sí +#haiku
• iNrryiQxWzn: Mista híseo Oiacúma penquanta Carinya síra. +#haiku

#VT50

• eUonKXBgDgJ: This will probably be complete bollox, but. We have the following sentence in the +#TúrinWrapper Area IV in +#VT50 : Sí ?a?l il cem il chem n...

ܤܡܝ ܦܠܕܢܝܘܤ

• 9H4RQtM6T33: In the course of my Psalmic translations, I came upon an unforseen issue: what would be the future ending of a verb in qu(a)--? The verb miqu- is ...
• Uwg6NXV9J2w: What would you suggest for a good NQ equivalent of Goldogrin grith- v. “to attend to, tend, care, care for, mind”? I usually resort to aþya- when I...
• GS4EFf3nepH: “Kare munta úkárima: mo lá ista lúme yasse etelyanie”. “Doing nothing is difficult: you don’t know when you’re done.” “Avan hanquete tana *maquent...
• C8Xo12Lo25p: I have four rhyming words for you to give me ideas on, how to say them in Quenya: fame shame blame tame Discuss :) ...
• a4gYZNUAKY8: I learned via Facebook today that there is a new page at Omniglot: http://www.omniglot.com/language/numbers/quenya.htm Those with ideas about imp...
• QVAyUzxZVUh: 'Elvish' and Dwarvish are going to be taught in Oxford on August 18. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/blackwells-jrr-tolkien-day-how-tolkien-first-l...
• G4H2FNCEuQb: A recent mention of the Craft (with links to three other stories). https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/books/review/jrr-tolkien-lord-of-the-rings-e...
• NcDk7eu9EEE: I am happy to announce the release of my NeoQuenya textbook Atanquesta - a NeoQuenya Primer. The work is aimed at beginner and intermediate student...
• 5nppWceZiBd: Though both are listed as Middle Quenya forms at Eldamo, is the verb lah- from LAKH possibly a later/newer item than manka- from MBAKH (in the Etym...
• AH5UArRBfp8: +#1000words "opportunity" Tamas Ferencz Jun 03, 2...
• LNNrMTJpCPA: The next +#1000words entry I put up for discussion is detail. Going on the Hungarian word for detail Is say something from SAT "fraction, part"; o...
• H73E6GASbtR: I wonder if the almost throwaway emendation of the gloss of CE *anak to 'against, opposite' in PE21 offers us any opportunity to use it in this new...
• EFsBzi4H9V8: My latest post about rats and birds in Quenya Chat has made me try to find - so far unsuccessfully - some good ways to express the following: resul...
• 1mr11p5A52P: *Minaþurindor utúvier sa i Ingaran *Pengwin pole lemya nu nén ambela *perlúme *pellúme. *Pengwini nar *lawilíti aiwi i mo kime to Ambaro hyarna *pe...
• 7rQXdtF5Z6L: To mull: 'propose, offer, suggest' All hint at something (idea, help etc.) being put forward to someone. Not helped by the fact that we don't have...
• VbsHrWN24ci: Referring to discussions elsewhere, another root that can be utilized to express the idea of inn, guesthouse, hotel etc. is NATH > *naþumo "guest";...
• ZcChFHjva6b: This is one of the first things that I posted here! Now you can hear me reading it! (And Lo! my R-rolling has improved!) ...
• aRGADhiZTc5: A Journal of Tolkien Research article by Dr. Dimitra Fimi: Language as Communication vs. Language as Art: J.R.R. Tolkien and early 20th-century ra...
• VzU2c5yV36k: Throwing in a few words to munch on: surprise recognize to get to know, acquaint get, acquire ...
• 8oo3a3s4RMP: How do folks think initial primitive tl- and dl- developed in Sindarin? In Gnomish, there are no initial tl-, and there are some of examples of cl...
• ctvC4VBia6b: Square/rectangle and cube. There is neltil for triangle, so *kantil would be logical, but that also means 'fourth finger'. Perhaps that's not a bi...
• RWLi5paEPwE: If qua is "something, a thing", and -sta is "close grouping", could *quasta be "group"? ...
• NhCSrJ2wRhg: Do you think the idea behind ahtumat may have been that it is the 'worker's meal', meaning the main meal for those who usually work through the day...
• L1JR2jvGPCJ: A new article at Tengwestië: Quenya Compound Tenses http://www.elvish.org/Tengwestie/articles/DeRosarioMartinez/quenyacompoundtenses.phtml ...
• RXKYiVBhD3y: Observation of the Day aka Certainly News to Me: Its temporal antessive use in http://eldamo.org/content/words/word-1029560541.html would indicate...
• fv9KjeomqSn: Putting the problem out here as well, for folks who are less 'instant ', like myself: verbs for "to buy" and "to sell"in Quenya. ...
• FH1FnhhK2Mx: I'm experimenting with a new search page for Eldamo. The beta is here: http://eldamo.org/beta/content/search/search.html The major changes are: ...
• K2zuGYQoMaT: Referring to our discussion about future imperfect participles I just wanted to repost this sheet I started to put together some time ago, collecti...
• G4AHbsTQpVw: Fasta nin, an akávien (have succeeded) kame *mittahyalin (entry-paper, ticket [rather clumsy, any better ideas?]) atta i *tyalmardenna (tyalmard-, ...
• 7SpsgEPRQtN: Suggestion: *virda "variant" (cf. Gn. brigli); *karpavirda, lambevirda "dialect". Looking at the discussions on discord we will need a word like t...
• PFgSQyJoiqy: +Ицхак Пензев Yitzik, your latest post and list of words has inspired me to start something similar (and I do not want to hijack your dictionary ...
• anu3K5H5GzW: The annual Neo-Quenya translation of Biblical material by Helge. Real OT type of stuff! 👍 https://www.facebook.com/groups/quenyachat/permalink/155...
• LqCcqGNpqcT: One could think that adapting Quenya for modern age is difficult because of science and technology. Yet it seems that the "weak link" is in the com...
• fv7ybPk7sVB: men- 'go, proceed'+ -ma 'implement' > *memma 'vehicle'? Pa...
• 1Tdcs8B8eji: Is panya- our best option for the simple notion of "to put, place, set sg"? Etymology had a verb esta- but it was struck out and anyway would clash...
• cfayKHbFjNr: Any suggestions for the verb "glide, slide" in Q, and, consequently, 'sleigh'? At one point I coined pas- and it's in VQP but now we have that with...
• L1UEU96pU3f: How would you guys say 'important, significant' in late/neo Quenya? ...
• BMoesZAGkb4: Á *rahta maqualya orkonna, aunakuvasses. Give an orc your hand and it will bite it off. Middle-Earth proverb. ...
• LRMLbXJaVwL: Do we have any examples of what primitive *–ab–tâ, *–ab–tê, *–ab–tô would become in Sindarin? I myself am still looking. Or would a suffix variant...
• Qb6Hb3nY9ZF: I think we now have attested Quenya interrogative/demonstrative/relative pronouns for most situations (who, what, whose, where, whence, whither, ho...
• gkZkxF5ti8s: Been ages since I last translated or wrote something. So I experiment once again. And in Sindarin this time! Well, less of a translation, more of a...
• 6BH2zCD3ooC: Edited "Ilya mára nauva, ar ilya mára nauva, ar ilquaima engwi mára nauvar." "All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things...
• B6ZMcC56U9q: Tell me about your workaround solutions for the conjunction 'so that/in order to/ut'. Or maybe there is something attested? I think this is physica...
• aFyMrLspSax: Where did you first begin to study Quenya? None None ...
• NSHgp9tvYek: Was anybody from our community at Omentielva Otsëa, like good Maester Kalimac here? http://kalimac.blogspot.fi/2017/08/omentielva-otsea.html ...
• NTZa3iG2Zex: Word proposal: Q *minome adv., prep. + Gen. "instead, in place of, in exchange for" ...
• G8WMXLJqAiK: Looking for ideas how you guys would say "chaos, disorder, mess, confusion, havoc, tohuvabohu" and related adjectives etc. in Quenya (or Sindarin)....
• XXqyiwLBdZe: Hello! I was wondering what you would use in Quenya for the word "bearing" in this sentence: "You have seen them bearing the cloaks of lords!" This...
• FGtGrDBXz3W: Just searching for a Sindarin word for "nobody", stumbled across uvan, sources given are TI/281,283,314. I have no access to the Treason of Isengar...
• iD3qrrFkCn4: I wonder if they will release the lyrics somewhere.. for public benefit. https://calvertjournal.com/news/show/8273/elvish-opera-to-be-performed-in...
• cdwX8SCqC6f: Someone put up a question on another forum whether there's a word for "fool, foolish" in Quenya,and it got me thinking. There are the EQ noun and a...
• RUMDRQCDvEV: How would you guys say "side" (noun) in Eldarin? Ицхак Пе...
• hy5p1CoJXER: A song in Quenya. (As one can observe from the channel's videos, this is not the artists' only M-E related piece.) https://youtu.be/dfITyw-h7u8 T...
• ETqGma6a8U6: I have started working on a project - a primer course into Quenya, that is, to NeoQuenya (although I do not like the term). I know there are other ...
• XZ9Xd8XS8ha: At least at an earlier stage there was still the prefix http://eldamo.org/content/words/word-2252155757.html which would make sense combined with l...
• Bg66qj3kGnE: If memory serves, this page looks a bit less Grelvishy now than the first time I checked it after it was put up. People must have been sending Omni...
• WL2sbW2up37: Since the English "in love" is an adjective would the Quenya equivalent be melwa? ...
• iAd19NGaFLT: I în hen delu. Ni *basseril, a bin laew tangadanner i ni fuiar. Ach guion eno. Avon *daved an delos. Limmidin i thîr în na nim a vudas. *Aden i 'wa...
• cTnEd8Ux8QU: Westron ribadyan irbê–t(h)i/–di anâ ? Assuming that the /r/ is not a changed sound (no begadkefat fricativization in Adûnaic dialects? ;)) and that...
• BrPBoNPf468: I was given a task to translate lock and key. In I Vinya Vere, Helge translates key as latil, something that opens. I'm curious what lock or somet...
• BEA2fdUPUro: Rie erya lénen eke mon harna atan ilquo nehtaina: nananta sen ma hastaina. "There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him bac...
• 4CAzgoYpy2F: "At the end of everything, one must expect the company of immortals." Maybe there is someone who also considers this sentence beautiful and wise. ...
• GQzqXpFLYBR: +#randomLotRparagraph Out of the shadows a ladder was let down: it was made of rope, silver-grey and glimmering in the dark, and though it looked ...
• eW4U6iBqYUN: onotinwa, onotinwa, *luntanwa, kirinwa - is this a fair translation of mene mene tekel upharsin? - there is a Gnomish verb luntha- 'balance, weig...
• JEBCAtVjDeU: As usual, as I was working on the translation of the Rock-soup tale, some questions surfaced - maybe you guys will have some good ideas: - opele i...
• X9dErpE9jL4: Oath of Feanor in Quenya translation by taenia http://archiveofourown.org/works/1384744/chapters/3718166 Nas cotumo hya meldo, nas ulca hya poica ...
• Dw5uJfojsQE: Some animal names based on their CE equivalents (see PE/21:82): S *celef (deer, stag) kel(e)bē (deer, hind), kelebō (hart, stag) S *naeag (goat) n...
• Qsh3KqSUapv: Here's a difficult one - how to translate "honor"? I've been thinking of using "name" to refer to reputation, as in "good name/bad name", but I'm ...
• FRe6ckscvtS: Alta sorno ríke mapa nappayanten vinyamo, karnelya kirisse-harwe i vinyamo kendelenna. Herenyanen i sorno la etélie ta auvíle. A large eagle tried...
• Jvwuv8kfpCb: Looking for simple ways to express the following adverbs in Q (or S, for that matter): at all (al)though at least ...
• S7igkFhkJWq: Nen a! nen, ne chuil i 'lanna mael, glanno drass nín ah, panno nin na 'lass ah estel, na dathon tangant ne i-aur dolel. Water oh! water, in life t...
• C3dRYQh77EC: To congratulate, congratulations (on celebrations, birthday parties et.c.). go + _mereth_ mirroring the etymology of "congratulation", --> govertha...
• SEFabLtRq8j: PE22 offers a solution to spatio-temporal ambiguity of before/after words. Using the following roots, I made some reconstructions for Sindarin: Te...
• CFeRZ3FgVvo: Would you use the Qe. preposition rimni [http://eldamo.org/content/words/word-2478876553.html] in translations, or can someone suggest a replacemen...
• fPUqWgx15Tn: Conjectures about Nandorin, by G. Blanchard. Nandorin Elvish: Speculative Possibilities ...
• JMGhmxXXP9Z: I need a word for kind (adj). I know S has milui (friendly, loving, kind), but don't know how to convert it to Q. Where could I find rules for tran...
• E2scz8LBSCG: Petri & the topic were treated in Finnish media on Tuesday, Jan. 26th. Literal meanings for the Finnish words on which he based his Quenya transla...
• HjUZE5sENmq: A new feature I propose: a regular +#StoryOfARoot . Today: TĀ, TAγ, TAR, 'tall' and 'stand'. * Late 1930s In the Etymologies, the stem TĀ, ?TAγ 'h...
• 9QU263Q4vJK: Neo-Sindarin word for "to taste" and "taste", based on Quenya tyav- and tyávë and KJAB: cav- and cauf. What do you think? ...
• aJdEqV4TdDa: I'm Polish and I love Dwarves . I love most of Thorin . Do any of you learns a dwarvish ( Khuzdul ) ? Seeking help, because the lessons are in Engl...
• LMtCdQMSvAs: Can we tell what would be the reflexive/passive verb equivalents ("to be ..ed") of envinyata- and *tancata- (PPQ)? Derived with –u–, perhaps, or wo...
• 7VfBMZ3yRrM: Some possible neologisms/derivations: *itya- "multiply, repeat" *ítea "multiple, manifold" http://eldamo.org/content/words/word-2113203683.html *...
• UX9tmHwosVu: What is the latest word (in PE22, I take it?) on how the perfect tense is formed in the passive voice in Quenya? (Still similarly to Latin?) I'm lo...
• 9EZiRK7FasY: I saw the question on CoE, maybe we could discuss it here. Would *tertur 'win through' be a possible solution for 'convince, persuade' (see also: h...
• fuYU59HFbLm: Canvassing your thoughts how you guys would express in Quenya the adverb/adjective late, as in 'you are late' or 'late night'. EQ has the adjective...
• eN2RprN3KyP: Random LotR paragraph from the beginning of the chapter Treebeard. Please feel free to comment on any of the neologisms or syntax. Meanwhile the h...
• Cw8D1Ynpqyr: Do you think haura from KHAWAD can be used as a verb to mean 'store, put away, stash'? Or should we employ KHEP/KHAP for this purpose, perhaps with...
• 9UqAuXgEJFv: Have we seen a Quenya word for "planet" yet? (*élo- ~ ele(m)-pelya, on the basis of melumatya ?) ...
• Wx1uVCz7iLx: I want to write "WHAT I MUST TO DO?" in quenya, is it right in quenya is 'MAN GERIN CAR?' ...
• VgX3mBjMPvV: Some Black Speech like corruptions for Monday: ~ *bárz-- (adj) ripe, ready (marn 'ripe' : cp. B.S. búrz- [= morn-]; shar(k)- [= Q. yára, We. za(a...
• ZzcDZ4L96n8: This news item seems pretty relevant for this community. Middle-earth News – Enter our Tolkien...
• 2Ga7bHCSc31: I need to delegate. I started a new job, and it's full time, and I'm completely exhausted when I get home and EVERYTHING HURTS. I'm seeing a doctor...
• LbLvaaukxWQ: Quasi-Adûnaic tentatives for Westron Wednesday (lol) : (C = some consonant, V = some vowel) *a(a)dash / *idash (n) frost, cold weather (zagar) — ...
• R1Sbv9R3iyc: I've long longed for a way to express "most people" or "majority". Might Early N diant "most" be something to build on? If it was a Noldorin word, ...
• 3woMbuNTPrE: Among other things, +#PE22 is also a treasure trove of sample sentences, so I thought I will collect them in a thread, maybe they will generate s...
• GFbnxejHkkF: I have a copy of PE22 and it is amazing. It is chock full of marvelous information about Quenya and Early Eldarin verb structures. I've only begun ...
• RPEJSCzzw5J: Does anyone have an idea of how to express "goal, target, objective"? ...
• KvCtSCpWvBf: Mai omentaina illi, I would like to ask what is the genitive of nouns ending in -oa, like coa or hroa. For me it's a complicated case because, for ...
• YiUsddSp8Xq: I never gave Adunaic much thought but lately I'm doing a fan-fiction that involves Numenor and find myself having to delve into this language. ...
• 6SRedVZvduK: There is a PE22 web page now at http://www.eldalamberon.com/parma22.html ! Release date is announced on June 1, 2015! ...
• drhRAFtidPz: A Númenorean saying, Shakespeare-inspired. Henion naeg Annúnnor: thaw i•naid e•Thol hi nar. [So I understand the pain of Westernesse: something i...
• PT3soQC2ZHv: Q and S word for "choke, drown". I found EQ qosta- and qoro-, but they do not follow moderns Q rules, and I don't know how to make modern cognates....
• h29eMrtQs5m: I thougt of *ardbarlas or *arpharlas as "map", from ardh and *parlas (see the vqp). ...
• 4YyNfkHUEYY: I and Ekin discussed how to express "together" when one doesn't want to have it as a prefix to another word. Eg "we shall be together", where the o...
• UmeiE3oE9GA: I have added words to the VQP from a previous post. I want to add one of these, but I can't make up my mind. Preferences, anyone? * ogod; och; ugu...
• QrmnHNCpNAF: Is there a way to express "It is propable that, it may be that" in S? I thought of using *ce as in Q cé "may be" as opposed to NS *pe "if". ...
• 2kF9UYWxxtr: I've run into the reconstructed S word *fel- "to feel emotion. I have sometimes missed a word for such thing as "it fels like [this or that]". On t...
• efWMDLG6X4i: ns iaethwedh "scarf, necktie". Paul Strack Mar 30,...
• fNLNwRt18Ld: Any S word for "rare, unusual" or "weird, peculiar, curious, strange"? ...
• ggLSPkqQPzd: I have problems with the word eitha- which either means "to insult, treat with scorn, stab", or "ease, comfort". I find it very hard to understand ...
• 5hGXSojXBjY: Some Sindarin neologism ideas and adaptations to go with Tolkien Reading Day. . . (Also because "waste not", and all that.) — : — * aif adj. same...
• a8Z7mk5QzUJ: The Road goes ever on Ed i vên ui-vâd od i fen od i heriast Hi e gwachae i vên mennast pe pelin boe de hílithon na thail verai de ruiathon na i er...
• 9iLyrJWznVq: A ns and nq word for "to lose something" and "to aquire something", like in "He lost his good reputation but he won ... something...".  Sometimes i...
• JBkWEvXn6US: I was wondering if anyone has any interest in Khuzdul? I know some things about it, namely that it's based on semetic languages, has an "old" and "...
• CcsomP1yPDG: Narn hen o manen Pogodion agor garwegas rach, a cared a peded naid bainui dír-inced. I have some trouble with this. I lack a word for "how", so I ...
• MJeKXpgspKv: S (and Q) word for "part, piece" and "partly, to some extent". I thought of using ú-bant for the latter, but that doesn't really help me with the f...
• R6krdSxdZFa: S nasarm and Q assarmë for "context". Etymology Lat. con- "with" text "text". "Writing" is the closest word to "text" that I have found. Thus as "w...
• AuiQwFjNxTU: Hi folks, I've been working on a multi-language Elvish lexicon for some time now, based on an XML data model used to generate entries for individu...
• MFxxnCrAHLc: Have anyone reconstructed a S word for "kind, sort, type" or similar? Perhaps from Q nostale? ...
• ApSNpW4TJ3d: I thought of a S word for squirrel: oronar (oron tree + nâr rat) and a S word for badger torechor (torech lair and -or acting suffix, as badgers a...
• QK8duVXbeUh: I need some translation help! I need a word for "climb." I couldn't find one, or a word for ascend. The only thing I can thing of is lelya in the s...
• R8eh7ZFJKvU: How might one translate "blizzard" into Quenya? For now I'm tempted to combine hrisse and alaco somehow; any other ideas? ...
• N2PbhqY9Fga: I am looking for some good NeoQuenya solutions for vertical and horizontal. Any brainstorming welcome. ...
• Ew8g8bfQuos: I thought about a S word for spruce of fir trees (not a specific species, more the genuses or type of trees), i.e. a conical shaped tree. Maybe com...
• CETvFafFa8s: I'm trying to make a Sindarin cognate for the Quenya word cesta-. Taking it back to its root, it'd be KETH+TAA. I've been looking for an analogue t...
• ARdsvfmz2TT: PE17:141 lists the root √NATH and the S derivative nathal "guest". A (tentative?) form nathlo is also given. So can we suppose a Q form *naslon " g...
• FtK644sYRu9: Anyone have any idea of a neosindarin word for bag (or similar object that one puts other object in for storage or transport)? I had the idea of tr...
• WhgmdwBzWjw: Reconstructing a word for "choice" in Sindarin. We've got *cil-, which is deduced from /cilme/ in Quenya, borrowed into Sindarin without changes.  ...
• JUqNJh9DB9f: Na alassea, merya, alya ta herenya Hristonostarelya! Elen síla lúmenn' omentielvo. Na anda vehtelya, na quanta yulmalya tenna Lúmeo metta. ...
• EhKtXycM94Z: Is there a word in Sindarin for a measure of length in the scale of a meter, like the word ranga "yard" in Quenya? There is a word sant glossed "ya...
• YZSnaXHms39: I'm making a new section for my Quenya phrasebook on weather. How would you translate "It's raining" in Quenya? In Sindarin(Noldorin) it's "it pour...
• Z5H49iAur4S: Can you give me some suggestions how to express 'take part, participate in something' in Quenya? I'm thinking to use the prefix ó-, e.g. *ócar-, a...
• UpT9bg76c9i: Really no word for "beer, ale" in any Eldarin language? Did yulda ever authentically include the meaning "beer" like purported here: http://goo.gl...
• 7zchv6Q8PZJ: I was asked to translate some sayings "into Elvish" (no language specified, alas) so I've giving the translations in both Sindarin and Quenya. I'm ...
• 4aDkcsKhTWv: In Quenya, how would you express 'for' in 'thanks[giving] to sb for sth' (hantale quenna ? nat)? Would epe or po as in epetai/potai ('therefore, fo...
• PQrzCZrzPC6: Interesting that we know kelva as 'animal' but in PE21 we get kel(e)bē > (presumably) *kelwe 'dear, hind'; this echoes English and German, in which...
• 7X2jcbdx46q: Over on the blue social network Isaac has been looking for NQ words "sugar", "potty", "delicious/tasty", "to crawl". I am copying my proposals from...
• 587fC2pdtCX: 'tidy, orderly, composed' in NeoQuenya? or NeoSindarin possibly canna? parina/párina could be an option, but Tolkien seemed to vacillate a lot abo...
• FWXoPcRxzHs: https://www.createspace.com/4748128 Got this in the mail yesterday. Turns out it's the essays "Guide to Adûnaic Grammar" and "Etymologies of the A...
• JgJhj8AyyRS: "If". Got a few words in Quenya, "cé/ce", "qui"... the mysterious "aiquen", and the older "mai". The Neo-Sindarin words are lacking, I think. "Ae" ...
• Fn236ZCoJgs: The first part of my translation doesn't look quite right ("to more among us"); any ideas? If there was a suitable verb I wouldn't have to be tryin...
• 8XkUyw7c62L: *orda 'bidding, advice'? ܤܡܝ ܦܠܕܢܝܘܤ Jul 21, 2014 ...
• WzPKedJ1cmX: Conditional and Subjunctive in (Neo)Quenya Tolkien's highly fascinating Early Qenya Grammar in Manuscript in PE14 devotes a page to The 'condition...
• 1n4qn8yzyEj: Ya na karuva nankaruva. "What goes around comes around." Elvish proverb. ...
• JP3QDZm8kdq: Has anyone any tips how to say - someone's right (prerogative, privilege, boon, ius) - that someone is (in the) right in Quenya? Also, is the all...
• PZaXp8VQRZV: A long, long time ago I made the Neo-Sindarin word *maega- 'to kneed, soften' based off of the root MASAG. I now see that it was a big mistake.How ...
• 9jtHABJJJYZ: Tana úpahtea, lunguhonda valme yá kenin i (fáre pella) samin loikarenen [copies]* atta i parmo imya (PE19) ! *not sure how to translate this ...
• PzKskKZWiid: Please refresh my memory: Are there yet any clues on how to express the translative idea (one becoming, turning into, being made sth.) in Quenya? ...
• 4g1Xm73eq3S:  Un nuevo blog sobre ideolenguas en español. LAS LENGUAS DE TOLKIEN LAS LENGUAS DE TOL...
• C4PPV9ckHKY: Vinya *etelérie parmo Quenta[1] Yarwinya Penataro tecina lo Arcastar ettuluva lasselantasse sina loava. *etelérie: 'issue, release' [1] uminye pol...
• CrF7RGhAct7: This is a link to the new version of my lesson on plurals in Sindarin - can you spot any mistakes? Tell me please! ...
• 66JdYq37LHe: How would you guys say 'pass time, spend time' in Quenya? ...
• JW82r1myR41: I have compiled an Adûnaic - English/English - Adûnaic dictionary, and thought I would share it here (I couldn't find another resource that had alr...
• DxTeW5SxY9b: I wrote another poem in Sindarin: Ollas nin oh Auth   I ûl osp cân annin vîn ely nîn. Cenin anin ‘Rûn, anin mâr e-dawarwaith i noss vîn. Lith haer ...
• 8ox5JXqgQBs: I wrote a list of new words from VT 50. Can you spot any errors or missing words in it? Oops, ...
• ZQ1vwvXmLkE: Translating conjunctions like "antequam / prima che" into (Neo-)Quenya — has anybody else looked into this yet? It is of course another philologic...
• 5vPrZkcAfEA: Here you can find the analysis of the Sindarin dialogues from the second Hobbit movie:   http://www.elendilion.pl/2013/12/22/g-i-p-report-complete...
• UweJvi4k1ph: I'd like to get a little critique on a translation I did (Brandon Sanderson fans might have an advantage): Cuil argwannath Bronwe arnin Lend armet...
• eiKEif73S7A: This community doesn't seem very busy lately, but I thought I'd link this here on the chance it is of use to someone. I actually came up with the i...
• Dwmsrg7uL1d: Quenya- I am writing a poem and was wondering if "rocil" would be an appropriate word for saddle (from PQ: ROK with -la meaning "thing") Or would r...
• huUTPA1Ajzp: How would you say simple in Quenya (or Sindarin)? Go literal from simplex and coin *erastea "of a single part"? ...
• UDhdpsjhe3d: In the wake of David Salo's recent blog post "The mind of the Dark Lord" on midgardsmal.com, I thought to offer some content here by jotting down s...
• MDgMGPBnLRr: Could someone tell me if S medennin -- colored as "attested/firm" in http://www.sindarin.de/grammatik.shtml -- is actually found in PE17 (or elsewh...
• gHUmJYe2MsB: How would you say 'almost' in Q or S? Tamas Ferencz ...
• eUonKXBgDgJ: This will probably be complete bollox, but. We have the following sentence in the +#TúrinWrapper Area IV in +#VT50 : Sí ?a?l il cem il chem n...

Carl Hostetter

• WeyhxiDqRMy: Something that has troubled me for a while now is that while social media is really great for stimulating conversations, it is terrible for long, c...
• N9TDXV3M3Pb: My mind is muddled...how would one render "day by day" or "three by three", &c.? "By" (instrumental) doesn't seem quite right to my English ears. M...
• B7QXQAvSCLX: Please comment: > √SER to love nisserme n. a gay woman, lesbian illiserme n. a pansexual woman yuserme n. a bisexual woman láserme n. an asexual ...
• ZcChFHjva6b: This is one of the first things that I posted here! Now you can hear me reading it! (And Lo! my R-rolling has improved!) ...
• aFyMrLspSax: Where did you first begin to study Quenya? None None ...
• 2K4VNXLu2kK: Has anyone heard what happened to the recording of Prof. Tolkien reading a previously unknown Quenya poem in the Netherlands? ...
• FM5Ct4qjafi: Based on PE/17, I’ve always thought that S -g is the informal (familiar) 2nd p. sg. verbal suffix, while -dh is the formal (polite) 2nd p. sg. verb...
• BQ8nb4hPGSd: Hi Tamas, Did not know of this community until jut now. I'd just posted the question below in the Middle-earth G+ community, but see that this is ...
• 1AdhBBw9Szy: Question to Quenya phonologists! What does exactly happen to the initial CE consonant H in Quenya? Checking the sources, I found an almost 50/50 re...
• aEvdKzQGnTs: Why is it necessary to use the definite article when indicating possessive when one is using a pronoun, like in i ennyn dîn, "his doors", since it'...
• WzPKedJ1cmX: Conditional and Subjunctive in (Neo)Quenya Tolkien's highly fascinating Early Qenya Grammar in Manuscript in PE14 devotes a page to The 'condition...
• 64EogkJrTRm: +Carl Hostetter has posted an invitation to a Quenya translation experiment to the +#lambengolmor  Yahoo group - not an easy task I'd say! ...
• eUonKXBgDgJ: This will probably be complete bollox, but. We have the following sentence in the +#TúrinWrapper Area IV in +#VT50 : Sí ?a?l il cem il chem n...

Roman Rausch

• 49cEnvH8kk5: I envy Tolkien, he could conveniently ignore or forget the rules of his own language and it's us who're left scratching our heads:) Consider esse ú...
• E1ifHmTHNX7: Is there now a consensus out there what the proper genitive of nouns the type of koa should be? I think most people settle on kavo but perhaps some...
• EaoiMtoTyu1: It’s well known that in Sindarin/Noldorin, the spirants [x] and [f] (the latter most probably at its earlier stage [ɸ]) became vowels before the sp...
• 4dNUcBSF3qW: I can't really make it out yet what it says in the vertical script. Kilma handas? Quilma hambas? ...
• 77YsVzqGaNc: Lungo hrísa Kievessë. I caltengwa carna ara i pustalë *nutalamna angamallëo ("metro") lá haiya coanyallo. ...
• NcWQ4z6SmW4: Meldenye taná! Illí eldeon mélienye! Horan lairi nyarienna! +Roman Rausch +Paul Strack +Fiona Jallings +Christopher Gilson ...
• CAXobB8EUFr: Hello +Paul Strack, (+Ekin Gören, +Eryn Galen, +Roman Rausch) there's something that I would like to have your opinion about :) In the past week...
• UPdzGw7oyi9: I've done a "data cleanup" release of Eldamo (v0.5.6.1?). This "release" is targeted exclusively at programmers. I didn't do the work to update the...
• EgrBPuy6sVU: +Paul Strack +Eryn Galen +Ekin Gören +Roman Rausch updated the database with Paul's new 0.5.6 release. There are some other changes: I switched fr...
• Ksho6J6y4jH: +Paul Strack +Ekin Gören +Roman Rausch +Eryn Galen et al, I updated the eldamo relational DB project on Github: https://github.com/aduial/eldamo-r...
• d3CUuDspq2J: Good news! We have established a Skype chat for Eldarin linguistic discussions! Please join if you also wish to participate! +Christopher Gilson +...
• cGodJ3gCNYY: Warning! +Roman Rausch 's site at http://www.sindanoorie.net/ is suddenly down! Only a Web Archive copy remains. ...
• Dffnsng79Lb: Hey everyone! As a part of my IT apprenticeship I'm planning on realising a kind of elvish resource which I think does not exist yet in a similar ...
• Dxe8uAoVhSY: How indeed could we build up a spoken (chatting) Quenya? A few months ago David Girardeau was lamenting how the new words and forms seem to actuall...
• 7thaeLkyp8C: I have just finished a coffee pouch, made out of leather, and thought of writing "coffee" on it. However, we lack a word for that in eldarin, don't...
• JAkL7YJZNTP: Another short, but interesting letter. Would that we could have similar correspondence with the Professor, I bet he would be inundated with questio...
• DrHPm47xEDe: I am reading the new edition of A Secret Vice, and I found in it an editorial note which comments a sentence of Tolkien in which he mentions Gothic...
• WXET73QNktz: Ceno in yngyl dhaer! Does this work, or does it seem like an appeal to go and see them? ...
• FyFbCveZdAc: +#StoryOfARoot The stem, MEN, does not even appear in the Etymologies as verbal; the only thing it says about the unglossed root is that it derive...
• BQ8nb4hPGSd: Hi Tamas, Did not know of this community until jut now. I'd just posted the question below in the Middle-earth G+ community, but see that this is ...
• 6dVTwVqqUxk: Elvish dictionary app(lication) Mellyn, following a session at the Omentielva Enquea about "Identifying the Requirements for a Quenya & Sindarin ...
• jjE6bd2jt3Y: Now an enquiry about Quenya. Are there any examples of Tolkien actually using the 'Last Declinable Word' rule ever in any text proper, not a gramma...
• GFbnxejHkkF: I have a copy of PE22 and it is amazing. It is chock full of marvelous information about Quenya and Early Eldarin verb structures. I've only begun ...
• JknBzqR3AQN: I propose a discussion. Is there any established etymological derivation of the future tense -tha element in Noldorin and Sindarin? This element i...
• 4pva3senyMw: +Remi Korben +Matt Dinse +Tamas Ferencz I propose to move into a separate discussion, for we have touched a topic I've been considering on my own ...
• Ven9VwVxxvt: Lament for Akallabêth. Terbad na Annûn glennas, aurath hin raeg i•badath. [There was a straight road westwards, now all the roads are bent.] ter...
• K8P7fVmEGho: Something special for this day. As +Björn Fromén hinted to me, there are multiple ways to theorise upon a single example of Elvish poetry; +Roman R...
• aEvdKzQGnTs: Why is it necessary to use the definite article when indicating possessive when one is using a pronoun, like in i ennyn dîn, "his doors", since it'...
• 3k6GnHgjGCn: Hm:) Q. cesta- [þ] vb. “to seek, search for” quest (n.) c.1300, "an inquest;" early 14c., "a search for something" (especially of judicial inquir...
• N2PbhqY9Fga: I am looking for some good NeoQuenya solutions for vertical and horizontal. Any brainstorming welcome. ...
• 4APJ5aeRww8: +Jenna Carpenter  and I have been chatting about Sindarin pronunciation, and the bit about the pronunciation of the letter I came up, specifically ...
• L3N6PQqAhmj: Today's random question - does anybody have any idea roughly how many attested Quenya words there? (To the nearest hundred/thousand/delete as appli...
• EkpKQWJ35iq: Great question here that I'm sure some of the conlang historians can add to Was Tolkien the fi...
• WhgmdwBzWjw: Reconstructing a word for "choice" in Sindarin. We've got *cil-, which is deduced from /cilme/ in Quenya, borrowed into Sindarin without changes.  ...
• 8gpVz1kvRhW: Announcement: Once we finish the first version of it, we're making it open-source! We're also running out of time, so please donate and/or spread t...
• 9EenNU7kh9m: Te androiri (firyavear?) uar tai kestal. I Melehte ná alwa óse. ...
• jANm31YT3mr: I *kúmakirya Philae nútuva *sóratinwenna 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko síra. Eke lyen kenda i nútie sis: ...
• EhKtXycM94Z: Is there a word in Sindarin for a measure of length in the scale of a meter, like the word ranga "yard" in Quenya? There is a word sant glossed "ya...
• Ska4rN7thzW: Sí eke lyen menta esselyar Carnilenna - nas waldima, naite? Send Your Name on NASA's Mars Jour...
• UpT9bg76c9i: Really no word for "beer, ale" in any Eldarin language? Did yulda ever authentically include the meaning "beer" like purported here: http://goo.gl...
• DWfXqDFEP85: Ruine i Ainur lantaner; núr' raumo ranyane hrestantassen; Orco ruinínen uryala. Roy Batty in Blade Runner Fiery the angels fell; deep thunder ro...
• RMdHwCCrh1W: Hi guys! I'm revisiting another of my lessons in my Neo-Sindarin textbook. Since the last time it went so well,  I submit to you another chapter fo...
• MQK5df8PsvM: Hi! I'm trying to translate "under your veil," and I note that there are two prepositions I can use, namely di and nu. Do we know what the distinct...
• 7X2jcbdx46q: Over on the blue social network Isaac has been looking for NQ words "sugar", "potty", "delicious/tasty", "to crawl". I am copying my proposals from...
• 9fguHAhzdqz: On page 25. of VT49 the conjugation of the preposition ar is published: anni>arni/astye/alle/arse anwe>arme/arwe/aste>arde/aste>arte anwet>armet O...
• PrgkpVhkMRq: "still, quiet" in Sindarin: Fiona suggests *pell from QL qilda (cp. PE21's qilir), but I might like something a bit later that might not clash wit...
• Ki7yjKK8ccA: I was looking at RC for something, and came across S Berennyn for "Brown-lands" on p.343, from Tolkien's unfinished Index. Does anyone have any ide...
• JgJhj8AyyRS: "If". Got a few words in Quenya, "cé/ce", "qui"... the mysterious "aiquen", and the older "mai". The Neo-Sindarin words are lacking, I think. "Ae" ...
• SrKj3GfE4KR: I've been pondering how to say 'plan, intend' in NeoQuenya. There is the attested nir- but that seems to imply a pressure on others or an object, b...
• 71Vn29pmSBH: Ňona ve Nauco mi *satyasambe. "Groans like Dwarf on the loo." Beleriandic saying *satyasambe 'private chamber, privy, loo' ...
• 4QLPpk695ET: I was looking for a word for "hearth", and found the Quenya word "ruimen". Then I looked it up in its context, and found the untranslated Sindarin ...
• 32JUVjx2xwg: I've proposed this neologism over on FB in the Quenya Chat group; would like your opinions, too: *hrangie 'difficulty, trouble', modeled on sangie...
• Fn236ZCoJgs: The first part of my translation doesn't look quite right ("to more among us"); any ideas? If there was a suitable verb I wouldn't have to be tryin...
• JRyw6Uj5pof: So, I've been playing with some ideas for sections. What do you think of these new ones: Pronunciation and Prestanneth (Sindarin only) and includin...
• FyhEQLDyMgT: suggestion: penaqua adv 'almost' Roman Rausch Jul ...
• S1Se4pDrmm5: 'agree', 'approve', 'consent to' in Q? *olav- 'yield mutually'? ...
• JP3QDZm8kdq: Has anyone any tips how to say - someone's right (prerogative, privilege, boon, ius) - that someone is (in the) right in Quenya? Also, is the all...
• PZaXp8VQRZV: A long, long time ago I made the Neo-Sindarin word *maega- 'to kneed, soften' based off of the root MASAG. I now see that it was a big mistake.How ...
• YgknV7Q8G7j: Has anyone ever produced a satisfactory derivation for Q Vása "the Consumer"? It's been bugging me so I've looked throughout some of the older mate...
• 9jtHABJJJYZ: Tana úpahtea, lunguhonda valme yá kenin i (fáre pella) samin loikarenen [copies]* atta i parmo imya (PE19) ! *not sure how to translate this ...
• CrF7RGhAct7: This is a link to the new version of my lesson on plurals in Sindarin - can you spot any mistakes? Tell me please! ...
• JW82r1myR41: I have compiled an Adûnaic - English/English - Adûnaic dictionary, and thought I would share it here (I couldn't find another resource that had alr...
• DxTeW5SxY9b: I wrote another poem in Sindarin: Ollas nin oh Auth   I ûl osp cân annin vîn ely nîn. Cenin anin ‘Rûn, anin mâr e-dawarwaith i noss vîn. Lith haer ...
• 8ox5JXqgQBs: I wrote a list of new words from VT 50. Can you spot any errors or missing words in it? Oops, ...
• Y9UpCe5g4Hw: How would you express regret in Q/S? Tamas Ferencz ...
• bTMvnX4CJ9r: I have put my article on sound symbolism from Omentielva Cantea online, available in html: http://sindanoorie.net/art/ssymb.html and shiny pdf: htt...
• KCRbiwaEiti: Sindarin is sexy! :) http://teamcoco.com/video/conan-highlight-evangeline-lilly-sexy-elvish E...
• UweJvi4k1ph: I'd like to get a little critique on a translation I did (Brandon Sanderson fans might have an advantage): Cuil argwannath Bronwe arnin Lend armet...
• RFFgdSiG6SP: Small nursery rhyme inspired by a robin visiting our garden yesterday. *Russambos *Capata-cat, carne tinwe Urwa ausa, wilwa sanwe Lindalinde, nar...
• Dwmsrg7uL1d: Quenya- I am writing a poem and was wondering if "rocil" would be an appropriate word for saddle (from PQ: ROK with -la meaning "thing") Or would r...
• huUTPA1Ajzp: How would you say simple in Quenya (or Sindarin)? Go literal from simplex and coin *erastea "of a single part"? ...
• VG5K9x3EB8s: A most welcome arrival in the post today. 9/20/13 - 1 A most welcome arrival in the po...
• B5ifjZPKmne: I'm wondering what Tolkien meant by "a dative of advantage" when discussing the +#Goldogrin noun declensions in PE11 p10? ...
• B5V5yXgujsi: If you're interested, I made a statistical evaluation of the Sindarin dictionary hosted at www.sindarin.de. There is some math involved and a Venn ...
• GP9Dw3oJpqu: I was contemplating the following snippets last night (after safely making it home, though still groggy and probably not firing on all cylinders ye...
• BDmXCvtZ5Wy: The word of the day at the OED is orography "the study of mountains". Nice coincidence (if it is one). ...
• fCBGUb5CiXG: Someone stop me - I'm beginning to think that Sindarin a perfect and imperfect past tense system... based on the given conjugations of 3 words: Car...
• aga44eAEabA: I've been analyzing Sindarin tenses a bit, as I write homework assignments, and something occurred to me. In Sindarin: b>v>w /_# m>ɱ>v>w /_# But ...
• F1hyxpAYahE: Let's have some fun... Na i Melehte olye. Sine lar i atanivear i kestal. Nán atarelya, Lúk.  (Laaaaaaaaaaaaauuuuu) A himya hilya i losse lapatte. ...
• HLaPC1owUqb: Iath estent min tâd tynd, nen a gwelu il oer ha trevedir Man en estar? ...
• eUonKXBgDgJ: This will probably be complete bollox, but. We have the following sentence in the +#TúrinWrapper Area IV in +#VT50 : Sí ?a?l il cem il chem n...

#TúrinWrapper

• eUonKXBgDgJ: This will probably be complete bollox, but. We have the following sentence in the +#TúrinWrapper Area IV in +#VT50 : Sí ?a?l il cem il chem n...

#pân

• eUonKXBgDgJ: This will probably be complete bollox, but. We have the following sentence in the +#TúrinWrapper Area IV in +#VT50 : Sí ?a?l il cem il chem n...

