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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.

Organizing

Wow, what a lot of updates this week! Well friends, after reorganizing the FTP server I decided to reorganized the navigation. Things should be much easier to find. The navigation has been split into five parts: the normal website stuff, translations, fanfiction, other websites, and the house of guests. It’s

FTPURL

Ai mellyn! A very important notice for today. Getting tired of searching for parts of the website on the FTP server, I decided to organize it there the way it is to the viewer of the website. That means that some of the URLs have changed. Please check the website

Pollbooth

Hello everyone! You can now help me make decisions about the website! Under the House of Guests there is the Pollbooth. Please Vote! I’ve added a section for people wanting websites with titles in Tolkien’s languages. Your Sindarin Textbook is a huge success so far! There are seven students on

Awards?

Please forgive me for neglecting you for so long! I have a lot of updates to get through. I decided that the Sindarin subtitle was a silly idea. In its place, I put a pretty banner that I made in MSPaint. I learned some CSS coding! Now the navigation bar

Doriath

Hello all! Good news for all of the Elves of Doriath, I just finished making them a namelist! https://realelvish.net/names/sindarin/ There’s a new section up in the Quenya Phrase Book, Communication. I’ve made all of the pages pale green, so they’ll look nicer in the iframe. I added a Sindarin version

Eru, Varda, Manwë

Hello folks! Today we have a few minor additions. “Help us!” phrases were added to the Sindarin phrasebook. Jael pointed out to me that during the short Elven marriage they still speak the names of Eru, Varda, and Manwë. I fixed the error in the Elven Wedding essay. I added

Frames

I just figured out how to do iframes! Now, the website will load much quicker and use much less bandwidth. Enjoy! Homepage The Quenya Phrase Book now has twelve sections in it, and counting. Way to go Gildor! Please, let him know how much you appreciate his efforts. dreamingfifi Random

Spam Attack!

Hello everyone! The other day, I finally tired of deleting spam. Lately, I’ve had to clean more and more and more of the stuff from the forums. I believe that they perceived the unrestricted posting and charged in for the kill. So, I came up with a clever plan. I’d

Quenya

I have great news today! The Quenya and Noldorin name lists are finally completed and up on the website! Three cheers for Tyrhael and Gildor! HIP HIP HOORAY! HIP HIP HOORAY! HIP HIP HOORAY! Quenya Namelists Exilic Sindarin Phrasebook In celebration, I’ve put up the summer colors. This skin I

Lessons

Hey everyone! I have several updates to report. First, I’ve started work on Sindarin Lessons. The lessons have forced me to rethink out the language, so I’ve changed my mind yet again on the Sindarin Pronoun system. I need people willing to be guinea pigs to take the lessons and