Jennifer, your name is really cool. It’s a cognate of an Irish goddess’s name, known as Findabair. Or Finnabair. Or Fionnabhair. It’s a lovely name with a long history, likely reaching back to Proto-Celtic languages. It’s most likely a compound of “Gwindos – White” and “Sēbarā – Spirit/Fairy/Phantom.” Sindarin Sindarin
olme Odor/Scent/Smell
English: You smell like a monster Literal Translation: you have the scent of a monster (informal) Guide for Adding Punctuation to the Tengwar and Cirth Tengwar with vowel-tehtar, used for Quenya, Gondorian-Sindarin, Adúnaic, and Black Speech: iEt%1 `Njt$ `MjU2^nE Pronunciation Guides Language(s): VanyarinThis dialect of Quenya was spoken by the
English: You smell like a monster Literal Translation: you have the scent of a monster (informal) Guide for Adding Punctuation to the Tengwar and Cirth Tengwar with vowel-tehtar, used for Quenya, Gondorian-Sindarin, Adúnaic, and Black Speech: iEt%1 `Njt$ `MjU2^yE Pronunciation Guides Language(s): Exilic QuenyaThis dialect of Quenya is spoken by
English: You smell like a monster Literal Translation: you stink like a monster (informal) Guide for Adding Punctuation to the Tengwar and Cirth Cirth, used for Woodelven and Doriathren Sindarin: 0ð#ðR fL kc, Tengwar the Mode of Beleriand, used for Exilic Sindarin: 3h81hs 9.Õ .F]6 Tengwar with vowel-tehtar, used for
Here’s a list of the four compass-points in Quenya. I included their Allative and Ablative cases, for quick reference. English Quenya To the ___ From the ___ In the ___ East Rómen Rómenna Rómello Rómesse North Formen Formenna Formello Formesse South Hyarmen Hyarmenna Hyarmello Hyarmesse West Númen Númenna Númello Númesse
This is a list of words for various familial relationships. I’ve organized them by the relationship and by number. Archaic versions of the words are in (parentheses). A quick set of definitions of the grammatical terms: Singular One [noun] Plural More than two [noun]s Dual Two [noun]s Partitive Some [noun]s
Why Read the Books? Many fans like to try their hand at writing The Lord of the Rings fan fiction after seeing the movie. I suppose they figure, “Hey, it’s the movie of the book, right? There can’t be that many changes, right?” Luckily, they are wrong. The books are
These are all websites that I recommend. To see a list of websites that are often mistaken for good sources of Tolkien’s languages visit the Untrustworthy Websites list. Dictionaries About Tolkien’s Languages Tolkien Language Communities Elvish Compositions About Writing Systems Fonts and Lists of Fonts About Arda About and Hosting
The death of Geocities took with it many fantastic Tolkien-linguistics websites. I hadn’t done a complete link-check until now, and found a large number of the websites are now gone. How depressing! I hope they find new homes, because they were excellent resources. Novaer mellyn!