Remy Corbin

• H2S61QgkFrn: A question posted over at Elfdict got me thinking on our two attested words glossed as "more". We have the adjective amba and the adverb ambe and I...
• DoBuP45rEAY: I've release Eldamo v.0.6.7 https://eldamo.org/ This includes some more Polish translations by +Remy Corbin I haven't much to say about this rel...
• B7QXQAvSCLX: Please comment: > √SER to love nisserme n. a gay woman, lesbian illiserme n. a pansexual woman yuserme n. a bisexual woman láserme n. an asexual ...
• aeEMv6j6Gg1: Over the past few years both +Paul Strack and +Александр Запрягаев posted several pieces of analysis of Eldarin roots, their histories, evolution, ...
• gYPgpCrrfkP: Next topic regarding Eldamo 0.6.6: internationalized search Eldamo now has two non-English search page variants (Polish and Russian), thanks to +R...
• gSVbXRT2ut8: I have a long to do list, perhaps you can help me narrow it down? Choose the Projects I Work o...
• NcDk7eu9EEE: I am happy to announce the release of my NeoQuenya textbook Atanquesta - a NeoQuenya Primer. The work is aimed at beginner and intermediate student...
• NAPBbU8GBR1: What would "excommunication" in Quenya be? Tamas Ferencz ...
• HkzsKLaAebg: This is a follow up to my earlier post on internationalizing Eldamo: https://plus.google.com/101464290458691045803/posts/94oFwAPPsLi I have a pro...
• 94oFwAPPsLi: I had a request a couple weeks ago to allow Russian translations in Eldamo. Since then, I've been experimenting with options for including non-Engl...
• LNNrMTJpCPA: The next +#1000words entry I put up for discussion is detail. Going on the Hungarian word for detail Is say something from SAT "fraction, part"; o...
• 9WrXJNLBNvm: Concerning the Eldamo entry +#pec "nut": shouldn't this be +#pet (pec-) as we see with other Q nouns with stems ending in [k]? +Paul Strack ...
• Fv25SgwYXDN: Hi. I'd like to have some charm on my number plate holder. E.g. i rasg hen ah i rasgon di veriad e-Mbelain onen I have not yet decided, though. Cou...
• 1ikJ7xWuJpd: This word analysis has to do with “smells”, both good (fragrant), bad (stinking) and neutral. As is often the case, the picture is fairly clear in...
• WcoLT1Vq9Wv: Arya i ruhtala Orko lá i puhtala Nauko. Elvish pub wisdom from Eregion ...
• 4dNUcBSF3qW: I can't really make it out yet what it says in the vertical script. Kilma handas? Quilma hambas? ...
• XmnyDZy4wcs: As Q sumba- is glossed "submerge" it would be a neat joke to translate "submarine" as *sumbarin ;) ...
• iU1dqDYwN7k: I've finished Release 0.6.0 of Eldamo. This release has nearly all of Tolkien's attested word forms from the existing published material. Only a fe...
• fE3fxY7XWLU: Ya istalme, limba ná; ya lalme, earon. Just heard this very profoundly deep quote on a TV show. ...
• Q3ezKDK4FZi: Seldom, rarely - do you have a suggestion for these, other than saying larimbave? Or rare, for that matter. Few. ...
• VAp13CtxhLE: I am kinda shocked. Doriath has iâth (fence) in it. So should we pronounce it dor-yath, not like the' 'ia' in Melian like we separate 'rh' in gaur...
• PMP6zb2hGfM: Eke len tulya Nauko *findimaitarenna, mal lá eke len mauya se hyare fangarya. You can take a Dwarf to the barber, but you can't make him shave. M...
• V2AcupLZCeD: I don't get it... Not a single word for 'back' (a part of body) in any language since Leeds? And none for 'stomach' ever? ...
• 2e9wXEvTbZW: This was a lot of fun to do! https://youtu.be/JjkphPmTJfk A Special Announcement (In Elvish!) ...
• d3CUuDspq2J: Good news! We have established a Skype chat for Eldarin linguistic discussions! Please join if you also wish to participate! +Christopher Gilson +...
• 4CAzgoYpy2F: "At the end of everything, one must expect the company of immortals." Maybe there is someone who also considers this sentence beautiful and wise. ...
• HQnisQ1DCoH: +#randomLotRparagraph The afternoon, as Sam supposed it must be called, wore on. Looking out from the covert he could see only a dun, shadowless w...
• KWdn5RU8CK8: Andrew Higgins has written a review of Parma Eldalamberon 22, as announced on lambengolmor. You can read it at the link attached. ...
• ZT6K87sB1uo: I'm gunna do it. I'm really gunna do it! I'm writing a letter asking the Tolkien Estate whether they'd be opposed to me publishing my Neo-Sindarin ...
• WFAi4tFyh18: There is a process, when you take the basic material and let your thoughts go astray, not even attempting to recreate Tolkien's trail of thought so...
• UsHWNTaq8Kp: UPDATE 2.04.2016: Happy April Fools' Day! Hello everyone and so sorry for a long period of absence. (Especially to +Ekin Gören who constantly fail...
• joQ1mZC9vdJ: Can someone help me on the word(s) olor and olos?  These appear in two etymological notes published in Unfinished Tales (copied and pasted below) ...
• HjUZE5sENmq: A new feature I propose: a regular +#StoryOfARoot . Today: TĀ, TAγ, TAR, 'tall' and 'stand'. * Late 1930s In the Etymologies, the stem TĀ, ?TAγ 'h...
• dEnwmWV3vN2: Concernig giving and thanking (and approaching). For some time when I think of Eruhantale “thanksgiving”, and similarity of Elvish words expressi...
• UhPmfFPwKYR: After some discussion with +Ekin Gören , I thought of reconstruct a word for "berry", (or maybe rather "berries") *pigin, with CE root PIK, common ...
• emTyhvrnXKx: Alright, I finished a small mountain of updates (still have more to go... need to finish rewriting homework assignments and making quizzes) but her...
• GFbnxejHkkF: I have a copy of PE22 and it is amazing. It is chock full of marvelous information about Quenya and Early Eldarin verb structures. I've only begun ...
• RPEJSCzzw5J: Does anyone have an idea of how to express "goal, target, objective"? ...
• Gu7kfYXkpNu: R.I.P. Sir Christopher Legendary actor Christopher Lee dies at the age of 93 The actor...
• 4pva3senyMw: +Remi Korben +Matt Dinse +Tamas Ferencz I propose to move into a separate discussion, for we have touched a topic I've been considering on my own ...
• 2XqfBtfU52N: Hallo everyone! I’m here for the first time and I’m impressed with your linguistic skills. Forgive me my poor English, Sindarin and so on. I’m inte...
• eUonKXBgDgJ: This will probably be complete bollox, but. We have the following sentence in the +#TúrinWrapper Area IV in +#VT50 : Sí ?a?l il cem il chem n...

Forthianor I

• dHdYq1JFUzB: Hi! I'm very new to all of this, and I am trying to work on translating Gandalf's quote, "all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is...
• EhKtXycM94Z: Is there a word in Sindarin for a measure of length in the scale of a meter, like the word ranga "yard" in Quenya? There is a word sant glossed "ya...
• BGPRYG3ZWry: Loss, loss ar loss. Ú-anglennatha i Echuir? :( Tamas Feren...

Iris Zamfirache

• BGPRYG3ZWry: Loss, loss ar loss. Ú-anglennatha i Echuir? :( Tamas Feren...

Nabil Medjebeur

• VsYYMahPQtK: Ai! Le suilon!  Im Brann! Aniron ped edhellen an hiril vuin Mallwen! Pedim sindarin Peditham hi sui vellyn? N'i lû tôl , posto vae ~Brann~ ...

Beregond, Anders Stenström

• iUVPxbdm9Lb: Any Omentielva's programme always ends with 'The Future: we will take thought of the Omentielvar in N+2 and N+4'. Hence, I always wonder whether th...
• d3CUuDspq2J: Good news! We have established a Skype chat for Eldarin linguistic discussions! Please join if you also wish to participate! +Christopher Gilson +...
• GmuADVLCKuq: What vowel do you people put before the locatives in a word possessing no final vowel? aran, aranVllo, kas, karVsse — what do you put? Ómataima of ...
• aEvdKzQGnTs: Why is it necessary to use the definite article when indicating possessive when one is using a pronoun, like in i ennyn dîn, "his doors", since it'...
• E4TaJSstkc4: Just in case anyone here has missed it: registration for Omentielva Enquea was opened last week, at www.omentielva.com/register.htm>. More practica...
• JBkWEvXn6US: I was wondering if anyone has any interest in Khuzdul? I know some things about it, namely that it's based on semetic languages, has an "old" and "...
• fNw4BKYWbrW: Question: is there an explanation why S. Rodon "Power, Vala" gets plural Rodyn instead of expected **Redyn? Even if *Raudon is assumed, shouldn't i...
• Mj2qHQDcCoZ: Tengwar not in DTS: After looking through more of my just-received Hammond/Scull's Art of the Hobbit (2011), I noticed a page with tengwar which I...
• YgknV7Q8G7j: Has anyone ever produced a satisfactory derivation for Q Vása "the Consumer"? It's been bugging me so I've looked throughout some of the older mate...
• YfFxm6qM8aT: Finally, registration for Omentielva Lempea is open! At http://omentielva.com/register.htm> you can register online. Hope to see you in Helsinki in...

John Garth

• 9zs86qTWEUe: +John Garth has published an essay/review about Parma Eldalamberon issues 13 and 14. You can read it on the link below. ...

Leonard W.

• M9RezCZViaW: There is hope after all that our data can be downloaded How to download your Google+ data befo...
• JpiEKgzSHC5: I am still working on how to handle neologisms in Eldamo. One issue I have is there are a number of “well accepted” neologisms that I think should ...
• PFgSQyJoiqy: +Ицхак Пензев Yitzik, your latest post and list of words has inspired me to start something similar (and I do not want to hijack your dictionary ...
• LqCcqGNpqcT: One could think that adapting Quenya for modern age is difficult because of science and technology. Yet it seems that the "weak link" is in the com...
• MtnGqRR3kAP: This is a hypothetical question to those of you who know more about programming than me - I myself amused myself a bit with some little Python year...
• XDkLpY6zZ2N: What do you think, friends? Shall we base our Neo-Quenya reconstructions on the latest ideas of the Professor found in his draft notes, or give adv...
• 6DKT3ZoNeah: To all of the web design Eldar out there: I have been making a Tengwar converter webpage that takes the latin script and changes the writing into t...
• SDnWXGCRvvR: Rike luke Nauko i haurallo "Try dragging a Dwarf away from the hoard" (="you are asking for something impossible") Middle Earth saying ...
• YsZP82rYaPs: This is a bit of a speculative post. Amazon recently announced a deal with the Tolkien estate for a Middle Earth TV series. Who knows how long it w...
• NyWJ18pVV7y: welp, as much as it horrifies my parents that i should learn a "made up" language (although technically all languages are made up >_>) i still want...
• AZmJoZ9N8oc: I've release v0.5.8 of Eldamo. This version has the data for PE21, which was more of a slog than I expected (so many declension tables). Of the m...
• L1UEU96pU3f: How would you guys say 'important, significant' in late/neo Quenya? ...
• HvJ1kTykSoQ: Someone asked me how you would say of the Earth and the Moon in Quenya, and I demurred. They are not a natural pair, but a pair in the given contex...
• 8mEAtF1Y8X9: Mellyn! I have updated Parf Edhellen (www.elfdict.com). The new version improves on existing functionality, and adds an entirely new section Discu...
• F2e4PkwmeRV: Enno onna enno enne. "A person's child is a person's purpose." Middle-Earth saying ...
• 2t8BvRe43Pp: Ette atto; ta ette etta atto. Atto atto otto: etta atto atto ette. ...
• FRTz1Q6KydT: Mellyn! What do we know about the rules for lengthening vowels in compounds and inflections in Quenya? A typical example of what I am trying to und...
• B6ZMcC56U9q: Tell me about your workaround solutions for the conjunction 'so that/in order to/ut'. Or maybe there is something attested? I think this is physica...
• 93sfzLic57s: Nosto i-Aear, lass laeg, Legolas! Dorthannel anan nu 'aladh vi 'lass. Ae lastol i-nall e-maew 'ri falas, Gúrel ló-chiratha hîdh vi thaur dass. Leg...
• 3F3FJBmR2Wr: Hi! I just updated Parf Edhellen (www.elfdict.com). It is an exciting update, as it enables our community to contribute to the dictionary. All con...
• 3zomtd5UCF5: Hi! I've recently made a lot of changes to Parf Edhellen (www.elfdict.com) and I would like to plug my website here once more! :) I believe it ha...
• d3CUuDspq2J: Good news! We have established a Skype chat for Eldarin linguistic discussions! Please join if you also wish to participate! +Christopher Gilson +...
• 8ccgrHhgSTY: I've release v0.5.4 of Eldamo. Now that PE22 is done, I gone back to working on earlier material. I finished up some left overs in PE12, and made ...
• Dffnsng79Lb: Hey everyone! As a part of my IT apprenticeship I'm planning on realising a kind of elvish resource which I think does not exist yet in a similar ...
• BEA2fdUPUro: Rie erya lénen eke mon harna atan ilquo nehtaina: nananta sen ma hastaina. "There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him bac...
• ER25RmE5Eq6: This is quite interesting :) Tolkien: The Lost Recordings Joss Ackland narrates a sear...
• AeLwcfJkVH9: With PE 22, LSV4 (page 151) in mind, ebe- "can of mere possibility according to likelihood, natural probability" as root for NeoS * eb-, i-verb, us...
• gArhxnq9hXp: I've released the 0.4.9 version of Eldamo. 1) Since there has been growing interest in the Quenya content in the project, I've done some general c...
• 1JNmvNmkjaX: An elegiac. Eñget i•Aldu mi Númen: calaitë silíteye atta álet; Fíriet oialë né, euva calanta mi hón. [There were two Trees in the West: one shone...
• 7he2HAmY3C4: Just a spontaneous play with late 40s-Quenya, as described in +#PE22. A lament of a Ñoldo returning to Valinor after the War of Wrath. (And a fulfi...
• cxey67e3oF5: Mellyn! I've reserved most of my attention for Sindarin the last five years, so now that I'm dabbling with Quenya (how can I not after PE22?), I re...
• 6dVTwVqqUxk: Elvish dictionary app(lication) Mellyn, following a session at the Omentielva Enquea about "Identifying the Requirements for a Quenya & Sindarin ...
• SeC8N2UJjjj: Hi! I'm unfortunately woefully ignorant of phonology and derivation, so I'm hoping you can help me understand the verb nathla- (to welcome) I've se...
• Sbgk7P4sSm3: How should I make a cognate of Sindarin brona in Quenya? The stem is BOR(ON); should I, starting from the derivatives like vórima, consider a basic...
• ZY3BkE2khZB: Hi! This is likely something you've already discussed... if so, could you please link me to it? :) I do wonder: what is your position on -lya as a ...
• emTyhvrnXKx: Alright, I finished a small mountain of updates (still have more to go... need to finish rewriting homework assignments and making quizzes) but her...
• 6mFHntFww8x: I'll put up this thread to write down and not to forget the things of most peculiar interest I learned from +#PE22. (And I invite anyone to join!)....
• DobTWzgR5LF: I've release Eldamo 0.4.8, the current version of my Elvish lexicon. This is mostly a technical release, in response to Source Forge breaking down...
• WJFLHZDGKmx: Mellyn! I do love eldamo as much as the rest of you guys, so I've been working hard to try to import its XML data source into Parf Edhellen. Today,...
• DZ8Ea7gmNhh: How would you make a verb 'become heavy'? I think to start from a CE pattern luñgu-tā? I presume that the causative formant makes a-affection and m...
• BA7jKq4cPUv: Hello! Any ideas as to what Gandalf might be saying in the scene with the dwarf? á orta fearya... ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_DOEXEjFnQ&fea...
• GFbnxejHkkF: I have a copy of PE22 and it is amazing. It is chock full of marvelous information about Quenya and Early Eldarin verb structures. I've only begun ...
• NpjZqdNViAx: Thorsten Renk's site has just moved to http://www.science-and-fiction.org/elvish/index.html ! Please update your bookmarks. ...
• MQK5df8PsvM: Hi! I'm trying to translate "under your veil," and I note that there are two prepositions I can use, namely di and nu. Do we know what the distinct...
• QbzUeWVVBi2: Ae, VT/50 vi cam nín. Na vedui! :) Tamas Ferencz J...
• WJBmqRWUtB9: Mae gevennin, gellyr i laim edhellin. Im Leonard od i Vellonath Daeron. Melin i lam Thindrim ar i lam Ódhellim, ar harthon i hirithon had na had he...
• Y5w9v4ZBrPb: mi laica linque aiwe cacáva caserya tuileliltale eccuiva, eccuiva, eccuiva ...

#Quenya

• afqxeKBVHPy: Aaah. Increasingly hard. And lots of newer grammar as well. Athya, Tárinyar, tekitása ríkan, Lá kenilden ñwalyan i•ríkieinen, Sampan i•quettanyar,...
• TATWjhpuspw: +#Alighieri Ter inye men' i•ñwalmea ostonnar, Ter inye men' i•mettencanna naike, Ter inye men' i•vanwa•fírimonnar. In•Axan nár támonyo hendi maika...
• 2w6NfpoNAa8: Karinya nwalya[1]. Mauya nin *atse[2]. ------- nwalya: does this verb require an object (nwalya ni), or can it be sort of intransitive ('it hurts'...
• UTdnePnDxao: Do you think *tercara "through-doing" would be a good coinage for "thorough"? +#Quenya   ...
• 7UathnEpqnn: Ladies and gentlemen, an Italian sonnet! Completely autobiographic. +Tamas Ferencz Grammar-wise: experimenting with habitual tenses. Taurë Patail...
• Lxo9gm3k7KJ: For something nobody expected! The same, but adapted to 'late' Quenya of the 60s! +#PE22 Lantar úlor. Talatanye, Málinen ortanienwa, Masse Cále tu...
• 1JNmvNmkjaX: An elegiac. Eñget i•Aldu mi Númen: calaitë silíteye atta álet; Fíriet oialë né, euva calanta mi hón. [There were two Trees in the West: one shone...
• 7he2HAmY3C4: Just a spontaneous play with late 40s-Quenya, as described in +#PE22. A lament of a Ñoldo returning to Valinor after the War of Wrath. (And a fulfi...
• 1T1bELtgbe5: 'Tis a piece not planned or written Out of conscious mind's decision, Though I thought of long this metre, Noble trochee of the sagas, Of the Finni...
• RPfgUiAVmLU: Milyas Menelwa Lannín Samumnen cé menelwa netyaine lanni, As míri sisilcala cáleva, I luine, i néce, i morne lanni i yucáleva, lómeva, cáleva, Cé ...
• 9fguHAhzdqz: On page 25. of VT49 the conjugation of the preposition ar is published: anni>arni/astye/alle/arse anwe>arme/arwe/aste>arde/aste>arte anwet>armet O...
• c6jm47aQdSj: Monad modes... Quenya rendition of this Old English verse. Monad  modes lust mid mereflode                              ford to feran, þaet ic fe...
• GFmRmz3dSwK: +#WBYeats +#Quenya YA VANWA Laitan ya vanwa yo þoryan ya túrina, Menin mi ohta ena encárina, Araninya vanwa, vanwe mahtarinyar; Táli ké norir...
• MdQxD2FKZCp: +#Quenya   +#WBYeats Caimance-lire   Aini luhtear Caimalyanna orte; Yerne ohtallo As qualini naice.   Mi Menel Eru Marielyainen raina; Indorya ...
• QdXLsN7ECKj: David Giraudeau has compiled a list/dictionary of Q(e)nya words in Parme Eldalamberon 21; it can be fund on the attached link. +#ParmaEldalambero...
• FJGB5TxLqh5: Aure pa aure p'ambon erinqua i nér lé persaila *raiwe aqua *serna mal úquen mere se ista cenir persaila se ar ullume nanquetisse mal i persaila p'...
• 6MpPuCvEyB7: Inwisti   Quelie lanta lúme, Ve licuma urina, Ta i tauri y’oronti Mápar túre, mápar túre; É inwistion mana, Mi norie, i urunosti, Atalantie? +#WB...

Tië eldaliéva, the Elven Spiritual Path

• Tfdo4xEcTmv: Notes on LE The hymn to Elbereth, as sung in Rivendell, contains a peculiar form that is often under-estimated in its puzzling nature: Fanuilos, ...
• TW7RvyTFQdv: Does anyone have a clue whether there's any possibility of obtaining the many out-of-print Parmar Eldalamberon? Or are there any digital copies aro...
• gArhxnq9hXp: I've released the 0.4.9 version of Eldamo. 1) Since there has been growing interest in the Quenya content in the project, I've done some general c...
• PXNbMdx4QkR: Hi everyone. Im a huge fan of Tolkien's work, and Howard Shore's as well. I'm trying to understand (obsessively) some elvish lyrics that appear in ...

Elías Tapia

• PXNbMdx4QkR: Hi everyone. Im a huge fan of Tolkien's work, and Howard Shore's as well. I'm trying to understand (obsessively) some elvish lyrics that appear in ...

Helge Kåre Fauskanger

• LqCcqGNpqcT: One could think that adapting Quenya for modern age is difficult because of science and technology. Yet it seems that the "weak link" is in the com...
• d3CUuDspq2J: Good news! We have established a Skype chat for Eldarin linguistic discussions! Please join if you also wish to participate! +Christopher Gilson +...
• 7thaeLkyp8C: I have just finished a coffee pouch, made out of leather, and thought of writing "coffee" on it. However, we lack a word for that in eldarin, don't...
• ZMAdZqx9jqd: I would like to ask is this just quenya and sindarin not Khuzdul  ...

wesley owen

• ZMAdZqx9jqd: I would like to ask is this just quenya and sindarin not Khuzdul  ...

#letteroftheday

• 6th4fCZARHD: An epitaph, with R. +#letteroftheday Rhaw vi i chaudh hen e-daur vín. Rhach am i Orchoth an uir! ...
• QPm2MQq1uJB: Two hexameters for Q: +#letteroftheday Quélie tópa i nóre, i Quendi se ruine omentar, Quentali astar i indo, asya i hón miruvor. ...
• TaAv3CFai1n: A couplet of Asclepiads for the letter P +#letteroftheday Palpa palpie, hón! Parna i nisse sí - Paltan milyave sé, poica yo oira wén! ...
• 1aFiJdkQAty: O is the star of the day. +#letteroftheday Olthon o meth en onodrim, o horthad e-daur en ogol. ...
• S1zSMkTjdWU: Here's for the letter N. Long-forgotten lament of an unnamed bard of Númenor. +#letteroftheday Nwalme onnaron             Núme quanta, Nárie vi...
• gwyzYPCjtgJ: Just celebrating the letter L +#letteroftheday laire lemya himya ena i lassinnar lorda, yerna tátarya lantalcallo linga raina caita litsenna lau...

Kirk M

• TgaHd7N9RQB: I just signed up for this course; are any of you else taking it? http://www.mythgard.org/academics/fall-2013-courses/philology-through-tolkien/ ...

#Goldogrin

• B5ifjZPKmne: I'm wondering what Tolkien meant by "a dative of advantage" when discussing the +#Goldogrin noun declensions in PE11 p10? ...

Francesco Veneziano

• d3CUuDspq2J: Good news! We have established a Skype chat for Eldarin linguistic discussions! Please join if you also wish to participate! +Christopher Gilson +...
• 6dVTwVqqUxk: Elvish dictionary app(lication) Mellyn, following a session at the Omentielva Enquea about "Identifying the Requirements for a Quenya & Sindarin ...
• bTMvnX4CJ9r: I have put my article on sound symbolism from Omentielva Cantea online, available in html: http://sindanoorie.net/art/ssymb.html and shiny pdf: htt...
• B5ifjZPKmne: I'm wondering what Tolkien meant by "a dative of advantage" when discussing the +#Goldogrin noun declensions in PE11 p10? ...

Ryhno von Hagen

• bsJFn5qqo1K: Mae Govannen! I have just recently started to learn Sindarin. I hope that you can all help. Everyone here seems rather advanced ...

Rubén Rodríguez

• 5Q24ptsFAJs: Aiyä! I was trying to translate some phrases for a tattoo, but I am having little trouble, I wanted to ask you if these are correct: One Last Time:...
• a8KoQqFn6y7: Hello!! How would you say "May God bless you and keep you' in Q.? Would "Cé Eru laitatye ar rethatye" be correct? ...
• gHnJCCQ1YNr: Hello,  I apologize if this is not a good forum for asking this question.  I am trying to translate my name into Sindarin.  I have found two words ...
• LXSf2JVgVnL: Hello!! I'm trying to translate some names of my friends, and there are some that are giving me trouble, and I would like some help... :) One is B...
• Hid793bdYW7: Hello!!  Can anyone please find out what are they saying during 0:57 to 1:03? Thanks a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLU71C60wf8 ...
• ERFc5m1DCJy: Aiyä! Can anyone please check if I did this correctly? :D Thank you! alassea hristonosta.png ...
• JU8ocwFRCq4: +Tamas Ferencz 's translation for "Twelve Days of Christmas" brought me a question... how would be the correct Quenya translation of "merry Christm...
• 9EFFK9Xe7HA: Christmas is not that far away now, so in preparation for the festivities here is my Middle Earth version of the Christmas carol Twelve Days Of Chr...
• haTfQ1G6j7o: Aiyä! How are you all? I have a request, and I hope you can help me... Could you please translate me this phrase? "All will be well" it's like my m...
• QkcmcY5hJZP: Aiyä! This was the community I was looking for! (Hope I'd be able to say that in Sindarin or Quenya sometime soon) ...

#guessthesong

• FJGB5TxLqh5: Aure pa aure p'ambon erinqua i nér lé persaila *raiwe aqua *serna mal úquen mere se ista cenir persaila se ar ullume nanquetisse mal i persaila p'...

Jonathan Thames

• GBMNqMxPJmi: Hello, Am very new to Sindarin, but using the many resources provided I have attempted a translation of Galadriel's ring speech to Frodo when she r...
• AmsDC424r2E: Tasaran A High-elven adaptation of Goethe’s ”Erlkönig”. The metre is that of Galadriel’s Lament (”Namárie”). Man nortea ter lóme vailima? Nás ata...

#resta

• c62W4RsvjDF: Here's a translation of the traditional song She Moved Through The Fair. It is difficult to convey the beautifully laconic nature of the original, ...

Potion Farmer

• Dwmsrg7uL1d: Quenya- I am writing a poem and was wondering if "rocil" would be an appropriate word for saddle (from PQ: ROK with -la meaning "thing") Or would r...

#ParmaEldalamberon

• QdXLsN7ECKj: David Giraudeau has compiled a list/dictionary of Q(e)nya words in Parme Eldalamberon 21; it can be fund on the attached link. +#ParmaEldalambero...

#Qenya

• QdXLsN7ECKj: David Giraudeau has compiled a list/dictionary of Q(e)nya words in Parme Eldalamberon 21; it can be fund on the attached link. +#ParmaEldalambero...

Matthew Callison

• J3rTsUctamg: Hello, lovely people. Earlier this year, +Tamas Ferencz asked if you could help me out with a conundrum I had in finding a suitable name for my Eng...
• RaPpeoDgRHf: I've done an audio recording of me reading my translation of Wordsworth's Daffodils. Well I am not a native Quenya speaker nor an actor so caveat e...
• 3kqz4zQNzTc: Hey everyone, +Jeremiah Burns and I have been conversing in the past few days trying to find a suitable Sindarin name for his recently acquired lo...
• 4nYMwwsiAio: Guys! Check out what I'm helping with! The reason I jumped into this project wasn't just because of Sindarin - I saw this as a way to make it easi...
• YMoiCvgMYxS: Hi! I'm writing a Christmas card in Quenya to a fried who I talked into learning Quenya. Is there a translation of Christmas? ...
• Z5H49iAur4S: Can you give me some suggestions how to express 'take part, participate in something' in Quenya? I'm thinking to use the prefix ó-, e.g. *ócar-, a...
• 1n4qn8yzyEj: Ya na karuva nankaruva. "What goes around comes around." Elvish proverb. ...
• 6GBYVuMVrZU: Thanks for +Jeremiah Burns for the link +#tengwar   Marcin Przybys » Blog Archive » Tengw...
• UweJvi4k1ph: I'd like to get a little critique on a translation I did (Brandon Sanderson fans might have an advantage): Cuil argwannath Bronwe arnin Lend armet...
• 12wABdwM182: I apologize in advance if I post a lot of newbie questions, but I searched the posts here and didn't see an answer to this question; is there a com...

#Beleriand

• UweJvi4k1ph: I'd like to get a little critique on a translation I did (Brandon Sanderson fans might have an advantage): Cuil argwannath Bronwe arnin Lend armet...

#Sindarin

• gUuq2hz6iar: I wonder: why wasn't it done before? For me it was hard as hell, taking both the rhythm and rhyme, retaining the wording and trying to eliminate th...
• 25Y82vMVj1S: This one affected and bothered me deeply. Written in a totally incompatible (with anything) language, about an unknown event and still perfectly sh...
• cnH7eWVwL8p: Gweniant im gared hen tadphae eneg oer io ah en henion! GLÎR E-MARGAIR i en glinnar i•Ellath in•Gwaith Círdan i dartha vi Lond, eb i•Gair Vedui na...
• VKSr9sh2ttw: I do not love thee… Gen ú-velin im, Herdir Fell, Ú-bedithon i•gaethad del, Mal iston hen, pen-adbedel: Gen ú-velin im, Herdir Fell. caethad 'reas...
• X4UaDzrRG6n: Once again, if you don't find much metric poetry in Sindarin, go and write yourself. This time, the rhythm is retained, not a single line or syllab...
• iTasHEpfRb2: I always wondered why there are so few attempts to compose accentual-syllabic poetry in Eldarin tongues retaining metre, rhythm and rhymes. Here is...
• 6cJoF2YEzYF: mîn i Valrog ah i iâ between a rock and a hard place, between Scylla and Charybdis Sindarin saying +#Sindarin +#idioms   ...
• UweJvi4k1ph: I'd like to get a little critique on a translation I did (Brandon Sanderson fans might have an advantage): Cuil argwannath Bronwe arnin Lend armet...

Daniele Ercoli

• 4dNUcBSF3qW: I can't really make it out yet what it says in the vertical script. Kilma handas? Quilma hambas? ...
• d3CUuDspq2J: Good news! We have established a Skype chat for Eldarin linguistic discussions! Please join if you also wish to participate! +Christopher Gilson +...
• eefMxunKdsp: Reconstruction of QVS pronominal affixes in verbs Basic concept: S prefix>V tense-infinitive>S number marker (r final/l medial/n 1st person object...
• UsHWNTaq8Kp: UPDATE 2.04.2016: Happy April Fools' Day! Hello everyone and so sorry for a long period of absence. (Especially to +Ekin Gören who constantly fail...
• VNh3nZR6hvS: Considring the map that +Matt Dinse linked to in a post some weeks ago, should my entry in the VQP for "wine" be rendered, and in that case, how? I...
• iSweVRcCNWJ: Is there any trustworthy list attempting to chronicle Tolkien's writings not in the publishing order, but with a tentative order of composition dat...
• AuiQwFjNxTU: Hi folks, I've been working on a multi-language Elvish lexicon for some time now, based on an XML data model used to generate entries for individu...
• 6cJoF2YEzYF: mîn i Valrog ah i iâ between a rock and a hard place, between Scylla and Charybdis Sindarin saying +#Sindarin +#idioms   ...
• ZuVqEdPAunB: Manna yo merya Hristonostare illin! Matt Dinse Dec...
• jgeDcf3zEGS: Another sleighing song, on a less serious note: Losses hortala er-rocco-raxanen,  /1/ ter i palari voro lálala, súli valtea láma nyelleron. Alasse...

Lisa Allen MH

• haTfQ1G6j7o: Aiyä! How are you all? I have a request, and I hope you can help me... Could you please translate me this phrase? "All will be well" it's like my m...

#Elfling

• GNCeE7ASxiN: If you haven't visited the new +#Elfling forums lately, they have managed to transfer the archives of the old Elfling Yahoo-group to the new site; ...

Aaron Scott

• eDyptgtvDjc: Ónen 'alu erin be-a-canaden Laer.
• jModSfp9PQ7: *Emmin chwand a salab. Hervess nín a hên nín mad aes. Thiar maer. *ab- cook used in The Hobbit: The Unexpected Journey (Extended Edition). +#si...
• EfsKW71FTCA: Gwinig nín mad rem. Aníra salph. Annan gwinig i halph. +#sindarin ...

Michele “Fili” Marie-Jeanne

• JEMxS7HcdRc: Hello :) Can anyone translate this in Quenya? "We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treas...
• JBkWEvXn6US: I was wondering if anyone has any interest in Khuzdul? I know some things about it, namely that it's based on semetic languages, has an "old" and "...
• D68RNKUKrSf: Hello! I was trying to figure out the translation for these lyrics from "Beyond the Forest" and I was wondering if any of you could help. "A, mel...
• jModSfp9PQ7: *Emmin chwand a salab. Hervess nín a hên nín mad aes. Thiar maer. *ab- cook used in The Hobbit: The Unexpected Journey (Extended Edition). +#si...

Graeme Dyck

• 2UWycWxG9n6: Manna ta Ye lá ovanta yo olcar Hya tare úcarindoron tiesse Hya hare yo te i *yaiyar, Mal save alasse mi Héruva axan, Ar axanerya sana mi aure lómiy...

Hína Kemenduro

• JEMxS7HcdRc: Hello :) Can anyone translate this in Quenya? "We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treas...
• ZT6K87sB1uo: I'm gunna do it. I'm really gunna do it! I'm writing a letter asking the Tolkien Estate whether they'd be opposed to me publishing my Neo-Sindarin ...
• 2K4VNXLu2kK: Has anyone heard what happened to the recording of Prof. Tolkien reading a previously unknown Quenya poem in the Netherlands? ...
• 6GBYVuMVrZU: Thanks for +Jeremiah Burns for the link +#tengwar   Marcin Przybys » Blog Archive » Tengw...

#tengwar

• 6GBYVuMVrZU: Thanks for +Jeremiah Burns for the link +#tengwar   Marcin Przybys » Blog Archive » Tengw...

Kevin B Walsh

• JSxB7SRjVuN: LOTR, FR, Gandalf twice uses the same words to perform a fire spell. What language are his words? What do they mean? 'The Ring Goes South': Gandal...
• S1Se4pDrmm5: 'agree', 'approve', 'consent to' in Q? *olav- 'yield mutually'? ...
• WzPKedJ1cmX: Conditional and Subjunctive in (Neo)Quenya Tolkien's highly fascinating Early Qenya Grammar in Manuscript in PE14 devotes a page to The 'condition...
• 1n4qn8yzyEj: Ya na karuva nankaruva. "What goes around comes around." Elvish proverb. ...
• Vtsck9xPNbT: Concerning loanwords in NeoQuenya +Kevin B Walsh and I have been having a very interesting discussion via email over the past few days about neolo...
• 9FjWLEt258A: Hereby I am pleased to announce that VinQuettaParma, the new NeoQuenya and NeoSindarin wiktionary, is up and running. The whole thing is very much ...
• Mkkt1XkPkbf: Ettul-maquentiër tanar i ëa Ucrainassë vinya sondamo nollo apa i minya corma. Násë "aran tyocolatwa" Péter Porohyenco. ...
• hVpyeeZP9zv: Vessenya yo ni, namme anwalde, an *mótahautalemma túla véna, *Lemnaresse autuvamme *andustanna Ingildoreo, ostonna Bath; maruvamme tas tere otsole,...
• 66JdYq37LHe: How would you guys say 'pass time, spend time' in Quenya? ...

Máté Bokkon

• TNB4TQuFsfX: I vír nin. Gyűjteményem/ my collection ...
• Fk8GexLcuPo: Suilad, mellon nin muin. :) Mate Bokkon May 19, 20...

Mate Bokkon

• fjDUKacJ4M1: Suilad mellyn. :) im ceredir.  2014. 06. 08. ...
• Fk8GexLcuPo: Suilad, mellon nin muin. :) Mate Bokkon May 19, 20...

Rick Spell

• RZDMWqhtKXg: Now that Atanquesta is released, I have decided to take time and collect all the neologisms that I have coined in posts here in the community in a ...
• FH1FnhhK2Mx: I'm experimenting with a new search page for Eldamo. The beta is here: http://eldamo.org/beta/content/search/search.html The major changes are: ...
• XmnyDZy4wcs: As Q sumba- is glossed "submerge" it would be a neat joke to translate "submarine" as *sumbarin ;) ...
• iU1dqDYwN7k: I've finished Release 0.6.0 of Eldamo. This release has nearly all of Tolkien's attested word forms from the existing published material. Only a fe...
• XUZxsExUtmv: I said I'd post more about “what's next” for Eldamo, so here it is. Given my recent posts, it’s no secret that I think we need a generally improve...
• FjbR3hR4ytM: And resharing my rudimentary font sample as well, in case someone wants to take the bite and work on it further:) ...
• RCchNQPUXf8: I have release Eldamo v0.5.9 http://eldamo.org/ This release has the data from PE18. It took much less time that I expected. Unfortunately, that ...
• YsZP82rYaPs: This is a bit of a speculative post. Amazon recently announced a deal with the Tolkien estate for a Middle Earth TV series. Who knows how long it w...
• AZmJoZ9N8oc: I've release v0.5.8 of Eldamo. This version has the data for PE21, which was more of a slog than I expected (so many declension tables). Of the m...
• PMP6zb2hGfM: Eke len tulya Nauko *findimaitarenna, mal lá eke len mauya se hyare fangarya. You can take a Dwarf to the barber, but you can't make him shave. M...
• 35aAhcWkwj4: The counter here on the side is telling me the community has reached half thousand members. *Perhúme! *Perveneg! Now I know very well that this nu...
• 3zomtd5UCF5: Hi! I've recently made a lot of changes to Parf Edhellen (www.elfdict.com) and I would like to plug my website here once more! :) I believe it ha...
• dbSsaCVxswb: ᴹQ. horta- v. “to send flying, speed, urge” Definition of exhort transitive verb : to incite by argument or advice : urge strongly ...
• ZxzMxqJ4AEc: AS hláfweard "master of the loaf" > E lord Q massatur "master of the loaf" > *mastur > E master It's all connected 😉 ...
• 7Z8zeKSueQR: I've release v0.5.6 of my Elvish lexicon Eldamo. This version has data from PE15. Of the major publications, only PE16, PE18, PE19 and PE21 remain...
• 99KNcR1KorH: Yay I am finally done with exporting the eldamo-data! 26'494 words, attested by 74'079 references and connected with a stunning 209'458 relations (...
• 6mgwyym2eui: Happy Easter, wonderful community! Have peace, fun, and prosperity wherever you are. ...
• dkPFfLVwKUr: I've release v0.5.5 of Eldamo. This release finishes both PE14 and the early Qenya name analysis. I've also done some cleanup on the XSD schema de...
• 6tLi25owT1Y: What do you call a doomed son? A Fey Anor. Legend of Norn ...
• hhf3wv321SQ: Is this correct? Yessesse, Ranta 31:49 Ar Mipsa, an quentes, I HERU ávet tire imbe, íre vanwe velto. ...
• ETqGma6a8U6: I have started working on a project - a primer course into Quenya, that is, to NeoQuenya (although I do not like the term). I know there are other ...
• 8ccgrHhgSTY: I've release v0.5.4 of Eldamo. Now that PE22 is done, I gone back to working on earlier material. I finished up some left overs in PE12, and made ...
• SRxZhM91gPe: So quick update from my conlang database project! I've just refactored the database model to be able to include the marks (whether a word is i.e. ...
• cJzAQ4hdmjT: On Christmas Eve I wish you all joyous festivities, peace and happiness wherever you are - may your Twelve Days of Christmas feel as if you were in...
• LgxKpwEZvfg: Done a speech yesterday at the Chair of General and Comparative Linguistics, Philological Faculty, Moscow State University. The topic was announced...
• LvhCsK62yd1: +#randomLotRparagraph `As you go down the water,' he said, `you will find that the trees will fail, and you will come to a barren country. There t...
• 25qScXdotX9: Ahhh suilad everyone I was wondering about the song "May it be" Is there any sites that has a complete updated english to quenya lyrics? ...
• Sv9es65vW4n: Huge updates to Your (Neo)Sindarin Textbook coming this fall! I went into detail in this post on my website, if you're curious. http://your-sindari...
• CNxit4wYmEF: +#randomLotRparagraph 'I sat at night by the waters of Anduin, in the grey dark under the young pale moon, watching the ever-moving stream; and ...
• YbidHefwM3t: Ondosulpa   Yalúmesse nessa rando rananye tere i nóre. Úna yo alaherenya nés, ar *lillume la póle hire mólome ar patane tere ilya aure ú matiéva. E...
• ZT6K87sB1uo: I'm gunna do it. I'm really gunna do it! I'm writing a letter asking the Tolkien Estate whether they'd be opposed to me publishing my Neo-Sindarin ...
• 79sFEUUtQi7: Is anyone else heading to the Tolkien Seminar in Leeds on Sunday? (http://www.tolkiensociety.org/events/tolkien-society-seminar-2016/) There's a la...
• RtjwC4DCNUA: Here's another +#Oonagh song, in fact the only song of her that's 100% elvish! The song is actually a translation of an originally icelandic tradi...
• UYHf6D4g7yL: Tavar ya ece len *loicene rá calca Nolmor autier vinya erma lo vistale tavaro. *Ápente tavar *laimye piryassen andave, epetai i erma 'lignin' ya a...
• FoZvyYf5rTE: So in the past few years I got granted the chance of composing elvish lyrics for professionally produced songs, which to my and the producer's asto...
• aMj9znM23sp: The LotRO Neo-Sindarin Plugin is finally complete and available for download! Details are in the link below. ...
• 6dKeQgbYcrs: I've release v0.5.2 of Eldamo. I don't normally do two releases so close together, but I've used Glaemscribe to add tengwar transcriptions for bot...
• UsHWNTaq8Kp: UPDATE 2.04.2016: Happy April Fools' Day! Hello everyone and so sorry for a long period of absence. (Especially to +Ekin Gören who constantly fail...
• TWgLT6URv7j: I've release v0.5.1 of my Elvish lexicon Eldamo. I am embarrassed that I haven't updated the lexicon since last September. I got distracted by som...
• ZrTBvPxP8WX: What a fantastic adventure it would be to start a similar experiment and teach Quenya in a nursery school. It would be exciting to see how the lang...
• dULwuCBcjDH: We are launched! (Finally!) New Website, Massive Updates None ...
• fPUqWgx15Tn: Conjectures about Nandorin, by G. Blanchard. Nandorin Elvish: Speculative Possibilities ...
• JMGhmxXXP9Z: I need a word for kind (adj). I know S has milui (friendly, loving, kind), but don't know how to convert it to Q. Where could I find rules for tran...
• MqRjJDeh6Tb: (After a burst of New Year's inspiration, I'm ready to present the most huge of my current plans…) What do you do when some song gets stuck into y...
• 5cwTwMwkEDP: So, I keep on trying to learn Sindarin (for many years) but things constantly come up or I have need to focus on something else. My question is ho...
• gArhxnq9hXp: I've released the 0.4.9 version of Eldamo. 1) Since there has been growing interest in the Quenya content in the project, I've done some general c...
• 1JNmvNmkjaX: An elegiac. Eñget i•Aldu mi Númen: calaitë silíteye atta álet; Fíriet oialë né, euva calanta mi hón. [There were two Trees in the West: one shone...
• J9nMmkWz4UN: Here are revisions of the sentences I asked about back in june: Ortuvan hendunya i carindonna (carmonna), i orontion ya lá retë Ortuvan hendunya   ...
• D5Ar1R7H1Rv: I set up a new home for Eldamo: eldamo.org. All the latest content is now hosted there. I am not sure how long it will take for the site to be visi...
• eqYZ19rwQVy: I need some more translation help. I am trying to translate "I will lift my eyes to the maker of the mountains I can't climb." So far, I have "Ort...
• Gu7kfYXkpNu: R.I.P. Sir Christopher Legendary actor Christopher Lee dies at the age of 93 The actor...
• hFc9KoVkuz1: I've release Eldamo 0.4.7, which has two major updates: 1) I've analyzed the Danian language. I originally thought this would be quite easy, given...
• TACRaz6odnw: In case folks haven't seen this, Glǽmscrafu just completely overhauled their site. http://www.jrrvf.com/~glaemscrafu/index.html ...
• GLBBzaqfyGv: Tunga feanya ve quinga, la istan man tirien hí, Mailie urya i hráva mal séren milya i hón. (My soul is taut as a bow, I don't know who to heed, Th...
• huT1qf8fzZZ: I've release Eldamo 0.4.6. The two major changes in this version are: 1) I finished data entry for PE13. I am actually quite surprised at the amo...
• WMVipVHPcPr: Windflowers When I was little and good I walked in the dappled wood Where light white windflowers grew, And hyacinths heavy and blue. The windflo...
• QMavNNmjGZL: I've released version 0.4.5 of Eldamo. The major milestone in this release is that I finished analyzing the Ilkorin/Doriathrin languages. This mea...
• RaPpeoDgRHf: I've done an audio recording of me reading my translation of Wordsworth's Daffodils. Well I am not a native Quenya speaker nor an actor so caveat e...
• Fitou3CDHXC: The Elvish Translator app is now out on Android for free! Check it out and learn some Quenya! ...
• FBWEMLvd77L: I released a small update to the Eldamo lexicon (v0.4.3). I am not planning on releasing updates on a weekly basis, but Tamas Ferencz inspired me t...
• 9mynzgB2sjs: Firielinde Nu i landa elenya ilmen, Sapa i lára ta núta inye. Merya *cuianen merya firnen, Ar nucainenye as sina nirme. A certa sina lire pa i on...
• MPxqMUWLNuE: After reading +Hjalmar Holm's post a few days ago, I realized that I had never translated the poem "The Riddle of Strider" into Sindarin. So I deci...
• QK8duVXbeUh: I need some translation help! I need a word for "climb." I couldn't find one, or a word for ascend. The only thing I can thing of is lelya in the s...
• DwVU4qzbMC3: I've just found this little Quenya tongue twister I submitted to Elfling twelve years ago :) Happy days Ilya yára kirya ya yalúme, yéni yá nu yana...
• LqJ9rfx1cg2: This is the first paragraph of the Prologue of LotR - just wanted to see how translatable it was. It is certainly fun doing:) Parma sina ná amna a...
• bUTadH86tSJ: Here is a Quenya translation of the poem Winter Comes To Nargothrond from the Lays Of Beleriand, done some years ago. Laire lencave i lómea taures...
• jFE4rGC4mnt: Hey all! I'm new here. I'm learning Quenya (know only some basics). Are there many people who know it well? To those who can read and write it, how...
• 9AAK4zRER2D: I need some translation help: "The women will write songs about their faithful husbands."  Thanks! ...
• HPUuBMyRA7Z: Eneth Nin Endy, nice to meet you all please give me lesson around quenya language!!??  ...
• GrwKS567ZfJ: Just saw this: "This Page has been removed at the request of the Tolkien Estate." WHAT??? Why? Anyone know? ...

