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| Celebrimbor |
![]() Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:25 pm |
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Does anyone here know how to speak at least some of the Elvish language, Quenya?
I currently know about 20 words, thanks to the complete tutorial and Dictionary I downloaded.
Sheesh, this Tolkien guy really did a lot, there is about 5000 words in the dictionary. |
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| Felipe Musco |
![]() Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:33 pm |
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| I can write Tengwar, although I’m not sure that helps... |
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| CarpeGuitarrem |
![]() Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:39 pm |
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| Same here, but that’s not the same thing. And even though Tolkien had 5,000 words, it’s not nearly enough for a full-fledged language! That’s what amazes me. |
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| Shieldmaiden |
![]() Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:16 pm |
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So true, if anyone ever tells you that they are fluent in any of Tolkien’s elvish languages, then they’re either deluded or outright lying. As the previous posters have said, Tolkien didn’t write down enough words for a full language.
Like others, I can write in Tengwar (have fonts installed), and I know some of the words for both Quenya and Sindarin.
If you want to learn some Quenya, there is an excellent tutorial at Ardalambion: www.uib.no/people/hnohf |
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| macheteman |
![]() Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:54 pm |
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| it just goes to prove that man couldn’t have created languages. |
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| menace64 |
![]() Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 6:08 pm |
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| lol no. It just proves that, in one lifetime, one man cannot create a full language. |
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| lem0nhead |
![]() Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:00 am |
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| Celebrimbor |
![]() Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:53 pm |
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CarpeGuitarrem wrote: Same here, but that’s not the same thing. And even though Tolkien had 5,000 words, it’s not nearly enough for a full-fledged language! That’s what amazes me.
Though not full-fledged, one can become quite fluent in Quenya. There are some holes in the vocabulary, but what’s to stop us from making up a few words here and there. |
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| sickofpalantirs |
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| Apopatos |
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menace64 wrote: lol no. It just proves that, in one lifetime, one man cannot create a full language.
Wrong! Many people have created full languages. The most famous of them is Esperanto who is created by the Russian doctor L. L. Zamenhof. It is a complete language with over 100,000 fluent speakers and it was meant to become the international language before people decide to speak english... |
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