Lalaith of “Lalaith’s Middle-earth Science Pages” contacted me to let me know that her website has moved! It’s a great website, so I’m spreading the word. If you have it bookmarked, change your bookmarks to:
Fiona J.
Hello! I'm your friendly neighborhood linguist! I grew up on a small sheep and horse ranch in Montana, but now I'm a city-slicker and a college grad, with a degree in English-Linguistics from the University of Montana. I am the owner and head translator of this website.
Moved Blog
So, here we are. Due to the Middle-earth Network shutting down social-network operations, I had to move the “News and Updates” section to my own website. In this process, I got another subdomain for my website, installed WordPress 4.0 on it, then mucked around until it became something resembling the
Aduna and an Essay
I finished the research on Adûna pronunciation… 2 years ago? A while ago, anyways. I forgot to make a pronunciation guide page for it. Without further ado, here it is! Adûna Pronunciation You’ll notice that there aren’t any notes on the stress patterns. Unfortunately, Tolkien never described them. I also
Downtime Tomorrow
The Phrasebook Database downtime has been moved to Sunday, 2PM GMT.
Phrasebook Downtime
The phrasebook database will be down for an hour starting 2PM GMT. Phil will be making the URLs for specific sections of the phrasebook easier to link to. This is part of a larger project to make the phrasebooks more accessible in different ways, especially for screen-reader programs. Some other
I’m back! and SPAM
Hi! I’m back from my adventures going to school, doing NaNoWriMo (I won!), and getting surgery (bi-lateral breast-reduction). I’m still a little sore from surgery, but I don’t need the powerful pain meds that make me extremely loopy. Therefore, I have given myself a green light to go back to
Hard Drive Donation Drive Over
We managed to meet our goal, then blow straight past it! The total amount donated is $1420. The rest of the money will go to paying the websites’ bills, and $5 a month will go to a Humanist charity network called “Foundation Beyond Belief“. They carefully screen charities to make
Status Update on HD Recovery
Notice: Our donation goals have been met! Thank you everyone who helped out, you’re life’swork-savers! More info here! Got an update on the status of the data recovery this morning: “Your media is currently in the clean room where our most advanced engineers are working with your drive in order
Hard Drive Donation Drive
Notice: Our donation goals have been met! Thank you everyone who helped out, you’re life’swork-savers! More info here! If you’re wondering what this is about, read this post first: http://realelvish.mymiddleearth.com/2013/07/19/help/ Our goal is to raise $850, so my spouse and I can afford to eat and pay rent and save
Help!
Notice: Our donation goals have been met! Thank you everyone who helped out, you’re life’swork-savers! More info here! I need help. I lost all of the files on my computer – it’s dying, and I was expecting that, so I had backed them up. Then my external hard-drive died. According