#Magellanic

• Ax6efk7dRpK: Three Galaxies over New Zealand | Astronomy Picture of the Day No, radio dishes cannot broadcast galaxies. Although they can detect them, the above...

#Station

• Ax6efk7dRpK: Three Galaxies over New Zealand | Astronomy Picture of the Day No, radio dishes cannot broadcast galaxies. Although they can detect them, the above...

#NewZealand

• Ax6efk7dRpK: Three Galaxies over New Zealand | Astronomy Picture of the Day No, radio dishes cannot broadcast galaxies. Although they can detect them, the above...

#Satellite

• Ax6efk7dRpK: Three Galaxies over New Zealand | Astronomy Picture of the Day No, radio dishes cannot broadcast galaxies. Although they can detect them, the above...

#Galaxies

• Ax6efk7dRpK: Three Galaxies over New Zealand | Astronomy Picture of the Day No, radio dishes cannot broadcast galaxies. Although they can detect them, the above...

#Photography

• Ax6efk7dRpK: Three Galaxies over New Zealand | Astronomy Picture of the Day No, radio dishes cannot broadcast galaxies. Although they can detect them, the above...

#Earth

• Ax6efk7dRpK: Three Galaxies over New Zealand | Astronomy Picture of the Day No, radio dishes cannot broadcast galaxies. Although they can detect them, the above...

#MilkyWay

• Ax6efk7dRpK: Three Galaxies over New Zealand | Astronomy Picture of the Day No, radio dishes cannot broadcast galaxies. Although they can detect them, the above...

#Astronomy

• Ax6efk7dRpK: Three Galaxies over New Zealand | Astronomy Picture of the Day No, radio dishes cannot broadcast galaxies. Although they can detect them, the above...

#Cloud

• Ax6efk7dRpK: Three Galaxies over New Zealand | Astronomy Picture of the Day No, radio dishes cannot broadcast galaxies. Although they can detect them, the above...

#NASA

• Ax6efk7dRpK: Three Galaxies over New Zealand | Astronomy Picture of the Day No, radio dishes cannot broadcast galaxies. Although they can detect them, the above...

#Auckland

• Ax6efk7dRpK: Three Galaxies over New Zealand | Astronomy Picture of the Day No, radio dishes cannot broadcast galaxies. Although they can detect them, the above...

#Panorama

• Ax6efk7dRpK: Three Galaxies over New Zealand | Astronomy Picture of the Day No, radio dishes cannot broadcast galaxies. Although they can detect them, the above...

#LMC

• Ax6efk7dRpK: Three Galaxies over New Zealand | Astronomy Picture of the Day No, radio dishes cannot broadcast galaxies. Although they can detect them, the above...

#Art

• Ax6efk7dRpK: Three Galaxies over New Zealand | Astronomy Picture of the Day No, radio dishes cannot broadcast galaxies. Although they can detect them, the above...

#Space

• Ax6efk7dRpK: Three Galaxies over New Zealand | Astronomy Picture of the Day No, radio dishes cannot broadcast galaxies. Although they can detect them, the above...

#SMC

• Ax6efk7dRpK: Three Galaxies over New Zealand | Astronomy Picture of the Day No, radio dishes cannot broadcast galaxies. Although they can detect them, the above...

VinQuettaParma

• EYYempFuhKM: I found these neologisms online and it got me thinking...are these using the correct way to form compounds? *hánamil(le) n. maternal uncle > (hán...
• B7QXQAvSCLX: Please comment: > √SER to love nisserme n. a gay woman, lesbian illiserme n. a pansexual woman yuserme n. a bisexual woman láserme n. an asexual ...
• NAPBbU8GBR1: What would "excommunication" in Quenya be? Tamas Ferencz ...
• jCC5KWHoRN5: ??? *kemorvamiru/*kemorvalimpe "vodka, potato-wine" *nelmatussamiru/*nelmatussalimpe "gin, juniper-wine" > HKF Zechariah *mirufea/*miruþúle/*limpef...
• RYFZKaFMcK6: For "puppy", what would roa + -ince become? Ravince? Or would huo + ince become huince? ...
• EAqiLzLU928: Culuma (culu-ma) is orange; could malma (mal-ma) be lemon, and laingwa (laic-ma) be lime? ...
• WL2sbW2up37: Since the English "in love" is an adjective would the Quenya equivalent be melwa? ...
• BrPBoNPf468: I was given a task to translate lock and key. In I Vinya Vere, Helge translates key as latil, something that opens. I'm curious what lock or somet...
• Qsh3KqSUapv: Here's a difficult one - how to translate "honor"? I've been thinking of using "name" to refer to reputation, as in "good name/bad name", but I'm ...
• SEFabLtRq8j: PE22 offers a solution to spatio-temporal ambiguity of before/after words. Using the following roots, I made some reconstructions for Sindarin: Te...
• TG8mBd7Y37c: I'm making words for "lawful, law-abiding" and "law, rule" in Sindarin. Basing it off of thanya/sanya (from STAN) Quenya, I've got thain/thein for ...
• 9QU263Q4vJK: Neo-Sindarin word for "to taste" and "taste", based on Quenya tyav- and tyávë and KJAB: cav- and cauf. What do you think? ...
• MFLmdYWAa6w: Some bits I required. • kombe 'set' — extrapolation of attested 'gathering, assembly/-age, collection' of PE17:157; especially after the extension...
• enm5ZswxRNo: There is a problematic word in the VQP, or rather, a problematic gloss. losta- would be "to bloom", not "to sleep" if I've understood things correc...
• Xvy9djmSNWN: Two pieces of very tricky derivations. • 'Bone' n.: adha ...
• 9ScXrfXLKJZ: When writing in VQP, shall I use the term Common Eldarin or Primitive Elvish, and how shall I abbreviate them? I have so far, inconstistently, used...
• JGkYsAQjt9T: I found the S reconstruction pess for feather (either on a bird or on a arrow or as a primitive pen, I guess). I think it's from the Q quesse. Does...
• ApSNpW4TJ3d: I thought of a S word for squirrel: oronar (oron tree + nâr rat) and a S word for badger torechor (torech lair and -or acting suffix, as badgers a...
• Ew8g8bfQuos: I thought about a S word for spruce of fir trees (not a specific species, more the genuses or type of trees), i.e. a conical shaped tree. Maybe com...
• CETvFafFa8s: I'm trying to make a Sindarin cognate for the Quenya word cesta-. Taking it back to its root, it'd be KETH+TAA. I've been looking for an analogue t...
• 2BchEkp8mdx: How would you translate "unique" into Quenya? There is a Sindarin verb minai "single, distinct, unique", but not knowing how to adapt it into Queny...
• WhgmdwBzWjw: Reconstructing a word for "choice" in Sindarin. We've got *cil-, which is deduced from /cilme/ in Quenya, borrowed into Sindarin without changes.  ...
• EhKtXycM94Z: Is there a word in Sindarin for a measure of length in the scale of a meter, like the word ranga "yard" in Quenya? There is a word sant glossed "ya...
• YZSnaXHms39: I'm making a new section for my Quenya phrasebook on weather. How would you translate "It's raining" in Quenya? In Sindarin(Noldorin) it's "it pour...
• PrgkpVhkMRq: "still, quiet" in Sindarin: Fiona suggests *pell from QL qilda (cp. PE21's qilir), but I might like something a bit later that might not clash wit...
• JgJhj8AyyRS: "If". Got a few words in Quenya, "cé/ce", "qui"... the mysterious "aiquen", and the older "mai". The Neo-Sindarin words are lacking, I think. "Ae" ...
• 4QLPpk695ET: I was looking for a word for "hearth", and found the Quenya word "ruimen". Then I looked it up in its context, and found the untranslated Sindarin ...
• Dy429CbHq1V: VQP: tag syntax When you add tags to a page in DokuWiki, the proper syntax is: {{tag>tag1 tag2 tag3}} The tag> bit is required, don't delete it/...
• MRN6bEobbkj: Is there an "official" list of semantic categories of words we should use when tagging the entries? ...
• JRyw6Uj5pof: So, I've been playing with some ideas for sections. What do you think of these new ones: Pronunciation and Prestanneth (Sindarin only) and includin...
• 6TBwt7NuMoS: For VQP Editors & Users: Wordlist Page Added I have started a page in the NeoQuenya section (and will do the same in the NeoSindarin section), whi...
• PZaXp8VQRZV: A long, long time ago I made the Neo-Sindarin word *maega- 'to kneed, soften' based off of the root MASAG. I now see that it was a big mistake.How ...
• QomgrhctcvR: I hope you guys have seen that +Fiona Jallings has started to add NeoSindarin neologisms in their drones! Thanks Fiona. ...
• WPdar69gtvT: I have added some more info to the Formatting Entries instructions to make editors' lives easier a bit. ...
• 7k2MU5xiA8f: I have added a page explaining namespaces and tagging (sorry if it gets a bit technical in places). +#VQP   ...
• 3exvBNp4wKU: To VQP Editors: - when you log in to the wiki, please take time to review any new entries/pages that have been added since your last visit (an eas...
• 9FjWLEt258A: Hereby I am pleased to announce that VinQuettaParma, the new NeoQuenya and NeoSindarin wiktionary, is up and running. The whole thing is very much ...

#VQP

• 7k2MU5xiA8f: I have added a page explaining namespaces and tagging (sorry if it gets a bit technical in places). +#VQP   ...
• 9FjWLEt258A: Hereby I am pleased to announce that VinQuettaParma, the new NeoQuenya and NeoSindarin wiktionary, is up and running. The whole thing is very much ...

Evan Winterhavik

• iGLtEAdfW4R: A theological wandering. There is a question often posed, whether Quenya is an ecclesiastical language. (Indeed it is.) However, one may wonder if ...
• 8vjsyq78BYT: From Ecclesiastes Lúme ilquan Ilquan ea lúme, ar lúme ilye þelmain nu i menel: lúme eccuivien, ar lúme effirien; lúme empanien ar lúme leptien y...
• JP3QDZm8kdq: Has anyone any tips how to say - someone's right (prerogative, privilege, boon, ius) - that someone is (in the) right in Quenya? Also, is the all...
• Vtsck9xPNbT: Concerning loanwords in NeoQuenya +Kevin B Walsh and I have been having a very interesting discussion via email over the past few days about neolo...
• WPdar69gtvT: I have added some more info to the Formatting Entries instructions to make editors' lives easier a bit. ...

#néme

• JP3QDZm8kdq: Has anyone any tips how to say - someone's right (prerogative, privilege, boon, ius) - that someone is (in the) right in Quenya? Also, is the all...

Jan Slaný

• S1Se4pDrmm5: 'agree', 'approve', 'consent to' in Q? *olav- 'yield mutually'? ...

Jan Sorondil Slaný

• A63s4Yw3E4r: Manen estuvalve si lotse? Esserya eirien Sindarinesse, hetheglon Goldogrinesse. Naike ora men kile aqua exa esse *minome querieryo. ...
• dHdYq1JFUzB: Hi! I'm very new to all of this, and I am trying to work on translating Gandalf's quote, "all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is...
• d3CUuDspq2J: Good news! We have established a Skype chat for Eldarin linguistic discussions! Please join if you also wish to participate! +Christopher Gilson +...
• PBTntJtjKmf: It's in English, not any ME language, but it's still nice: Tolkien's greeting inscription in Tengwar from a letter to G.H. Cowling (details of this...
• Cw8D1Ynpqyr: Do you think haura from KHAWAD can be used as a verb to mean 'store, put away, stash'? Or should we employ KHEP/KHAP for this purpose, perhaps with...
• QVrRFmVmWLk: Another word to ponder: - to switch, swap, replace, exchange Any suggestions? ...
• b1fPfAKsyg3: Yárenissilaire[1] ter ilya otsole! Alkarea áre, lauka vista, lómesse kalle, ringa nikse ambarónesse. Ta loa íta mirwa nin. [1] 'old women's summer...
• fJk19cwxeQq: Arinesse caimammasse caitalya etulyanen i *cava, epetai uluitanen nótime parmar ar i talan, epetai costanen as verinya. Ma ilvanya aure-yesta. ...
• W3faFBMiNYC: I like it that per +#PE22 "I am sad" in Qenya is luin, whereas luin is also "blue" in other sources. Those blasted Elves have even invented the b...
• byDaBiSCc8z: I am opening this thread to make note of words from Parma Eldalamberon 22 that - I think - have been hitherto unattested. I have not checked them a...
• eqYZ19rwQVy: I need some more translation help. I am trying to translate "I will lift my eyes to the maker of the mountains I can't climb." So far, I have "Ort...
• M6Yohp6MDzC: Carl Hostetter just published some interesting words. "... glossary of Elvish terms (some previously unattested) encountered in a collection of la...
• 2BchEkp8mdx: How would you translate "unique" into Quenya? There is a Sindarin verb minai "single, distinct, unique", but not knowing how to adapt it into Queny...
• S1Se4pDrmm5: 'agree', 'approve', 'consent to' in Q? *olav- 'yield mutually'? ...

Hjalmar Holm

• 5yJiSXvXEnQ: A quenya syntax question: Should I normally position and adjective describing a noun before or after the noun in question? E.g. Cenean yaule morna ...
• ETqGma6a8U6: I have started working on a project - a primer course into Quenya, that is, to NeoQuenya (although I do not like the term). I know there are other ...
• XZ9Xd8XS8ha: At least at an earlier stage there was still the prefix http://eldamo.org/content/words/word-2252155757.html which would make sense combined with l...
• 2BwMC8WPotq: Ma mantelde *arimmatienna? Inye mante massa, manya yo tyur, ar yúle kuluma pirya. *Oraureanna sulpa nauva. ---- *arimmatie n. "morning meal, br...
• UgZgNhYA3TM: I've release v0.5.3 of Eldamo. It's been an embarrassingly long time since I've done anything with the lexicon, as I've been obsessed with other t...
• i3i2U2V1zQn: *Millume sina hrívesse: hríza! Kenuvaila [1] sa i hrisse quí lemyuva talamesse. -------------------- *millume adv "first, for the first time"; mi...
• iAd19NGaFLT: I în hen delu. Ni *basseril, a bin laew tangadanner i ni fuiar. Ach guion eno. Avon *daved an delos. Limmidin i thîr în na nim a vudas. *Aden i 'wa...
• FiMYGbt3r6D: After re-reading page 147 in PE 22, i thought about this "before of time. PHA, APHA. enge. 1 2 before, in front of place. KHYA .13 after {later th...
• Dxe8uAoVhSY: How indeed could we build up a spoken (chatting) Quenya? A few months ago David Girardeau was lamenting how the new words and forms seem to actuall...
• Qh3m17dsRiJ: A counter-proposition to Jallings' law-words: I'd much rather have it *thain (Q cognate sanye) as "law" and *thaineb as "lawful, law-abiding", than...
• GQzqXpFLYBR: +#randomLotRparagraph Out of the shadows a ladder was let down: it was made of rope, silver-grey and glimmering in the dark, and though it looked ...
• BvFdXAvo5cH: I tried to scour the web, but in vain... Does anyone know of a translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, or at least the first art...
• PcRDAKzCSGw: AEROR VORN. Man nad hen, i dortha níf ni? Cant vi vorn i tentha na nin? Fer-pherno a noro lim! Henion ni i gílen îm. Law, law, law! Cant vel morn, ...
• Dw5uJfojsQE: Some animal names based on their CE equivalents (see PE/21:82): S *celef (deer, stag) kel(e)bē (deer, hind), kelebō (hart, stag) S *naeag (goat) n...
• 9jKBrFW6s5P: Loew, "moss", from root LOG, "swampy, soaked". Related to S. words loen "swampy, soaked" and lô/hlô "fenland, flood". In my native tongue, "fen, mi...
• RBmnT8kkwai: To swim. Early root LUT, "to float" exists, but from it is derived lunte/lunt "boat" in Q and S, and lhoda- in N. The latter could be used for S, ...
• iFu8DLV2iSb: I was translating some quotes from the Jackson films, and faltered when approaching simple questions. I first thought of "Legolas, ma chenir i chin...
• 7thaeLkyp8C: I have just finished a coffee pouch, made out of leather, and thought of writing "coffee" on it. However, we lack a word for that in eldarin, don't...
• S7igkFhkJWq: Nen a! nen, ne chuil i 'lanna mael, glanno drass nín ah, panno nin na 'lass ah estel, na dathon tangant ne i-aur dolel. Water oh! water, in life t...
• C3dRYQh77EC: To congratulate, congratulations (on celebrations, birthday parties et.c.). go + _mereth_ mirroring the etymology of "congratulation", --> govertha...
• MHJa3sVCo3B: în aind breniannen, darthannen ne môr, a ne thrass, a vathant i haeg amar, nauthannen i vîled hen, mathathon hannaweg, das sennui aun enni, naeg a ...
• b6UmkMt63fU: Case, lant, "fall", in case of, vi lant oh, in that case vi land han. (Case is from latin, casus, meaning "fall/falling".  Light, as in "not heavy...
• WXET73QNktz: Ceno in yngyl dhaer! Does this work, or does it seem like an appeal to go and see them? ...
• ZrTBvPxP8WX: What a fantastic adventure it would be to start a similar experiment and teach Quenya in a nursery school. It would be exciting to see how the lang...
• JrgcsMx4FqJ: Any idea how to express "careful" in S or Q? It is a word that is really missing in my oppinion. ...
• U9d7oPkPoLV: For S, from KWER, perna- transitive "to turn", to be used in a wider sense (e.g. to turn a Wheel, to turn one's coat, the Sun turns the trolls into...
• VNh3nZR6hvS: Considring the map that +Matt Dinse linked to in a post some weeks ago, should my entry in the VQP for "wine" be rendered, and in that case, how? I...
• dEnwmWV3vN2: Concernig giving and thanking (and approaching). For some time when I think of Eruhantale “thanksgiving”, and similarity of Elvish words expressi...
• 9QU263Q4vJK: Neo-Sindarin word for "to taste" and "taste", based on Quenya tyav- and tyávë and KJAB: cav- and cauf. What do you think? ...
• 7VfBMZ3yRrM: Some possible neologisms/derivations: *itya- "multiply, repeat" *ítea "multiple, manifold" http://eldamo.org/content/words/word-2113203683.html *...
• 6EUgAfHUshY: Do you think that the (separate) class of CE U-verbs remained in Sindarin? For instance, from *kham-u 'sit down': pr. hamun, pt. achovun? achovuin?...
• 5cwTwMwkEDP: So, I keep on trying to learn Sindarin (for many years) but things constantly come up or I have need to focus on something else. My question is ho...
• AK77w3iSwAM: In my quest to name the plants in Elvish: Having read the legumes article in Arda philology 4, I soon came up with the following ideas: erdhwaed (o...
• AeLwcfJkVH9: With PE 22, LSV4 (page 151) in mind, ebe- "can of mere possibility according to likelihood, natural probability" as root for NeoS * eb-, i-verb, us...
• 5yux7m91mDy: At 8:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, I'm being interviewed about my Tolkien-language work, along with a good friend of mine, The Dwarrow Scholar dwarr...
• F5cd9UL8LKp: Now it is my turn to  try with what is maybe the most translated poem: Althilia il i malthen allwanwen il i reniar alphêl i iaur i velt alphessa i...
• fzKAPEmHzuX: Since al- is now "not", then alwed as "prosperous, well-being" doesn't work anymore. Any ideas for a substitution or reconstruction? ...
• R1Sbv9R3iyc: I've long longed for a way to express "most people" or "majority". Might Early N diant "most" be something to build on? If it was a Noldorin word, ...
• DYNF1oyJZvs: Neologisms for "nut", *pech, and "hazel", *pechol, and "buckwheat", *nelio or *neilof, depending on how old the compund is. Q. pekkuvo, of "nut" an...
• h2LMWYb8Cbd: If S bell is actually just an adaption from N belt, wouldn't it rather be S belt and S belthas "strength"? Counterpart malt + orn --> malthorn? ...
• enm5ZswxRNo: There is a problematic word in the VQP, or rather, a problematic gloss. losta- would be "to bloom", not "to sleep" if I've understood things correc...
• UhPmfFPwKYR: After some discussion with +Ekin Gören , I thought of reconstruct a word for "berry", (or maybe rather "berries") *pigin, with CE root PIK, common ...
• dWsdUgGx2Hv: Who by fire? A man na naur, man na nen? Man min glaw, man min daw? Man na amarthad chall, man na badhed órui? Man ned ethuil 'elir, man na thawas ...
• gUuq2hz6iar: I wonder: why wasn't it done before? For me it was hard as hell, taking both the rhythm and rhyme, retaining the wording and trying to eliminate th...
• byDaBiSCc8z: I am opening this thread to make note of words from Parma Eldalamberon 22 that - I think - have been hitherto unattested. I have not checked them a...
• GFbnxejHkkF: I have a copy of PE22 and it is amazing. It is chock full of marvelous information about Quenya and Early Eldarin verb structures. I've only begun ...
• YYw8PTK24um: I think of adding my reconstruction *ŷ from MQ io, "wine". from MQ io, "wine" to the VQP. I feel a bit insecure about it since the only place I've ...
• ND5PwZ6bBUd: Peded laew, ach eno i Silevril ú-dhendellin Much talk and little work. ...
• RPEJSCzzw5J: Does anyone have an idea of how to express "goal, target, objective"? ...
• 8FzWqg85yuL: Min ŷ i thannas, min nen i tharannas: En oinoi aletheia.../ in vino veritas, in aqua sanitas. *ŷ from MQ io, "wine". **tarannas from tharan  + -a...
• HpMoMFynCzD: Ae Anor! Sír celidh nan 'lawar aglareb athan in oer eithyr in idhrinn! ...
• hFc9KoVkuz1: I've release Eldamo 0.4.7, which has two major updates: 1) I've analyzed the Danian language. I originally thought this would be quite easy, given...
• 3bkmwBxXsYt: A lament of King Midas: quantitative. Ŷngin ed ylvath eryd, iuithathon eithil erui. [I used to drink from kingly goblets, now only springs are of...
• TnJVo3zkJ32: Hi, ab•doled i•laiss galen caleneb ach eb•doled in eithbi, nan Anor calel nabant aur a dû, cuiad milui. tolel, gerund of tol- "coming, arrival", *...
• 7J7SGaJn8kU: Considering the word "be" in S, what forms do people here use? Are Salo's paradigm found in the Gateway still viable? ...
• 1WEXj8ja98y: Hi, ab eryd imp nan eiled, tôl galed en Anor. 'lass enni!
• c6fcgHEhwL1: Mudas garnen na-vedui! Nelchaen linnyd (vi lammath rim), min ilaurui egor ned, — man pen iuitha vi aur vethed? Ingassen teithad naid veleg, nal lai...
• PFn3kG6kWLF: How would you express "indeed, absolutely, definitely, verily" in Q/S? *thannui for S? thand + suffix ui, and -nd become nn, "firmly, truly". ...
• CQBB7fEy5Vi: I ask for help here once more. I found Early Qenya words for "spade" sampa and "axe", pelek. How to make them modern Quenya? Modern Quenya has samp...
• 1vFRBmmsyaJ: I posted tha last Aesop fable over a week ago, so now it's due time for another. I restamo ar yondoryar Atar, nála lúmesse fírieva, merne carie t...
• drhRAFtidPz: A Númenorean saying, Shakespeare-inspired. Henion naeg Annúnnor: thaw i•naid e•Thol hi nar. [So I understand the pain of Westernesse: something i...
• 7ss1nrrJkzk: Another Aesop fable I atar ar selderyat Nér samne seldet, i min vertaina lótepandamon, ar i hye ambaltanon. Apa lú lendes seldenna i vertaina lót...
• 1oMWSSnChJU: How do I express "The farmer and his two daughters"? The closest i got was this: I rermo ar i seldet ...
• Z9QXKJaXsyg: Continuing the topic: actually, the invocations to Elbereth did work, and it's 21 Celcius outdoors now. So: flee, Winter! Morgothyth adorthornen; ...
• MC3eLmWDYfp: An Aesop fable. The farmer and the fox. I rermo ar i rusco Rermom i cóle nai-thelma rusconna pilie poroce-pandarya, remnesses métimavesse, ar nor...
• SQdPA2L887o: A modern Q word for laqa-? Should we expect lac-?  http://eldamo.sourceforge.net/content/words/word-3384693239.html ...
• RtfUCwiM3fY: Biblical linnod of the day. Cenig i•fîn vi chennen, golvoth vi dhîn gen uig. [You see a hair in my eye, not seeing a huge branch in yours.] Matth...
• ZRSxsZMtZkg: A random linnod of the day (I'm going to challenge myself with writing one more every day for a month). Dengwith bain mael istennin — hiro i•vabet...
• CVC4UeN21k1: What is the status of edledhio-cluster, neledhi and anglenno after the DEL revolution of 'Quendi and Eldar'? They are rendered totally impossible b...
• VJKCq6zdKBe: An Aesop fable I pupsoli ar i lisse*cere Pupsoli tetaina lissecerenna i undupetenen sambesse mardandurwa, sortala talirya mi sa, manter milcave. ...
• PT3soQC2ZHv: Q and S word for "choke, drown". I found EQ qosta- and qoro-, but they do not follow moderns Q rules, and I don't know how to make modern cognates....
• X4UaDzrRG6n: Once again, if you don't find much metric poetry in Sindarin, go and write yourself. This time, the rhythm is retained, not a single line or syllab...
• G7XM8FEba4s: Hi everyone! Remember that kick-starter a while back? Well, this is the sort of website you can make with it! Below is a link to a translation of T...
• h29eMrtQs5m: I thougt of *ardbarlas or *arpharlas as "map", from ardh and *parlas (see the vqp). ...
• Tcr8btWVbKg: A further question. What is the underlying verb in mae govannen? In the Etymologies, the answer is trivially bad- from BAT, but since then, no deri...
• fMSWQBjwuZk: From Aesop's fables: I graban ah i alph. Craban egent alph ah anírant gared i bessas vain aif an ech. Savel i i laed nim bain en alph i eniad od ...
• M1WDLjtpj9C: ns *belchorch "raven" (bel-, corch "crow") * mírchraban "magpie", mîr "jewel" (both from the fondness of glittering things and the conspicuous plum...
• TwbXuX1u831: "to put, place [something]", transitive verb, in Q and S? I first thought of penia- for S, but that seems to be more of "make sure it's fine, repai...
• 6eyi9yrmfGr: ns *athrabatha-, *athradanna-, vb, tr, "interpret, translate". ...
• dMfP8pXDquR: I needed words for stomach, and used cumb, wasit, and used (in lack of imagination) _ agor-chum_, and eyebrows, and used there hen-find, and also t...
• MUSKY77nfE4: Middle period Noldorin is quite similar to later period Sindarin, yes? N words can often be adopted to S with small or no changes. How do Ilkorin r...
• 7NGU4E3zLi8: I have misgivings regarding the cluster ntha- in reconstructed S words (eg *mentha- "send") *, and would prefer other solutions. The only attested ...
• 4YyNfkHUEYY: I and Ekin discussed how to express "together" when one doesn't want to have it as a prefix to another word. Eg "we shall be together", where the o...
• UmeiE3oE9GA: I have added words to the VQP from a previous post. I want to add one of these, but I can't make up my mind. Preferences, anyone? * ogod; och; ugu...
• D4Ha2BN3iSo: So a week ago +Hjalmar Holm asked for a Sindarin word for "strange" and I suggested G. elegrin "different, strange" with associated noun G. elm, el...
• 4mLKSE5z1yn: Elo! Sír ichíren i loth vinui echuir hen! I loth estannen roch-dal mi lam e-mbar nîn. Lat. Tussilago farfara ...
• aEvdKzQGnTs: Why is it necessary to use the definite article when indicating possessive when one is using a pronoun, like in i ennyn dîn, "his doors", since it'...
• QrmnHNCpNAF: Is there a way to express "It is propable that, it may be that" in S? I thought of using *ce as in Q cé "may be" as opposed to NS *pe "if". ...
• QMavNNmjGZL: I've released version 0.4.5 of Eldamo. The major milestone in this release is that I finished analyzing the Ilkorin/Doriathrin languages. This mea...
• PjqzLgNFBYW: Ekin Gören proposed NS *pentha- as "reveal, show someone something", see: http://eldamo.sourceforge.net/content/words/word-1363072765.html http://e...
• 2kF9UYWxxtr: I've run into the reconstructed S word *fel- "to feel emotion. I have sometimes missed a word for such thing as "it fels like [this or that]". On t...
• J7TCF7FWh2k: Does this work? Ennas adh a-dandolen. Narn perian. Алекса...
• d4yTqEKG8Qb: Do we have any botanist amongs us? Great lilies, snapdragons and laburnums? ...
• efWMDLG6X4i: ns iaethwedh "scarf, necktie". Paul Strack Mar 30,...
• fNLNwRt18Ld: Any S word for "rare, unusual" or "weird, peculiar, curious, strange"? ...
• cvYwF8f7F6R: Na toled anwareb aur ab vinuial io annan min dîn Ardhon, ned i ennas 'lam ú-laew a chalen laew athan hí, adh in pherinain rem adh ...
• ggLSPkqQPzd: I have problems with the word eitha- which either means "to insult, treat with scorn, stab", or "ease, comfort". I find it very hard to understand ...
• LWuQEUsqkHz: NS Linnas, "music, art of song".
• EVfZQdmZpAe: NS ed- + toltha- --> etholtha-, "take away, make come out, remove something, move something". ...
• 5hGXSojXBjY: Some Sindarin neologism ideas and adaptations to go with Tolkien Reading Day. . . (Also because "waste not", and all that.) — : — * aif adj. same...
• HpbEQG4s22g: Sleeping Sun I anor losta dínen Hí minlû ned idhrinn chost           Aear ídhrol bell a ross                                                     M...
• J1HGaQXPaNr: Man nos perian? Tamas Ferencz Mar 20, 2015 (09:39)...
• a8Z7mk5QzUJ: The Road goes ever on Ed i vên ui-vâd od i fen od i heriast Hi e gwachae i vên mennast pe pelin boe de hílithon na thail verai de ruiathon na i er...
• 9iLyrJWznVq: A ns and nq word for "to lose something" and "to aquire something", like in "He lost his good reputation but he won ... something...".  Sometimes i...
• 3k6GnHgjGCn: Hm:) Q. cesta- [þ] vb. “to seek, search for” quest (n.) c.1300, "an inquest;" early 14c., "a search for something" (especially of judicial inquir...
• CcsomP1yPDG: Narn hen o manen Pogodion agor garwegas rach, a cared a peded naid bainui dír-inced. I have some trouble with this. I lack a word for "how", so I ...
• cj1UgBEX4so: I tried to make a word for "sap, resin" with the root KHIM (the thought being of vaurse that sap and resin is sticky and viscous) and the suffix -l...
• KDjhhYZ8T5g: mawedh, "glove", inspired after the English etymology of "glove" Proto-Germanic *ga- “collective and associative prefix” + Proto-Germanic *lōfô “fl...
• 9ScXrfXLKJZ: When writing in VQP, shall I use the term Common Eldarin or Primitive Elvish, and how shall I abbreviate them? I have so far, inconstistently, used...
• fEArNegg75h: I am starting a project on reconstructing the Ann-Tennath, if any think that they may help, could you please tell, it would be amazing to do such a...
• GLjqQpWPEEi: I just read about Beleg Cuthalion's bow, that is said to be named Belthronding. What does that mean? Strong something? ...
• MJeKXpgspKv: S (and Q) word for "part, piece" and "partly, to some extent". I thought of using ú-bant for the latter, but that doesn't really help me with the f...
• a7iKCkJCrek: Another minor Eldamo update (0.4.4). I know I said last week that I wasn't going to do this weekly, but +Tamas Ferencz  suggested putting the [Sear...
• R6krdSxdZFa: S nasarm and Q assarmë for "context". Etymology Lat. con- "with" text "text". "Writing" is the closest word to "text" that I have found. Thus as "w...
• bDpjikKmrJG: A question: when does si (here/now) get lenited into hi? Some people spell it with a long vowel, hí, what is the more correct? ...
• MPxqMUWLNuE: After reading +Hjalmar Holm's post a few days ago, I realized that I had never translated the poem "The Riddle of Strider" into Sindarin. So I deci...
• WVHQfiFhD2j: Have anyone here translated Strider's riddle? I've seen some attempts on the internet, but trust you who are here more. ...
• MFxxnCrAHLc: Have anyone reconstructed a S word for "kind, sort, type" or similar? Perhaps from Q nostale? ...
• JGkYsAQjt9T: I found the S reconstruction pess for feather (either on a bird or on a arrow or as a primitive pen, I guess). I think it's from the Q quesse. Does...
• ApSNpW4TJ3d: I thought of a S word for squirrel: oronar (oron tree + nâr rat) and a S word for badger torechor (torech lair and -or acting suffix, as badgers a...
• Ew8g8bfQuos: I thought about a S word for spruce of fir trees (not a specific species, more the genuses or type of trees), i.e. a conical shaped tree. Maybe com...
• 3kqz4zQNzTc: Hey everyone, +Jeremiah Burns and I have been conversing in the past few days trying to find a suitable Sindarin name for his recently acquired lo...
• b3JTS4Ujsga: This is the second stanza of Yeats's The Two Trees in Sindarin: Na cheledh haer avo diro, ah i guru chall în in Ylynn Eriar nef men reniol, Egor t...
• M6Yohp6MDzC: Carl Hostetter just published some interesting words. "... glossary of Elvish terms (some previously unattested) encountered in a collection of la...
• FtK644sYRu9: Anyone have any idea of a neosindarin word for bag (or similar object that one puts other object in for storage or transport)? I had the idea of tr...
• 8gpVz1kvRhW: Announcement: Once we finish the first version of it, we're making it open-source! We're also running out of time, so please donate and/or spread t...
• BM7RANaCkjN: Do you think *colexe 'carry oneself' could be an acceptable neologism for 'behave'? Edit: just realized we do have an attested verb lenga- in PE17....
• EhKtXycM94Z: Is there a word in Sindarin for a measure of length in the scale of a meter, like the word ranga "yard" in Quenya? There is a word sant glossed "ya...
• 6cJoF2YEzYF: mîn i Valrog ah i iâ between a rock and a hard place, between Scylla and Charybdis Sindarin saying +#Sindarin +#idioms   ...
• UpT9bg76c9i: Really no word for "beer, ale" in any Eldarin language? Did yulda ever authentically include the meaning "beer" like purported here: http://goo.gl...
• MRN6bEobbkj: Is there an "official" list of semantic categories of words we should use when tagging the entries? ...
• FyhEQLDyMgT: suggestion: penaqua adv 'almost' Roman Rausch Jul ...

#OldEnglish

• c6jm47aQdSj: Monad modes... Quenya rendition of this Old English verse. Monad  modes lust mid mereflode                              ford to feran, þaet ic fe...

#translation

• c6jm47aQdSj: Monad modes... Quenya rendition of this Old English verse. Monad  modes lust mid mereflode                              ford to feran, þaet ic fe...

P Arellond

• Uwg6NXV9J2w: What would you suggest for a good NQ equivalent of Goldogrin grith- v. “to attend to, tend, care, care for, mind”? I usually resort to aþya- when I...
• STz6SyySLQ2: +#ThePlaceWhereILive +#KoireaQuenya +#TopicalConversation The Place Where I Live ----------------------------------------------------------------...
• 8WuuGtvX3nh: By all means let get started. Shall we begin with the idea to go to Quenya Chat first on the topic of 1. Describe where you live. Nation, city, k...
• RdW8ZUGSQZb: Thanks for your very interesting thoughts. Paul, Andre and others who have mentioned exactly what tends to stop the community from developing a sp...
• Dxe8uAoVhSY: How indeed could we build up a spoken (chatting) Quenya? A few months ago David Girardeau was lamenting how the new words and forms seem to actuall...
• BEA2fdUPUro: Rie erya lénen eke mon harna atan ilquo nehtaina: nananta sen ma hastaina. "There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him bac...
• LeFR7FmDRRy: Have you already decided for yourselves how exactly are we going to resolve the question Tolkien himself left in a muddle: the prepositions/adverbs...
• eP2E7TNfPEo: A few paragraphs from LotR, randomly chosen, to flex my rusting muscles. Chapter 7, In The House Of Tom Bombadil. I am sure I got some of the trick...
• iGLtEAdfW4R: A theological wandering. There is a question often posed, whether Quenya is an ecclesiastical language. (Indeed it is.) However, one may wonder if ...
• 8htY18bUDHH: Language & Myth In 'A Secret Vice' Tolkien writes: '... the making of language and mythology are related functions; to give your language an indiv...
• M65aGPjLq9q: Has anyone heard what happened to the recording of Prof. Tolkien reading a previously unknown Quenya poem in the Netherlands? ...
• KeC2vBfFqX8:  For those of you reading PE 22, does it say much about  how ol- is used in the sense of  "to become"? Its been a long wait for a word like that. I...
• Sbgk7P4sSm3: How should I make a cognate of Sindarin brona in Quenya? The stem is BOR(ON); should I, starting from the derivatives like vórima, consider a basic...
• 32JUVjx2xwg: I've proposed this neologism over on FB in the Quenya Chat group; would like your opinions, too: *hrangie 'difficulty, trouble', modeled on sangie...

#prepositions

• 9fguHAhzdqz: On page 25. of VT49 the conjugation of the preposition ar is published: anni>arni/astye/alle/arse anwe>arme/arwe/aste>arde/aste>arte anwet>armet O...

‫שת בנ־אברהם (שת בן־אברהם)‬‎

• Z6SuUYbXdmo: A few months ago, I finished a translation of "The Lay of the Children of Húrin", chapter 1, version 2. I tried to implement as much Doriathrin as ...
• HPUuBMyRA7Z: Eneth Nin Endy, nice to meet you all please give me lesson around quenya language!!??  ...

Endy Hidayat

• dfAYA3i7Wew: mae covennan, eneth nin endy!
• JMGhmxXXP9Z: I need a word for kind (adj). I know S has milui (friendly, loving, kind), but don't know how to convert it to Q. Where could I find rules for tran...
• Wx1uVCz7iLx: I want to write "WHAT I MUST TO DO?" in quenya, is it right in quenya is 'MAN GERIN CAR?' ...
• HPUuBMyRA7Z: Eneth Nin Endy, nice to meet you all please give me lesson around quenya language!!??  ...

Holly Short

• RhfCs3rh4Rn: Hey, I have an announcement for those of you that use GoodReads. I've made a new group, Quenya Learners, where I'd like to welcome all who are inte...
• jFE4rGC4mnt: Hey all! I'm new here. I'm learning Quenya (know only some basics). Are there many people who know it well? To those who can read and write it, how...

Patrick Gifford

• 1fmsn8JsZ6n: Seriously. I'll write about what I see, then? Gwall im o Pharf Edhellaim, hiniath 'lassen cenel. [Excited I am about PE, seeing the joyful news.]...
• G7XM8FEba4s: Hi everyone! Remember that kick-starter a while back? Well, this is the sort of website you can make with it! Below is a link to a translation of T...
• dk1xn5Nf4He: Is it possible to have some translations on some of the posts? (if not ALL) it would go a long way to assisting those of us just in KINDERGARTEN wh...
• TmpAFJC4ZGh: 3/12/15 - 1 T...
• 9NCpTTavt18: Hello, I am very new here, so forgive me for not having the fonts correct for the translations from English to Quenya.. :-( I am trying to make su...
• jFE4rGC4mnt: Hey all! I'm new here. I'm learning Quenya (know only some basics). Are there many people who know it well? To those who can read and write it, how...

#felme

• PQWWPdceWCP: We're approaching Remembrance Day, and with this being the centennial anniversary of the Great War, I thought I'd give it a go and translate the po...

Willie Bossie

• 9NCpTTavt18: Hello, I am very new here, so forgive me for not having the fonts correct for the translations from English to Quenya.. :-( I am trying to make su...

#idioms

• 6cJoF2YEzYF: mîn i Valrog ah i iâ between a rock and a hard place, between Scylla and Charybdis Sindarin saying +#Sindarin +#idioms   ...

