Amarthuanui
Monstrous/Hideous Fate Amarthuanui – Monstrous/Hideous Fate
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Aphanuzîr
Bliss-friend Aphanuzîr – Bliss-friend
Agânun unâkhi
English: Death approaches Literal Translation: Death it-is-coming Guide for Adding Punctuation to the Tengwar and Cirth Tengwar with vowel-tehtar, used for Quenya, Gondorian-Sindarin, Adúnaic, and Black Speech: `Cx~C5^5 `N5~CcT Pronunciation Guides Language(s): AdûnaicThe language spoken in Númenor in the Second Age. Phrasebook Chapter(s): War Phrases I put together these phrases
Núnatanu namme
English: We two are Dúnedain Literal Translation: [2] We are [2] Dúnedain Guide for Adding Punctuation to the Tengwar and Cirth Tengwar with vowel-tehtar, used for Quenya, Gondorian-Sindarin, Adúnaic, and Black Speech: 5~M5#1E5& 5#t:$ Pronunciation Guides Language(s): Exilic QuenyaThis dialect of Quenya is spoken by the Noldorin exiles and their
“It Always Had Been a Vast Globe…”
It is well-known that in the late 1950s Tolkien made an attempt to revise the cosmology of his imaginary world in order to make it more realistic and scientifically credible than, as he put it, “the Flat Earth and the astronomically absurd business of the making of the Sun and
Linguistic Review of The Rings of Power (first 2 episodes)
I’m not sure if lay-fans have noticed, but something obvious to Tolkien-language scholars is that the Elven languages aren’t being used exactly the same way in the TV show as they were in the Peter Jackson movies, and the languages themselves are slightly different too. There are a few things
Rachel in Elvish
Rachel, your name is really cool! It means “ewe” in Hebrew. Sindarin Sindarin doesn’t have a word for “sheep.” We have two options here: Use a less precise word for an animal: Lavan. Coin a new word, based on the Quenya word and the ancient root it was based on,
Andrew in Elvish
Andrew, your name is really cool! It’s an Ancient Greek name meaning “man (as in the gendered term).” This name has been imported to many languages, and become a name for women as well, which makes the translation a little difficult. For those, I’ll shift the translation to “manly” instead.
Catherine/Katherine in Elvish
Catherine, your name is really cool! It’s an ancient and mysterious name from Ancient Greek, a name so ancient that the Greeks themselves didn’t know what it originally meant! Later on, it was reassigned the meaning “Pure/Clean/Clear,” based on connecting the Ancient Greek word Katharos. They changed the spelling to
Michael in Elvish
Michael, your name is so cool! It’s a rhetorical question, “Who is like El Elyon?” When it comes to translating this name, we have a huge problem. This name isn’t translatable. Not directly, anyways. Elven names aren’t made from sentences. They’re made by combining nouns, adjectives, and name suffixes. Worse