SteveJamieson.com » Elvish http://www.stevejamieson.com What should I put here? Fri, 17 Dec 2010 06:32:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 A new Elvish text http://www.stevejamieson.com/blog/2003/03/12/a-new-elvish-text/ http://www.stevejamieson.com/blog/2003/03/12/a-new-elvish-text/#comments Wed, 12 Mar 2003 22:36:35 +0000 Steve Jamieson http://www.stevejamieson.com/blog/2003/03/12/a-new-elvish-text/ I guess I haven’t really told too many people yet, but I aspire to learn Elvish. In particular, I want to learn Sindarin (or grey-elven), the common elven tongue, even though there is much more information readily available about Quenya, the ancient high-elven language. Over the past couple months I’ve been collecting a useful array of bookmarks on the subject of Tolkien languages. Some of the best finds have been Ardalambion, which has an impressive collection of resources and useful links; The Elvish Linguistic Fellowship, which publishes the journal Vinyar Tengwar; and Gwaith I-Phethdain, which has some good resources and a linguistic analysis for every non-English line in the Lord of the Rings movies.

The other day, I was watching some of appendix disc 2 from The Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition, and I happened to reach the section on the added scene where Aragorn sings part of The Lay of Lúthien. Much to my delight, this segment included the movie’s language guru Róisín Carty reading the Sindarin text aloud while the camera showed the script. I hadn’t seen that text on Gwaith I-Phethdain (turns out it’s under the soundtrack section), so I was excited to have a new Sindarin text with spoken example to work with as I begin to learn Elvish pronunciation.

Tinúviel elvanui
Elleth alfirin edhelhael
O hon ring finnil fuinui
A renc gelebrin thiliol

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