James Coish

• 9H4RQtM6T33: In the course of my Psalmic translations, I came upon an unforseen issue: what would be the future ending of a verb in qu(a)--? The verb miqu- is ...
• NpZLYwfesCH: I'm going to start working on a new version of Aglardh (install a brand new Drupal engine, new look etc) and make it operative before Google pulls ...
• ZeJB4tjRh4k: I'm not too well versed in what some "early" nouns cases mean. For instance, EQ/MQ comitative case, kiryaiko. Does this mean "with a ship"? This is...
• Uwg6NXV9J2w: What would you suggest for a good NQ equivalent of Goldogrin grith- v. “to attend to, tend, care, care for, mind”? I usually resort to aþya- when I...
• PuX6AFVsvni: *hroanaicele n. a physical pain or anguish *indonaicele n. a mental pain or anguish *feanaicele n. a pain or anguish of the spirit ...
• N9TDXV3M3Pb: My mind is muddled...how would one render "day by day" or "three by three", &c.? "By" (instrumental) doesn't seem quite right to my English ears. M...
• C8Xo12Lo25p: I have four rhyming words for you to give me ideas on, how to say them in Quenya: fame shame blame tame Discuss :) ...
• NX1yBpPNNtr: Is there a distinction as to when you use the strong vs the weak form of a past tense Quenya verb when it has both forms? ...
• H2S61QgkFrn: A question posted over at Elfdict got me thinking on our two attested words glossed as "more". We have the adjective amba and the adverb ambe and I...
• EYYempFuhKM: I found these neologisms online and it got me thinking...are these using the correct way to form compounds? *hánamil(le) n. maternal uncle > (hán...
• 14vZBJwU2FP: Polil camya ni mapaitas formalyasse. Mal lá polil camya ni mapaitas hyarmalyasse. Ma Man nán? ...
• HHpSSChsA6b: Cé matan, cuitan. Cé þúyan, cuitan. Cé yulan, firin. Ma Man nán? ...
• JcYSz3z1LzF: Quere ellume, Ita *arni eteni na, lá mittuva. Enquere, Ita *mini na, lá uþuva. Ma Man nán? *arni, prep. out of me *mini, prep. in me cf. mimme, i...
• DF331h1xT6V: Last one, I promise... Cé mo same nelde, same nelde, Cé mo same atta, same atta, Mal cé mo same min, same munta. Ma Man nán? ...
• gbdBQh2thn6: Edit: Patan telqui cantanen auresse, Patan telco attanen endauresse, Ar patan telqui neldenen andúnesse. Ma Man nán? ...
• XuzBHE4XEhJ: Lánye quete, mal samin ñolme. Lánye alda, mal samin lassi. Ar lánye fenda hya henet, mal samin *pellime. Ma Man nán? ...
• ZS62ErZjVzg: I am in need of a word for "hinge". The closest I can come up with is peltas "pivot" but that seems too vague for a door. Any ideas? ...
• Tfdo4xEcTmv: Notes on LE The hymn to Elbereth, as sung in Rivendell, contains a peculiar form that is often under-estimated in its puzzling nature: Fanuilos, ...
• B7QXQAvSCLX: Please comment: > √SER to love nisserme n. a gay woman, lesbian illiserme n. a pansexual woman yuserme n. a bisexual woman láserme n. an asexual ...
• 3nGfTwFZtmB: Translating the Book of Psalms in Quenya - Miscellanea I thought of a discussion where some points concerning my ongoing translation of the Book o...
• B4R3kTs9yYU: Over at Discord the other day I was chatting with Roandil about the two attested SKOR roots and how the two could coexist; now it occurred to me th...
• NcDk7eu9EEE: I am happy to announce the release of my NeoQuenya textbook Atanquesta - a NeoQuenya Primer. The work is aimed at beginner and intermediate student...
• Q2L6fp5gFJJ: Would *elerran, *erran be a good neologism for "planet", lit. "wanderer, wandering [star]"? rána would be great, but that is already taken as one o...
• NAPBbU8GBR1: What would "excommunication" in Quenya be? Tamas Ferencz ...
• T12tYHCd5dW: Rie mólome ar lá tyalie care Yát lumbaro. Paul Strack ...
• 3mYvdAEq1G5: I have started translating the Book of Psalms into Quenya, and more specifically Parmaquesta. As I don't read Hebrew, unfortunately, I checked a nu...
• X8Ge3ofYkvM: How would you guys say "prepare" in Quenya (both transitively and intransitively)? manwa- is attested in Early Qenya, not sure if still suitable; f...
• Gpb3yDUEv21: ‘Hike’ The etymology gives a meaning “to walk vigorously”, and that meaning feels right to me. It could also mean ‘powerwalk’, but that could perh...
• 1AFoNqFVJ4Z: morna ve orko *katassa mi felko "as dark as an orc's arsehole in a cave" Gondorian catchphrase *katassa: ka/kata 'behind, at back of place' + a...
• gKj5F62QFZw: The next +#1000words entry is gas. I recently coined the word *kumma from KUM, based on the etymology of the international word gas. Any other (p...
• PeTF4myzyei: Here's a dragonfly I took a picture of yesterday (well this may actually be a damselfly I think, but that's beside the point now). In Gnomish it is...
• jCC5KWHoRN5: ??? *kemorvamiru/*kemorvalimpe "vodka, potato-wine" *nelmatussamiru/*nelmatussalimpe "gin, juniper-wine" > HKF Zechariah *mirufea/*miruþúle/*limpef...
• 6qJXuxAaWec: *Minaþurindor *eyestanier *rikwe ekkese ké i *kumma *metan mo kime Karnilesse ontaina ondoinen hya veoinen. Kénai tuvuvante i hanquetta tulyuvas ve...
• CHRjd79y8Rh: Merin nyare len pá i osto yasse sí séran: Budapest. Sí rie *naþumo nán sisse, an háran Angalnóresse. Nostaina ostosse lárion lepenquain oa, túlelm...
• Tz6XPeDMtAm: Going over fractions...in Neo-Quenya, could those forms in -sta be adjectives and the nominal forms be in -sto (cf. PE14:51 and PE14:84-85)? ...
• T9mPKKnvqYv: This word analysis focuses on two opposing concepts: “before” and “after”. These saw numerous vacillations over Tolkien’s life, making it difficult...
• 72J65ZjfE96: HATH > *haÞmā > Q *haÞwa (*haswa) "medicine, drug"? Robert...
• 79vXsWwBdno: What would, in your opinion, be the present perfect of the verb derived from SKEY 'pass' (whether it's *xíta or *xéya is probably irrelevant in thi...
• 58CWiZ62WKB: Samin Isilya-lumbe. Sinome háman opo nonwanya, mauya men moia, lanye. *Hentópanyat lunge; sanarinya hísea; uiúlien yulmali *kofio quanta, la káre m...
• VzU2c5yV36k: Throwing in a few words to munch on: surprise recognize to get to know, acquaint get, acquire ...
• QMNj7kxeH68: Possible Quenya linear measurements? UPDATED lár a league; 3 miles *larnelesta a mile; 1 mile (> NQNT) rangwe a fathom; 6 feet ranga a yard; 3 fee...
• eXiNcPeEnjC: "trousers, pants" NQ *rotset? cf. E hose, G Hose? Ras Al...
• H7YjoduGuPc: More Eldamo beta stuff. I’ve sort of got the mobile navigation how I want. The vertical view is working for me, but the landscape view looks bad on...
• fv9KjeomqSn: Putting the problem out here as well, for folks who are less 'instant ', like myself: verbs for "to buy" and "to sell"in Quenya. ...
• FH1FnhhK2Mx: I'm experimenting with a new search page for Eldamo. The beta is here: http://eldamo.org/beta/content/search/search.html The major changes are: ...
• FGsSUtJpr2L: Síra ménen kame keura lendalávanya (passport) [1]; fastalima vanta né: síra lauka lá noa, i hrisse tikune [2] astasse mal i maller lá níti; ente An...
• 9Z6kwWVB3tn: I fasta hesto apsa as i kapsa as i apsa nan apta lepta i silma yulma to i talma. ...
• RYFZKaFMcK6: For "puppy", what would roa + -ince become? Ravince? Or would huo + ince become huince? ...
• EAqiLzLU928: Culuma (culu-ma) is orange; could malma (mal-ma) be lemon, and laingwa (laic-ma) be lime? ...
• iU1dqDYwN7k: I've finished Release 0.6.0 of Eldamo. This release has nearly all of Tolkien's attested word forms from the existing published material. Only a fe...
• LqCcqGNpqcT: One could think that adapting Quenya for modern age is difficult because of science and technology. Yet it seems that the "weak link" is in the com...
• cggbNiaQpL9: Merin merya merende ilye otornoin at osellin! Na alassea Hrístonostarelda, Turuhalmelda, Hanukkalda, hya aiqua ya *merenyalde. Alye mate, yule, lir...
• HQ9vgWsYuCP: Just out of curiosity: What is "The Last Jedi" in Quenya? I know that this might be an impossible translation, because Jedi probably isn't accounte...
• 1ujxZD7ao7t: Atalatyanente (atalatanyente?) Ambaro anyára parmakoa. I koranari amna min húme lempe tuxa linyenwa ampano tare Kemetesse (Hakapta? Egypt, see http...
• cB8AWA1A1jJ: Akárien porokelle-sulpa síra. Hanten porokelle-rámar tambenna, napannen *viríte (varying, various) sulkar ar laiqui, ta *asahanya (easily understoo...
• PbDLYmM5ohV: Maira ré lyen illin! Nique sisse. I kemen faren helka, sie erendien *parkataine lóki, ar erdi i aiwin. Samimme "vére" aiwi i lillume tulir lotarwam...
• R7BaHWpSaXL: Andanéya, harunya quente nin quenta: Roquen atta yestat sé lár atta. Ilya roquen norta i exenna min lár ilya lúmesse. Pí yesta min roquende ar vil...
• L1UEU96pU3f: How would you guys say 'important, significant' in late/neo Quenya? ...
• TKGoAvmyXH4: Just an exercise in hexameters. “Ranyamo, mallo utúlier aine yo lumbe taletyat?” “Aistana asto ni tópa, nanakka feanya hroanya.” “Á hamu sisse ta ...
• 9Qr31KKGUhB: Aiya, mára meldo! Merin maquetital quettalion ata, an ranyal rimbavë! In a textbook I was reading, I read "epë = after (of time), and nó = before (...
• MsYGmx9nULz: Following Tamas's post from earlier I made up this list of pronouns ma? what? (interrogative pronoun) man? who? mana? what? (adj.) mó? whose, what...
• Qb6Hb3nY9ZF: I think we now have attested Quenya interrogative/demonstrative/relative pronouns for most situations (who, what, whose, where, whence, whither, ho...
• 6BH2zCD3ooC: Edited "Ilya mára nauva, ar ilya mára nauva, ar ilquaima engwi mára nauvar." "All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things...
• fTaGoVsR4ju: Would saveryet translate to he believes it? James Coish ...
• 2t8BvRe43Pp: Ette atto; ta ette etta atto. Atto atto otto: etta atto atto ette. ...
• V2AcupLZCeD: I don't get it... Not a single word for 'back' (a part of body) in any language since Leeds? And none for 'stomach' ever? ...
• KEWBxpCw3RA: Could it be possible that +#kyerme "prayer" be a misreading of *hyamie "a praying"? ...
• UN1LcSxwyqh: I've release v0.5.7 of my Elvish lexicon Eldamo. This version has data from PE16. Of the major publications, only PE18, PE19 and PE21 remain. I've...
• 35aAhcWkwj4: The counter here on the side is telling me the community has reached half thousand members. *Perhúme! *Perveneg! Now I know very well that this nu...
• 3zomtd5UCF5: Hi! I've recently made a lot of changes to Parf Edhellen (www.elfdict.com) and I would like to plug my website here once more! :) I believe it ha...
• NXaYBmeDc7Y: To a favourite tree (from Handel's Serse, Act I) Milya ar vanima olasse melda mapalininyo, a raita tyen calambar! Nai tarítali ar raumo la terhat...
• hcj7U8b43eg: Maiku vanen erühini Tamas Ferencz Jun 22, 2017 (10...
• P6d8hHQt5yx: Lá peresa nin. Tamas Ferencz May 01, 2017 (00:29) ...
• dkPFfLVwKUr: I've release v0.5.5 of Eldamo. This release finishes both PE14 and the early Qenya name analysis. I've also done some cleanup on the XSD schema de...
• RUMDRQCDvEV: How would you guys say "side" (noun) in Eldarin? Ицхак Пе...
• hhf3wv321SQ: Is this correct? Yessesse, Ranta 31:49 Ar Mipsa, an quentes, I HERU ávet tire imbe, íre vanwe velto. ...
• aUWvydsGRPM: I've been having a nerdy debate with someone about the correct pronunciation of the name "Maedhros". Do you pronounce it Mah-eeh-dhros or Mah-eh-dh...
• 3hantDDi9Mx: Calculating the number of verbal forms in PE22 according to the written calculations (694 (56×12)+22)) i came up with 672 (56×12). What could the...
• WL2sbW2up37: Since the English "in love" is an adjective would the Quenya equivalent be melwa? ...
• iAd19NGaFLT: I în hen delu. Ni *basseril, a bin laew tangadanner i ni fuiar. Ach guion eno. Avon *daved an delos. Limmidin i thîr în na nim a vudas. *Aden i 'wa...
• 8PDisHnH226: Zuber quente, I hepil láqua lecilenca, ar I lecil láqua hepilenca. Endaquenten, Neri autar yúyo, hepil ar lecil. Zuber, my boss's name Hepil, too...
• BrPBoNPf468: I was given a task to translate lock and key. In I Vinya Vere, Helge translates key as latil, something that opens. I'm curious what lock or somet...
• FiMYGbt3r6D: After re-reading page 147 in PE 22, i thought about this "before of time. PHA, APHA. enge. 1 2 before, in front of place. KHYA .13 after {later th...
• TExF3uNPbbq: +#randomLotRparagraph `Well, well! ' said the wizard. `The passage is blocked behind us now and there is only one way out – on the other side of t...
• NmEctfvC9Zj: Has there been any thoughts or attestment for the entu, ensi, enta declensions? I'm noticing that tensi and tenta may be related somehow. ...
• 4fPHc5rAWTK: +Jim Coish it appears your post about maths can't be commented; I just wanted to note that instead of píca one could possibly simply use the prepos...
• e1dWTyZemxs: Nótime árillor né *tittaiwi [1] tutúlier tutullier [2] lotarwammanna. Níke, linte, karaiti, maline-morne-ninqui, ta kólime i polinte kape lótello l...
• JjX4Usu3ysH: Alla illin! I have been pondering how one would say "the rings of power" as in the rings forged by Sauron. √BAL or √POL don't seem to be correct. A...
• GFj7BEo1Mdq: I have a question for those more knowledgeable than me (and that is most). What is the difference between TĀ, TAL, TALTA, TALAT, and KAL, KALAT, AK...
• byDaBiSCc8z: I am opening this thread to make note of words from Parma Eldalamberon 22 that - I think - have been hitherto unattested. I have not checked them a...
• KvCtSCpWvBf: Mai omentaina illi, I would like to ask what is the genitive of nouns ending in -oa, like coa or hroa. For me it's a complicated case because, for ...
• A6nqzPsSGGg: If I might ask a question...any ideas for the plural of aiwe? Is it aiwi, aiwer, or aiwir? ...
• 9EFFK9Xe7HA: Christmas is not that far away now, so in preparation for the festivities here is my Middle Earth version of the Christmas carol Twelve Days Of Chr...

Jim Coish

• d3CUuDspq2J: Good news! We have established a Skype chat for Eldarin linguistic discussions! Please join if you also wish to participate! +Christopher Gilson +...
• NmEctfvC9Zj: Has there been any thoughts or attestment for the entu, ensi, enta declensions? I'm noticing that tensi and tenta may be related somehow. ...
• 4fPHc5rAWTK: +Jim Coish it appears your post about maths can't be commented; I just wanted to note that instead of píca one could possibly simply use the prepos...
• EtojkxQbgt2: Using mathematic equations, would these be correct? nerte ar nelde na yunque 9 + 3 = 12 nerte [1]píca nelde na enque 9 - 3 = 6 nerte nellume na o...
• UYHf6D4g7yL: Tavar ya ece len *loicene rá calca Nolmor autier vinya erma lo vistale tavaro. *Ápente tavar *laimye piryassen andave, epetai i erma 'lignin' ya a...
• 3mzctUkjgRA: Hello there :). I have a question regarding the translation of the quotes from Tolkien's books. Is it possible for you to translate it from english...
• bLVwGEez2eS: Yúlan *kaffa yo ilin yo *liste. Sina i nelya kaffa síra. Samin himíte haime kaffan. ...
• DrHPm47xEDe: I am reading the new edition of A Secret Vice, and I found in it an editorial note which comments a sentence of Tolkien in which he mentions Gothic...
• 1BQ8DX824nU: Alla ilin...I was looking over attested male/female animal words. Some, like rocco/rocce are easy, but I was  wondering how huo would be feminized;...
• hLJk5PWYXiq: Benjamin Babut has release a new transcription tool on the Glaemscrafu web-site: Glaemscribe. It is extremely nice (link below). He also has an AP...
• DS5sxWfz3AL: Atarinyo hyarya talerya arákie - kaitas *hlaimardesse. Leryuvantes apa aure atta sillo... Mauya nin lemya arse tere notime otsoli - úvanye entule m...
• JjX4Usu3ysH: Alla illin! I have been pondering how one would say "the rings of power" as in the rings forged by Sauron. √BAL or √POL don't seem to be correct. A...
• 9EFFK9Xe7HA: Christmas is not that far away now, so in preparation for the festivities here is my Middle Earth version of the Christmas carol Twelve Days Of Chr...

Argilrien Lothlórien

• 3sStfDrrAMn: Hello! I'm learning Quenya and a little of Sindarin too, but I am so well yet. Do you know something where I can learn Quenya with the newest versi...

Benita Prins

• 3sStfDrrAMn: Hello! I'm learning Quenya and a little of Sindarin too, but I am so well yet. Do you know something where I can learn Quenya with the newest versi...

harts mcfaw

• BLP8xuxzxyE: len suilon! Tamas Ferencz Nov 25, 2014 (09:35) ...

H.J. Fawcett

• BLP8xuxzxyE: len suilon! Tamas Ferencz Nov 25, 2014 (09:35) ...

Miriam Greenleaf

• ERFc5m1DCJy: Aiyä! Can anyone please check if I did this correctly? :D Thank you! alassea hristonosta.png ...

Faez R-C

• R8eh7ZFJKvU: How might one translate "blizzard" into Quenya? For now I'm tempted to combine hrisse and alaco somehow; any other ideas? ...
• ZnHobk8P1P1: I am working on a translation of America the Beautiful in Sindarin, and I need one word: "proved". Is there such a word in Sindarin? ...
• EkBJZ2N97uH: Anyone know if there's a Quenya word for "Imladris"? I can't find one, and I'm thinking of just translating it into Imbirisse. ...
• YMoiCvgMYxS: Hi! I'm writing a Christmas card in Quenya to a fried who I talked into learning Quenya. Is there a translation of Christmas? ...

Signum University

• BgeUMEkAcj4: As some of you know, I'm a student over at +Mythgard Institute and +Signum University . Recently, Andrew Higgins (who recently completed his PhD di...

Richard Rohlin

• NcDk7eu9EEE: I am happy to announce the release of my NeoQuenya textbook Atanquesta - a NeoQuenya Primer. The work is aimed at beginner and intermediate student...
• SFw96yAyRC9: Psalm 2 in Parmaquesta As another example of my ongoing translation of the Book of Psalms, here is the Psalm 2. Feel free to comment, especially r...
• HcHTtcAQugx: An attempt to translate the first few lines of Earendil Was a Mariner, to challenge myself trying to preserve the syllable count. I don't quite hav...
• Lgv7YnigsVs: Reposting my yesterday's discussion with +Fiona Jallings . I think I might have stumbled upon what Tolkien actually was thinking while writing le l...
• JSxB7SRjVuN: LOTR, FR, Gandalf twice uses the same words to perform a fire spell. What language are his words? What do they mean? 'The Ring Goes South': Gandal...
• gvZgtphJpPT: I've release Eldamo 0.5.0. In terms of content, this release is not that major. However, this is the first release of Eldamo that includes "source...
• Ven9VwVxxvt: Lament for Akallabêth. Terbad na Annûn glennas, aurath hin raeg i•badath. [There was a straight road westwards, now all the roads are bent.] ter...
• Y2eAVv6Fvmq: Lá Lauren Eke Lemya Laure *nostaleo minya wenya I quile anurda hapien senya. Lotse ná arinya lasserya Mal er tere aure erya. Tá lasse lassen lave....
• izno96aE7Ro: A Quenya translation of a couplet by C.H. Auden I read in a John le Carré novel, and caught my imagination. Alme laita, eke ké, i *amatolya nér, m...
• BgeUMEkAcj4: As some of you know, I'm a student over at +Mythgard Institute and +Signum University . Recently, Andrew Higgins (who recently completed his PhD di...

Mythgard Institute

• BgeUMEkAcj4: As some of you know, I'm a student over at +Mythgard Institute and +Signum University . Recently, Andrew Higgins (who recently completed his PhD di...

Arþur “Tataarujin” D

• 8gpVz1kvRhW: Announcement: Once we finish the first version of it, we're making it open-source! We're also running out of time, so please donate and/or spread t...

Arianna Piantino

• 8qRm46A2dkQ: Edro i chin lîn    open your eyes Tiro nin               watch me Avo bedo           don't speak ...
• R8KqYxfj8xZ: Alya yo manna vinya loa otornossen ta illin i melir Arcastaro lambi! ...

Jonathon Omahen

• cnH7eWVwL8p: Gweniant im gared hen tadphae eneg oer io ah en henion! GLÎR E-MARGAIR i en glinnar i•Ellath in•Gwaith Círdan i dartha vi Lond, eb i•Gair Vedui na...
• AuiQwFjNxTU: Hi folks, I've been working on a multi-language Elvish lexicon for some time now, based on an XML data model used to generate entries for individu...
• J9S26syWgpK: I have a question on copyright that couldn't be resolved by googling it all over the net :), so I would be happy to hear your thoughts. Let's say ...
• 4APJ5aeRww8: +Jenna Carpenter  and I have been chatting about Sindarin pronunciation, and the bit about the pronunciation of the letter I came up, specifically ...
• L3N6PQqAhmj: Today's random question - does anybody have any idea roughly how many attested Quenya words there? (To the nearest hundred/thousand/delete as appli...

Aramínwë Lambengolmion

• TBoZdyrb2Yo: Rilmor ná sina nórë, apa i ohta-taurë, ailinnna falmaron falastar, arta menel eleni caitar. I alcar lómë maras sinomë, Mírivë mi néni fainar, sind...
• h2g1pBeYXd4: So I guesse I should note what could be a tradition of intoductory writing. Nai anar silya tielyannar, I have had an interest in the Tolkine langua...
• fEArNegg75h: I am starting a project on reconstructing the Ann-Tennath, if any think that they may help, could you please tell, it would be amazing to do such a...
• ZMzkPm16mYs: Is 'quenya' in technicality an adjective? Because the original term for valinorean tongue was 'quenya-lambe,' unless I am mistaken. ...
• PEYYuhdbbKv: Hiya. I'm Eothrain, but most people just call me River, 'cause they find it easier to say. I'm not a Tolkien expert and I'm just starting out on Qu...
• Ew8g8bfQuos: I thought about a S word for spruce of fir trees (not a specific species, more the genuses or type of trees), i.e. a conical shaped tree. Maybe com...

Thomas Knowles

• ReEgpBgerBc: Sorry, I'm kinda new to the middle earth languages, but I'd like to be a linguist or have a foreign language degree and I was wondering how many la...

Samuel McAtee

• ReEgpBgerBc: Sorry, I'm kinda new to the middle earth languages, but I'd like to be a linguist or have a foreign language degree and I was wondering how many la...

Eric T Holmes

• J9S26syWgpK: I have a question on copyright that couldn't be resolved by googling it all over the net :), so I would be happy to hear your thoughts. Let's say ...

Anna C. Belkina

• LgxKpwEZvfg: Done a speech yesterday at the Chair of General and Comparative Linguistics, Philological Faculty, Moscow State University. The topic was announced...
• AuiQwFjNxTU: Hi folks, I've been working on a multi-language Elvish lexicon for some time now, based on an XML data model used to generate entries for individu...
• J9S26syWgpK: I have a question on copyright that couldn't be resolved by googling it all over the net :), so I would be happy to hear your thoughts. Let's say ...

The Verge

• J9S26syWgpK: I have a question on copyright that couldn't be resolved by googling it all over the net :), so I would be happy to hear your thoughts. Let's say ...

Rodrigo Lima Jaroszewski

• J9S26syWgpK: I have a question on copyright that couldn't be resolved by googling it all over the net :), so I would be happy to hear your thoughts. Let's say ...

Andre Polykanine

• X5mnnJhakMA: I have created a group over at MeWe - you are very welcome to join, let's try it out if we can continue in the same spirit over there. ...
• P5a5fDQpgZx: Google will be shutting down Google+ for consumers ☹️, but will continue Google+ for enterprise customers To give people a full opportunity to tra...
• ZeJB4tjRh4k: I'm not too well versed in what some "early" nouns cases mean. For instance, EQ/MQ comitative case, kiryaiko. Does this mean "with a ship"? This is...
• CJJBnK2LPMW: I wonder whether Quenya is lax enough to allow double negatives, whether lá melin laquen can be considered correct, or does it have to be lá melin ...
• N9TDXV3M3Pb: My mind is muddled...how would one render "day by day" or "three by three", &c.? "By" (instrumental) doesn't seem quite right to my English ears. M...
• C8Xo12Lo25p: I have four rhyming words for you to give me ideas on, how to say them in Quenya: fame shame blame tame Discuss :) ...
• 49cEnvH8kk5: I envy Tolkien, he could conveniently ignore or forget the rules of his own language and it's us who're left scratching our heads:) Consider esse ú...
• E1ifHmTHNX7: Is there now a consensus out there what the proper genitive of nouns the type of koa should be? I think most people settle on kavo but perhaps some...
• EYYempFuhKM: I found these neologisms online and it got me thinking...are these using the correct way to form compounds? *hánamil(le) n. maternal uncle > (hán...
• SFEhkyKrurP: Handen sisnome epe *komputerinya as *hlarmar or hlarunya lastala liennar quete, quete, ar tá quete amba. Hlarunya nwalyat. *hlarma "listening devi...
• RZDMWqhtKXg: Now that Atanquesta is released, I have decided to take time and collect all the neologisms that I have coined in posts here in the community in a ...
• NcDk7eu9EEE: I am happy to announce the release of my NeoQuenya textbook Atanquesta - a NeoQuenya Primer. The work is aimed at beginner and intermediate student...
• 54S5sjuB4Z7: Psalm 3 in Parmaquesta Third and last example — for the time being — of my ongoing translation of the Book of Psalms. This one may be of higher in...
• SFw96yAyRC9: Psalm 2 in Parmaquesta As another example of my ongoing translation of the Book of Psalms, here is the Psalm 2. Feel free to comment, especially r...
• PFgSQyJoiqy: +Ицхак Пензев Yitzik, your latest post and list of words has inspired me to start something similar (and I do not want to hijack your dictionary ...
• d3CUuDspq2J: Good news! We have established a Skype chat for Eldarin linguistic discussions! Please join if you also wish to participate! +Christopher Gilson +...
• Neg7i6MPEAr: *Conlang Database Project* Update March 23rd Over the past few weeks I've been busy with working on a few other things, but that was a total benef...
• ETqGma6a8U6: I have started working on a project - a primer course into Quenya, that is, to NeoQuenya (although I do not like the term). I know there are other ...
• Fby2Z1bfjT1: Guys, I would like to pick your brains on two bits in LVS7 in PE22. 1) on p154 there is this quite generic statement "... The particular infin. wi...
• j5Q5RLSHLU9: Translation inquiry: "Since the Elves were not going (did not intend, were not willing) to follow him, he strived against them by force." (thus not...
• QbBdpouBAKE: In his Outline of Phonetic Development, on page 58 of PE19 Tolkien introduces the somewhat unexpected (for me) compound word tálgárta "high boot", ...
• Dffnsng79Lb: Hey everyone! As a part of my IT apprenticeship I'm planning on realising a kind of elvish resource which I think does not exist yet in a similar ...
• cXaS5ZaEz7f: +#KoireaQuenya +#ThePlaceWhereILive +#Vocabulary So here's the vocabulary of the topic The Place Where I Live. Nota bene I have only listed the w...
• RdW8ZUGSQZb: Thanks for your very interesting thoughts. Paul, Andre and others who have mentioned exactly what tends to stop the community from developing a sp...
• Dxe8uAoVhSY: How indeed could we build up a spoken (chatting) Quenya? A few months ago David Girardeau was lamenting how the new words and forms seem to actuall...
• LgxKpwEZvfg: Done a speech yesterday at the Chair of General and Comparative Linguistics, Philological Faculty, Moscow State University. The topic was announced...
• LvhCsK62yd1: +#randomLotRparagraph `As you go down the water,' he said, `you will find that the trees will fail, and you will come to a barren country. There t...
• afqxeKBVHPy: Aaah. Increasingly hard. And lots of newer grammar as well. Athya, Tárinyar, tekitása ríkan, Lá kenilden ñwalyan i•ríkieinen, Sampan i•quettanyar,...
• JEBCAtVjDeU: As usual, as I was working on the translation of the Rock-soup tale, some questions surfaced - maybe you guys will have some good ideas: - opele i...
• iBnyANQQW6q: Just working on a translation for someone into both Quenya and Sindarin of the following sentence: "If you want to be hard (i.e. "steadfast, endur...
• UCNuM7G9GpL: Got something very special to share today, just finished translating another Song for Oonagh that will be released this autumn and noone knows anyt...
• 6hhaSePSvvV: Trying to correct a mistake. According to QL:49, "culmarin" turned out to be a mere "orange (fruit)". Shall we call tomato *malmarin, then? ...
• 5Q24ptsFAJs: Aiyä! I was trying to translate some phrases for a tattoo, but I am having little trouble, I wanted to ask you if these are correct: One Last Time:...
• GmuADVLCKuq: What vowel do you people put before the locatives in a word possessing no final vowel? aran, aranVllo, kas, karVsse — what do you put? Ómataima of ...
• JSxB7SRjVuN: LOTR, FR, Gandalf twice uses the same words to perform a fire spell. What language are his words? What do they mean? 'The Ring Goes South': Gandal...
• ZrTBvPxP8WX: What a fantastic adventure it would be to start a similar experiment and teach Quenya in a nursery school. It would be exciting to see how the lang...
• JMGhmxXXP9Z: I need a word for kind (adj). I know S has milui (friendly, loving, kind), but don't know how to convert it to Q. Where could I find rules for tran...
• Aekodb6wWN8: How do we connect a clan with the founder's name in Quenya? Is it nosse Finweo, nosse Finweva, or even compound Finwenos/Finwenosse? (I remember No...
• RioE7FF7KS3: A sudden exploit between fandoms: originally done for the amazing Russian fan club called Drax, Brax & Strax Corner (where I am one of the admins)...
• Fts43pBSDNN: To be sung to the melody of O Sole Mio Ma maira engwe, ta calina aure, Opo i raumo i hwesta milya, Lelya ve merende, i vilya ta vinya, Ma maira en...
• TTGQhQuvcvY: Since Source Forge has been down for nearly 2 days, I have put a temporary download link for Eldamo on Dropbox. When Source Forge comes back onlin...
• gUuq2hz6iar: I wonder: why wasn't it done before? For me it was hard as hell, taking both the rhythm and rhyme, retaining the wording and trying to eliminate th...
• KvCtSCpWvBf: Mai omentaina illi, I would like to ask what is the genitive of nouns ending in -oa, like coa or hroa. For me it's a complicated case because, for ...
• A6nqzPsSGGg: If I might ask a question...any ideas for the plural of aiwe? Is it aiwi, aiwer, or aiwir? ...
• eqYZ19rwQVy: I need some more translation help. I am trying to translate "I will lift my eyes to the maker of the mountains I can't climb." So far, I have "Ort...
• J9S26syWgpK: I have a question on copyright that couldn't be resolved by googling it all over the net :), so I would be happy to hear your thoughts. Let's say ...

Rodrigo Jaroszewski

• J9S26syWgpK: I have a question on copyright that couldn't be resolved by googling it all over the net :), so I would be happy to hear your thoughts. Let's say ...

Eothrain Arseneau

• PEYYuhdbbKv: Hiya. I'm Eothrain, but most people just call me River, 'cause they find it easier to say. I'm not a Tolkien expert and I'm just starting out on Qu...

Sämi Wainwright

• PEYYuhdbbKv: Hiya. I'm Eothrain, but most people just call me River, 'cause they find it easier to say. I'm not a Tolkien expert and I'm just starting out on Qu...

Benjamin Feehan

• Y2eAVv6Fvmq: Lá Lauren Eke Lemya Laure *nostaleo minya wenya I quile anurda hapien senya. Lotse ná arinya lasserya Mal er tere aure erya. Tá lasse lassen lave....

