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5247
... 20Library/Tolkien%20letter%2010%20quality.jpg ... This specimen is recently added to the DTS. Suilaid o Mellonath Daeron, Gildir, Per Lindberg...
gildir_2
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Apr 1, 2006
7:36 pm
5248
... You may want to have a look at the guide at http://www.forodrim.org/daeron/md_teng_primers.html Suilaid o Mellonath Daeron, Gildir, Per Lindberg...
gildir_2
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Apr 1, 2006
7:51 pm
5249
... that applies to all the languages really ... Indeed, because the language is not finite and stable. ... Read the Appendix E of Return of the King ...
Palatinus
elfiness
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Apr 2, 2006
11:43 am
5250
Hi, I'm working on, more accuratly trying to, translate samwise gamgee's line from the movies "Even darkness must pass" into quenya. This is what I've come up...
mash_mjlord
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Apr 3, 2006
3:41 am
5251
Please refer to the Elfling mailing list. This list is not for translations. Thank you ... ___________________________________________________________ ...
Palatinus
elfiness
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Apr 3, 2006
8:24 am
5252
... to find ... anywhere. ... connecting ... THANK YOU!! mj :)...
mash_mjlord
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Apr 3, 2006
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5253
... I don't think we can do much better than _yando_ "also". _Yando mornie autuva_ is perhaps good enough for your purpose. But this was really a question for...
Helge K. Fauskanger
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5254
hello all. i've been working on trying to get my last name translated. i've uploaded what i have so far, entitled kuenzel.jpg my last name is: Kuenzel and i...
krisp_of_manetheren
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Apr 5, 2006
4:20 pm
5255
ok, well... i may've phrased my initial question incorrectly. axe "translation" from that. i want to check to see if i've written my last name in tengwar ...
krisp_of_manetheren
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Apr 5, 2006
7:19 pm
5256
... translated. ... Hello and welcome, maybe the right word for what you want is "transcribe" your last name into Tengwar :-) OK, first what we have to solve...
calwen76
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Apr 6, 2006
6:46 am
5257
I have better uploaded a picture of what I transcribed: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/elfscript/files/calwen76/kunzel.jpg Lucy...
calwen76
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Apr 6, 2006
7:00 am
5258
... It is not _ú_ -- which isn't used in German -- but _ü_, which is spelled _ue_ when the composite letter is not available (as in www.kuenzel.de for the...
Melroch 'Aestan
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Apr 6, 2006
10:38 am
5259
I agree that a German name should be written in a German mode. The German mode that I am most familiar with is that devised by Christian Thalmann. According to...
i_degilbor
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Apr 6, 2006
5:04 pm
5260
Benct Philip Jonsson wrote: ... Ah, German modes, my favourite! Why is that? We have tehtar for ae and ue, and a tehta for oe can easily be deduced by analogy...
j_mach_wust
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Apr 6, 2006
7:02 pm
5261
wow... i appreciate the number of people that chipped in on this. that's very cool and i thank everyone for their time and efforts. i do have a question for...
krisp_of_manetheren
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Apr 6, 2006
8:06 pm
5262
... <krisp_of_manetheren@...> wrote: ... It's a letter with an "extended" stem. About these letters, Tolkien wrote in Appendix E to the Lord of the Rings:...
j_mach_wust
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Apr 6, 2006
8:56 pm
5263
awesome. that makes sense. :) i was just curious how you had gotten to that point....
krisp_of_manetheren
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Apr 6, 2006
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5264
... Sure, but using combinations with Yanta makes the writing more like Sindarin, and for that reason I sometimes use that solution for Swedish as well: _y,...
Melroch 'Aestan
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Apr 7, 2006
11:26 am
5265
... wrote: <...> We have tehtar for ae and ue <...> Well, we have the double over-dot for _ue/ü_ (as attested in the third copy of KL _mhellyn_), and I like...
hisilome
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Apr 7, 2006
1:35 pm
5266
Fellow Elfscribers, I have today (ahead of schedule!) uploaded version 1 of the font Valmaric Eldamar to Amanye Tenceli: ...
Måns Björkman
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Apr 7, 2006
2:31 pm
5267
Melroch 'Aestan wrote: ... I wasn't thinking of å, that's right. What about using a doubled o-tehta? Or would that be too far off from common sense, or...
j_mach_wust
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Apr 8, 2006
8:36 am
5268
... _backing_. [[[ Right. I also saw that you use this exact tehta for what seems to be an _ä_ sound (correct me if I'm wrong) in your Bernese German mode, so...
hisilome
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Apr 8, 2006
10:28 am
5269
... That's it, roughly like Quenya _ai_ or like Sindarin _ae_ or like the vowel sound in English 'tie'. ... No, to _e_. It's identification with _ä_ is an...
j_mach_wust
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Apr 8, 2006
11:31 am
5270
... The problem with the W-tehta is that people have used it for _ö_ in the past, before // was invented... One possible solution would be to use the O-tehta ...
Melroch 'Aestan
melroch
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Apr 8, 2006
11:48 am
5271
(Phonetic transcriptions are again as per <http://www.theiling.de/ipa/>!) ... Actually what happened in Latin was that previously secondary distinctions of...
Melroch 'Aestan
melroch
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Apr 8, 2006
12:09 pm
5272
Melroch 'Aestan wrote: ... People might have, but Tolkien hasn't. This is my simplistic view on these matters. I don't care much for posttolkenian traditions...
j_mach_wust
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Apr 8, 2006
1:42 pm
5273
... [ Well, first of all thanks to you (and Melroch!) for your detailed explanations on Latin _ae_ (and sound changes in the Latin vowel system in general). ...
hisilome
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Apr 8, 2006
6:22 pm
5274
... I see your point, but while you can confuse people, you can't confuse Tolkien anymore. Besides *he* would probably just have invented new ad_hoc tehtar! ...
Melroch 'Aestan
melroch
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Apr 8, 2006
7:04 pm
5275
... We discussed this on Conlang list not so long ago, and concluded that any prefix or root which begins in a vowel in the orthography begins in a phonemic ...
Melroch 'Aestan
melroch
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Apr 8, 2006
7:15 pm
5276
... I'd rather agree with Hisilome on this point. German is, like English or Swedish, a language that does not have one single standard form and pronunciation,...
j_mach_wust
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Apr 9, 2006
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