Some of you may know this already, but last Saint Nicolas’ Day, my grandfather died. We were quite close. He was a brilliant anthropologist and quite gifted at learning languages. If you want to know more about him, do a search on Frank Bessac. I miss him terribly, to the
Our website now has merchandise! If you want to help keep “Merin Essi ar Quenteli!” running, or maybe some clothes with cool calligraphy on them, please check out our little store!
Hello all! Finals are over! I have no idea how I did on them, and won’t know for a while. I return to school in a week. I’m taking two intense summer French classes, the closest thing to spending the summer in France I can afford. So, for this short
Howdy all! I was so busy with midterms and influenza that I didn’t do any updates. Now that it is Spring Break, I’m updating and cleaning things up like crazy. All of the Sindarin Name lists are cleaned up! Doriathrin Names Woodelven Names Sindarin Names Gondorian-Sindarin Names A new section
Hello! I had a grand idea. Why not put my website newsletters up here? So I shall. Gondorian-Sindarin Name List I added another dialectal name list for Gondorians with Sindarin names. How could I do this whilst preparing my portfolio? Well, I was procrastinating, and the Gondorian dialect doesn’t differ
Hello everyone! It is the cheery hour of two in the morning, and I have a few updates to give you before I collapse on my bed. I have a story to tell you. Personally, I see myself as one of the last people in the world susceptible to this,
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
Hi y’all! Today, as I merrily added more names to the lists and phrases to the Sindarin Phrase Book, I decided to do a quick count. It knocked me off my feet. There are 1009 possible Sindarin Phrases in the Phrasebook and 2291 possible names in the name lists. There
Alert! Warning! Beware! Look out! I discovered that my hosting website, freewebs.com, is putting a spyware virus onto all of the websites hosted there. For the meanwhile, the website has been moved to https://realelvish.net/. All of the artshost.com links still work, but any link you click that’s not the spyware
Sad news this day. My grandfather died December 3, 2005. So, I’ve changed the colors and background of the website for mourning. He was 69 years old; he died of lung cancer. Promise me that you will never smoke! dreamingfifi Rûm cuil ngurth. Life’s mystery is death.