Александр Запрягаев

• Tfdo4xEcTmv: Notes on LE The hymn to Elbereth, as sung in Rivendell, contains a peculiar form that is often under-estimated in its puzzling nature: Fanuilos, ...
• aeEMv6j6Gg1: Over the past few years both +Paul Strack and +Александр Запрягаев posted several pieces of analysis of Eldarin roots, their histories, evolution, ...
• 79vXsWwBdno: What would, in your opinion, be the present perfect of the verb derived from SKEY 'pass' (whether it's *xíta or *xéya is probably irrelevant in thi...
• jYr8GZG3Q5u: Another exploration of words, this time “letter, line, write”. This is a bit different from my previous examinations, since the most of the words i...
• GHeGND2uJm8: Is there any rule that would prevent medial nh in Q? I can't find any but wanted to confirm... Would a form like *nanhalya- 'unveil, reveal' be fin...
• Tsn9vHV3hEL: If lá can be enclitic with ké and become kéla could it do the same with yú and mean nor/neither? ...
• CUnXt294SJU: A word for "minute", I beg you! All I can imagine is smth like nilco (nilcu-) ...
• RYFZKaFMcK6: For "puppy", what would roa + -ince become? Ravince? Or would huo + ince become huince? ...
• QtPWhw6MfWJ: Here it is. My dedication to the Professor on his twelfty-sixth birthday, to New Year's festivities and everything in between. Written in the ancie...
• GY11nDxrNBz: And an ornamental version to follow! Aukira n-aure.tif And an ornamental version to fo...
• PFgSQyJoiqy: +Ицхак Пензев Yitzik, your latest post and list of words has inspired me to start something similar (and I do not want to hijack your dictionary ...
• gqYh46zCZ2w: Is there any definite solution of √KOY vs. √KUY problem? I'm under impression that the Professor hesitated till the very end. ...
• BsbHSLr2tK4: The long-promised Omentielva's appendix on the Poetic Corner is here! https://drive.google.com/open?id=1b4gxFU8GynQ1qqqtlvcEPxCAguJl9jUO ...
• JCpuDyPLLPL: I think it is important (1) to find and fill the gaps in the basic vocabulary and (2) make choices on different variations of certain words (like "...
• UfqBSzcFdxq: How do you interpret autas? I mean, pit it in a sentence for me please:) I have a lot of questions today... ...
• XDkLpY6zZ2N: What do you think, friends? Shall we base our Neo-Quenya reconstructions on the latest ideas of the Professor found in his draft notes, or give adv...
• YsZP82rYaPs: This is a bit of a speculative post. Amazon recently announced a deal with the Tolkien estate for a Middle Earth TV series. Who knows how long it w...
• f6XpWnxU6Ug: Aiya, nildor! Once I was quite enthusiastic about [Neo-]Quenya. Then I experienced a kind of frustration, having read PE22 and totally lost in its ...
• 9Qr31KKGUhB: Aiya, mára meldo! Merin maquetital quettalion ata, an ranyal rimbavë! In a textbook I was reading, I read "epë = after (of time), and nó = before (...
• 5ahsfgqf8Lg: I'm looking for help translating a phrase into Elvish. It can be any version of Elvish you like. Here's the story; me and by girlfriend are nearin...
• VAp13CtxhLE: I am kinda shocked. Doriath has iâth (fence) in it. So should we pronounce it dor-yath, not like the' 'ia' in Melian like we separate 'rh' in gaur...
• LRMLbXJaVwL: Do we have any examples of what primitive *–ab–tâ, *–ab–tê, *–ab–tô would become in Sindarin? I myself am still looking. Or would a suffix variant...
• 26cWvi8YPQt: Greetings! I am quite an enthusiast about the elvish languages (particularly Quenya) and I know there are others out there who are like me. However...
• G4YZgpPkicm: Aiya! Maquetin le quetto. In the book "Quentin i Lambë Eldaiva", upon the fourth lesson I fell upon the word "virya-", which means to change. Howe...
• 9kmdXrALUbM: It's been some time since I've done a translation, so I tackled "Spirit of Life": a hymn that's basically an anthem of the Unitarian Universalist f...
• gkZkxF5ti8s: Been ages since I last translated or wrote something. So I experiment once again. And in Sindarin this time! Well, less of a translation, more of a...
• gspKFMShJ8i: A question to discuss. Do you believe that even in nominative Sindarin pronouns are unchangeably lenited? Is there enough evidence to either side? ...
• 6BH2zCD3ooC: Edited "Ilya mára nauva, ar ilya mára nauva, ar ilquaima engwi mára nauvar." "All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things...
• 4tqUkamGnmg: My sketch of how to update the conditional sequence of QVS into post-reverse QUenya and to Sindarin (based on the introduced Noldorin hints). Start...
• fTaGoVsR4ju: Would saveryet translate to he believes it? James Coish ...
• FRTz1Q6KydT: Mellyn! What do we know about the rules for lengthening vowels in compounds and inflections in Quenya? A typical example of what I am trying to und...
• B6ZMcC56U9q: Tell me about your workaround solutions for the conjunction 'so that/in order to/ut'. Or maybe there is something attested? I think this is physica...
• V2AcupLZCeD: I don't get it... Not a single word for 'back' (a part of body) in any language since Leeds? And none for 'stomach' ever? ...
• aFyMrLspSax: Where did you first begin to study Quenya? None None ...
• KEWBxpCw3RA: Could it be possible that +#kyerme "prayer" be a misreading of *hyamie "a praying"? ...
• Li23zg3pVch: The Incomplete Rhythmical Translation, Completed Then sailed on his gleaming galleon Earendel upon the Sundering Wide Ocean, while cleaving easily...
• NSHgp9tvYek: Was anybody from our community at Omentielva Otsëa, like good Maester Kalimac here? http://kalimac.blogspot.fi/2017/08/omentielva-otsea.html ...
• QdFQ8gf56su: As promised, the slides with the poetic selection to the talk. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8gjHaj7Lr5WZnNINW5ucTltUkU https://drive.google...
• YbBa1L1gfBd: Nai kalambar Omentielwa Otsea. Tamas Ferencz Aug 1...
• NcWQ4z6SmW4: Meldenye taná! Illí eldeon mélienye! Horan lairi nyarienna! +Roman Rausch +Paul Strack +Fiona Jallings +Christopher Gilson ...
• G8WMXLJqAiK: Looking for ideas how you guys would say "chaos, disorder, mess, confusion, havoc, tohuvabohu" and related adjectives etc. in Quenya (or Sindarin)....
• XXqyiwLBdZe: Hello! I was wondering what you would use in Quenya for the word "bearing" in this sentence: "You have seen them bearing the cloaks of lords!" This...
• iUVPxbdm9Lb: Any Omentielva's programme always ends with 'The Future: we will take thought of the Omentielvar in N+2 and N+4'. Hence, I always wonder whether th...
• 1H2DsiiuWWZ: Problem of Ā/AU in Sindarin I believe we have a consensus concerning the ineffectiveness of the I-affection on non-final O[Rodyn. Yet there are two...
• ErfQMsF2MZw: It is done it's done it's done it's done it's done! Hard Copies of “A Fan’s Guide to Neo-Sinda...
• FGtGrDBXz3W: Just searching for a Sindarin word for "nobody", stumbled across uvan, sources given are TI/281,283,314. I have no access to the Treason of Isengar...
• hZhZia3Zihv: I've devised a Greek-type orthography for Quenya which it honestly deserves in its Classical approach. An example as follows: Αἴ. Λαύριε λάνταρ λά...
• iD3qrrFkCn4: I wonder if they will release the lyrics somewhere.. for public benefit. https://calvertjournal.com/news/show/8273/elvish-opera-to-be-performed-in...
• RUMDRQCDvEV: How would you guys say "side" (noun) in Eldarin? Ицхак Пе...
• d3CUuDspq2J: Good news! We have established a Skype chat for Eldarin linguistic discussions! Please join if you also wish to participate! +Christopher Gilson +...
• 4S633LgMCG3: There is one day in any poet's life when thy become ready to write the 'Monument'. This time I attempted to write in a quantitative verse with comp...
• FH7ei1hTNXR: Let's guess! How many PE issues or years will be taken until every meaningful linguistic material by Tolkien is available? Then, how far could ...
• ETqGma6a8U6: I have started working on a project - a primer course into Quenya, that is, to NeoQuenya (although I do not like the term). I know there are other ...
• cXpXeNQdEdi: What do you think are the properties of Ann-thennath, and why? ...
• XZ9Xd8XS8ha: At least at an earlier stage there was still the prefix http://eldamo.org/content/words/word-2252155757.html which would make sense combined with l...
• 3hantDDi9Mx: Calculating the number of verbal forms in PE22 according to the written calculations (694 (56×12)+22)) i came up with 672 (56×12). What could the...
• Fby2Z1bfjT1: Guys, I would like to pick your brains on two bits in LVS7 in PE22. 1) on p154 there is this quite generic statement "... The particular infin. wi...
• Uq2n96W6fUN: I keep appreciating the beauty and carefulness of Early Qenya even more, day after day. Here is an anachronism in EQ septenarii: En veallo ni·túli...
• cDZFbUL299H: Introducing my, doubtlessly, most ambitious Eldarin project ever! Over a month in the working! As a person who does not physically hear the length ...
• 8irA7bkgUwQ: And as a bonus: two snapshots of my favourite notebook. A glimpse of hell hiding behind the achieved completed version! :D ...
• cGodJ3gCNYY: Warning! +Roman Rausch 's site at http://www.sindanoorie.net/ is suddenly down! Only a Web Archive copy remains. ...
• WL2sbW2up37: Since the English "in love" is an adjective would the Quenya equivalent be melwa? ...
• QbBdpouBAKE: In his Outline of Phonetic Development, on page 58 of PE19 Tolkien introduces the somewhat unexpected (for me) compound word tálgárta "high boot", ...
• 8XoecYtMx7R: Ortean yulmanya miruvóreo quanta i atano nostare enyalien ye sina otornasseo *tyarme ar i tyáro alasseo, valmeo, márieo, sanweo, nainieo ta melme...
• WbaugKu3Amy: Time for some fable :) Let's make it flawless together? Máma rokkorye Máma, ye penne tó, kenne rokkor: min sakila i•lunka, exé kólo túra, métimá ...
• 9yqLKQYLRwK: Eldamo glosses the Quenya word to as an adverb meaning "as a rule" based on the Q sentence lairesse nihare to tarassi, yo unta hrívesse landannar i...
• Sn3pjbGFFHv: I'm new to (Neo-)Quenya and have spent some time with the Ardalambion and Parma Tyelpelassiva courses (plus Eldamo, Parma Eldaliéva, the Bible tran...
• LgxKpwEZvfg: Done a speech yesterday at the Chair of General and Comparative Linguistics, Philological Faculty, Moscow State University. The topic was announced...
• NmEctfvC9Zj: Has there been any thoughts or attestment for the entu, ensi, enta declensions? I'm noticing that tensi and tenta may be related somehow. ...
• a5jkwCd7rhn: Sindarinists: what do you make of the (plural) forms athof, athab paired with the "usual" 1st sg athon on p167 of PE22? Ephemeral variants? ...
• FXimPthQi2t: What do you think fíta and fifíta on PE22:132 could mean? ...
• afqxeKBVHPy: Aaah. Increasingly hard. And lots of newer grammar as well. Athya, Tárinyar, tekitása ríkan, Lá kenilden ñwalyan i•ríkieinen, Sampan i•quettanyar,...
• JMXVcf1m4ZS: +#randomLotRparagraph 'Indeed yes,' said Gandalf. 'Doubly. And is not that strange? Nothing that we have endured of late has seemed so grievous ...
• KWdn5RU8CK8: Andrew Higgins has written a review of Parma Eldalamberon 22, as announced on lambengolmor. You can read it at the link attached. ...
• cHkN3Hv3oUU: Pinched from the old Aglardh site; I did this translation years ago. De Profundis --------------- 1. Núrello lyenna aiálien, a Héru. 2. Héru, al...
• NmGKQStJSio: I found a translation in Quenya of Feanor's reply to Mandos' doom. Is it correct? Vanda carnelmë, ar lá ú sánala. Vanda sinanna vorondë nauvalmë. ...
• Dw5uJfojsQE: Some animal names based on their CE equivalents (see PE/21:82): S *celef (deer, stag) kel(e)bē (deer, hind), kelebō (hart, stag) S *naeag (goat) n...
• 56JBc9PWLXL: The +#Story_of_a_Root G/3AR is typical and specific simultaneously. Its most difficult part having already happened before the Etymologies and most...
• Lgv7YnigsVs: Reposting my yesterday's discussion with +Fiona Jallings . I think I might have stumbled upon what Tolkien actually was thinking while writing le l...
• 9zjmSsEDyvZ: The Tūlaiyeta Conundrum, or: Conditionals in Eldarin. Lets us speak about the peculiar Old Noldorin form from QVS, ni tūlaiyeta glossed by Tolkien...
• 9SZVfvQKo6w: Ah, some productive time I had, pondering on the complexities of Eldarin grammar. Some of the lengthier ideas I am still to release later, when I f...
• Qsh3KqSUapv: Here's a difficult one - how to translate "honor"? I've been thinking of using "name" to refer to reputation, as in "good name/bad name", but I'm ...
• gWZGhGrikUT: Here is a list of Elvish names and phrases from The Art of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien that I think might be previously unpublished. So...
• RBmnT8kkwai: To swim. Early root LUT, "to float" exists, but from it is derived lunte/lunt "boat" in Q and S, and lhoda- in N. The latter could be used for S, ...
• CRUhdgwvahb: Suilad *ilphen - has anyone here done much research into the possibility of a muta cum liquida stress rule in Sindarin? I have seen it discussed el...
• iu45mg3E4nF: A sad +#StoryOfARoot that is, a story of forgetfulness and forgetfulness and oscillations. Curiously, the situation in the Lexicons is remarkably s...
• FRe6ckscvtS: Alta sorno ríke mapa nappayanten vinyamo, karnelya kirisse-harwe i vinyamo kendelenna. Herenyanen i sorno la etélie ta auvíle. A large eagle tried...
• WFAi4tFyh18: There is a process, when you take the basic material and let your thoughts go astray, not even attempting to recreate Tolkien's trail of thought so...
• 17nuLLxsqdk: Made a translation of a song important to me, Co Cię Czeka by Barbara Brylska. This one I hoped to perform in Quenya, but it really calls for Sinda...
• PgCxUZkW4bp: MEL: A-verb or I-verb? We see CE melā- in PE22/095;130;134 Also ᴹQ meláne in LR/061 Yet Q shows melin etc. in VT49/15;21 +Александр Запрягаев seem...
• ihyRhPiYa11: If martan is a 'dwelling house', can *tantan be a 'workshop'? ...
• Jvwuv8kfpCb: Looking for simple ways to express the following adverbs in Q (or S, for that matter): at all (al)though at least ...
• BbyVbyydA1C: Intrigued by the Verbal Adjective xiéte "passing, impermanent" from PE22:155 (LVS7), as root for this one SKEY is given, what may be the verbal ste...
• AToKWgaDnUJ: Man asyuva nin carë (Vin-)Quenya mir quétima lambë? Merin ata carpa Quenyassë as pitya yeldenya. Samin maurë rimbë vinyë quettaiva! +#DadTalksQuen...
• PBTntJtjKmf: It's in English, not any ME language, but it's still nice: Tolkien's greeting inscription in Tengwar from a letter to G.H. Cowling (details of this...
• DrHPm47xEDe: I am reading the new edition of A Secret Vice, and I found in it an editorial note which comments a sentence of Tolkien in which he mentions Gothic...
• 1BQ8DX824nU: Alla ilin...I was looking over attested male/female animal words. Some, like rocco/rocce are easy, but I was  wondering how huo would be feminized;...
• aEMFW7bJU46: Another fandom's Namárie! Á lasta, Susan, mekin. Atohólien in•andor. Lá kavitye mitta. Nantulá sí, hínanya, yanna kenitat kavin. Ter ilye loar tir...
• EtqnY6oXusn: QVS main treasure: verbs and verbal roots! For Neo-Quenya purposes. Trivials like tule and kare excluded. 92 KAB kave 'can, be able' (pa. t. kambe...
• eefMxunKdsp: Reconstruction of QVS pronominal affixes in verbs Basic concept: S prefix>V tense-infinitive>S number marker (r final/l medial/n 1st person object...
• SEFabLtRq8j: PE22 offers a solution to spatio-temporal ambiguity of before/after words. Using the following roots, I made some reconstructions for Sindarin: Te...
• GmuADVLCKuq: What vowel do you people put before the locatives in a word possessing no final vowel? aran, aranVllo, kas, karVsse — what do you put? Ómataima of ...
• feFcdwgRtDc: +Paul Strack +Tamas Ferencz +Fiona Jallings Let's have a discussion of those forms here. Please inform me of any additions and possible alternate i...
• ThqYXGPpjPt: It is always a headache to navigate in PE17 trying to understand which texts are simultaneous and to which conceptual eras they belong. Here is my ...
• TATWjhpuspw: +#Alighieri Ter inye men' i•ñwalmea ostonnar, Ter inye men' i•mettencanna naike, Ter inye men' i•vanwa•fírimonnar. In•Axan nár támonyo hendi maika...
• 2TNjLaEvY1n: How do you date Comparative in Eldarin — And — Umbar & Ambar in PE17? Despite the given leeway of 1964 to 1969, I started to believe they are 1965 ...
• CFeRZ3FgVvo: Would you use the Qe. preposition rimni [http://eldamo.org/content/words/word-2478876553.html] in translations, or can someone suggest a replacemen...
• b6UmkMt63fU: Case, lant, "fall", in case of, vi lant oh, in that case vi land han. (Case is from latin, casus, meaning "fall/falling".  Light, as in "not heavy...
• WXET73QNktz: Ceno in yngyl dhaer! Does this work, or does it seem like an appeal to go and see them? ...
• 4KassLTnPZU: +Paul Strack A further thought about Tolkien's apparent temporary elimination of special case mutations in the Noldorin branch after 1930 (immediat...
• UsHWNTaq8Kp: UPDATE 2.04.2016: Happy April Fools' Day! Hello everyone and so sorry for a long period of absence. (Especially to +Ekin Gören who constantly fail...
• hLJk5PWYXiq: Benjamin Babut has release a new transcription tool on the Glaemscrafu web-site: Glaemscribe. It is extremely nice (link below). He also has an AP...
• fPUqWgx15Tn: Conjectures about Nandorin, by G. Blanchard. Nandorin Elvish: Speculative Possibilities ...
• JMGhmxXXP9Z: I need a word for kind (adj). I know S has milui (friendly, loving, kind), but don't know how to convert it to Q. Where could I find rules for tran...
• joQ1mZC9vdJ: Can someone help me on the word(s) olor and olos?  These appear in two etymological notes published in Unfinished Tales (copied and pasted below) ...
• FyFbCveZdAc: +#StoryOfARoot The stem, MEN, does not even appear in the Etymologies as verbal; the only thing it says about the unglossed root is that it derive...
• HjUZE5sENmq: A new feature I propose: a regular +#StoryOfARoot . Today: TĀ, TAγ, TAR, 'tall' and 'stand'. * Late 1930s In the Etymologies, the stem TĀ, ?TAγ 'h...
• dEnwmWV3vN2: Concernig giving and thanking (and approaching). For some time when I think of Eruhantale “thanksgiving”, and similarity of Elvish words expressi...
• 9QU263Q4vJK: Neo-Sindarin word for "to taste" and "taste", based on Quenya tyav- and tyávë and KJAB: cav- and cauf. What do you think? ...
• aJdEqV4TdDa: I'm Polish and I love Dwarves . I love most of Thorin . Do any of you learns a dwarvish ( Khuzdul ) ? Seeking help, because the lessons are in Engl...
• LMtCdQMSvAs: Can we tell what would be the reflexive/passive verb equivalents ("to be ..ed") of envinyata- and *tancata- (PPQ)? Derived with –u–, perhaps, or wo...
• ajxCDivDm8i: I have not checked the translator for accuracy and I do not know who's behind the project. Tol...
• UX9tmHwosVu: What is the latest word (in PE22, I take it?) on how the perfect tense is formed in the passive voice in Quenya? (Still similarly to Latin?) I'm lo...
• JjX4Usu3ysH: Alla illin! I have been pondering how one would say "the rings of power" as in the rings forged by Sauron. √BAL or √POL don't seem to be correct. A...
• MqRjJDeh6Tb: (After a burst of New Year's inspiration, I'm ready to present the most huge of my current plans…) What do you do when some song gets stuck into y...
• MFLmdYWAa6w: Some bits I required. • kombe 'set' — extrapolation of attested 'gathering, assembly/-age, collection' of PE17:157; especially after the extension...
• VcmkuWvTb7L: An attempt at Cantor's diagonal proof. Kombe nanwë•nótion aldótima ná Kítuvalme i•tenna sina alananwa: ta polilme anta nóme lesse ilya nanwa•nóte...
• Aekodb6wWN8: How do we connect a clan with the founder's name in Quenya? Is it nosse Finweo, nosse Finweva, or even compound Finwenos/Finwenosse? (I remember No...
• 9EZiRK7FasY: I saw the question on CoE, maybe we could discuss it here. Would *tertur 'win through' be a possible solution for 'convince, persuade' (see also: h...
• RioE7FF7KS3: A sudden exploit between fandoms: originally done for the amazing Russian fan club called Drax, Brax & Strax Corner (where I am one of the admins)...
• FM5Ct4qjafi: Based on PE/17, I’ve always thought that S -g is the informal (familiar) 2nd p. sg. verbal suffix, while -dh is the formal (polite) 2nd p. sg. verb...
• eErHtcvwn6F: My current field of interest, connected with the upcoming article Eldarinwe Ólamáron Allamaiti Quenta-Yestalesse, is Quenya phonology. As per PE19:...
• 6EUgAfHUshY: Do you think that the (separate) class of CE U-verbs remained in Sindarin? For instance, from *kham-u 'sit down': pr. hamun, pt. achovun? achovuin?...
• LeFR7FmDRRy: Have you already decided for yourselves how exactly are we going to resolve the question Tolkien himself left in a muddle: the prepositions/adverbs...
• ddkk4pnTYwC: Finnish and Welsh might be related Indo-Uralic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ...
• DLDm4gjVSD2: It's a funny thing with Quenya as we know it how sometimes we can have an overabundance of variations for certain grammatical or vocabulary items; ...
• fuYU59HFbLm: Canvassing your thoughts how you guys would express in Quenya the adverb/adjective late, as in 'you are late' or 'late night'. EQ has the adjective...
• 93hyX3z6CuC: Random LotR passage As the second day of their riding drew on, the heaviness in the air increased. In the afternoon the dark clouds began to overt...
• gx1Jr4uwtow: Sanye ilnome sinwa, sa erya neren arwa haura alma mauya pene vesse. ...
• QVrRFmVmWLk: Another word to ponder: - to switch, swap, replace, exchange Any suggestions? ...
• UTdnePnDxao: Do you think *tercara "through-doing" would be a good coinage for "thorough"? +#Quenya   ...
• iSweVRcCNWJ: Is there any trustworthy list attempting to chronicle Tolkien's writings not in the publishing order, but with a tentative order of composition dat...
• b1fPfAKsyg3: Yárenissilaire[1] ter ilya otsole! Alkarea áre, lauka vista, lómesse kalle, ringa nikse ambarónesse. Ta loa íta mirwa nin. [1] 'old women's summer...
• K1hhbNKHrtP: I tussa ara i pelo lotarwammo sí quanta aiwion arwa luini yo maline lúpi. Estaine titmouse Ingilnóreo lambesse - ma estuvalvet Quenyasse? ...
• KfQ1S1FYSUC: I started a new venture, this time into an often-neglected Eldarin tongue. Planning to make an article tentatively called 'Verbal tense stems in Te...
• arR4gWq1vG3: Two, possibly simple, questions to Quenya experts. 1. How do you make a genitive out of a gerund? matie-o? matio? matyo? (Same for adding -uva to ...
• ZzcDZ4L96n8: This news item seems pretty relevant for this community. Middle-earth News – Enter our Tolkien...
• 2Ga7bHCSc31: I need to delegate. I started a new job, and it's full time, and I'm completely exhausted when I get home and EVERYTHING HURTS. I'm seeing a doctor...
• gvZgtphJpPT: I've release Eldamo 0.5.0. In terms of content, this release is not that major. However, this is the first release of Eldamo that includes "source...
• 7UathnEpqnn: Ladies and gentlemen, an Italian sonnet! Completely autobiographic. +Tamas Ferencz Grammar-wise: experimenting with habitual tenses. Taurë Patail...
• iGLtEAdfW4R: A theological wandering. There is a question often posed, whether Quenya is an ecclesiastical language. (Indeed it is.) However, one may wonder if ...
• QwhHJpThCyz: Síra i rea annulla, allunga, ammista ré i laireo mettallo. Merin lemya caimasse ar cenda parma ter ilya ré, hya rie sere. ...
• RKYSof8ggjk: There is in fact a previously attested verb of the ninkwis pattern seen in the +#PE22 'Common Eldarin' text, and this one postdates the emergence o...
• aUsEr5vLE82: Doing research for my participles project. A question for those skilled in Quenya: how do a stressed éu (and, less importantly, áu ) behave in Q ph...
• Lxo9gm3k7KJ: For something nobody expected! The same, but adapted to 'late' Quenya of the 60s! +#PE22 Lantar úlor. Talatanye, Málinen ortanienwa, Masse Cále tu...
• AeLwcfJkVH9: With PE 22, LSV4 (page 151) in mind, ebe- "can of mere possibility according to likelihood, natural probability" as root for NeoS * eb-, i-verb, us...
• 6e2EzPNJgfX: Hey Quenya wranglers! Is there a negative existence-copula in Quenya? I know that there is "ea" for a positive copula, but i'm unsure about the neg...
• jCLxhdjzNcJ: A preliminary draft, +#PE22 used extensively. All ecclesiastical neologisms due to Helge Fauskanger. The Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, in attemp...
• gArhxnq9hXp: I've released the 0.4.9 version of Eldamo. 1) Since there has been growing interest in the Quenya content in the project, I've done some general c...
• 5yux7m91mDy: At 8:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, I'm being interviewed about my Tolkien-language work, along with a good friend of mine, The Dwarrow Scholar dwarr...
• acsDYdCmGqJ: Aurissen nolweo néya, í nolwe né vinya, alqua alanye nosseya alquinkion ara passa síreo ráva i liskea nén-talmasse Sutse. "In the days [of magic l...
• 1JNmvNmkjaX: An elegiac. Eñget i•Aldu mi Númen: calaitë silíteye atta álet; Fíriet oialë né, euva calanta mi hón. [There were two Trees in the West: one shone...
• 1AdhBBw9Szy: Question to Quenya phonologists! What does exactly happen to the initial CE consonant H in Quenya? Checking the sources, I found an almost 50/50 re...
• GFj7BEo1Mdq: I have a question for those more knowledgeable than me (and that is most). What is the difference between TĀ, TAL, TALTA, TALAT, and KAL, KALAT, AK...
• 7he2HAmY3C4: Just a spontaneous play with late 40s-Quenya, as described in +#PE22. A lament of a Ñoldo returning to Valinor after the War of Wrath. (And a fulfi...
• cxey67e3oF5: Mellyn! I've reserved most of my attention for Sindarin the last five years, so now that I'm dabbling with Quenya (how can I not after PE22?), I re...
• R1Sbv9R3iyc: I've long longed for a way to express "most people" or "majority". Might Early N diant "most" be something to build on? If it was a Noldorin word, ...
• HTTaYdJKE4P: With the new +#PE22 information, unexpected complications arose when making statements. We were told that LA negates adjectives and verbs only, and...
• 3woMbuNTPrE: Among other things, +#PE22 is also a treasure trove of sample sentences, so I thought I will collect them in a thread, maybe they will generate s...
• KeC2vBfFqX8:  For those of you reading PE 22, does it say much about  how ol- is used in the sense of  "to become"? Its been a long wait for a word like that. I...
• SobUNQLoJQo: The Quenya verbal noun ending ndĭ/ndē (PE22:137) is very interesting in many ways: - prior to PE22 I think we only had arcande as an attested examp...
• h2LMWYb8Cbd: If S bell is actually just an adaption from N belt, wouldn't it rather be S belt and S belthas "strength"? Counterpart malt + orn --> malthorn? ...
• enm5ZswxRNo: There is a problematic word in the VQP, or rather, a problematic gloss. losta- would be "to bloom", not "to sleep" if I've understood things correc...
• SeC8N2UJjjj: Hi! I'm unfortunately woefully ignorant of phonology and derivation, so I'm hoping you can help me understand the verb nathla- (to welcome) I've se...
• Sbgk7P4sSm3: How should I make a cognate of Sindarin brona in Quenya? The stem is BOR(ON); should I, starting from the derivatives like vórima, consider a basic...
• jjE6bd2jt3Y: Now an enquiry about Quenya. Are there any examples of Tolkien actually using the 'Last Declinable Word' rule ever in any text proper, not a gramma...
• ZY3BkE2khZB: Hi! This is likely something you've already discussed... if so, could you please link me to it? :) I do wonder: what is your position on -lya as a ...
• emTyhvrnXKx: Alright, I finished a small mountain of updates (still have more to go... need to finish rewriting homework assignments and making quizzes) but her...
• 6mFHntFww8x: I'll put up this thread to write down and not to forget the things of most peculiar interest I learned from +#PE22. (And I invite anyone to join!)....
• DZ8Ea7gmNhh: How would you make a verb 'become heavy'? I think to start from a CE pattern luñgu-tā? I presume that the causative formant makes a-affection and m...
• j3LwUo2mzgt: Glassui ni athar ilphen i•aur hen, eb pelin thî athragared uin ist e Pharf Edhellaim dadchaen tadui! Cambenyes sina arinessë ar férima silumë náry...
• W3faFBMiNYC: I like it that per +#PE22 "I am sad" in Qenya is luin, whereas luin is also "blue" in other sources. Those blasted Elves have even invented the b...
• BA7jKq4cPUv: Hello! Any ideas as to what Gandalf might be saying in the scene with the dwarf? á orta fearya... ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_DOEXEjFnQ&fea...
• gUuq2hz6iar: I wonder: why wasn't it done before? For me it was hard as hell, taking both the rhythm and rhyme, retaining the wording and trying to eliminate th...
• jL1dqT3NP4U: +Matt Dinse What is the situation with verbal inflexions in PE22's later sources? As I understand, -of and -ab are now supposed to be 1pl. exclusiv...
• byDaBiSCc8z: I am opening this thread to make note of words from Parma Eldalamberon 22 that - I think - have been hitherto unattested. I have not checked them a...
• Xvy9djmSNWN: Two pieces of very tricky derivations. • 'Bone' n.: adha ...
• 14gwrWgh5wm: While we're all waiting for PE23, I've got a sort of (possibly, defective) idea about the pronouns. I've been studying the PE21 carefully for noun ...
• GFbnxejHkkF: I have a copy of PE22 and it is amazing. It is chock full of marvelous information about Quenya and Early Eldarin verb structures. I've only begun ...
• YYw8PTK24um: I think of adding my reconstruction *ŷ from MQ io, "wine". from MQ io, "wine" to the VQP. I feel a bit insecure about it since the only place I've ...
• RPEJSCzzw5J: Does anyone have an idea of how to express "goal, target, objective"? ...
• eqYZ19rwQVy: I need some more translation help. I am trying to translate "I will lift my eyes to the maker of the mountains I can't climb." So far, I have "Ort...
• fuZTzYGj6Ey: An important announcement! After some discussion with +Tamas Ferencz we decided to establish, in addition to our Google+ posts, a discussion chat i...
• JknBzqR3AQN: I propose a discussion. Is there any established etymological derivation of the future tense -tha element in Noldorin and Sindarin? This element i...
• 1T1bELtgbe5: 'Tis a piece not planned or written Out of conscious mind's decision, Though I thought of long this metre, Noble trochee of the sagas, Of the Finni...
• NpjZqdNViAx: Thorsten Renk's site has just moved to http://www.science-and-fiction.org/elvish/index.html ! Please update your bookmarks. ...
• 4pva3senyMw: +Remi Korben +Matt Dinse +Tamas Ferencz I propose to move into a separate discussion, for we have touched a topic I've been considering on my own ...
• 2XqfBtfU52N: Hallo everyone! I’m here for the first time and I’m impressed with your linguistic skills. Forgive me my poor English, Sindarin and so on. I’m inte...
• 25Y82vMVj1S: This one affected and bothered me deeply. Written in a totally incompatible (with anything) language, about an unknown event and still perfectly sh...
• hFc9KoVkuz1: I've release Eldamo 0.4.7, which has two major updates: 1) I've analyzed the Danian language. I originally thought this would be quite easy, given...
• gQpehRPNW3a: Even a respectable institution like Sotheby's can get things wrong... This article in the Mirror got my attention today: http://www.mirror.co.uk/...
• 2cYbsh68SLQ: I hereby release a re-fashioning of the most hastily done linnod number 20. This time not only the metre is not lame but both puns are more explici...
• 3bkmwBxXsYt: A lament of King Midas: quantitative. Ŷngin ed ylvath eryd, iuithathon eithil erui. [I used to drink from kingly goblets, now only springs are of...
• TACRaz6odnw: In case folks haven't seen this, Glǽmscrafu just completely overhauled their site. http://www.jrrvf.com/~glaemscrafu/index.html ...
• cnH7eWVwL8p: Gweniant im gared hen tadphae eneg oer io ah en henion! GLÎR E-MARGAIR i en glinnar i•Ellath in•Gwaith Círdan i dartha vi Lond, eb i•Gair Vedui na...
• 7J7SGaJn8kU: Considering the word "be" in S, what forms do people here use? Are Salo's paradigm found in the Gateway still viable? ...
• H8o9z519wj7: I cannot abstain from doing more word-puns. Gwanwen i•Thrîw delothui, ferthol i•duil tharan. [Gone is the detestable Winter, promptly comes the v...
• QRyZtQdhnKL: Some musings to discuss. Maybe I'm involved in scholasticism right now, but I started to believe Q. han is as much a postposition as pella is. Who ...
• 1KCfYdcw2Sw: Íta i nór ve maril, antara orya Anar, Á laitalme i Hér, envinyanta i ré! (The land is sparkling as a crystal, lofty rises the Sun, let us praise t...
• HqPQZu3q3mD: The most common kind of compound word is what's called "endocentric:" it includes the thing that it is. So a houseboat is a kind of boat; a shoe sa...
• VKSr9sh2ttw: I do not love thee… Gen ú-velin im, Herdir Fell, Ú-bedithon i•gaethad del, Mal iston hen, pen-adbedel: Gen ú-velin im, Herdir Fell. caethad 'reas...
• c6fcgHEhwL1: Mudas garnen na-vedui! Nelchaen linnyd (vi lammath rim), min ilaurui egor ned, — man pen iuitha vi aur vethed? Ingassen teithad naid veleg, nal lai...
• WXUmkDSjgDS: A self-explanatory one. Cenin i•vethed mudad, ephedist lindhed írui. [I see the end of the task, two desired songs are remaining.] For -st see P...
• G9LqybeLPHr: All of us desire to do that one day, don't we? Credit to +Ekin Gören ! Golodlam ah in•Eglain geliad ídhranc panui! [Tongues of the Noldor and the...
• ecNdXuggRjr: More experimenting, friends! I have to start from somewhere… I guessed Quenya is much more fit for quantitative verse, but it's nice to have both! ...
• GPTnYbAbE65: Inspired by Quenya Átaremma. Imagine an old loremaster, patiently explaining cosmology to his apprentice… Eruvan ú-na Menel, Iladar athar Ardhon. ...
• Ven9VwVxxvt: Lament for Akallabêth. Terbad na Annûn glennas, aurath hin raeg i•badath. [There was a straight road westwards, now all the roads are bent.] ter...
• 6SRedVZvduK: There is a PE22 web page now at http://www.eldalamberon.com/parma22.html ! Release date is announced on June 1, 2015! ...
• 1fmsn8JsZ6n: Seriously. I'll write about what I see, then? Gwall im o Pharf Edhellaim, hiniath 'lassen cenel. [Excited I am about PE, seeing the joyful news.]...
• CeKYiCbF9vE: Seriously, I'm at loss. Seven more… I really don't have a set of pre-made ones for quite a long time… Penin in•ingath linnyd, menno in•ingath enni...
• NBbHthiCBTm: Metalinnod — quantitative! Long live the accentual verse! Othgoren im i•nadath, linnyd ach alchar uthon. [I have misdone the things, yet I shall ...
• 9Q8DzFHvm7E: Who guesses the purpose of the next one?.. Suil lelir linnath Lindon, lúthiol Ros ar Menel. [Winds laugh the songs of Lindon, enchanting the Sea-...
• 1vFRBmmsyaJ: I posted tha last Aesop fable over a week ago, so now it's due time for another. I restamo ar yondoryar Atar, nála lúmesse fírieva, merne carie t...
• drhRAFtidPz: A Númenorean saying, Shakespeare-inspired. Henion naeg Annúnnor: thaw i•naid e•Thol hi nar. [So I understand the pain of Westernesse: something i...
• CuyMDgQvFvX: A Gnomish saying. Duinin a Luath legyr, úben in•Gwenyn darthar. PE11:53 [Neither Flood nor Time waits for anyone.] ...
• NHour3VXoRD: The frustration of Pengolodh. Eichiar laim edhellin, ah in•gwaith hain agwistar. [Elvish languages change, and the people keep changing them furt...
• 1zPMHuMsGQR: Stunt performed by a professional madman, do not attempt at home! Sairen a•'Lingol i•'Ôf, tauli in•Ûna Uril. [Fiery Golden Tree's Fruit, the Sun-...
• eLiwbQbktKt: After Gollum's riddle. Gwannar in•Yst ah Erain; orthor i•Lú or•Eryn. [Vanish the Towns and Monarchs, Time masters over mountains.] (Both quantit...
• DCofHAvdN23: An expected linnod of the day. Linnant im lathrim mallen, lathrim egennin galol. FotR 2:8 [I sang golden leaves, and saw leaves growing.] (I ass...
• 9WsVRiUHTAi: Could Sindarin preposition be 'as, like' in ben genediad Drannail be somehow connected to Quenya direct speech particle equë 'said' with a derivati...
• WqBXzse9iUB: A linnod with further plans. Cenitha man i•Margair, círol i•falas vethen? [Who shall see the Ark leaving the last shore?] (m)bargair 'ark' naerg...
• K8P7fVmEGho: Something special for this day. As +Björn Fromén hinted to me, there are multiple ways to theorise upon a single example of Elvish poetry; +Roman R...
• 7NYHEiZiawT: PE17:131: in non-Northern dialects of Sindarin and late Beleriandic speech, medial lt, mp, nt, nc 'became long voiceless lh, mh, nh, ñh', and final...
• ELnSDnTFfDq: Some Tolkien for a change, eh?.. Hiro i•Vegil rangen, i vi Imladris dortha! [Seek for a Sword that was broken, in Imladris it dwells!] rangen 'b...
• FdoyuhZWsoi: Nothing is achieved without failures… Erui carth eingarnen ingon i•dass ú-onnen. [A single deed perfectly done I believe to be the task which nev...
• dDfA5estv6V: I always believed that linnyd are perfectly fit for epitaphs. So, a tomb-stone: Sîdhren no, lith uivellen, sí dartho ten i 'Ellor. (N. Karamzin) ...
• TeKDM9mhQhg: Old Testament linnod of the day. (Some tweaking was necessary.) Nîn haer vi•Nuin Bablon, ias naeniel echemmim. Psalm 137:1. [Bitter [are] the wat...
• Z9QXKJaXsyg: Continuing the topic: actually, the invocations to Elbereth did work, and it's 21 Celcius outdoors now. So: flee, Winter! Morgothyth adorthornen; ...
• gFjLGmkLiQK: A week ago, looking out of the window, I exclaimed: Lossen i•thîn vi 'Wirith; ringas edlenno, Híril! [Snowy is April evening; banish the coldness...
• SQdPA2L887o: A modern Q word for laqa-? Should we expect lac-?  http://eldamo.sourceforge.net/content/words/word-3384693239.html ...
• U9TBa81Wfd5: Mathematical linnod of the day. Iladar nodath agor, egel nan Edain carnen. L. Cronecker [Allfather created the Numbers, other (things) are made ...
• UyJuPfNgWQo: When in Rome… linnod of the day. Athar i•Lest ech dorthal, caro be iathrim cerir. [If you happen to dwell across the Girdle, do as the Fence-Peop...
• ggfWjZ7KgY8: Hogwarts motto, anyone? Behold the linnod of the day! Cíniel faulug lorel, avo echuiad vertho! [Having seen a sleeping dragon, don't dare to wake...
• 5hwkxPXxzUv: "Timeo Danaos" for Tyelperinquar: another linnod of the day. Gosto i•meryn Morgoth, edregol annath golel. [Have fear of vassals of Morgoth, espec...
• RtfUCwiM3fY: Biblical linnod of the day. Cenig i•fîn vi chennen, golvoth vi dhîn gen uig. [You see a hair in my eye, not seeing a huge branch in yours.] Matth...
• ZRSxsZMtZkg: A random linnod of the day (I'm going to challenge myself with writing one more every day for a month). Dengwith bain mael istennin — hiro i•vabet...
• CVC4UeN21k1: What is the status of edledhio-cluster, neledhi and anglenno after the DEL revolution of 'Quendi and Eldar'? They are rendered totally impossible b...
• PT3soQC2ZHv: Q and S word for "choke, drown". I found EQ qosta- and qoro-, but they do not follow moderns Q rules, and I don't know how to make modern cognates....
• X4UaDzrRG6n: Once again, if you don't find much metric poetry in Sindarin, go and write yourself. This time, the rhythm is retained, not a single line or syllab...
• G7XM8FEba4s: Hi everyone! Remember that kick-starter a while back? Well, this is the sort of website you can make with it! Below is a link to a translation of T...
• Tcr8btWVbKg: A further question. What is the underlying verb in mae govannen? In the Etymologies, the answer is trivially bad- from BAT, but since then, no deri...
• M1WDLjtpj9C: ns *belchorch "raven" (bel-, corch "crow") * mírchraban "magpie", mîr "jewel" (both from the fondness of glittering things and the conspicuous plum...
• TwbXuX1u831: "to put, place [something]", transitive verb, in Q and S? I first thought of penia- for S, but that seems to be more of "make sure it's fine, repai...
• 7NGU4E3zLi8: I have misgivings regarding the cluster ntha- in reconstructed S words (eg *mentha- "send") *, and would prefer other solutions. The only attested ...
• 4YyNfkHUEYY: I and Ekin discussed how to express "together" when one doesn't want to have it as a prefix to another word. Eg "we shall be together", where the o...
• KcNLUgSRE6T: Pennas Cuilen. Lend ú-ídhrannen nîn. Ennad a dassed, ah Naid en-Ablú. Berthais leben Periain. Narn e-Belegorf nam Milvon Pogodion echarnen od Tiria...
• J7TCF7FWh2k: Does this work? Ennas adh a-dandolen. Narn perian. Алекса...
• VZaipSa2tR8: Just a tiny funny coincidence that just occurred to me. A word for "path, track (when travelling on foot)" could easily also be *path [ ...
• J1HGaQXPaNr: Man nos perian? Tamas Ferencz Mar 20, 2015 (09:39)...
• fNw4BKYWbrW: Question: is there an explanation why S. Rodon "Power, Vala" gets plural Rodyn instead of expected **Redyn? Even if *Raudon is assumed, shouldn't i...
• bDpjikKmrJG: A question: when does si (here/now) get lenited into hi? Some people spell it with a long vowel, hí, what is the more correct? ...
• iTasHEpfRb2: I always wondered why there are so few attempts to compose accentual-syllabic poetry in Eldarin tongues retaining metre, rhythm and rhymes. Here is...
• JGkYsAQjt9T: I found the S reconstruction pess for feather (either on a bird or on a arrow or as a primitive pen, I guess). I think it's from the Q quesse. Does...
• ApSNpW4TJ3d: I thought of a S word for squirrel: oronar (oron tree + nâr rat) and a S word for badger torechor (torech lair and -or acting suffix, as badgers a...
• GXoMNpKL26T: Mae g'ovannen! Being both a long-time JRRT fan (read The Silmarillion before learned about PJ movies existing ;) ) and a person fascinated by the b...

Paul Strack

• Cwi3wM482n4: I've released version 0.7.0 of Eldamo: https://eldamo.org/ In this release, I've finished up my work on incorporating neologisms into Eldamo for ...
• 9H4RQtM6T33: In the course of my Psalmic translations, I came upon an unforseen issue: what would be the future ending of a verb in qu(a)--? The verb miqu- is ...
• WeyhxiDqRMy: Something that has troubled me for a while now is that while social media is really great for stimulating conversations, it is terrible for long, c...
• 95n4kj5i8eb: I've released Eldamo 0.6.9 https://eldamo.org/ This is a bit faster than normal, but I'm getting ready leave on a lengthy vacation, so it was eit...
• GNj6QEjddBf: Another post on Elvish Roots on Fiona's site, this one a repost of something previously posted here: https://academy.realelvish.net/2018/09/29/elv...
• ZeJB4tjRh4k: I'm not too well versed in what some "early" nouns cases mean. For instance, EQ/MQ comitative case, kiryaiko. Does this mean "with a ship"? This is...
• c66dH7kHwpG: I’ve posted the first in series of discussions on Eldarin roots on Fiona’s website. The plan is to continue the series on a biweekly basis. https:...
• CJJBnK2LPMW: I wonder whether Quenya is lax enough to allow double negatives, whether lá melin laquen can be considered correct, or does it have to be lá melin ...
• iB8uNZPJT2F: Random LotR paragraph, this from the chapter A Knife in the Dark. Sam and Peregrin had not been idle. They had explored the small dell and the sur...
• RNMbXwLfhCj: I've released v.0.6.8 of Eldamo: https://eldamo.org/ With this release, I have finished a "first pass" at evaluating attested primitive roots for...
• Q3AnDG77CgJ: I’m looking for sources of Neo-Quenya and Neo-Sindarin neologisms. I’m nearly done with my first pass through Eldamo neologisms, and I’m pretty com...
• Va95FKtCCrH: Translation of Psalms 4 to 41 to Parmaquesta You will find below the link to the file where I'm updating my translation of the Psalms. The Psalms ...
• hXTgUzWEe6B: New member, still very much an amateur in Sindarin but doing my best. I am doing a translation of some/all of the Episcopal wedding ceremony for ...
• 49cEnvH8kk5: I envy Tolkien, he could conveniently ignore or forget the rules of his own language and it's us who're left scratching our heads:) Consider esse ú...
• H2S61QgkFrn: A question posted over at Elfdict got me thinking on our two attested words glossed as "more". We have the adjective amba and the adverb ambe and I...
• E1ifHmTHNX7: Is there now a consensus out there what the proper genitive of nouns the type of koa should be? I think most people settle on kavo but perhaps some...
• Zk77jVe6XPB: A distichon (or enquelempelesta): Áreo poldore quéla ve koivie tique axollor; Limbali himyear en, lávar ananta moren. The strength of the sunshin...
• 14vZBJwU2FP: Polil camya ni mapaitas formalyasse. Mal lá polil camya ni mapaitas hyarmalyasse. Ma Man nán? ...
• DF331h1xT6V: Last one, I promise... Cé mo same nelde, same nelde, Cé mo same atta, same atta, Mal cé mo same min, same munta. Ma Man nán? ...
• gbdBQh2thn6: Edit: Patan telqui cantanen auresse, Patan telco attanen endauresse, Ar patan telqui neldenen andúnesse. Ma Man nán? ...
• XuzBHE4XEhJ: Lánye quete, mal samin ñolme. Lánye alda, mal samin lassi. Ar lánye fenda hya henet, mal samin *pellime. Ma Man nán? ...
• DoBuP45rEAY: I've release Eldamo v.0.6.7 https://eldamo.org/ This includes some more Polish translations by +Remy Corbin I haven't much to say about this rel...
• 64FcrGtFR7Y: I have a new D&D character and he has a bow named "One shot, One kill". Can someone translate this name into elvish please? ...
• B7QXQAvSCLX: Please comment: > √SER to love nisserme n. a gay woman, lesbian illiserme n. a pansexual woman yuserme n. a bisexual woman láserme n. an asexual ...
• aeEMv6j6Gg1: Over the past few years both +Paul Strack and +Александр Запрягаев posted several pieces of analysis of Eldarin roots, their histories, evolution, ...
• B4R3kTs9yYU: Over at Discord the other day I was chatting with Roandil about the two attested SKOR roots and how the two could coexist; now it occurred to me th...
• RZDMWqhtKXg: Now that Atanquesta is released, I have decided to take time and collect all the neologisms that I have coined in posts here in the community in a ...
• gYPgpCrrfkP: Next topic regarding Eldamo 0.6.6: internationalized search Eldamo now has two non-English search page variants (Polish and Russian), thanks to +R...
• Po9d8EmQpFv: I've released Eldamo 0.6.6 https://eldamo.org/ I've got quite a lot to say about this release, so I will be making several posts. The main thing ...
• CTmDGcqJqnc: This is the last general post on Eldamo 0.6.6. It is more technical in nature, and it therefore primarily of interest for those who work with the r...
• NcDk7eu9EEE: I am happy to announce the release of my NeoQuenya textbook Atanquesta - a NeoQuenya Primer. The work is aimed at beginner and intermediate student...
• Q2L6fp5gFJJ: Would *elerran, *erran be a good neologism for "planet", lit. "wanderer, wandering [star]"? rána would be great, but that is already taken as one o...
• inhYMbXA8xp: *talmakasta adj., adv. "upside down" Paul Strack J...
• T12tYHCd5dW: Rie mólome ar lá tyalie care Yát lumbaro. Paul Strack ...
• 54S5sjuB4Z7: Psalm 3 in Parmaquesta Third and last example — for the time being — of my ongoing translation of the Book of Psalms. This one may be of higher in...
• 3mYvdAEq1G5: I have started translating the Book of Psalms into Quenya, and more specifically Parmaquesta. As I don't read Hebrew, unfortunately, I checked a nu...
• 5nppWceZiBd: Though both are listed as Middle Quenya forms at Eldamo, is the verb lah- from LAKH possibly a later/newer item than manka- from MBAKH (in the Etym...
• HkzsKLaAebg: This is a follow up to my earlier post on internationalizing Eldamo: https://plus.google.com/101464290458691045803/posts/94oFwAPPsLi I have a pro...
• AH5UArRBfp8: +#1000words "opportunity" Tamas Ferencz Jun 03, 2...
• 9GALw8Jo7xF: I've release Eldamo 0.6.5. Nothing much new, just more evaluations of roots for Neo-Eldarin (G to I). This is taking way longer than I expected. ...
• 94oFwAPPsLi: I had a request a couple weeks ago to allow Russian translations in Eldamo. Since then, I've been experimenting with options for including non-Engl...
• 7WmBdC3zQgn: Would *ealima be a possible and comprehendable neologism/variant for 'possible'? ...
• gKj5F62QFZw: The next +#1000words entry is gas. I recently coined the word *kumma from KUM, based on the etymology of the international word gas. Any other (p...
• aQBXFxzQnB6: The next +#1000words entry up for discussion is example. My first idea is *hókilme "outtake, selection". ...
• PeTF4myzyei: Here's a dragonfly I took a picture of yesterday (well this may actually be a damselfly I think, but that's beside the point now). In Gnomish it is...
• LNNrMTJpCPA: The next +#1000words entry I put up for discussion is detail. Going on the Hungarian word for detail Is say something from SAT "fraction, part"; o...
• H73E6GASbtR: I wonder if the almost throwaway emendation of the gloss of CE *anak to 'against, opposite' in PE21 offers us any opportunity to use it in this new...
• C1oihfTGmFM: +#1000words Looking for a translation for E 'cell'. I feel we should derive it from YOD 'fence, enclose' (as in the sense of 'compartment'). Perh...
• 9WrXJNLBNvm: Concerning the Eldamo entry +#pec "nut": shouldn't this be +#pet (pec-) as we see with other Q nouns with stems ending in [k]? +Paul Strack ...
• Zravp1wT2ya: Two small suggestions: "Immediately, at once": ú pusto "Right away, promptly, very soon": arrongo ...
• EaoiMtoTyu1: It’s well known that in Sindarin/Noldorin, the spirants [x] and [f] (the latter most probably at its earlier stage [ɸ]) became vowels before the sp...
• FPZSsRvdR5K: Concerning the verbal derivates of the root SKEY I am now pretty much settled on the pair *xéya- "pass (of time, intransitive)", and *xíta- "pass, ...
• 97jJkMCGjGh: I've release version 0.6.4 of Eldamo: http://eldamo.org/index.html I've continued working on Neo-Eldarin vocabulary, finished roots up through F ...
• TBExZWGdhU9: This words analysis has to do with negations. It is a problem that has been hashed to death, and in terms of the historical analysis I have little ...
• 1ikJ7xWuJpd: This word analysis has to do with “smells”, both good (fragrant), bad (stinking) and neutral. As is often the case, the picture is fairly clear in...
• QqdENX8nxQC: This word analysis focuses on transitive verbs meaning “put, place, lay, set”. Finding a good choice for these words is a challenge, and requires s...
• XNCporaQv9L: This is a followup to this post: https://plus.google.com/101464290458691045803/posts/NChiFKWfuPp Those of you that having been reading my recent ...
• NChiFKWfuPp: I've released Eldamo v0.6.3. http://eldamo.org/ There are two major changes. First, I've done some general search improvements. They are still s...
• KGg8JHqLYSN: What do you suggest for 'move, shift' (transitive)? Rúma- appears to be intransitive, and it is too specific for large and heavy things. Strictly s...
• Tz6XPeDMtAm: Going over fractions...in Neo-Quenya, could those forms in -sta be adjectives and the nominal forms be in -sto (cf. PE14:51 and PE14:84-85)? ...
• T9mPKKnvqYv: This word analysis focuses on two opposing concepts: “before” and “after”. These saw numerous vacillations over Tolkien’s life, making it difficult...
• daTTs5Yg14v: So what do you say, fellow lambendili, shall we prove the Professor wrong? :) Watch J.R.R. Tol...
• ZPhEo1kqKMb: I’ve been working on (Neo-)Quenya verb conjugation and specifically on some representative examples of various classes and shapes. I’m inviting fee...
• UwZMh3iSTcd: Another word analysis, this time on a cluster of related roots: DAL and LAD, TAL and LAT. TALA appears in the Quenya Lexicon as the basis for “foo...
• VHHEgbTiJMN: This is a follow up to my examination Eldarin words for husband/wife, man/woman, and of BER/BES/BED as roots for “marriage”: https://plus.google.c...
• HPskg5fcrGY: This word analysis is focused on the Eldarin roots having to do with “go” and “walk”, centered around three canonical Elvish words: Q. avánier “has...
• ML2zAY1rEUU: Based on the feedback to my previous post, I am having another think about Eldamo's approach to ranking neologisms, originally discussed here: htt...
• VbsHrWN24ci: Referring to discussions elsewhere, another root that can be utilized to express the idea of inn, guesthouse, hotel etc. is NATH > *naþumo "guest";...
• JpiEKgzSHC5: I am still working on how to handle neologisms in Eldamo. One issue I have is there are a number of “well accepted” neologisms that I think should ...
• 72J65ZjfE96: HATH > *haÞmā > Q *haÞwa (*haswa) "medicine, drug"? Robert...
• VfS29g9JWXA: How to pronounce 'mh' in ar e aníra ennas suilannad mhellyn în phain? Is it a kind of soft mutation? I think I heard textbooks were being written ...
• iGzYxpR8WFz: Another word analysis, this time for a single word: the conjunction “and”. We know the net result: Q. ar and S. a. Knowing its development is never...
• Qg7AGoxYmWL: I've release Eldamo 0.6.2. http://eldamo.org/ Since the data entry is mostly done, this update is still focused on cleanup. In particular, I ente...
• 79vXsWwBdno: What would, in your opinion, be the present perfect of the verb derived from SKEY 'pass' (whether it's *xíta or *xéya is probably irrelevant in thi...
• jYr8GZG3Q5u: Another exploration of words, this time “letter, line, write”. This is a bit different from my previous examinations, since the most of the words i...
• 9oEepmWKb6A: Yet another conflux of words, this time “parent/child, grandparent/grandchild, boy/girl and baby”. These are probably the last for a while On the ...
• cygRdTHV4tz: Here is another exploration of Eldarin words, this time “father/mother, son/daughter, sister/brother” “Father” is dead easy. The words Q. atar, S....
• BpnGRGQSGdc: Since I am starting to work more seriously on assembling a coherent Neo-Eldarin vocabulary, I thought I should articulate the approach I intend to ...
• cfJ8ngEERt5: I am exploring the conflux of Eldarin words having to do “man/woman, husband/wife, bride/groom”. In Quenya, I think Q. nér “man” is quite well est...
• 8oo3a3s4RMP: How do folks think initial primitive tl- and dl- developed in Sindarin? In Gnomish, there are no initial tl-, and there are some of examples of cl...
• QMNj7kxeH68: Possible Quenya linear measurements? UPDATED lár a league; 3 miles *larnelesta a mile; 1 mile (> NQNT) rangwe a fathom; 6 feet ranga a yard; 3 fee...
• RWLi5paEPwE: If qua is "something, a thing", and -sta is "close grouping", could *quasta be "group"? ...
• CDgedu8sYE6: I've release Eldamo 0.6.1: https://eldamo.org/ This is the first release of Eldamo that does not have any new data entry. It involves a major reo...
• H7YjoduGuPc: More Eldamo beta stuff. I’ve sort of got the mobile navigation how I want. The vertical view is working for me, but the landscape view looks bad on...
• FH1FnhhK2Mx: I'm experimenting with a new search page for Eldamo. The beta is here: http://eldamo.org/beta/content/search/search.html The major changes are: ...
• 3fvesCvy6uH: Back to trying to make Tolkien's languages more accessible - https://academy.realelvish.net/beta/0-intro.htm (not edited, not spell-checked, curren...
• cvY6jd4tQvn: A conceptual question. We know that in Q adjectives can act as nouns (A Vanimar etc.). Would you agree that the same concept could be true for adj...
• Tsn9vHV3hEL: If lá can be enclitic with ké and become kéla could it do the same with yú and mean nor/neither? ...
• XjR26vcvAX3: I am in the middle of a major overhaul of the Eldamo data model to reflect its new “dual mission” of both (1) describing Elvish as Tolkien wrote it...
• 7SpsgEPRQtN: Suggestion: *virda "variant" (cf. Gn. brigli); *karpavirda, lambevirda "dialect". Looking at the discussions on discord we will need a word like t...
• UVUfNC4Kdvn: After your post on losing and lost, I wondered if the phrase for I lost x could be "vanwa nin...x Using the same structure as Ecce nin...x and ...
• RYFZKaFMcK6: For "puppy", what would roa + -ince become? Ravince? Or would huo + ince become huince? ...
• iU1dqDYwN7k: I've finished Release 0.6.0 of Eldamo. This release has nearly all of Tolkien's attested word forms from the existing published material. Only a fe...
• XUZxsExUtmv: I said I'd post more about “what's next” for Eldamo, so here it is. Given my recent posts, it’s no secret that I think we need a generally improve...
• LqCcqGNpqcT: One could think that adapting Quenya for modern age is difficult because of science and technology. Yet it seems that the "weak link" is in the com...
• gqYh46zCZ2w: Is there any definite solution of √KOY vs. √KUY problem? I'm under impression that the Professor hesitated till the very end. ...
• 6sc3m2Xf38h: I am thinking about changing how I use the certainty markers in the Eldamo data model. Right now I have these markers: None - the word appears in ...
• fv7ybPk7sVB: men- 'go, proceed'+ -ma 'implement' > *memma 'vehicle'? Pa...
• GqJXkMznaar: For Q chatting it would seem fitting to have a Q word for the English language. There is the very early Q word Ingilnóre "England" that seems based...
• BsbHSLr2tK4: The long-promised Omentielva's appendix on the Poetic Corner is here! https://drive.google.com/open?id=1b4gxFU8GynQ1qqqtlvcEPxCAguJl9jUO ...
• 1ujxZD7ao7t: Atalatyanente (atalatanyente?) Ambaro anyára parmakoa. I koranari amna min húme lempe tuxa linyenwa ampano tare Kemetesse (Hakapta? Egypt, see http...
• cQu6Y92qhye: If we had an instant chat in Quenya, what messenger would you prefer? None None ...
• JCpuDyPLLPL: I think it is important (1) to find and fill the gaps in the basic vocabulary and (2) make choices on different variations of certain words (like "...
• UfqBSzcFdxq: How do you interpret autas? I mean, pit it in a sentence for me please:) I have a lot of questions today... ...
• RCchNQPUXf8: I have release Eldamo v0.5.9 http://eldamo.org/ This release has the data from PE18. It took much less time that I expected. Unfortunately, that ...
• AZqD6wAPivt: How would you say "forget" in Q? lerya sanarello? hehta sanarello? Gnomish has this very interesting root: ...
• XDkLpY6zZ2N: What do you think, friends? Shall we base our Neo-Quenya reconstructions on the latest ideas of the Professor found in his draft notes, or give adv...
• gbz5y85APmK: I've been exploring Q phonology and have a few questions about how morphemes combine in some educationally motivated situations: √NIK + mapa-​ + ​...
• 1Tdcs8B8eji: Is panya- our best option for the simple notion of "to put, place, set sg"? Etymology had a verb esta- but it was struck out and anyway would clash...
• D8THNhsWv4A: Telyanen i Eldarin tië online métimavë! Epë parië atta loain ar perya, polin quetë ambi quettar sa sanan pollen úne parne. Sí merin parë rimba ambë...
• LKFC4TaotjU: Lookit what I made! What name should I do next? The Surprising History of Lúthien’s Name ...
• dddV2RGKWm3: I wonder if tolya "prominent" (lit. sticking up) could be a good kenning for "proud, haughty" ...
• YsZP82rYaPs: This is a bit of a speculative post. Amazon recently announced a deal with the Tolkien estate for a Middle Earth TV series. Who knows how long it w...
• NyWJ18pVV7y: welp, as much as it horrifies my parents that i should learn a "made up" language (although technically all languages are made up >_>) i still want...
• TXxuZd9uL8m: Is there ever a consonant-vowel cluster of "quu"? Tamas Fe...
• TW7RvyTFQdv: Does anyone have a clue whether there's any possibility of obtaining the many out-of-print Parmar Eldalamberon? Or are there any digital copies aro...
• AZmJoZ9N8oc: I've release v0.5.8 of Eldamo. This version has the data for PE21, which was more of a slog than I expected (so many declension tables). Of the m...
• L1UEU96pU3f: How would you guys say 'important, significant' in late/neo Quenya? ...
• HvJ1kTykSoQ: Someone asked me how you would say of the Earth and the Moon in Quenya, and I demurred. They are not a natural pair, but a pair in the given contex...
• f6XpWnxU6Ug: Aiya, nildor! Once I was quite enthusiastic about [Neo-]Quenya. Then I experienced a kind of frustration, having read PE22 and totally lost in its ...
• 5ahsfgqf8Lg: I'm looking for help translating a phrase into Elvish. It can be any version of Elvish you like. Here's the story; me and by girlfriend are nearin...
• LRMLbXJaVwL: Do we have any examples of what primitive *–ab–tâ, *–ab–tê, *–ab–tô would become in Sindarin? I myself am still looking. Or would a suffix variant...
• 26cWvi8YPQt: Greetings! I am quite an enthusiast about the elvish languages (particularly Quenya) and I know there are others out there who are like me. However...
• 6BH2zCD3ooC: Edited "Ilya mára nauva, ar ilya mára nauva, ar ilquaima engwi mára nauvar." "All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things...
• 4tqUkamGnmg: My sketch of how to update the conditional sequence of QVS into post-reverse QUenya and to Sindarin (based on the introduced Noldorin hints). Start...
• 5yJiSXvXEnQ: A quenya syntax question: Should I normally position and adjective describing a noun before or after the noun in question? E.g. Cenean yaule morna ...
• fTaGoVsR4ju: Would saveryet translate to he believes it? James Coish ...
• FRTz1Q6KydT: Mellyn! What do we know about the rules for lengthening vowels in compounds and inflections in Quenya? A typical example of what I am trying to und...
• 24wohKYKK6H: Greetings fellow Eldar! I am in a dilemma. I am unsure of the usage of plural and dual pronominal forms for the 1st person. Is it inclusive plural,...
• 3F3FJBmR2Wr: Hi! I just updated Parf Edhellen (www.elfdict.com). It is an exciting update, as it enables our community to contribute to the dictionary. All con...
• V2AcupLZCeD: I don't get it... Not a single word for 'back' (a part of body) in any language since Leeds? And none for 'stomach' ever? ...
• cLAVQyhmp2o: Hello! I am wondering how to use the Tengwar for others to see on a webpage!!! Can anyone tell me how to do so??? Also, if it involves programming...
• CAxqmLm4qT3: Hello! I am a come-and-go person on this community, and I am overwhelmed by the amount of links to databases that I can find here! Can anyone tell ...
• KEWBxpCw3RA: Could it be possible that +#kyerme "prayer" be a misreading of *hyamie "a praying"? ...
• UN1LcSxwyqh: I've release v0.5.7 of my Elvish lexicon Eldamo. This version has data from PE16. Of the major publications, only PE18, PE19 and PE21 remain. I've...
• 35aAhcWkwj4: The counter here on the side is telling me the community has reached half thousand members. *Perhúme! *Perveneg! Now I know very well that this nu...
• NSHgp9tvYek: Was anybody from our community at Omentielva Otsëa, like good Maester Kalimac here? http://kalimac.blogspot.fi/2017/08/omentielva-otsea.html ...
• QdFQ8gf56su: As promised, the slides with the poetic selection to the talk. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8gjHaj7Lr5WZnNINW5ucTltUkU https://drive.google...
• NcWQ4z6SmW4: Meldenye taná! Illí eldeon mélienye! Horan lairi nyarienna! +Roman Rausch +Paul Strack +Fiona Jallings +Christopher Gilson ...
• CAXobB8EUFr: Hello +Paul Strack, (+Ekin Gören, +Eryn Galen, +Roman Rausch) there's something that I would like to have your opinion about :) In the past week...
• TX8bj95Pm9r: Does anyone have any idea what "Drega", imperative for 'Flee!" might be in Quenya? Is there a root? Any guesses on what Drega might sound like in...
• DnRptDKCTZK: Update: I'm getting the dictionary application ready for the Omentielva, where Roman Rausch will present it. Here's a little screencast video: ht...
• UPdzGw7oyi9: I've done a "data cleanup" release of Eldamo (v0.5.6.1?). This "release" is targeted exclusively at programmers. I didn't do the work to update the...
• EgrBPuy6sVU: +Paul Strack +Eryn Galen +Ekin Gören +Roman Rausch updated the database with Paul's new 0.5.6 release. There are some other changes: I switched fr...
• UzVZRJx1mcp: +Paul Strack eldamo-data review All queries have been made on the data of eldamo v0.5.5., but as you probably have not changed anything of the ex...
• 7Z8zeKSueQR: I've release v0.5.6 of my Elvish lexicon Eldamo. This version has data from PE15. Of the major publications, only PE16, PE18, PE19 and PE21 remain...
• dHdYq1JFUzB: Hi! I'm very new to all of this, and I am trying to work on translating Gandalf's quote, "all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is...
• XXqyiwLBdZe: Hello! I was wondering what you would use in Quenya for the word "bearing" in this sentence: "You have seen them bearing the cloaks of lords!" This...
• Ksho6J6y4jH: +Paul Strack +Ekin Gören +Roman Rausch +Eryn Galen et al, I updated the eldamo relational DB project on Github: https://github.com/aduial/eldamo-r...
• eyHDJ8SMiVu: Hey guys does anyone know where to learn Sindarin? Would like to learn ...
• ErfQMsF2MZw: It is done it's done it's done it's done it's done! Hard Copies of “A Fan’s Guide to Neo-Sinda...
• FGtGrDBXz3W: Just searching for a Sindarin word for "nobody", stumbled across uvan, sources given are TI/281,283,314. I have no access to the Treason of Isengar...
• 99KNcR1KorH: Yay I am finally done with exporting the eldamo-data! 26'494 words, attested by 74'079 references and connected with a stunning 209'458 relations (...
• jJHjoyfqq7G: Hey +Paul Strack it's me again ;) Haven't got all that much time in the past few weeks for the project, but finally I am getting close to finishing...
• cdwX8SCqC6f: Someone put up a question on another forum whether there's a word for "fool, foolish" in Quenya,and it got me thinking. There are the EQ noun and a...
• dkPFfLVwKUr: I've release v0.5.5 of Eldamo. This release finishes both PE14 and the early Qenya name analysis. I've also done some cleanup on the XSD schema de...
• Neg7i6MPEAr: *Conlang Database Project* Update March 23rd Over the past few weeks I've been busy with working on a few other things, but that was a total benef...
• ToL9WhZxe9T: Linguistic wise id like some more info of calambar (like who used to words to who...elf told that to a man or so?) and silef (sounds to me like sil...
• dTZaL3Ta6VZ: I am sooooo tired. Might just sleep a week. Textbook Re-write Complete It’s 1AM, and I...
• FH7ei1hTNXR: Let's guess! How many PE issues or years will be taken until every meaningful linguistic material by Tolkien is available? Then, how far could ...
• 2KZKQ7feLQs: I’m trying to better understand how participles, gerunds, (particular) infinitives, etc. function and interrelate in Quenya. Some sample sentences:...
• hhf3wv321SQ: Is this correct? Yessesse, Ranta 31:49 Ar Mipsa, an quentes, I HERU ávet tire imbe, íre vanwe velto. ...
• aUWvydsGRPM: I've been having a nerdy debate with someone about the correct pronunciation of the name "Maedhros". Do you pronounce it Mah-eeh-dhros or Mah-eh-dh...
• 8ccgrHhgSTY: I've release v0.5.4 of Eldamo. Now that PE22 is done, I gone back to working on earlier material. I finished up some left overs in PE12, and made ...
• jSyFDM3xeMq: I posted this question other places but I'd like to here some more opinions. Medial NG sound. Should it be [ŋ] or [ŋg]? Tolkien said "NG represen...
• hevGScdr2Hu: Another quick update and some more questions for clarification to +Paul Strack... I decided to get rid of the intermediary tables which link the r...
• SRxZhM91gPe: So quick update from my conlang database project! I've just refactored the database model to be able to include the marks (whether a word is i.e. ...
• dx2yzJXndVM: Conlang Database project I'm about to be done with exporting the eldamo data, the only big thing that's left to treat now is all the relations bet...
• UgZgNhYA3TM: I've release v0.5.3 of Eldamo. It's been an embarrassingly long time since I've done anything with the lexicon, as I've been obsessed with other t...
• infpTCicoFy: So, after the christmas break I am back working on my conlang database project. Currently I am developping a java program which dissects the data f...
• 9yqLKQYLRwK: Eldamo glosses the Quenya word to as an adverb meaning "as a rule" based on the Q sentence lairesse nihare to tarassi, yo unta hrívesse landannar i...
• Dffnsng79Lb: Hey everyone! As a part of my IT apprenticeship I'm planning on realising a kind of elvish resource which I think does not exist yet in a similar ...
• Dxe8uAoVhSY: How indeed could we build up a spoken (chatting) Quenya? A few months ago David Girardeau was lamenting how the new words and forms seem to actuall...
• acentjDn62a: Hello It's been a while, please check my post, I need your opinions or else support hehehe, thanks... https://elvishspeakers.wordpress.com/2016/10...
• Qh3m17dsRiJ: A counter-proposition to Jallings' law-words: I'd much rather have it *thain (Q cognate sanye) as "law" and *thaineb as "lawful, law-abiding", than...
• Sv9es65vW4n: Huge updates to Your (Neo)Sindarin Textbook coming this fall! I went into detail in this post on my website, if you're curious. http://your-sindari...
• ZT6K87sB1uo: I'm gunna do it. I'm really gunna do it! I'm writing a letter asking the Tolkien Estate whether they'd be opposed to me publishing my Neo-Sindarin ...
• 1BQ8DX824nU: Alla ilin...I was looking over attested male/female animal words. Some, like rocco/rocce are easy, but I was  wondering how huo would be feminized;...
• SEFabLtRq8j: PE22 offers a solution to spatio-temporal ambiguity of before/after words. Using the following roots, I made some reconstructions for Sindarin: Te...
• GmuADVLCKuq: What vowel do you people put before the locatives in a word possessing no final vowel? aran, aranVllo, kas, karVsse — what do you put? Ómataima of ...
• feFcdwgRtDc: +Paul Strack +Tamas Ferencz +Fiona Jallings Let's have a discussion of those forms here. Please inform me of any additions and possible alternate i...
• 6dKeQgbYcrs: I've release v0.5.2 of Eldamo. I don't normally do two releases so close together, but I've used Glaemscribe to add tengwar transcriptions for bot...
• 4KassLTnPZU: +Paul Strack A further thought about Tolkien's apparent temporary elimination of special case mutations in the Noldorin branch after 1930 (immediat...
• UsHWNTaq8Kp: UPDATE 2.04.2016: Happy April Fools' Day! Hello everyone and so sorry for a long period of absence. (Especially to +Ekin Gören who constantly fail...
• hLJk5PWYXiq: Benjamin Babut has release a new transcription tool on the Glaemscrafu web-site: Glaemscribe. It is extremely nice (link below). He also has an AP...
• TWgLT6URv7j: I've release v0.5.1 of my Elvish lexicon Eldamo. I am embarrassed that I haven't updated the lexicon since last September. I got distracted by som...
• TG8mBd7Y37c: I'm making words for "lawful, law-abiding" and "law, rule" in Sindarin. Basing it off of thanya/sanya (from STAN) Quenya, I've got thain/thein for ...
• dULwuCBcjDH: We are launched! (Finally!) New Website, Massive Updates None ...
• fPUqWgx15Tn: Conjectures about Nandorin, by G. Blanchard. Nandorin Elvish: Speculative Possibilities ...
• JMGhmxXXP9Z: I need a word for kind (adj). I know S has milui (friendly, loving, kind), but don't know how to convert it to Q. Where could I find rules for tran...
• joQ1mZC9vdJ: Can someone help me on the word(s) olor and olos?  These appear in two etymological notes published in Unfinished Tales (copied and pasted below) ...
• HjUZE5sENmq: A new feature I propose: a regular +#StoryOfARoot . Today: TĀ, TAγ, TAR, 'tall' and 'stand'. * Late 1930s In the Etymologies, the stem TĀ, ?TAγ 'h...
• JjX4Usu3ysH: Alla illin! I have been pondering how one would say "the rings of power" as in the rings forged by Sauron. √BAL or √POL don't seem to be correct. A...
• Aekodb6wWN8: How do we connect a clan with the founder's name in Quenya? Is it nosse Finweo, nosse Finweva, or even compound Finwenos/Finwenosse? (I remember No...
• fKRxQpgqZUb: So MILDOR is "Wine-land" - interesting! I didn't see any discussion of this yet, though there's so much to catch up on from the past few months. I ...
• FM5Ct4qjafi: Based on PE/17, I’ve always thought that S -g is the informal (familiar) 2nd p. sg. verbal suffix, while -dh is the formal (polite) 2nd p. sg. verb...
• eErHtcvwn6F: My current field of interest, connected with the upcoming article Eldarinwe Ólamáron Allamaiti Quenta-Yestalesse, is Quenya phonology. As per PE19:...
• H8Tz3JJw1Ec: The Elvish Writing Systems of J.R.R. Tolkien by Matt Coombes — Kickstarter None ...
• fuYU59HFbLm: Canvassing your thoughts how you guys would express in Quenya the adverb/adjective late, as in 'you are late' or 'late night'. EQ has the adjective...
• 9UqAuXgEJFv: Have we seen a Quenya word for "planet" yet? (*élo- ~ ele(m)-pelya, on the basis of melumatya ?) ...
• KfQ1S1FYSUC: I started a new venture, this time into an often-neglected Eldarin tongue. Planning to make an article tentatively called 'Verbal tense stems in Te...
• arR4gWq1vG3: Two, possibly simple, questions to Quenya experts. 1. How do you make a genitive out of a gerund? matie-o? matio? matyo? (Same for adding -uva to ...
• 2Ga7bHCSc31: I need to delegate. I started a new job, and it's full time, and I'm completely exhausted when I get home and EVERYTHING HURTS. I'm seeing a doctor...
• gvZgtphJpPT: I've release Eldamo 0.5.0. In terms of content, this release is not that major. However, this is the first release of Eldamo that includes "source...
• 6e2EzPNJgfX: Hey Quenya wranglers! Is there a negative existence-copula in Quenya? I know that there is "ea" for a positive copula, but i'm unsure about the neg...
• gArhxnq9hXp: I've released the 0.4.9 version of Eldamo. 1) Since there has been growing interest in the Quenya content in the project, I've done some general c...
• GFj7BEo1Mdq: I have a question for those more knowledgeable than me (and that is most). What is the difference between TĀ, TAL, TALTA, TALAT, and KAL, KALAT, AK...
• 6dVTwVqqUxk: Elvish dictionary app(lication) Mellyn, following a session at the Omentielva Enquea about "Identifying the Requirements for a Quenya & Sindarin ...
• h2LMWYb8Cbd: If S bell is actually just an adaption from N belt, wouldn't it rather be S belt and S belthas "strength"? Counterpart malt + orn --> malthorn? ...
• SeC8N2UJjjj: Hi! I'm unfortunately woefully ignorant of phonology and derivation, so I'm hoping you can help me understand the verb nathla- (to welcome) I've se...
• UhPmfFPwKYR: After some discussion with +Ekin Gören , I thought of reconstruct a word for "berry", (or maybe rather "berries") *pigin, with CE root PIK, common ...
• Sbgk7P4sSm3: How should I make a cognate of Sindarin brona in Quenya? The stem is BOR(ON); should I, starting from the derivatives like vórima, consider a basic...
• 6mFHntFww8x: I'll put up this thread to write down and not to forget the things of most peculiar interest I learned from +#PE22. (And I invite anyone to join!)....
• DobTWzgR5LF: I've release Eldamo 0.4.8, the current version of my Elvish lexicon. This is mostly a technical release, in response to Source Forge breaking down...
• WJFLHZDGKmx: Mellyn! I do love eldamo as much as the rest of you guys, so I've been working hard to try to import its XML data source into Parf Edhellen. Today,...
• TTGQhQuvcvY: Since Source Forge has been down for nearly 2 days, I have put a temporary download link for Eldamo on Dropbox. When Source Forge comes back onlin...
• D5Ar1R7H1Rv: I set up a new home for Eldamo: eldamo.org. All the latest content is now hosted there. I am not sure how long it will take for the site to be visi...
• byDaBiSCc8z: I am opening this thread to make note of words from Parma Eldalamberon 22 that - I think - have been hitherto unattested. I have not checked them a...
• GFbnxejHkkF: I have a copy of PE22 and it is amazing. It is chock full of marvelous information about Quenya and Early Eldarin verb structures. I've only begun ...
• ND5PwZ6bBUd: Peded laew, ach eno i Silevril ú-dhendellin Much talk and little work. ...
• A6nqzPsSGGg: If I might ask a question...any ideas for the plural of aiwe? Is it aiwi, aiwer, or aiwir? ...
• eqYZ19rwQVy: I need some more translation help. I am trying to translate "I will lift my eyes to the maker of the mountains I can't climb." So far, I have "Ort...
• MwpTamZxdbN: May you mind giving me a brief lesson on Sindarin grammer? I started studying this language a little while back, and I am slow when it comes to la...
• hFc9KoVkuz1: I've release Eldamo 0.4.7, which has two major updates: 1) I've analyzed the Danian language. I originally thought this would be quite easy, given...
• TACRaz6odnw: In case folks haven't seen this, Glǽmscrafu just completely overhauled their site. http://www.jrrvf.com/~glaemscrafu/index.html ...
• ecNdXuggRjr: More experimenting, friends! I have to start from somewhere… I guessed Quenya is much more fit for quantitative verse, but it's nice to have both! ...
• YiUsddSp8Xq: I never gave Adunaic much thought but lately I'm doing a fan-fiction that involves Numenor and find myself having to delve into this language. ...
• huT1qf8fzZZ: I've release Eldamo 0.4.6. The two major changes in this version are: 1) I finished data entry for PE13. I am actually quite surprised at the amo...
• GPTnYbAbE65: Inspired by Quenya Átaremma. Imagine an old loremaster, patiently explaining cosmology to his apprentice… Eruvan ú-na Menel, Iladar athar Ardhon. ...
• 1vFRBmmsyaJ: I posted tha last Aesop fable over a week ago, so now it's due time for another. I restamo ar yondoryar Atar, nála lúmesse fírieva, merne carie t...
• 7NYHEiZiawT: PE17:131: in non-Northern dialects of Sindarin and late Beleriandic speech, medial lt, mp, nt, nc 'became long voiceless lh, mh, nh, ñh', and final...
• 7ss1nrrJkzk: Another Aesop fable I atar ar selderyat Nér samne seldet, i min vertaina lótepandamon, ar i hye ambaltanon. Apa lú lendes seldenna i vertaina lót...
• 1oMWSSnChJU: How do I express "The farmer and his two daughters"? The closest i got was this: I rermo ar i seldet ...
• SQdPA2L887o: A modern Q word for laqa-? Should we expect lac-?  http://eldamo.sourceforge.net/content/words/word-3384693239.html ...
• fmP7EcgFJr8: Exciting news from Facebook! Timeline Photos - Adam Christensen | Facebook New from Pa...
• CVC4UeN21k1: What is the status of edledhio-cluster, neledhi and anglenno after the DEL revolution of 'Quendi and Eldar'? They are rendered totally impossible b...
• PT3soQC2ZHv: Q and S word for "choke, drown". I found EQ qosta- and qoro-, but they do not follow moderns Q rules, and I don't know how to make modern cognates....
• G7XM8FEba4s: Hi everyone! Remember that kick-starter a while back? Well, this is the sort of website you can make with it! Below is a link to a translation of T...
• Tcr8btWVbKg: A further question. What is the underlying verb in mae govannen? In the Etymologies, the answer is trivially bad- from BAT, but since then, no deri...
• TwbXuX1u831: "to put, place [something]", transitive verb, in Q and S? I first thought of penia- for S, but that seems to be more of "make sure it's fine, repai...
• MUSKY77nfE4: Middle period Noldorin is quite similar to later period Sindarin, yes? N words can often be adopted to S with small or no changes. How do Ilkorin r...
• 7NGU4E3zLi8: I have misgivings regarding the cluster ntha- in reconstructed S words (eg *mentha- "send") *, and would prefer other solutions. The only attested ...
• UmeiE3oE9GA: I have added words to the VQP from a previous post. I want to add one of these, but I can't make up my mind. Preferences, anyone? * ogod; och; ugu...
• Ej4QoMacHkT: Working on the Sindarin Dual Plural some more, based on some helpful comments by you guys. I'm having difficulty with words that would have ended w...
• WmWMPRgiD1o: Hi all, Do you think torog 'troll' (Appendix F(I), PE17:136) is related to turko (Lúnaturco, a Quenya name for Barad-dûr (PE17:22)? Tolkien says t...
• D4Ha2BN3iSo: So a week ago +Hjalmar Holm asked for a Sindarin word for "strange" and I suggested G. elegrin "different, strange" with associated noun G. elm, el...
• QMavNNmjGZL: I've released version 0.4.5 of Eldamo. The major milestone in this release is that I finished analyzing the Ilkorin/Doriathrin languages. This mea...
• PjqzLgNFBYW: Ekin Gören proposed NS *pentha- as "reveal, show someone something", see: http://eldamo.sourceforge.net/content/words/word-1363072765.html http://e...
• 2kF9UYWxxtr: I've run into the reconstructed S word *fel- "to feel emotion. I have sometimes missed a word for such thing as "it fels like [this or that]". On t...
• d4yTqEKG8Qb: Do we have any botanist amongs us? Great lilies, snapdragons and laburnums? ...
• efWMDLG6X4i: ns iaethwedh "scarf, necktie". Paul Strack Mar 30,...
• fNLNwRt18Ld: Any S word for "rare, unusual" or "weird, peculiar, curious, strange"? ...
• MFK1aRuSRwz: A random discovery as I was studying on Sindarin/Noldorin phonology. David Salo marked S. taus "thatch" as an irregular development from its primi...
• 5hGXSojXBjY: Some Sindarin neologism ideas and adaptations to go with Tolkien Reading Day. . . (Also because "waste not", and all that.) — : — * aif adj. same...
• JBkWEvXn6US: I was wondering if anyone has any interest in Khuzdul? I know some things about it, namely that it's based on semetic languages, has an "old" and "...
• HS8xn8eq8BP: The completed Pronouns and Quenya Cases lists are up. Thanks for the corrections everyone! (Especially with Quenya!) Here's the announcement with a...
• cj1UgBEX4so: I tried to make a word for "sap, resin" with the root KHIM (the thought being of vaurse that sap and resin is sticky and viscous) and the suffix -l...
• KDjhhYZ8T5g: mawedh, "glove", inspired after the English etymology of "glove" Proto-Germanic *ga- “collective and associative prefix” + Proto-Germanic *lōfô “fl...
• 9ScXrfXLKJZ: When writing in VQP, shall I use the term Common Eldarin or Primitive Elvish, and how shall I abbreviate them? I have so far, inconstistently, used...
• fNw4BKYWbrW: Question: is there an explanation why S. Rodon "Power, Vala" gets plural Rodyn instead of expected **Redyn? Even if *Raudon is assumed, shouldn't i...
• ZMzkPm16mYs: Is 'quenya' in technicality an adjective? Because the original term for valinorean tongue was 'quenya-lambe,' unless I am mistaken. ...
• GLjqQpWPEEi: I just read about Beleg Cuthalion's bow, that is said to be named Belthronding. What does that mean? Strong something? ...
• Fitou3CDHXC: The Elvish Translator app is now out on Android for free! Check it out and learn some Quenya! ...
• MJeKXpgspKv: S (and Q) word for "part, piece" and "partly, to some extent". I thought of using ú-bant for the latter, but that doesn't really help me with the f...
• a7iKCkJCrek: Another minor Eldamo update (0.4.4). I know I said last week that I wasn't going to do this weekly, but +Tamas Ferencz  suggested putting the [Sear...
• HYNHiAVxFEM: I'm making a quick reference chart of Neo-Quenya and Neo-Sindarin pronouns, as well as a quick reference chart of Neo-Quenya case suffixes. Before ...
• a8KoQqFn6y7: Hello!! How would you say "May God bless you and keep you' in Q.? Would "Cé Eru laitatye ar rethatye" be correct? ...
• LLHom3xKkN4: I released a small update to the Eldamo lexicon (v0.4.3). I am not planning on releasing updates on a weekly basis, but Tamas Ferencz inspired me t...
• bDpjikKmrJG: A question: when does si (here/now) get lenited into hi? Some people spell it with a long vowel, hí, what is the more correct? ...
• AuiQwFjNxTU: Hi folks, I've been working on a multi-language Elvish lexicon for some time now, based on an XML data model used to generate entries for individu...
• JGkYsAQjt9T: I found the S reconstruction pess for feather (either on a bird or on a arrow or as a primitive pen, I guess). I think it's from the Q quesse. Does...

Elvish Translator (Real)

• Fitou3CDHXC: The Elvish Translator app is now out on Android for free! Check it out and learn some Quenya! ...
• TTBivZ3mPVj: Hey guys, I'm developing a free Android app with a Quenya translator and wordlists. I wrote the translator myself to handle sentences and correct ...

#Accentual

• afqxeKBVHPy: Aaah. Increasingly hard. And lots of newer grammar as well. Athya, Tárinyar, tekitása ríkan, Lá kenilden ñwalyan i•ríkieinen, Sampan i•quettanyar,...
• TATWjhpuspw: +#Alighieri Ter inye men' i•ñwalmea ostonnar, Ter inye men' i•mettencanna naike, Ter inye men' i•vanwa•fírimonnar. In•Axan nár támonyo hendi maika...
• 7UathnEpqnn: Ladies and gentlemen, an Italian sonnet! Completely autobiographic. +Tamas Ferencz Grammar-wise: experimenting with habitual tenses. Taurë Patail...
• Lxo9gm3k7KJ: For something nobody expected! The same, but adapted to 'late' Quenya of the 60s! +#PE22 Lantar úlor. Talatanye, Málinen ortanienwa, Masse Cále tu...
• 1JNmvNmkjaX: An elegiac. Eñget i•Aldu mi Númen: calaitë silíteye atta álet; Fíriet oialë né, euva calanta mi hón. [There were two Trees in the West: one shone...
• 7he2HAmY3C4: Just a spontaneous play with late 40s-Quenya, as described in +#PE22. A lament of a Ñoldo returning to Valinor after the War of Wrath. (And a fulfi...
• gUuq2hz6iar: I wonder: why wasn't it done before? For me it was hard as hell, taking both the rhythm and rhyme, retaining the wording and trying to eliminate th...
• 1T1bELtgbe5: 'Tis a piece not planned or written Out of conscious mind's decision, Though I thought of long this metre, Noble trochee of the sagas, Of the Finni...
• 25Y82vMVj1S: This one affected and bothered me deeply. Written in a totally incompatible (with anything) language, about an unknown event and still perfectly sh...
• cnH7eWVwL8p: Gweniant im gared hen tadphae eneg oer io ah en henion! GLÎR E-MARGAIR i en glinnar i•Ellath in•Gwaith Círdan i dartha vi Lond, eb i•Gair Vedui na...
• VKSr9sh2ttw: I do not love thee… Gen ú-velin im, Herdir Fell, Ú-bedithon i•gaethad del, Mal iston hen, pen-adbedel: Gen ú-velin im, Herdir Fell. caethad 'reas...
• X4UaDzrRG6n: Once again, if you don't find much metric poetry in Sindarin, go and write yourself. This time, the rhythm is retained, not a single line or syllab...
• iTasHEpfRb2: I always wondered why there are so few attempts to compose accentual-syllabic poetry in Eldarin tongues retaining metre, rhythm and rhymes. Here is...

#FixedForm

• afqxeKBVHPy: Aaah. Increasingly hard. And lots of newer grammar as well. Athya, Tárinyar, tekitása ríkan, Lá kenilden ñwalyan i•ríkieinen, Sampan i•quettanyar,...
• TATWjhpuspw: +#Alighieri Ter inye men' i•ñwalmea ostonnar, Ter inye men' i•mettencanna naike, Ter inye men' i•vanwa•fírimonnar. In•Axan nár támonyo hendi maika...
• 7UathnEpqnn: Ladies and gentlemen, an Italian sonnet! Completely autobiographic. +Tamas Ferencz Grammar-wise: experimenting with habitual tenses. Taurë Patail...
• 1JNmvNmkjaX: An elegiac. Eñget i•Aldu mi Númen: calaitë silíteye atta álet; Fíriet oialë né, euva calanta mi hón. [There were two Trees in the West: one shone...
• cnH7eWVwL8p: Gweniant im gared hen tadphae eneg oer io ah en henion! GLÎR E-MARGAIR i en glinnar i•Ellath in•Gwaith Círdan i dartha vi Lond, eb i•Gair Vedui na...
• iTasHEpfRb2: I always wondered why there are so few attempts to compose accentual-syllabic poetry in Eldarin tongues retaining metre, rhythm and rhymes. Here is...

#Original

• afqxeKBVHPy: Aaah. Increasingly hard. And lots of newer grammar as well. Athya, Tárinyar, tekitása ríkan, Lá kenilden ñwalyan i•ríkieinen, Sampan i•quettanyar,...
• 7UathnEpqnn: Ladies and gentlemen, an Italian sonnet! Completely autobiographic. +Tamas Ferencz Grammar-wise: experimenting with habitual tenses. Taurë Patail...
• Lxo9gm3k7KJ: For something nobody expected! The same, but adapted to 'late' Quenya of the 60s! +#PE22 Lantar úlor. Talatanye, Málinen ortanienwa, Masse Cále tu...
• 1JNmvNmkjaX: An elegiac. Eñget i•Aldu mi Númen: calaitë silíteye atta álet; Fíriet oialë né, euva calanta mi hón. [There were two Trees in the West: one shone...
• 7he2HAmY3C4: Just a spontaneous play with late 40s-Quenya, as described in +#PE22. A lament of a Ñoldo returning to Valinor after the War of Wrath. (And a fulfi...
• iTasHEpfRb2: I always wondered why there are so few attempts to compose accentual-syllabic poetry in Eldarin tongues retaining metre, rhythm and rhymes. Here is...

Ekin Gören

• Uwg6NXV9J2w: What would you suggest for a good NQ equivalent of Goldogrin grith- v. “to attend to, tend, care, care for, mind”? I usually resort to aþya- when I...
• CJJBnK2LPMW: I wonder whether Quenya is lax enough to allow double negatives, whether lá melin laquen can be considered correct, or does it have to be lá melin ...
• C8Xo12Lo25p: I have four rhyming words for you to give me ideas on, how to say them in Quenya: fame shame blame tame Discuss :) ...
• hXTgUzWEe6B: New member, still very much an amateur in Sindarin but doing my best. I am doing a translation of some/all of the Episcopal wedding ceremony for ...
• Fv25SgwYXDN: Hi. I'd like to have some charm on my number plate holder. E.g. i rasg hen ah i rasgon di veriad e-Mbelain onen I have not yet decided, though. Cou...
• TBExZWGdhU9: This words analysis has to do with negations. It is a problem that has been hashed to death, and in terms of the historical analysis I have little ...
• daTTs5Yg14v: So what do you say, fellow lambendili, shall we prove the Professor wrong? :) Watch J.R.R. Tol...
• cygRdTHV4tz: Here is another exploration of Eldarin words, this time “father/mother, son/daughter, sister/brother” “Father” is dead easy. The words Q. atar, S....
• VzU2c5yV36k: Throwing in a few words to munch on: surprise recognize to get to know, acquaint get, acquire ...
• 8oo3a3s4RMP: How do folks think initial primitive tl- and dl- developed in Sindarin? In Gnomish, there are no initial tl-, and there are some of examples of cl...
• ctvC4VBia6b: Square/rectangle and cube. There is neltil for triangle, so *kantil would be logical, but that also means 'fourth finger'. Perhaps that's not a bi...
• 66ZNVytFcA1: We now have a Discord Server! Please join us following this link: https://discord.gg/Dhmyzrf For those who don't know, Discord is a messenger appl...
• hHUHw9gS8g3: Merya Mettare Len, Meldonyar! Ekin Gören Dec 31, 2...
• iU1dqDYwN7k: I've finished Release 0.6.0 of Eldamo. This release has nearly all of Tolkien's attested word forms from the existing published material. Only a fe...
• AZqD6wAPivt: How would you say "forget" in Q? lerya sanarello? hehta sanarello? Gnomish has this very interesting root: ...
• G6uVRvdrHyT: A Quenya word for "special, particular" would be helpful, especially as an adverb "especially, particularly" :) I see Sindarin edregol "in especial...
• AZmJoZ9N8oc: I've release v0.5.8 of Eldamo. This version has the data for PE21, which was more of a slog than I expected (so many declension tables). Of the m...
• LRMLbXJaVwL: Do we have any examples of what primitive *–ab–tâ, *–ab–tê, *–ab–tô would become in Sindarin? I myself am still looking. Or would a suffix variant...
• Qb6Hb3nY9ZF: I think we now have attested Quenya interrogative/demonstrative/relative pronouns for most situations (who, what, whose, where, whence, whither, ho...
• gkZkxF5ti8s: Been ages since I last translated or wrote something. So I experiment once again. And in Sindarin this time! Well, less of a translation, more of a...
• B6ZMcC56U9q: Tell me about your workaround solutions for the conjunction 'so that/in order to/ut'. Or maybe there is something attested? I think this is physica...
• 93sfzLic57s: Nosto i-Aear, lass laeg, Legolas! Dorthannel anan nu 'aladh vi 'lass. Ae lastol i-nall e-maew 'ri falas, Gúrel ló-chiratha hîdh vi thaur dass. Leg...
• CAXobB8EUFr: Hello +Paul Strack, (+Ekin Gören, +Eryn Galen, +Roman Rausch) there's something that I would like to have your opinion about :) In the past week...
• BGLjmvZqjAf: So I just had an idea... Online automatic tengwar transcribers (often just called "rune generators") are at best producing only few errors, mostly ...
• NXaYBmeDc7Y: To a favourite tree (from Handel's Serse, Act I) Milya ar vanima olasse melda mapalininyo, a raita tyen calambar! Nai tarítali ar raumo la terhat...
• EgrBPuy6sVU: +Paul Strack +Eryn Galen +Ekin Gören +Roman Rausch updated the database with Paul's new 0.5.6 release. There are some other changes: I switched fr...
• Ksho6J6y4jH: +Paul Strack +Ekin Gören +Roman Rausch +Eryn Galen et al, I updated the eldamo relational DB project on Github: https://github.com/aduial/eldamo-r...
• 1H2DsiiuWWZ: Problem of Ā/AU in Sindarin I believe we have a consensus concerning the ineffectiveness of the I-affection on non-final O[Rodyn. Yet there are two...
• FGtGrDBXz3W: Just searching for a Sindarin word for "nobody", stumbled across uvan, sources given are TI/281,283,314. I have no access to the Treason of Isengar...
• d3CUuDspq2J: Good news! We have established a Skype chat for Eldarin linguistic discussions! Please join if you also wish to participate! +Christopher Gilson +...
• jSyFDM3xeMq: I posted this question other places but I'd like to here some more opinions. Medial NG sound. Should it be [ŋ] or [ŋg]? Tolkien said "NG represen...
• WbaugKu3Amy: Time for some fable :) Let's make it flawless together? Máma rokkorye Máma, ye penne tó, kenne rokkor: min sakila i•lunka, exé kólo túra, métimá ...
• dhAQTxWYR9c: After going through dozens of contradictory documents for hours, I am about to give up... Here is the current version of my take on the Prestanneth...
• Dffnsng79Lb: Hey everyone! As a part of my IT apprenticeship I'm planning on realising a kind of elvish resource which I think does not exist yet in a similar ...
• FiMYGbt3r6D: After re-reading page 147 in PE 22, i thought about this "before of time. PHA, APHA. enge. 1 2 before, in front of place. KHYA .13 after {later th...
• Dxe8uAoVhSY: How indeed could we build up a spoken (chatting) Quenya? A few months ago David Girardeau was lamenting how the new words and forms seem to actuall...
• crxfMrFcm8z: A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages - Lecture 1 with Dr. Andrew Higgins The ...
• a5jkwCd7rhn: Sindarinists: what do you make of the (plural) forms athof, athab paired with the "usual" 1st sg athon on p167 of PE22? Ephemeral variants? ...
• Qh3m17dsRiJ: A counter-proposition to Jallings' law-words: I'd much rather have it *thain (Q cognate sanye) as "law" and *thaineb as "lawful, law-abiding", than...
• BvFdXAvo5cH: I tried to scour the web, but in vain... Does anyone know of a translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, or at least the first art...
• PgCxUZkW4bp: MEL: A-verb or I-verb? We see CE melā- in PE22/095;130;134 Also ᴹQ meláne in LR/061 Yet Q shows melin etc. in VT49/15;21 +Александр Запрягаев seem...
• RtjwC4DCNUA: Here's another +#Oonagh song, in fact the only song of her that's 100% elvish! The song is actually a translation of an originally icelandic tradi...
• iBnyANQQW6q: Just working on a translation for someone into both Quenya and Sindarin of the following sentence: "If you want to be hard (i.e. "steadfast, endur...
• Gy9ZiCzPy4d: Mana estuvalme sina laima? (Digitalis purpurea) 20160627_122954.jpg Mana estuvalme sin...
• SbXbzdP7aMP: Hi! I don't know very well the Sindarin, but I'm trying to improve them. Could someone translate for me these phrases? "Everything happens for a re...
• 7thaeLkyp8C: I have just finished a coffee pouch, made out of leather, and thought of writing "coffee" on it. However, we lack a word for that in eldarin, don't...
• KnQS1kr6nrC: Ú-inn ða v'im mudad sír. Lőrinczi Gábor May 27, 20...
• 9hcuYrDoJmy: Ivistien i tehta mir +#DadTalksQuenya, an i selyë hinna quilda ná. [I've changed the tag into "DadTalksQuenya, for my daughter still is silent.] ...
• S7igkFhkJWq: Nen a! nen, ne chuil i 'lanna mael, glanno drass nín ah, panno nin na 'lass ah estel, na dathon tangant ne i-aur dolel. Water oh! water, in life t...
• SEFabLtRq8j: PE22 offers a solution to spatio-temporal ambiguity of before/after words. Using the following roots, I made some reconstructions for Sindarin: Te...
• feFcdwgRtDc: +Paul Strack +Tamas Ferencz +Fiona Jallings Let's have a discussion of those forms here. Please inform me of any additions and possible alternate i...
• CFeRZ3FgVvo: Would you use the Qe. preposition rimni [http://eldamo.org/content/words/word-2478876553.html] in translations, or can someone suggest a replacemen...
• WXET73QNktz: Ceno in yngyl dhaer! Does this work, or does it seem like an appeal to go and see them? ...
• UsHWNTaq8Kp: UPDATE 2.04.2016: Happy April Fools' Day! Hello everyone and so sorry for a long period of absence. (Especially to +Ekin Gören who constantly fail...
• TWgLT6URv7j: I've release v0.5.1 of my Elvish lexicon Eldamo. I am embarrassed that I haven't updated the lexicon since last September. I got distracted by som...
• FyFbCveZdAc: +#StoryOfARoot The stem, MEN, does not even appear in the Etymologies as verbal; the only thing it says about the unglossed root is that it derive...
• MqRjJDeh6Tb: (After a burst of New Year's inspiration, I'm ready to present the most huge of my current plans…) What do you do when some song gets stuck into y...
• fKRxQpgqZUb: So MILDOR is "Wine-land" - interesting! I didn't see any discussion of this yet, though there's so much to catch up on from the past few months. I ...
• FM5Ct4qjafi: Based on PE/17, I’ve always thought that S -g is the informal (familiar) 2nd p. sg. verbal suffix, while -dh is the formal (polite) 2nd p. sg. verb...
• eErHtcvwn6F: My current field of interest, connected with the upcoming article Eldarinwe Ólamáron Allamaiti Quenta-Yestalesse, is Quenya phonology. As per PE19:...
• LeFR7FmDRRy: Have you already decided for yourselves how exactly are we going to resolve the question Tolkien himself left in a muddle: the prepositions/adverbs...
• QVrRFmVmWLk: Another word to ponder: - to switch, swap, replace, exchange Any suggestions? ...
• UTdnePnDxao: Do you think *tercara "through-doing" would be a good coinage for "thorough"? +#Quenya   ...
• K1hhbNKHrtP: I tussa ara i pelo lotarwammo sí quanta aiwion arwa luini yo maline lúpi. Estaine titmouse Ingilnóreo lambesse - ma estuvalvet Quenyasse? ...
• ZzcDZ4L96n8: This news item seems pretty relevant for this community. Middle-earth News – Enter our Tolkien...
• AeLwcfJkVH9: With PE 22, LSV4 (page 151) in mind, ebe- "can of mere possibility according to likelihood, natural probability" as root for NeoS * eb-, i-verb, us...
• fzKAPEmHzuX: Since al- is now "not", then alwed as "prosperous, well-being" doesn't work anymore. Any ideas for a substitution or reconstruction? ...
• UhPmfFPwKYR: After some discussion with +Ekin Gören , I thought of reconstruct a word for "berry", (or maybe rather "berries") *pigin, with CE root PIK, common ...
• emTyhvrnXKx: Alright, I finished a small mountain of updates (still have more to go... need to finish rewriting homework assignments and making quizzes) but her...
• j3LwUo2mzgt: Glassui ni athar ilphen i•aur hen, eb pelin thî athragared uin ist e Pharf Edhellaim dadchaen tadui! Cambenyes sina arinessë ar férima silumë náry...
• dWsdUgGx2Hv: Who by fire? A man na naur, man na nen? Man min glaw, man min daw? Man na amarthad chall, man na badhed órui? Man ned ethuil 'elir, man na thawas ...
• 14gwrWgh5wm: While we're all waiting for PE23, I've got a sort of (possibly, defective) idea about the pronouns. I've been studying the PE21 carefully for noun ...
• ND5PwZ6bBUd: Peded laew, ach eno i Silevril ú-dhendellin Much talk and little work. ...
• HpMoMFynCzD: Ae Anor! Sír celidh nan 'lawar aglareb athan in oer eithyr in idhrinn! ...
• MwpTamZxdbN: May you mind giving me a brief lesson on Sindarin grammer? I started studying this language a little while back, and I am slow when it comes to la...
• Gu7kfYXkpNu: R.I.P. Sir Christopher Legendary actor Christopher Lee dies at the age of 93 The actor...
• 3BAaitWk1h7: Maer arad Ekin Gören Jun 11, 2015 (02:13) ...
• hFc9KoVkuz1: I've release Eldamo 0.4.7, which has two major updates: 1) I've analyzed the Danian language. I originally thought this would be quite easy, given...
• G9LqybeLPHr: All of us desire to do that one day, don't we? Credit to +Ekin Gören ! Golodlam ah in•Eglain geliad ídhranc panui! [Tongues of the Noldor and the...
• huT1qf8fzZZ: I've release Eldamo 0.4.6. The two major changes in this version are: 1) I finished data entry for PE13. I am actually quite surprised at the amo...
• GPTnYbAbE65: Inspired by Quenya Átaremma. Imagine an old loremaster, patiently explaining cosmology to his apprentice… Eruvan ú-na Menel, Iladar athar Ardhon. ...
• CeKYiCbF9vE: Seriously, I'm at loss. Seven more… I really don't have a set of pre-made ones for quite a long time… Penin in•ingath linnyd, menno in•ingath enni...
• U9TBa81Wfd5: Mathematical linnod of the day. Iladar nodath agor, egel nan Edain carnen. L. Cronecker [Allfather created the Numbers, other (things) are made ...
• ggfWjZ7KgY8: Hogwarts motto, anyone? Behold the linnod of the day! Cíniel faulug lorel, avo echuiad vertho! [Having seen a sleeping dragon, don't dare to wake...
• X4UaDzrRG6n: Once again, if you don't find much metric poetry in Sindarin, go and write yourself. This time, the rhythm is retained, not a single line or syllab...
• QMavNNmjGZL: I've released version 0.4.5 of Eldamo. The major milestone in this release is that I finished analyzing the Ilkorin/Doriathrin languages. This mea...
• PjqzLgNFBYW: Ekin Gören proposed NS *pentha- as "reveal, show someone something", see: http://eldamo.sourceforge.net/content/words/word-1363072765.html http://e...
• ggLSPkqQPzd: I have problems with the word eitha- which either means "to insult, treat with scorn, stab", or "ease, comfort". I find it very hard to understand ...
• 5hGXSojXBjY: Some Sindarin neologism ideas and adaptations to go with Tolkien Reading Day. . . (Also because "waste not", and all that.) — : — * aif adj. same...
• J1HGaQXPaNr: Man nos perian? Tamas Ferencz Mar 20, 2015 (09:39)...
• CcsomP1yPDG: Narn hen o manen Pogodion agor garwegas rach, a cared a peded naid bainui dír-inced. I have some trouble with this. I lack a word for "how", so I ...
• MJeKXpgspKv: S (and Q) word for "part, piece" and "partly, to some extent". I thought of using ú-bant for the latter, but that doesn't really help me with the f...
• gHnJCCQ1YNr: Hello,  I apologize if this is not a good forum for asking this question.  I am trying to translate my name into Sindarin.  I have found two words ...

Amy Wolf

• gHnJCCQ1YNr: Hello,  I apologize if this is not a good forum for asking this question.  I am trying to translate my name into Sindarin.  I have found two words ...

Mahendra Jagtap

• DX5oBLWiAzx: excellent work Tamas Ferencz Feb 27, 2015 (08:54) ...

Chris Blackford

• cQyRvbPXSon: Hello i am Azog , i speak Orcish 08/02/2017 ...
• JSxB7SRjVuN: LOTR, FR, Gandalf twice uses the same words to perform a fire spell. What language are his words? What do they mean? 'The Ring Goes South': Gandal...
• JBkWEvXn6US: I was wondering if anyone has any interest in Khuzdul? I know some things about it, namely that it's based on semetic languages, has an "old" and "...

J'Far

• T2EixTtN4yf: An interesting article on 'Khuzdul' the secret language of the Dwarves. http://folk.uib.no/hnohf/khuzdul.htm ...

#fel-

• 2kF9UYWxxtr: I've run into the reconstructed S word *fel- "to feel emotion. I have sometimes missed a word for such thing as "it fels like [this or that]". On t...

Harri Perälä

• gWZGhGrikUT: Here is a list of Elvish names and phrases from The Art of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien that I think might be previously unpublished. So...
• WmWMPRgiD1o: Hi all, Do you think torog 'troll' (Appendix F(I), PE17:136) is related to turko (Lúnaturco, a Quenya name for Barad-dûr (PE17:22)? Tolkien says t...

#FreeVerse

• 1T1bELtgbe5: 'Tis a piece not planned or written Out of conscious mind's decision, Though I thought of long this metre, Noble trochee of the sagas, Of the Finni...
• X4UaDzrRG6n: Once again, if you don't find much metric poetry in Sindarin, go and write yourself. This time, the rhythm is retained, not a single line or syllab...

#Translation

• TATWjhpuspw: +#Alighieri Ter inye men' i•ñwalmea ostonnar, Ter inye men' i•mettencanna naike, Ter inye men' i•vanwa•fírimonnar. In•Axan nár támonyo hendi maika...
• 1T1bELtgbe5: 'Tis a piece not planned or written Out of conscious mind's decision, Though I thought of long this metre, Noble trochee of the sagas, Of the Finni...
• VKSr9sh2ttw: I do not love thee… Gen ú-velin im, Herdir Fell, Ú-bedithon i•gaethad del, Mal iston hen, pen-adbedel: Gen ú-velin im, Herdir Fell. caethad 'reas...
• X4UaDzrRG6n: Once again, if you don't find much metric poetry in Sindarin, go and write yourself. This time, the rhythm is retained, not a single line or syllab...

Gimhan Karunaratne

• CeKYiCbF9vE: Seriously, I'm at loss. Seven more… I really don't have a set of pre-made ones for quite a long time… Penin in•ingath linnyd, menno in•ingath enni...

Morwen Blaisdale

• YiUsddSp8Xq: I never gave Adunaic much thought but lately I'm doing a fan-fiction that involves Numenor and find myself having to delve into this language. ...

#Rhymed

• Lxo9gm3k7KJ: For something nobody expected! The same, but adapted to 'late' Quenya of the 60s! +#PE22 Lantar úlor. Talatanye, Málinen ortanienwa, Masse Cále tu...
• 7he2HAmY3C4: Just a spontaneous play with late 40s-Quenya, as described in +#PE22. A lament of a Ñoldo returning to Valinor after the War of Wrath. (And a fulfi...
• gUuq2hz6iar: I wonder: why wasn't it done before? For me it was hard as hell, taking both the rhythm and rhyme, retaining the wording and trying to eliminate th...
• 25Y82vMVj1S: This one affected and bothered me deeply. Written in a totally incompatible (with anything) language, about an unknown event and still perfectly sh...
• VKSr9sh2ttw: I do not love thee… Gen ú-velin im, Herdir Fell, Ú-bedithon i•gaethad del, Mal iston hen, pen-adbedel: Gen ú-velin im, Herdir Fell. caethad 'reas...

Laura Gibbs

• HqPQZu3q3mD: The most common kind of compound word is what's called "endocentric:" it includes the thing that it is. So a houseboat is a kind of boat; a shoe sa...

Brianne Hughes

• HqPQZu3q3mD: The most common kind of compound word is what's called "endocentric:" it includes the thing that it is. So a houseboat is a kind of boat; a shoe sa...

#Tolkien

• gUuq2hz6iar: I wonder: why wasn't it done before? For me it was hard as hell, taking both the rhythm and rhyme, retaining the wording and trying to eliminate th...
• 25Y82vMVj1S: This one affected and bothered me deeply. Written in a totally incompatible (with anything) language, about an unknown event and still perfectly sh...
• cnH7eWVwL8p: Gweniant im gared hen tadphae eneg oer io ah en henion! GLÎR E-MARGAIR i en glinnar i•Ellath in•Gwaith Círdan i dartha vi Lond, eb i•Gair Vedui na...

Remi Korben

• joQ1mZC9vdJ: Can someone help me on the word(s) olor and olos?  These appear in two etymological notes published in Unfinished Tales (copied and pasted below) ...
• HjUZE5sENmq: A new feature I propose: a regular +#StoryOfARoot . Today: TĀ, TAγ, TAR, 'tall' and 'stand'. * Late 1930s In the Etymologies, the stem TĀ, ?TAγ 'h...
• dEnwmWV3vN2: Concernig giving and thanking (and approaching). For some time when I think of Eruhantale “thanksgiving”, and similarity of Elvish words expressi...
• UhPmfFPwKYR: After some discussion with +Ekin Gören , I thought of reconstruct a word for "berry", (or maybe rather "berries") *pigin, with CE root PIK, common ...
• emTyhvrnXKx: Alright, I finished a small mountain of updates (still have more to go... need to finish rewriting homework assignments and making quizzes) but her...
• 4pva3senyMw: +Remi Korben +Matt Dinse +Tamas Ferencz I propose to move into a separate discussion, for we have touched a topic I've been considering on my own ...
• 2XqfBtfU52N: Hallo everyone! I’m here for the first time and I’m impressed with your linguistic skills. Forgive me my poor English, Sindarin and so on. I’m inte...

Willow Branham

• MwpTamZxdbN: May you mind giving me a brief lesson on Sindarin grammer? I started studying this language a little while back, and I am slow when it comes to la...
• 3BAaitWk1h7: Maer arad Ekin Gören Jun 11, 2015 (02:13) ...

Josua Del Socorro

• BEA2fdUPUro: Rie erya lénen eke mon harna atan ilquo nehtaina: nananta sen ma hastaina. "There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him bac...
• acentjDn62a: Hello It's been a while, please check my post, I need your opinions or else support hehehe, thanks... https://elvishspeakers.wordpress.com/2016/10...
• LgxKpwEZvfg: Done a speech yesterday at the Chair of General and Comparative Linguistics, Philological Faculty, Moscow State University. The topic was announced...
• 25qScXdotX9: Ahhh suilad everyone I was wondering about the song "May it be" Is there any sites that has a complete updated english to quenya lyrics? ...
• ea3iban28e6: Guys, I need help for a prayer for my deceased grandmother, both in quenya and sindarin :( thanks ...
• FoZvyYf5rTE: So in the past few years I got granted the chance of composing elvish lyrics for professionally produced songs, which to my and the producer's asto...
• dc7nFGnhaQM: This awesome!!!!! :D :D :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkrAGsHIXY4 Two Steps From Hell - E...
• Ed9aDm5R3Xb: Sí nerim i eil, teithol i fuin adh Anor, gin a im, cenedril e galad, lhaich edaid e naur, narthannen vi lû dadui a had, Istassen i eneth gîn, Ista...
• S7igkFhkJWq: Nen a! nen, ne chuil i 'lanna mael, glanno drass nín ah, panno nin na 'lass ah estel, na dathon tangant ne i-aur dolel. Water oh! water, in life t...
• MHJa3sVCo3B: în aind breniannen, darthannen ne môr, a ne thrass, a vathant i haeg amar, nauthannen i vîled hen, mathathon hannaweg, das sennui aun enni, naeg a ...
• R2CriJkzrqS: suilad, Im Arthalion (Josua) o Kananga, I am new here, I hope you all accept my request to join in this community, len hannon in advance... ...
• 3BAaitWk1h7: Maer arad Ekin Gören Jun 11, 2015 (02:13) ...

Gabriele Gonzalez

• Gy9ZiCzPy4d: Mana estuvalme sina laima? (Digitalis purpurea) 20160627_122954.jpg Mana estuvalme sin...
• b1fPfAKsyg3: Yárenissilaire[1] ter ilya otsole! Alkarea áre, lauka vista, lómesse kalle, ringa nikse ambarónesse. Ta loa íta mirwa nin. [1] 'old women's summer...
• K1hhbNKHrtP: I tussa ara i pelo lotarwammo sí quanta aiwion arwa luini yo maline lúpi. Estaine titmouse Ingilnóreo lambesse - ma estuvalvet Quenyasse? ...
• HTTaYdJKE4P: With the new +#PE22 information, unexpected complications arose when making statements. We were told that LA negates adjectives and verbs only, and...
• Gu7kfYXkpNu: R.I.P. Sir Christopher Legendary actor Christopher Lee dies at the age of 93 The actor...

Menelion Elensúlë

• JMGhmxXXP9Z: I need a word for kind (adj). I know S has milui (friendly, loving, kind), but don't know how to convert it to Q. Where could I find rules for tran...
• RioE7FF7KS3: A sudden exploit between fandoms: originally done for the amazing Russian fan club called Drax, Brax & Strax Corner (where I am one of the admins)...
• DobTWzgR5LF: I've release Eldamo 0.4.8, the current version of my Elvish lexicon. This is mostly a technical release, in response to Source Forge breaking down...
• Fts43pBSDNN: To be sung to the melody of O Sole Mio Ma maira engwe, ta calina aure, Opo i raumo i hwesta milya, Lelya ve merende, i vilya ta vinya, Ma maira en...
• TTGQhQuvcvY: Since Source Forge has been down for nearly 2 days, I have put a temporary download link for Eldamo on Dropbox. When Source Forge comes back onlin...
• eqYZ19rwQVy: I need some more translation help. I am trying to translate "I will lift my eyes to the maker of the mountains I can't climb." So far, I have "Ort...

Christopher Gilson

• NhCSrJ2wRhg: Do you think the idea behind ahtumat may have been that it is the 'worker's meal', meaning the main meal for those who usually work through the day...
• NcWQ4z6SmW4: Meldenye taná! Illí eldeon mélienye! Horan lairi nyarienna! +Roman Rausch +Paul Strack +Fiona Jallings +Christopher Gilson ...
• d3CUuDspq2J: Good news! We have established a Skype chat for Eldarin linguistic discussions! Please join if you also wish to participate! +Christopher Gilson +...
• hWo1wzGUG3E: Laitale óraviéva Tamas, I do indeed remember reading your translation of this famous passage on Aglardh. Still, I hope you don't mind another vers...
• NmEctfvC9Zj: Has there been any thoughts or attestment for the entu, ensi, enta declensions? I'm noticing that tensi and tenta may be related somehow. ...
• 9SZVfvQKo6w: Ah, some productive time I had, pondering on the complexities of Eldarin grammar. Some of the lengthier ideas I am still to release later, when I f...
• UsHWNTaq8Kp: UPDATE 2.04.2016: Happy April Fools' Day! Hello everyone and so sorry for a long period of absence. (Especially to +Ekin Gören who constantly fail...
• BQ8nb4hPGSd: Hi Tamas, Did not know of this community until jut now. I'd just posted the question below in the Middle-earth G+ community, but see that this is ...
• GFbnxejHkkF: I have a copy of PE22 and it is amazing. It is chock full of marvelous information about Quenya and Early Eldarin verb structures. I've only begun ...

#PE22

• ZzcDZ4L96n8: This news item seems pretty relevant for this community. Middle-earth News – Enter our Tolkien...
• RKYSof8ggjk: There is in fact a previously attested verb of the ninkwis pattern seen in the +#PE22 'Common Eldarin' text, and this one postdates the emergence o...
• Lxo9gm3k7KJ: For something nobody expected! The same, but adapted to 'late' Quenya of the 60s! +#PE22 Lantar úlor. Talatanye, Málinen ortanienwa, Masse Cále tu...
• jCLxhdjzNcJ: A preliminary draft, +#PE22 used extensively. All ecclesiastical neologisms due to Helge Fauskanger. The Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, in attemp...
• gArhxnq9hXp: I've released the 0.4.9 version of Eldamo. 1) Since there has been growing interest in the Quenya content in the project, I've done some general c...
• 7he2HAmY3C4: Just a spontaneous play with late 40s-Quenya, as described in +#PE22. A lament of a Ñoldo returning to Valinor after the War of Wrath. (And a fulfi...
• HTTaYdJKE4P: With the new +#PE22 information, unexpected complications arose when making statements. We were told that LA negates adjectives and verbs only, and...
• 3woMbuNTPrE: Among other things, +#PE22 is also a treasure trove of sample sentences, so I thought I will collect them in a thread, maybe they will generate s...
• 6mFHntFww8x: I'll put up this thread to write down and not to forget the things of most peculiar interest I learned from +#PE22. (And I invite anyone to join!)....
• j3LwUo2mzgt: Glassui ni athar ilphen i•aur hen, eb pelin thî athragared uin ist e Pharf Edhellaim dadchaen tadui! Cambenyes sina arinessë ar férima silumë náry...
• W3faFBMiNYC: I like it that per +#PE22 "I am sad" in Qenya is luin, whereas luin is also "blue" in other sources. Those blasted Elves have even invented the b...
• byDaBiSCc8z: I am opening this thread to make note of words from Parma Eldalamberon 22 that - I think - have been hitherto unattested. I have not checked them a...

#hêl

• 6dVTwVqqUxk: Elvish dictionary app(lication) Mellyn, following a session at the Omentielva Enquea about "Identifying the Requirements for a Quenya & Sindarin ...

#1-30

• 6dVTwVqqUxk: Elvish dictionary app(lication) Mellyn, following a session at the Omentielva Enquea about "Identifying the Requirements for a Quenya & Sindarin ...

David Giraudeau

• 94oFwAPPsLi: I had a request a couple weeks ago to allow Russian translations in Eldamo. Since then, I've been experimenting with options for including non-Engl...
• 6dVTwVqqUxk: Elvish dictionary app(lication) Mellyn, following a session at the Omentielva Enquea about "Identifying the Requirements for a Quenya & Sindarin ...

#Quantitative

• afqxeKBVHPy: Aaah. Increasingly hard. And lots of newer grammar as well. Athya, Tárinyar, tekitása ríkan, Lá kenilden ñwalyan i•ríkieinen, Sampan i•quettanyar,...
• 1JNmvNmkjaX: An elegiac. Eñget i•Aldu mi Númen: calaitë silíteye atta álet; Fíriet oialë né, euva calanta mi hón. [There were two Trees in the West: one shone...

Oliver Stegen

• BQ8nb4hPGSd: Hi Tamas, Did not know of this community until jut now. I'd just posted the question below in the Middle-earth G+ community, but see that this is ...

simon cook

• JSxB7SRjVuN: LOTR, FR, Gandalf twice uses the same words to perform a fire spell. What language are his words? What do they mean? 'The Ring Goes South': Gandal...
• joQ1mZC9vdJ: Can someone help me on the word(s) olor and olos?  These appear in two etymological notes published in Unfinished Tales (copied and pasted below) ...
• 8htY18bUDHH: Language & Myth In 'A Secret Vice' Tolkien writes: '... the making of language and mythology are related functions; to give your language an indiv...
• BQ8nb4hPGSd: Hi Tamas, Did not know of this community until jut now. I'd just posted the question below in the Middle-earth G+ community, but see that this is ...

Tag Schatten

• F5cd9UL8LKp: Now it is my turn to  try with what is maybe the most translated poem: Althilia il i malthen allwanwen il i reniar alphêl i iaur i velt alphessa i...

Lorenzo C.B.

• 95n4kj5i8eb: I've released Eldamo 0.6.9 https://eldamo.org/ This is a bit faster than normal, but I'm getting ready leave on a lengthy vacation, so it was eit...
• jCLxhdjzNcJ: A preliminary draft, +#PE22 used extensively. All ecclesiastical neologisms due to Helge Fauskanger. The Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, in attemp...

Arno Gourdol

• Po9d8EmQpFv: I've released Eldamo 0.6.6 https://eldamo.org/ I've got quite a lot to say about this release, so I will be making several posts. The main thing ...
• WW9UW6tbN8v: Tecendil.com has been updated to the latest version of Eldamo. Use it to browse the dictionary in Tengwar, as well as to do your own transcriptions...
• BGLjmvZqjAf: So I just had an idea... Online automatic tengwar transcribers (often just called "rune generators") are at best producing only few errors, mostly ...
• Dffnsng79Lb: Hey everyone! As a part of my IT apprenticeship I'm planning on realising a kind of elvish resource which I think does not exist yet in a similar ...
• BvFdXAvo5cH: I tried to scour the web, but in vain... Does anyone know of a translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, or at least the first art...
• bjWSSFwCdoD: Hello friends, I have made some updates to my Tengwar transcriber (http://arno.org/tengwar/), including more accurate Sindarin and Quenya modes, a...
• gvZgtphJpPT: I've release Eldamo 0.5.0. In terms of content, this release is not that major. However, this is the first release of Eldamo that includes "source...

#kumba-

• Cw8D1Ynpqyr: Do you think haura from KHAWAD can be used as a verb to mean 'store, put away, stash'? Or should we employ KHEP/KHAP for this purpose, perhaps with...

Matt Coombes

• JyCB7HEd7Un: Here's a first-draft rendition of my recommendations for tattoo-seekers and tattoo-artists. Let me know if you spot errors or have any comments or ...
• d3CUuDspq2J: Good news! We have established a Skype chat for Eldarin linguistic discussions! Please join if you also wish to participate! +Christopher Gilson +...
• 3mzctUkjgRA: Hello there :). I have a question regarding the translation of the quotes from Tolkien's books. Is it possible for you to translate it from english...
• ACVYNGwFtFs: Hey, +Matt Coombes, your book has just arrived, it looks really nicely presented! Thank you DS...
• H8Tz3JJw1Ec: The Elvish Writing Systems of J.R.R. Tolkien by Matt Coombes — Kickstarter None ...

Tom Hillman

• joQ1mZC9vdJ: Can someone help me on the word(s) olor and olos?  These appear in two etymological notes published in Unfinished Tales (copied and pasted below) ...
• Wai1cSvxVMz: I have discovered this fourteenth century English poem thanks to a post by +Tom Hillman and decided to attempt a Quenya translation. The flow and r...

Booklover

• aJdEqV4TdDa: I'm Polish and I love Dwarves . I love most of Thorin . Do any of you learns a dwarvish ( Khuzdul ) ? Seeking help, because the lessons are in Engl...

#StoryOfARoot

• iu45mg3E4nF: A sad +#StoryOfARoot that is, a story of forgetfulness and forgetfulness and oscillations. Curiously, the situation in the Lexicons is remarkably s...
• FyFbCveZdAc: +#StoryOfARoot The stem, MEN, does not even appear in the Etymologies as verbal; the only thing it says about the unglossed root is that it derive...
• HjUZE5sENmq: A new feature I propose: a regular +#StoryOfARoot . Today: TĀ, TAγ, TAR, 'tall' and 'stand'. * Late 1930s In the Etymologies, the stem TĀ, ?TAγ 'h...

Eldarin Root Analyses

• TBExZWGdhU9: This words analysis has to do with negations. It is a problem that has been hashed to death, and in terms of the historical analysis I have little ...
• 1ikJ7xWuJpd: This word analysis has to do with “smells”, both good (fragrant), bad (stinking) and neutral. As is often the case, the picture is fairly clear in...
• QqdENX8nxQC: This word analysis focuses on transitive verbs meaning “put, place, lay, set”. Finding a good choice for these words is a challenge, and requires s...
• T9mPKKnvqYv: This word analysis focuses on two opposing concepts: “before” and “after”. These saw numerous vacillations over Tolkien’s life, making it difficult...
• UwZMh3iSTcd: Another word analysis, this time on a cluster of related roots: DAL and LAD, TAL and LAT. TALA appears in the Quenya Lexicon as the basis for “foo...
• HPskg5fcrGY: This word analysis is focused on the Eldarin roots having to do with “go” and “walk”, centered around three canonical Elvish words: Q. avánier “has...
• iGzYxpR8WFz: Another word analysis, this time for a single word: the conjunction “and”. We know the net result: Q. ar and S. a. Knowing its development is never...
• jYr8GZG3Q5u: Another exploration of words, this time “letter, line, write”. This is a bit different from my previous examinations, since the most of the words i...
• 9oEepmWKb6A: Yet another conflux of words, this time “parent/child, grandparent/grandchild, boy/girl and baby”. These are probably the last for a while On the ...
• cygRdTHV4tz: Here is another exploration of Eldarin words, this time “father/mother, son/daughter, sister/brother” “Father” is dead easy. The words Q. atar, S....
• cfJ8ngEERt5: I am exploring the conflux of Eldarin words having to do “man/woman, husband/wife, bride/groom”. In Quenya, I think Q. nér “man” is quite well est...
• 56JBc9PWLXL: The +#Story_of_a_Root G/3AR is typical and specific simultaneously. Its most difficult part having already happened before the Etymologies and most...
• iu45mg3E4nF: A sad +#StoryOfARoot that is, a story of forgetfulness and forgetfulness and oscillations. Curiously, the situation in the Lexicons is remarkably s...
• FyFbCveZdAc: +#StoryOfARoot The stem, MEN, does not even appear in the Etymologies as verbal; the only thing it says about the unglossed root is that it derive...
• HjUZE5sENmq: A new feature I propose: a regular +#StoryOfARoot . Today: TĀ, TAγ, TAR, 'tall' and 'stand'. * Late 1930s In the Etymologies, the stem TĀ, ?TAγ 'h...

#Alighieri

• TATWjhpuspw: +#Alighieri Ter inye men' i•ñwalmea ostonnar, Ter inye men' i•mettencanna naike, Ter inye men' i•vanwa•fírimonnar. In•Axan nár támonyo hendi maika...

Tolkien Moot

• jL22Vs2wqB4: Reminder: Eä Tolkien Society April 16th, 2016 Meeting 1-3 pm Pacific Time. Spokane & Online. http://tolkienscholars.org/news/ts-meet-april-16-2016 ...

Josua Delsocorro

• MHJa3sVCo3B: în aind breniannen, darthannen ne môr, a ne thrass, a vathant i haeg amar, nauthannen i vîled hen, mathathon hannaweg, das sennui aun enni, naeg a ...
• R2CriJkzrqS: suilad, Im Arthalion (Josua) o Kananga, I am new here, I hope you all accept my request to join in this community, len hannon in advance... ...

j. mach Wust

• 3mhRdJqPnpn: I have seen that MS. Tolkien Drawings 90, fol. 39r, has been published on the Bodleian’s “Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth” website. It is the ring i...
• Dg9fbxfsp2W: One thing that we need to improve as a community is our abilities to add Tengwar, Sarati, and Cirth transcriptions to our websites. It's not possib...
• gWZGhGrikUT: Here is a list of Elvish names and phrases from The Art of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien that I think might be previously unpublished. So...
• PBTntJtjKmf: It's in English, not any ME language, but it's still nice: Tolkien's greeting inscription in Tengwar from a letter to G.H. Cowling (details of this...

#DadTalksQuenya

• 9hcuYrDoJmy: Ivistien i tehta mir +#DadTalksQuenya, an i selyë hinna quilda ná. [I've changed the tag into "DadTalksQuenya, for my daughter still is silent.] ...
• FA5KaEPUoDh: If somebody wants to help me in my experiement wherein I am trying to talk a little bit Quenya to my daughter Rina (3 and a half yo), please post y...
• AToKWgaDnUJ: Man asyuva nin carë (Vin-)Quenya mir quétima lambë? Merin ata carpa Quenyassë as pitya yeldenya. Samin maurë rimbë vinyë quettaiva! +#DadTalksQuen...

Severin Zahler

• PFgSQyJoiqy: +Ицхак Пензев Yitzik, your latest post and list of words has inspired me to start something similar (and I do not want to hijack your dictionary ...
• iU1dqDYwN7k: I've finished Release 0.6.0 of Eldamo. This release has nearly all of Tolkien's attested word forms from the existing published material. Only a fe...
• XUZxsExUtmv: I said I'd post more about “what's next” for Eldamo, so here it is. Given my recent posts, it’s no secret that I think we need a generally improve...
• Km7Pn3azPyu: Sharing +Severin Zahler's CSS fontface guide as it's too important to be buried in a comment somewhere. Thanks, Severin! ...
• Dg9fbxfsp2W: One thing that we need to improve as a community is our abilities to add Tengwar, Sarati, and Cirth transcriptions to our websites. It's not possib...
• 6DKT3ZoNeah: To all of the web design Eldar out there: I have been making a Tengwar converter webpage that takes the latin script and changes the writing into t...
• YsZP82rYaPs: This is a bit of a speculative post. Amazon recently announced a deal with the Tolkien estate for a Middle Earth TV series. Who knows how long it w...
• NyWJ18pVV7y: welp, as much as it horrifies my parents that i should learn a "made up" language (although technically all languages are made up >_>) i still want...
• TW7RvyTFQdv: Does anyone have a clue whether there's any possibility of obtaining the many out-of-print Parmar Eldalamberon? Or are there any digital copies aro...
• 3F3FJBmR2Wr: Hi! I just updated Parf Edhellen (www.elfdict.com). It is an exciting update, as it enables our community to contribute to the dictionary. All con...
• cLAVQyhmp2o: Hello! I am wondering how to use the Tengwar for others to see on a webpage!!! Can anyone tell me how to do so??? Also, if it involves programming...
• PtmJdUYe9RN: Hmmm just realised Vinquettaparma (http://middangeard.org.uk/vqp/doku.php/ns:wordlist) is offline... Does anyone by chance know what's up (i.e whet...
• BGLjmvZqjAf: So I just had an idea... Online automatic tengwar transcribers (often just called "rune generators") are at best producing only few errors, mostly ...
• UPdzGw7oyi9: I've done a "data cleanup" release of Eldamo (v0.5.6.1?). This "release" is targeted exclusively at programmers. I didn't do the work to update the...
• UzVZRJx1mcp: +Paul Strack eldamo-data review All queries have been made on the data of eldamo v0.5.5., but as you probably have not changed anything of the ex...
• 7Z8zeKSueQR: I've release v0.5.6 of my Elvish lexicon Eldamo. This version has data from PE15. Of the major publications, only PE16, PE18, PE19 and PE21 remain...
• XXqyiwLBdZe: Hello! I was wondering what you would use in Quenya for the word "bearing" in this sentence: "You have seen them bearing the cloaks of lords!" This...
• ErfQMsF2MZw: It is done it's done it's done it's done it's done! Hard Copies of “A Fan’s Guide to Neo-Sinda...
• FGtGrDBXz3W: Just searching for a Sindarin word for "nobody", stumbled across uvan, sources given are TI/281,283,314. I have no access to the Treason of Isengar...
• 99KNcR1KorH: Yay I am finally done with exporting the eldamo-data! 26'494 words, attested by 74'079 references and connected with a stunning 209'458 relations (...
• jJHjoyfqq7G: Hey +Paul Strack it's me again ;) Haven't got all that much time in the past few weeks for the project, but finally I am getting close to finishing...
• dkPFfLVwKUr: I've release v0.5.5 of Eldamo. This release finishes both PE14 and the early Qenya name analysis. I've also done some cleanup on the XSD schema de...
• fQc9f1q1yad: I can't post on Severin Zahler's page, so what does the chorus of "Nan Uye" mean??? I figured out most of the words but it doesn't make much sense?...
• d3CUuDspq2J: Good news! We have established a Skype chat for Eldarin linguistic discussions! Please join if you also wish to participate! +Christopher Gilson +...
• Neg7i6MPEAr: *Conlang Database Project* Update March 23rd Over the past few weeks I've been busy with working on a few other things, but that was a total benef...
• 8ccgrHhgSTY: I've release v0.5.4 of Eldamo. Now that PE22 is done, I gone back to working on earlier material. I finished up some left overs in PE12, and made ...
• hevGScdr2Hu: Another quick update and some more questions for clarification to +Paul Strack... I decided to get rid of the intermediary tables which link the r...
• SRxZhM91gPe: So quick update from my conlang database project! I've just refactored the database model to be able to include the marks (whether a word is i.e. ...
• dx2yzJXndVM: Conlang Database project I'm about to be done with exporting the eldamo data, the only big thing that's left to treat now is all the relations bet...
• infpTCicoFy: So, after the christmas break I am back working on my conlang database project. Currently I am developping a java program which dissects the data f...
• Dffnsng79Lb: Hey everyone! As a part of my IT apprenticeship I'm planning on realising a kind of elvish resource which I think does not exist yet in a similar ...
• RtjwC4DCNUA: Here's another +#Oonagh song, in fact the only song of her that's 100% elvish! The song is actually a translation of an originally icelandic tradi...
• iBnyANQQW6q: Just working on a translation for someone into both Quenya and Sindarin of the following sentence: "If you want to be hard (i.e. "steadfast, endur...
• bTBXiasupHK: Manten lingwe *undomatienna. Ar *cemorvar. Severin Zahler ...
• UCNuM7G9GpL: Got something very special to share today, just finished translating another Song for Oonagh that will be released this autumn and noone knows anyt...
• FoZvyYf5rTE: So in the past few years I got granted the chance of composing elvish lyrics for professionally produced songs, which to my and the producer's asto...
• BbyVbyydA1C: Intrigued by the Verbal Adjective xiéte "passing, impermanent" from PE22:155 (LVS7), as root for this one SKEY is given, what may be the verbal ste...

Gottfried Stoll (Gogo)

• K412KebrKDg: Mae govannen! Im Ballansidh! Tamas Ferencz May 29,...

#QVA

• LdxUd1vzteb: One of the benefits of Parma Eldalamberon issue 22 is the information we got about verbal adjectives, the different adjectival endings and their me...

#QuenyaVerbalAdjectives

• LdxUd1vzteb: One of the benefits of Parma Eldalamberon issue 22 is the information we got about verbal adjectives, the different adjectival endings and their me...

Marian Tak

• 3mzctUkjgRA: Hello there :). I have a question regarding the translation of the quotes from Tolkien's books. Is it possible for you to translate it from english...

Βιλλυ Παππα

• SbXbzdP7aMP: Hi! I don't know very well the Sindarin, but I'm trying to improve them. Could someone translate for me these phrases? "Everything happens for a re...

#Oonagh

• RtjwC4DCNUA: Here's another +#Oonagh song, in fact the only song of her that's 100% elvish! The song is actually a translation of an originally icelandic tradi...
• UCNuM7G9GpL: Got something very special to share today, just finished translating another Song for Oonagh that will be released this autumn and noone knows anyt...

Faravenel Faramiriel

• d3CUuDspq2J: Good news! We have established a Skype chat for Eldarin linguistic discussions! Please join if you also wish to participate! +Christopher Gilson +...
• ZT6K87sB1uo: I'm gunna do it. I'm really gunna do it! I'm writing a letter asking the Tolkien Estate whether they'd be opposed to me publishing my Neo-Sindarin ...
• HRXjCzRZuPM: Made it 4 years ago. 28/6/16 - 1 Made it 4 years ago. ...

#na-

• iBnyANQQW6q: Just working on a translation for someone into both Quenya and Sindarin of the following sentence: "If you want to be hard (i.e. "steadfast, endur...

Josh Aran Wrynn Toughwood

• ea3iban28e6: Guys, I need help for a prayer for my deceased grandmother, both in quenya and sindarin :( thanks ...

Ben Christel

• Dxe8uAoVhSY: How indeed could we build up a spoken (chatting) Quenya? A few months ago David Girardeau was lamenting how the new words and forms seem to actuall...
• CRUhdgwvahb: Suilad *ilphen - has anyone here done much research into the possibility of a muta cum liquida stress rule in Sindarin? I have seen it discussed el...

Silmarien Ingoldo

• aUWvydsGRPM: I've been having a nerdy debate with someone about the correct pronunciation of the name "Maedhros". Do you pronounce it Mah-eeh-dhros or Mah-eh-dh...
• ETqGma6a8U6: I have started working on a project - a primer course into Quenya, that is, to NeoQuenya (although I do not like the term). I know there are other ...
• GHYrUGWGRJy: The "Ainulindalë" and part of the "Valaquenta" written in Quenya. http://archiveofourown.org/works/1384744/chapters/2899936%EF%BB%BF ...
• X9dErpE9jL4: Oath of Feanor in Quenya translation by taenia http://archiveofourown.org/works/1384744/chapters/3718166 Nas cotumo hya meldo, nas ulca hya poica ...
• NmGKQStJSio: I found a translation in Quenya of Feanor's reply to Mandos' doom. Is it correct? Vanda carnelmë, ar lá ú sánala. Vanda sinanna vorondë nauvalmë. ...
• JEMxS7HcdRc: Hello :) Can anyone translate this in Quenya? "We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treas...

Michele Marie-Jeanne

• JEMxS7HcdRc: Hello :) Can anyone translate this in Quenya? "We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treas...

#Story_of_a_Root

• 56JBc9PWLXL: The +#Story_of_a_Root G/3AR is typical and specific simultaneously. Its most difficult part having already happened before the Etymologies and most...

#randomLotRparagraph

• TExF3uNPbbq: +#randomLotRparagraph `Well, well! ' said the wizard. `The passage is blocked behind us now and there is only one way out – on the other side of t...
• LvhCsK62yd1: +#randomLotRparagraph `As you go down the water,' he said, `you will find that the trees will fail, and you will come to a barren country. There t...
• GQzqXpFLYBR: +#randomLotRparagraph Out of the shadows a ladder was let down: it was made of rope, silver-grey and glimmering in the dark, and though it looked ...
• fHpiSQyFL2G: +#randomLotRparagraph Comments are, as always, very-very welcome. At once he set off with long deliberate strides through the trees, deeper and d...
• HQnisQ1DCoH: +#randomLotRparagraph The afternoon, as Sam supposed it must be called, wore on. Looking out from the covert he could see only a dun, shadowless w...
• JMXVcf1m4ZS: +#randomLotRparagraph 'Indeed yes,' said Gandalf. 'Doubly. And is not that strange? Nothing that we have endured of late has seemed so grievous ...
• CNxit4wYmEF: +#randomLotRparagraph 'I sat at night by the waters of Anduin, in the grey dark under the young pale moon, watching the ever-moving stream; and ...
• Cd5E5Z53r5c: +#randomLotRparagraph ‘There it lies’ he said, pointing away south-eastwards to where the mountains’ sides fell sheer into the shadows at their ...

Estel Solà Martínez

• JMXVcf1m4ZS: +#randomLotRparagraph 'Indeed yes,' said Gandalf. 'Doubly. And is not that strange? Nothing that we have endured of late has seemed so grievous ...

#ai-

• fHpiSQyFL2G: +#randomLotRparagraph Comments are, as always, very-very welcome. At once he set off with long deliberate strides through the trees, deeper and d...

#ThePlaceWhereILive

• cXaS5ZaEz7f: +#KoireaQuenya +#ThePlaceWhereILive +#Vocabulary So here's the vocabulary of the topic The Place Where I Live. Nota bene I have only listed the w...
• STz6SyySLQ2: +#ThePlaceWhereILive +#KoireaQuenya +#TopicalConversation The Place Where I Live ----------------------------------------------------------------...

Koirea Quenya

• Uwg6NXV9J2w: What would you suggest for a good NQ equivalent of Goldogrin grith- v. “to attend to, tend, care, care for, mind”? I usually resort to aþya- when I...
• CJJBnK2LPMW: I wonder whether Quenya is lax enough to allow double negatives, whether lá melin laquen can be considered correct, or does it have to be lá melin ...
• Q2L6fp5gFJJ: Would *elerran, *erran be a good neologism for "planet", lit. "wanderer, wandering [star]"? rána would be great, but that is already taken as one o...
• inhYMbXA8xp: *talmakasta adj., adv. "upside down" Paul Strack J...
• X8Ge3ofYkvM: How would you guys say "prepare" in Quenya (both transitively and intransitively)? manwa- is attested in Early Qenya, not sure if still suitable; f...
• hgSNRCea81i: The next +#1000words entry I throw up here to munch on is prove. ...
• 1AFoNqFVJ4Z: morna ve orko *katassa mi felko "as dark as an orc's arsehole in a cave" Gondorian catchphrase *katassa: ka/kata 'behind, at back of place' + a...
• AH5UArRBfp8: +#1000words "opportunity" Tamas Ferencz Jun 03, 2...
• 7WmBdC3zQgn: Would *ealima be a possible and comprehendable neologism/variant for 'possible'? ...
• gKj5F62QFZw: The next +#1000words entry is gas. I recently coined the word *kumma from KUM, based on the etymology of the international word gas. Any other (p...
• aQBXFxzQnB6: The next +#1000words entry up for discussion is example. My first idea is *hókilme "outtake, selection". ...
• PeTF4myzyei: Here's a dragonfly I took a picture of yesterday (well this may actually be a damselfly I think, but that's beside the point now). In Gnomish it is...
• LNNrMTJpCPA: The next +#1000words entry I put up for discussion is detail. Going on the Hungarian word for detail Is say something from SAT "fraction, part"; o...
• H73E6GASbtR: I wonder if the almost throwaway emendation of the gloss of CE *anak to 'against, opposite' in PE21 offers us any opportunity to use it in this new...
• C1oihfTGmFM: +#1000words Looking for a translation for E 'cell'. I feel we should derive it from YOD 'fence, enclose' (as in the sense of 'compartment'). Perh...
• 8xoCS6S5c7y: First neologism to discuss from the +#1000words project (I am not going in an alphabetical order, rather in a random fashion): available We have ...
• Zravp1wT2ya: Two small suggestions: "Immediately, at once": ú pusto "Right away, promptly, very soon": arrongo ...
• EFsBzi4H9V8: My latest post about rats and birds in Quenya Chat has made me try to find - so far unsuccessfully - some good ways to express the following: resul...
• FPZSsRvdR5K: Concerning the verbal derivates of the root SKEY I am now pretty much settled on the pair *xéya- "pass (of time, intransitive)", and *xíta- "pass, ...
• 7rQXdtF5Z6L: To mull: 'propose, offer, suggest' All hint at something (idea, help etc.) being put forward to someone. Not helped by the fact that we don't have...
• KGg8JHqLYSN: What do you suggest for 'move, shift' (transitive)? Rúma- appears to be intransitive, and it is too specific for large and heavy things. Strictly s...
• VbsHrWN24ci: Referring to discussions elsewhere, another root that can be utilized to express the idea of inn, guesthouse, hotel etc. is NATH > *naþumo "guest";...
• 72J65ZjfE96: HATH > *haÞmā > Q *haÞwa (*haswa) "medicine, drug"? Robert...
• K2zuGYQoMaT: Referring to our discussion about future imperfect participles I just wanted to repost this sheet I started to put together some time ago, collecti...
• cvY6jd4tQvn: A conceptual question. We know that in Q adjectives can act as nouns (A Vanimar etc.). Would you agree that the same concept could be true for adj...
• 7SpsgEPRQtN: Suggestion: *virda "variant" (cf. Gn. brigli); *karpavirda, lambevirda "dialect". Looking at the discussions on discord we will need a word like t...
• gfPcv2tD8Ae: Since my wordlist is provisionally suspended, I want to make inquiries about particular words here. My first question is "sausage"! How will you ca...
• LqCcqGNpqcT: One could think that adapting Quenya for modern age is difficult because of science and technology. Yet it seems that the "weak link" is in the com...
• JCpuDyPLLPL: I think it is important (1) to find and fill the gaps in the basic vocabulary and (2) make choices on different variations of certain words (like "...
• 1Tdcs8B8eji: Is panya- our best option for the simple notion of "to put, place, set sg"? Etymology had a verb esta- but it was struck out and anyway would clash...
• cfayKHbFjNr: Any suggestions for the verb "glide, slide" in Q, and, consequently, 'sleigh'? At one point I coined pas- and it's in VQP but now we have that with...
• L1UEU96pU3f: How would you guys say 'important, significant' in late/neo Quenya? ...
• cXaS5ZaEz7f: +#KoireaQuenya +#ThePlaceWhereILive +#Vocabulary So here's the vocabulary of the topic The Place Where I Live. Nota bene I have only listed the w...
• STz6SyySLQ2: +#ThePlaceWhereILive +#KoireaQuenya +#TopicalConversation The Place Where I Live ----------------------------------------------------------------...

#TopicalConversation

• STz6SyySLQ2: +#ThePlaceWhereILive +#KoireaQuenya +#TopicalConversation The Place Where I Live ----------------------------------------------------------------...

#KoireaQuenya

• cXaS5ZaEz7f: +#KoireaQuenya +#ThePlaceWhereILive +#Vocabulary So here's the vocabulary of the topic The Place Where I Live. Nota bene I have only listed the w...
• STz6SyySLQ2: +#ThePlaceWhereILive +#KoireaQuenya +#TopicalConversation The Place Where I Live ----------------------------------------------------------------...

#Vocabulary

• cXaS5ZaEz7f: +#KoireaQuenya +#ThePlaceWhereILive +#Vocabulary So here's the vocabulary of the topic The Place Where I Live. Nota bene I have only listed the w...

Diploma Translation by Zenith

• G4H2FNCEuQb: A recent mention of the Craft (with links to three other stories). https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/books/review/jrr-tolkien-lord-of-the-rings-e...
• PeTF4myzyei: Here's a dragonfly I took a picture of yesterday (well this may actually be a damselfly I think, but that's beside the point now). In Gnomish it is...
• UwZMh3iSTcd: Another word analysis, this time on a cluster of related roots: DAL and LAD, TAL and LAT. TALA appears in the Quenya Lexicon as the basis for “foo...
• Ub5ZdikfkUz: Nér akárie tatallálima emma lossea "helyanweo" hya "hísekúmo" nindatalmasse Rannoch Scotiasse. 'Ta quílenka helyanwe karinwa titta limbaron i karir...

Robert Reynolds

• EqPo9qcUTJH: An old "Middle Earth proverb" from Aglardh: Kasar sina, vesserya tana. Same thing, same difference. ...
• GS4EFf3nepH: “Kare munta úkárima: mo lá ista lúme yasse etelyanie”. “Doing nothing is difficult: you don’t know when you’re done.” “Avan hanquete tana *maquent...
• JcYSz3z1LzF: Quere ellume, Ita *arni eteni na, lá mittuva. Enquere, Ita *mini na, lá uþuva. Ma Man nán? *arni, prep. out of me *mini, prep. in me cf. mimme, i...
• DF331h1xT6V: Last one, I promise... Cé mo same nelde, same nelde, Cé mo same atta, same atta, Mal cé mo same min, same munta. Ma Man nán? ...
• eyhiBr4VRUr: Noa as vessenya kendanemme i tyalie Venetio Makar ló Shakespeare mi Cambridge. Nése láta *tyalmardesse: tarwa né i *tyaltalan, to sa rie orne ar ta...
• E8ywBWy4K43: I found this translation lurking on my drive from many years ago, a fragment from the first chapter of Winnie-the-Pooh. I have updated it a bit. Y...
• SFEhkyKrurP: Handen sisnome epe *komputerinya as *hlarmar or hlarunya lastala liennar quete, quete, ar tá quete amba. Hlarunya nwalyat. *hlarma "listening devi...
• 9TY39cDmL6N: Síra *kalkunen *kennasseli - enar ustauvanyet urnanyasse. Mauyuva sen *annún lúmi otso hya toldo anya tyeller húme *yutuxa, ta lúmi yunque ambe *ri...
• RZDMWqhtKXg: Now that Atanquesta is released, I have decided to take time and collect all the neologisms that I have coined in posts here in the community in a ...
• 57NQNKAtC8t: Epe asta mine yo perta fanyar nar i vilyasse. Kénai kelyuva si lómisse? ...
• NcDk7eu9EEE: I am happy to announce the release of my NeoQuenya textbook Atanquesta - a NeoQuenya Primer. The work is aimed at beginner and intermediate student...
• Q2L6fp5gFJJ: Would *elerran, *erran be a good neologism for "planet", lit. "wanderer, wandering [star]"? rána would be great, but that is already taken as one o...
• inhYMbXA8xp: *talmakasta adj., adv. "upside down" Paul Strack J...
• T12tYHCd5dW: Rie mólome ar lá tyalie care Yát lumbaro. Paul Strack ...
• X8Ge3ofYkvM: How would you guys say "prepare" in Quenya (both transitively and intransitively)? manwa- is attested in Early Qenya, not sure if still suitable; f...
• hgSNRCea81i: The next +#1000words entry I throw up here to munch on is prove. ...
• Gpb3yDUEv21: ‘Hike’ The etymology gives a meaning “to walk vigorously”, and that meaning feels right to me. It could also mean ‘powerwalk’, but that could perh...
• 7WmBdC3zQgn: Would *ealima be a possible and comprehendable neologism/variant for 'possible'? ...
• gKj5F62QFZw: The next +#1000words entry is gas. I recently coined the word *kumma from KUM, based on the etymology of the international word gas. Any other (p...
• aQBXFxzQnB6: The next +#1000words entry up for discussion is example. My first idea is *hókilme "outtake, selection". ...
• LNNrMTJpCPA: The next +#1000words entry I put up for discussion is detail. Going on the Hungarian word for detail Is say something from SAT "fraction, part"; o...
• C1oihfTGmFM: +#1000words Looking for a translation for E 'cell'. I feel we should derive it from YOD 'fence, enclose' (as in the sense of 'compartment'). Perh...
• 9WrXJNLBNvm: Concerning the Eldamo entry +#pec "nut": shouldn't this be +#pet (pec-) as we see with other Q nouns with stems ending in [k]? +Paul Strack ...
• KV7jcF4duZA: “Tuldóme né. I hluite mór Hwáner ar hwonder or i lén: Aqua nilte nér i lurtanor, Ta faltane i noltifén. Aly’ aista i Nakkanor, anon! Karkaya nerka...
• 8xoCS6S5c7y: First neologism to discuss from the +#1000words project (I am not going in an alphabetical order, rather in a random fashion): available We have ...
• EFsBzi4H9V8: My latest post about rats and birds in Quenya Chat has made me try to find - so far unsuccessfully - some good ways to express the following: resul...
• MpF7BRRpdEz: Sina hliasse merin sa nyaruvalve min exen pá parma ya *lanéya ehentanielve. Nyaruvan len pá parma tékina ló nyarnamaitar ye mine i ammelde nyarnama...
• CHRjd79y8Rh: Merin nyare len pá i osto yasse sí séran: Budapest. Sí rie *naþumo nán sisse, an háran Angalnóresse. Nostaina ostosse lárion lepenquain oa, túlelm...
• A63s4Yw3E4r: Manen estuvalve si lotse? Esserya eirien Sindarinesse, hetheglon Goldogrinesse. Naike ora men kile aqua exa esse *minome querieryo. ...
• WrtN21n8ez5: Síve kalina, aurea i telda otsole né, tambe hiswa, lumna, nenda sina otsole. Ekelyanelye noa arinello. Penin indo kare aiqua... Oruváne nin (should...
• EWWn6sT4oaK: Yallume, tuiléva laiti! Orni, lalmalini ta exe lotser, wilwarindi, tuimar, nete, nete, nete sé Anglesey Abbey síra. ...
• hGG2KcG6eqH: I watched Skyfall on Easter weekend, which has this quote from Tennyson's Ulysses, and thought I'd give it a go. I cannot do justice to the iambic ...
• KGg8JHqLYSN: What do you suggest for 'move, shift' (transitive)? Rúma- appears to be intransitive, and it is too specific for large and heavy things. Strictly s...
• ZPhEo1kqKMb: I’ve been working on (Neo-)Quenya verb conjugation and specifically on some representative examples of various classes and shapes. I’m inviting fee...
• Dtf6FbD5nRV: Aimanen *merenyalles, ar aimanen estalles, merya Tuilêre, Enortalére, Keulére, Paska, hya exe illin! ...
• G3vbEBfmtVL: Armaronya panyea anda kapsa *immenwaryanna; karaperyo tyarwenen quítan feryaxes mene lingwi raitien. Apánies *annúra vandili otso hya toldo i immen...
• WcoLT1Vq9Wv: Arya i ruhtala Orko lá i puhtala Nauko. Elvish pub wisdom from Eregion ...
• 4dNUcBSF3qW: I can't really make it out yet what it says in the vertical script. Kilma handas? Quilma hambas? ...
• HcHTtcAQugx: An attempt to translate the first few lines of Earendil Was a Mariner, to challenge myself trying to preserve the syllable count. I don't quite hav...
• 72J65ZjfE96: HATH > *haÞmā > Q *haÞwa (*haswa) "medicine, drug"? Robert...
• JxpmtvD3y6S: Síra *nostarenya! Nostanen koranári kanta *nelquean auta. Olólan ambe linyenwa ilya koranarnen; merin i nólenya olóluva yó koranarinyar. ...
• WY9MB1xyvkG: É nemilye, yonyo, mi ápina lé, Kénai úna nalye: na 'lassea, hér. Telinwa sí i meren. Tyalindorelvar, Ve lyen apaquenten, illi fairi nér, Ta vilyann...
• Nhk8JCo1pTV: I emma ya nún *ihimtanien tea *élikombet lan ertear - hya, amna naitienna, ertanier, an nalte *kalayéni *lindóra auve. I *palantilla Hubble akárie ...
• bVxuEEPPSs5: Lá eke mon nanpule i ilin minna i yaxe. Middle-Earth proverb ...
• ZLwZnCtPDFX: “absolutely” Someone asked me to translate “she is absolutely adorable” for her boyfriend to say of her. For “adorable” I’ve used mélima but “abso...
• 3gybPWCEJ38: Tíkua i hrisse to nóre, po auret nannemiéva; turulyane lóme or áre, sin askate lumbor Anar. "The snow is thawing across the land, it will be gone ...
• PpEkr4sSDVn: Rike amaríkie rike órikombe véla raita amaraikiénen raima raiweva: úkaraite ta alasaila. Hard-striving to twist a group of óreli is like ensnaring...
• 58CWiZ62WKB: Samin Isilya-lumbe. Sinome háman opo nonwanya, mauya men moia, lanye. *Hentópanyat lunge; sanarinya hísea; uiúlien yulmali *kofio quanta, la káre m...
• FH1FnhhK2Mx: I'm experimenting with a new search page for Eldamo. The beta is here: http://eldamo.org/beta/content/search/search.html The major changes are: ...
• hKH4Da84phn: Karaitienya ké píkuva ter nótima lúme: urda nin teke. Lá samin i alme náve ataformaite. Helke utúrie ni tana lusse, mal koire tuluva yo laluvan lye...
• e5VUNmuQBwF: Ata hrisya sisse (ar amna ilya lómisse hrinse), potai hrisse tópa ilqua Vurapestesse - hequa I maller an aþahanya tikunes nu i immenwar. ...
• FGsSUtJpr2L: Síra ménen kame keura lendalávanya (passport) [1]; fastalima vanta né: síra lauka lá noa, i hrisse tikune [2] astasse mal i maller lá níti; ente An...
• UVUfNC4Kdvn: After your post on losing and lost, I wondered if the phrase for I lost x could be "vanwa nin...x Using the same structure as Ecce nin...x and ...
• ZizdPiHQYTG: Valarya nauváne alassea an otsola-metta anya, ananta félan lunga. Askénie (obviously) lá aþya sa hiswa ava, lumbuli lumnar i vilyasse, ilquáresse i...
• VDuxDU1FBf5: Hande Istare síve i Frankenstein lá i úvanimo. Nolwe síve i Frankenstein i úvanimo. “Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein is not the monster. Wi...
• Cpm7uUGKkff: Er erinqua lé ea nwalya i nér yello illi avánier: á nananta sen ma hastaina. "There's only one way to hurt a man who has lost everything: give him...
• cootmTYT99J: Enwa ilúvesse sinwa sa neren arwa alta hereno mauya kesta vesse. Jane Austen ...
• XJZFKoW3kZ5: Ekénielde sina *ardaemma (ardemma?) (map) i limesse nún? Lelyalima (enchanting, amazing) manen i viríte (various) ear kelussi siryar yo hwinyar ter...
• TWz8WEgXJyd: Merya nostarë Arcastaro! Tamas Ferencz Jan 03, 201...
• EAqiLzLU928: Culuma (culu-ma) is orange; could malma (mal-ma) be lemon, and laingwa (laic-ma) be lime? ...
• YzRfuhcXLgh: “A Study in √rō/oro” Tá Yavanna *alassea, ar tolunes, ortaila rankuryat menelda, ar quentes: ‘Orwe oryuvar orni Kementário, *itan Soroni i Arano e...
• PFgSQyJoiqy: +Ицхак Пензев Yitzik, your latest post and list of words has inspired me to start something similar (and I do not want to hijack your dictionary ...
• cggbNiaQpL9: Merin merya merende ilye otornoin at osellin! Na alassea Hrístonostarelda, Turuhalmelda, Hanukkalda, hya aiqua ya *merenyalde. Alye mate, yule, lir...
• HQ9vgWsYuCP: Just out of curiosity: What is "The Last Jedi" in Quenya? I know that this might be an impossible translation, because Jedi probably isn't accounte...
• duNk1pWzkti: Tékanen síra'r karne rea VinQuenyarin quetta “*equétiévanítas” i mahta *Ingillin [English language] quettar toldo: ‘to have been about to have said...
• PzoLuccRdUP: Laqui loinamin, coantur hosto sino samë nostarérya síra. Valima nostarë, +Tamas Ferencz! getty...
• GqJXkMznaar: For Q chatting it would seem fitting to have a Q word for the English language. There is the very early Q word Ingilnóre "England" that seems based...
• 77YsVzqGaNc: Lungo hrísa Kievessë. I caltengwa carna ara i pustalë *nutalamna angamallëo ("metro") lá haiya coanyallo. ...
• bfvsgb5muFX: This is a rough draft of a translation of the famous excerpt from Carl Sagan’s lecture on the Pale Blue Dot. I’ve experimentally used Parmaquesta (...
• UdPCjHgmyLf: Tiruvan Elenye Ohtar, Toldea Asta - I Telle Yedir Isilyasse, olean walda ve hína 😊 ...
• 3aEfARitrb1: Ehentanien sa Atan naike entuluva Isilenna rongo. Awalda nán - Untale Isilenna né nessenyo alta autas ya tirnen palantiresse. ...
• jnpAHFpNmMz: Hrizya. Namin minya lómisse nótime loallor, hrizya - haura, tiuka hrissequessínen. Nas tensi tál-núra. Maxuvan massa síra. Senyave maxan ta mastan...
• UfqBSzcFdxq: How do you interpret autas? I mean, pit it in a sentence for me please:) I have a lot of questions today... ...
• MXXG5rhUTQA: Lumba nán. Hiswa ava, miste lanta, nique. Xáran nanwene kaimanna. ...
• gbz5y85APmK: I've been exploring Q phonology and have a few questions about how morphemes combine in some educationally motivated situations: √NIK + mapa-​ + ​...
• fE3fxY7XWLU: Ya istalme, limba ná; ya lalme, earon. Just heard this very profoundly deep quote on a TV show. ...
• Txg7b2pm88V: Ta enwa koivie Hya er intyale? *Kentaltasse raina Anwiello la rehtie Á latya hendutya Hellenna amtira, á kene, Nán er úna yondo, la merin ófelme An...
• PbDLYmM5ohV: Maira ré lyen illin! Nique sisse. I kemen faren helka, sie erendien *parkataine lóki, ar erdi i aiwin. Samimme "vére" aiwi i lillume tulir lotarwam...
• G6uVRvdrHyT: A Quenya word for "special, particular" would be helpful, especially as an adverb "especially, particularly" :) I see Sindarin edregol "in especial...
• RRTVH518e1x: lalálala *hwinie tulya ólólala sívenna: *anonya Sofía "long-laughing giddyness leads to long-dreaming peace: my godchild Sofia" *hwinie modeled o...
• AjYcybmiRHy: OK: our word or words to ponder for today is: though, although, albeit ...
• dddV2RGKWm3: I wonder if tolya "prominent" (lit. sticking up) could be a good kenning for "proud, haughty" ...
• SDnWXGCRvvR: Rike luke Nauko i haurallo "Try dragging a Dwarf away from the hoard" (="you are asking for something impossible") Middle Earth saying ...
• YsZP82rYaPs: This is a bit of a speculative post. Amazon recently announced a deal with the Tolkien estate for a Middle Earth TV series. Who knows how long it w...
• NyWJ18pVV7y: welp, as much as it horrifies my parents that i should learn a "made up" language (although technically all languages are made up >_>) i still want...
• cfayKHbFjNr: Any suggestions for the verb "glide, slide" in Q, and, consequently, 'sleigh'? At one point I coined pas- and it's in VQP but now we have that with...
• EKq6o7pC1sP: Quenya nursery rhyme. The metre is - | - ^^ | - ^ | - ^^ | -^ - | - ^^ | - ^ | - ^^ | - Ter híseva landa norta olombo Ho tínila helma talta i ló...
• R7BaHWpSaXL: Andanéya, harunya quente nin quenta: Roquen atta yestat sé lár atta. Ilya roquen norta i exenna min lár ilya lúmesse. Pí yesta min roquende ar vil...
• 5ahsfgqf8Lg: I'm looking for help translating a phrase into Elvish. It can be any version of Elvish you like. Here's the story; me and by girlfriend are nearin...
• PMH848x5234: Translating names of pets friend's cat (female kitten) Bandy 'little bandit': Arpince from arpo + ​-ince 'thief, seizer (diminutive)' There's a sl...
• 9kmdXrALUbM: It's been some time since I've done a translation, so I tackled "Spirit of Life": a hymn that's basically an anthem of the Unitarian Universalist f...
• D2NKGDe1uKf: “Ilya ré *​Emillere,” quente harunya hantien verirya, haruninya, onnattain quain, er ion emilinya. ‘“Every day (is) Mother’s Day,” said (habituall...
• 2gGo9padw7G: Helkenen kelya. Arkean lá palpas i laimar íta... Robert Re...
• 2KZKQ7feLQs: I’m trying to better understand how participles, gerunds, (particular) infinitives, etc. function and interrelate in Quenya. Some sample sentences:...
• ETqGma6a8U6: I have started working on a project - a primer course into Quenya, that is, to NeoQuenya (although I do not like the term). I know there are other ...
• P8LWrZLF6UK: A relatively quick translation (since much revised) of the song "I See You" from the film Avatar English lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/leo...
• eFz6Sqy5nUQ: Síra aure ustiéva - ustean (mastean?) *kentamnar - yulmar, salpar - i urnasse. Ta anda menie: mauya san perya ré *laukata tenna i kentamnar nar run...
• j5Q5RLSHLU9: Translation inquiry: "Since the Elves were not going (did not intend, were not willing) to follow him, he strived against them by force." (thus not...
• A8isSrV8yAS: *Indosatienya i vinya loan: lá karuvan *aimanima *indosatie i vinya loan. ------------------------- *indosatie n. "resolution, decision" indo "(s...
• WSB1MpWecFT: Ilye maitarín, lindimaitarín, kallonyar vínelmaron, Alan Rickman, David Bowie, Prince, George Michael, Lemmy, nete, nete, nete, nete, nete, ar ilye...
• 4dXvybL21oH: This is another passage from my blended adaptation-summary of the Ainulindale and Genesis to practice with Quenya. I'm trying to use more non-Engli...
• Sn3pjbGFFHv: I'm new to (Neo-)Quenya and have spent some time with the Ardalambion and Parma Tyelpelassiva courses (plus Eldamo, Parma Eldaliéva, the Bible tran...

Eryn Galen

• CAXobB8EUFr: Hello +Paul Strack, (+Ekin Gören, +Eryn Galen, +Roman Rausch) there's something that I would like to have your opinion about :) In the past week...
• EgrBPuy6sVU: +Paul Strack +Eryn Galen +Ekin Gören +Roman Rausch updated the database with Paul's new 0.5.6 release. There are some other changes: I switched fr...
• Ksho6J6y4jH: +Paul Strack +Ekin Gören +Roman Rausch +Eryn Galen et al, I updated the eldamo relational DB project on Github: https://github.com/aduial/eldamo-r...
• Dffnsng79Lb: Hey everyone! As a part of my IT apprenticeship I'm planning on realising a kind of elvish resource which I think does not exist yet in a similar ...

Azog The Defiler the pale orc

• cQyRvbPXSon: Hello i am Azog , i speak Orcish 08/02/2017 ...

Azog The Defiler leader of the legions

• cQyRvbPXSon: Hello i am Azog , i speak Orcish 08/02/2017 ...

Young P

• VfS29g9JWXA: How to pronounce 'mh' in ar e aníra ennas suilannad mhellyn în phain? Is it a kind of soft mutation? I think I heard textbooks were being written ...
• S6SovAg7qVV: I'd like to ask your opinion on some info found in here (https://realelvish.net/pronunciation/sindarin/). As far as I know, LH/HL is more like voi...
• VAp13CtxhLE: I am kinda shocked. Doriath has iâth (fence) in it. So should we pronounce it dor-yath, not like the' 'ia' in Melian like we separate 'rh' in gaur...
• FH7ei1hTNXR: Let's guess! How many PE issues or years will be taken until every meaningful linguistic material by Tolkien is available? Then, how far could ...
• ETqGma6a8U6: I have started working on a project - a primer course into Quenya, that is, to NeoQuenya (although I do not like the term). I know there are other ...
• XZ9Xd8XS8ha: At least at an earlier stage there was still the prefix http://eldamo.org/content/words/word-2252155757.html which would make sense combined with l...
• jSyFDM3xeMq: I posted this question other places but I'd like to here some more opinions. Medial NG sound. Should it be [ŋ] or [ŋg]? Tolkien said "NG represen...

Marc Barceló Tost

• 8ccgrHhgSTY: I've release v0.5.4 of Eldamo. Now that PE22 is done, I gone back to working on earlier material. I finished up some left overs in PE12, and made ...

Daniel Dobbs

• aUWvydsGRPM: I've been having a nerdy debate with someone about the correct pronunciation of the name "Maedhros". Do you pronounce it Mah-eeh-dhros or Mah-eh-dh...

Manu Garcia

• dTZaL3Ta6VZ: I am sooooo tired. Might just sleep a week. Textbook Re-write Complete It’s 1AM, and I...

Legend of Norn

• 6tLi25owT1Y: What do you call a doomed son? A Fey Anor. Legend of Norn ...
• ToL9WhZxe9T: Linguistic wise id like some more info of calambar (like who used to words to who...elf told that to a man or so?) and silef (sounds to me like sil...

Jess Caron

• fQc9f1q1yad: I can't post on Severin Zahler's page, so what does the chorus of "Nan Uye" mean??? I figured out most of the words but it doesn't make much sense?...
• 6tLi25owT1Y: What do you call a doomed son? A Fey Anor. Legend of Norn ...

Lily Milos

• d3CUuDspq2J: Good news! We have established a Skype chat for Eldarin linguistic discussions! Please join if you also wish to participate! +Christopher Gilson +...

Lokyt L.

• Cwi3wM482n4: I've released version 0.7.0 of Eldamo: https://eldamo.org/ In this release, I've finished up my work on incorporating neologisms into Eldamo for ...
• M9RezCZViaW: There is hope after all that our data can be downloaded How to download your Google+ data befo...
• P5a5fDQpgZx: Google will be shutting down Google+ for consumers ☹️, but will continue Google+ for enterprise customers To give people a full opportunity to tra...
• Uwg6NXV9J2w: What would you suggest for a good NQ equivalent of Goldogrin grith- v. “to attend to, tend, care, care for, mind”? I usually resort to aþya- when I...
• CJJBnK2LPMW: I wonder whether Quenya is lax enough to allow double negatives, whether lá melin laquen can be considered correct, or does it have to be lá melin ...
• RNMbXwLfhCj: I've released v.0.6.8 of Eldamo: https://eldamo.org/ With this release, I have finished a "first pass" at evaluating attested primitive roots for...
• H2S61QgkFrn: A question posted over at Elfdict got me thinking on our two attested words glossed as "more". We have the adjective amba and the adverb ambe and I...
• CTmDGcqJqnc: This is the last general post on Eldamo 0.6.6. It is more technical in nature, and it therefore primarily of interest for those who work with the r...
• NcDk7eu9EEE: I am happy to announce the release of my NeoQuenya textbook Atanquesta - a NeoQuenya Primer. The work is aimed at beginner and intermediate student...
• aQBXFxzQnB6: The next +#1000words entry up for discussion is example. My first idea is *hókilme "outtake, selection". ...
• NChiFKWfuPp: I've released Eldamo v0.6.3. http://eldamo.org/ There are two major changes. First, I've done some general search improvements. They are still s...
• T9mPKKnvqYv: This word analysis focuses on two opposing concepts: “before” and “after”. These saw numerous vacillations over Tolkien’s life, making it difficult...
• Qg7AGoxYmWL: I've release Eldamo 0.6.2. http://eldamo.org/ Since the data entry is mostly done, this update is still focused on cleanup. In particular, I ente...
• jYr8GZG3Q5u: Another exploration of words, this time “letter, line, write”. This is a bit different from my previous examinations, since the most of the words i...
• 9oEepmWKb6A: Yet another conflux of words, this time “parent/child, grandparent/grandchild, boy/girl and baby”. These are probably the last for a while On the ...
• cfJ8ngEERt5: I am exploring the conflux of Eldarin words having to do “man/woman, husband/wife, bride/groom”. In Quenya, I think Q. nér “man” is quite well est...
• 8oo3a3s4RMP: How do folks think initial primitive tl- and dl- developed in Sindarin? In Gnomish, there are no initial tl-, and there are some of examples of cl...
• CDgedu8sYE6: I've release Eldamo 0.6.1: https://eldamo.org/ This is the first release of Eldamo that does not have any new data entry. It involves a major reo...
• cvY6jd4tQvn: A conceptual question. We know that in Q adjectives can act as nouns (A Vanimar etc.). Would you agree that the same concept could be true for adj...
• hHUHw9gS8g3: Merya Mettare Len, Meldonyar! Ekin Gören Dec 31, 2...
• iU1dqDYwN7k: I've finished Release 0.6.0 of Eldamo. This release has nearly all of Tolkien's attested word forms from the existing published material. Only a fe...
• dddV2RGKWm3: I wonder if tolya "prominent" (lit. sticking up) could be a good kenning for "proud, haughty" ...
• YsZP82rYaPs: This is a bit of a speculative post. Amazon recently announced a deal with the Tolkien estate for a Middle Earth TV series. Who knows how long it w...
• AZmJoZ9N8oc: I've release v0.5.8 of Eldamo. This version has the data for PE21, which was more of a slog than I expected (so many declension tables). Of the m...
• FGtGrDBXz3W: Just searching for a Sindarin word for "nobody", stumbled across uvan, sources given are TI/281,283,314. I have no access to the Treason of Isengar...
• RUMDRQCDvEV: How would you guys say "side" (noun) in Eldarin? Ицхак Пе...

Aeta Capella

• efhSAsCdSQZ: Greetings all! I've been struggling on my own and have finally decided to join the community. I recently got back in to Tengwar calligraphy after ...

Diego Velasco

• eyHDJ8SMiVu: Hey guys does anyone know where to learn Sindarin? Would like to learn ...

Wesley Stump

• HRRpCmTN2Gr: Greetings! I'm just wondering what the translation for this is in elvish, the language used, and where I can learn to translate this! ...
• HQ9vgWsYuCP: Just out of curiosity: What is "The Last Jedi" in Quenya? I know that this might be an impossible translation, because Jedi probably isn't accounte...
• D8THNhsWv4A: Telyanen i Eldarin tië online métimavë! Epë parië atta loain ar perya, polin quetë ambi quettar sa sanan pollen úne parne. Sí merin parë rimba ambë...
• 6DKT3ZoNeah: To all of the web design Eldar out there: I have been making a Tengwar converter webpage that takes the latin script and changes the writing into t...
• fkGPkRawqcV: Got bread? None None ...
• 1jT7FfUQf6X: Greetings! I am wondering if anyone knows how to use the double dots for a "y" in the Tengwar Annatar font without having spaces between letters an...
• TXxuZd9uL8m: Is there ever a consonant-vowel cluster of "quu"? Tamas Fe...
• 9Qr31KKGUhB: Aiya, mára meldo! Merin maquetital quettalion ata, an ranyal rimbavë! In a textbook I was reading, I read "epë = after (of time), and nó = before (...
• 26cWvi8YPQt: Greetings! I am quite an enthusiast about the elvish languages (particularly Quenya) and I know there are others out there who are like me. However...
• G4YZgpPkicm: Aiya! Maquetin le quetto. In the book "Quentin i Lambë Eldaiva", upon the fourth lesson I fell upon the word "virya-", which means to change. Howe...
• 24wohKYKK6H: Greetings fellow Eldar! I am in a dilemma. I am unsure of the usage of plural and dual pronominal forms for the 1st person. Is it inclusive plural,...
• Mz6cY6MyBRK: Essenya Kevin. Páranyë Quenya an alassëa. Nas lenca. Istëanyë nótima quettar. Mal páranye quiquië lertëanyë. ...
• bacEhyejNVH: Greetings! I am afraid I have received a faulty copy of the 2015 edition for Quetin i Lambë Eldaiva English Royal by Thorsten Renk after buying it ...
• cLAVQyhmp2o: Hello! I am wondering how to use the Tengwar for others to see on a webpage!!! Can anyone tell me how to do so??? Also, if it involves programming...
• aFyMrLspSax: Where did you first begin to study Quenya? None None ...
• CAxqmLm4qT3: Hello! I am a come-and-go person on this community, and I am overwhelmed by the amount of links to databases that I can find here! Can anyone tell ...
• UbsTpcqZrri: "Long will the warriors praise the countries." Here is my translation: "Anda i mahtari laituvar i nóri." Did I do this correctly, because I kinda m...
• XXqyiwLBdZe: Hello! I was wondering what you would use in Quenya for the word "bearing" in this sentence: "You have seen them bearing the cloaks of lords!" This...

Megan Hayward

• dHdYq1JFUzB: Hi! I'm very new to all of this, and I am trying to work on translating Gandalf's quote, "all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is...

Pablo Sanchez

• hcj7U8b43eg: Maiku vanen erühini Tamas Ferencz Jun 22, 2017 (10...

#funda-

• NXaYBmeDc7Y: To a favourite tree (from Handel's Serse, Act I) Milya ar vanima olasse melda mapalininyo, a raita tyen calambar! Nai tarítali ar raumo la terhat...

Kevin Philippi

• Mz6cY6MyBRK: Essenya Kevin. Páranyë Quenya an alassëa. Nas lenca. Istëanyë nótima quettar. Mal páranye quiquië lertëanyë. ...
• QdCsvTWkwjd: Hi, new here. I would love to learn Quenya, I downloaded the text book of the net, but I always have a hard time sticking with it from a lack of ot...

Lúthien Tinúviel

• DnRptDKCTZK: Update: I'm getting the dictionary application ready for the Omentielva, where Roman Rausch will present it. Here's a little screencast video: ht...

Evan A

• 54S5sjuB4Z7: Psalm 3 in Parmaquesta Third and last example — for the time being — of my ongoing translation of the Book of Psalms. This one may be of higher in...
• 4yNJM1MdAox: I hrissea Budapest as i síre Anduna, kénina (kenna?) atarinyo henetello, sí. 16/01/2018 ...
• UVUfNC4Kdvn: After your post on losing and lost, I wondered if the phrase for I lost x could be "vanwa nin...x Using the same structure as Ecce nin...x and ...
• Cpm7uUGKkff: Er erinqua lé ea nwalya i nér yello illi avánier: á nananta sen ma hastaina. "There's only one way to hurt a man who has lost everything: give him...
• HvJ1kTykSoQ: Someone asked me how you would say of the Earth and the Moon in Quenya, and I demurred. They are not a natural pair, but a pair in the given contex...
• f6XpWnxU6Ug: Aiya, nildor! Once I was quite enthusiastic about [Neo-]Quenya. Then I experienced a kind of frustration, having read PE22 and totally lost in its ...
• Mz6cY6MyBRK: Essenya Kevin. Páranyë Quenya an alassëa. Nas lenca. Istëanyë nótima quettar. Mal páranye quiquië lertëanyë. ...
• UN1LcSxwyqh: I've release v0.5.7 of my Elvish lexicon Eldamo. This version has data from PE16. Of the major publications, only PE18, PE19 and PE21 remain. I've...
• 35aAhcWkwj4: The counter here on the side is telling me the community has reached half thousand members. *Perhúme! *Perveneg! Now I know very well that this nu...
• TX8bj95Pm9r: Does anyone have any idea what "Drega", imperative for 'Flee!" might be in Quenya? Is there a root? Any guesses on what Drega might sound like in...

Kaylynn Rose

• 35aAhcWkwj4: The counter here on the side is telling me the community has reached half thousand members. *Perhúme! *Perveneg! Now I know very well that this nu...

#kyerme

• KEWBxpCw3RA: Could it be possible that +#kyerme "prayer" be a misreading of *hyamie "a praying"? ...

#ky

• KEWBxpCw3RA: Could it be possible that +#kyerme "prayer" be a misreading of *hyamie "a praying"? ...

#hyam

• KEWBxpCw3RA: Could it be possible that +#kyerme "prayer" be a misreading of *hyamie "a praying"? ...

#Eruhyerme

• KEWBxpCw3RA: Could it be possible that +#kyerme "prayer" be a misreading of *hyamie "a praying"? ...

Rubens Beserra

• 6nFtMQH44ws: New Testament in Neo-Quenya translated by Fauskanger. Download in epub here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7LiUTtL4JLMXzRRellGTjVsOVE ...

Young Park

• VAp13CtxhLE: I am kinda shocked. Doriath has iâth (fence) in it. So should we pronounce it dor-yath, not like the' 'ia' in Melian like we separate 'rh' in gaur...

Brad Degelau

• 5ahsfgqf8Lg: I'm looking for help translating a phrase into Elvish. It can be any version of Elvish you like. Here's the story; me and by girlfriend are nearin...

Ari

• NyWJ18pVV7y: welp, as much as it horrifies my parents that i should learn a "made up" language (although technically all languages are made up >_>) i still want...

Dínen

• NyWJ18pVV7y: welp, as much as it horrifies my parents that i should learn a "made up" language (although technically all languages are made up >_>) i still want...

#1000words

• hgSNRCea81i: The next +#1000words entry I throw up here to munch on is prove. ...
• AH5UArRBfp8: +#1000words "opportunity" Tamas Ferencz Jun 03, 2...
• gKj5F62QFZw: The next +#1000words entry is gas. I recently coined the word *kumma from KUM, based on the etymology of the international word gas. Any other (p...
• aQBXFxzQnB6: The next +#1000words entry up for discussion is example. My first idea is *hókilme "outtake, selection". ...
• LNNrMTJpCPA: The next +#1000words entry I put up for discussion is detail. Going on the Hungarian word for detail Is say something from SAT "fraction, part"; o...
• C1oihfTGmFM: +#1000words Looking for a translation for E 'cell'. I feel we should derive it from YOD 'fence, enclose' (as in the sense of 'compartment'). Perh...
• 8xoCS6S5c7y: First neologism to discuss from the +#1000words project (I am not going in an alphabetical order, rather in a random fashion): available We have ...
• PFgSQyJoiqy: +Ицхак Пензев Yitzik, your latest post and list of words has inspired me to start something similar (and I do not want to hijack your dictionary ...

Łukasz Szkołuda

• EAqiLzLU928: Culuma (culu-ma) is orange; could malma (mal-ma) be lemon, and laingwa (laic-ma) be lime? ...
• PFgSQyJoiqy: +Ицхак Пензев Yitzik, your latest post and list of words has inspired me to start something similar (and I do not want to hijack your dictionary ...

Ras Alhague

• eXiNcPeEnjC: "trousers, pants" NQ *rotset? cf. E hose, G Hose? Ras Al...

#eldarin

• QqdENX8nxQC: This word analysis focuses on transitive verbs meaning “put, place, lay, set”. Finding a good choice for these words is a challenge, and requires s...

#pet

• 9WrXJNLBNvm: Concerning the Eldamo entry +#pec "nut": shouldn't this be +#pet (pec-) as we see with other Q nouns with stems ending in [k]? +Paul Strack ...

#pec

• 9WrXJNLBNvm: Concerning the Eldamo entry +#pec "nut": shouldn't this be +#pet (pec-) as we see with other Q nouns with stems ending in [k]? +Paul Strack ...

Anthony Carlson

• 64FcrGtFR7Y: I have a new D&D character and he has a bow named "One shot, One kill". Can someone translate this name into elvish please? ...

Elvish Scheible

• hXTgUzWEe6B: New member, still very much an amateur in Sindarin but doing my best. I am doing a translation of some/all of the Episcopal wedding ceremony for ...

Elvish Black

• hXTgUzWEe6B: New member, still very much an amateur in Sindarin but doing my best. I am doing a translation of some/all of the Episcopal wedding ceremony for ...