It’s been an exciting couple of days! After years of wrestling with the massive namelists, I’ve finally come up with a solution that I think will work. Give the Name Lists a gander and let me know if you like their new setup! I basically tried to replicate the old,
Hi there! Welcome to the Terms and Conditions Page! Definitions: We/Us/Our/Ours = the translators and writers and web designers of RealElvish.net. I/Me/My/Mine = Fiona Jallings, the head translator and owner of RealElvish.net. You/Your/Yours = user of RealElvish.net’s services. RealElvish.net = these three websites: RealElvish.net, the RealElvish Academy, and the RealElvish
The link to the Kickstarter is here: Free Elvish Lessons at the Realelvish Academy Please spread the word to as many people as you can. Even if you can’t donate, spreading the word helps a LOT! Here’s the video: Thank you guys so much!
It was a lot of fun getting to do this. I think I’ll do more interviews and talks later on, since I had fun. LOTRO Players News Episode 113: Languages in Tolkien In the interview we announced the Dwarvish and Sindarin phrasebook LotRO plugins. I’ll post the links to the
At 8:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, I’m being interviewed about my Tolkien-language work, along with a good friend of mine, The Dwarrow Scholar and you can listen and chat along with others listening to the show here: http://mixlr.com/the-players-alliance/
I see it all over the Lord of the Rings fan fiction world, and it makes me sigh. “It” is irrational dialogue. So, I present to you a few simple steps to writing authentic dialogue for the peoples of Middle-earth. Here’s a sample; right now it is modern sounding and
Elvish Linguistics Learning Tool The reason that I jumped into this project, other than the obvious, is that I see the potential for this to be useful for teachers and students of languages in general. It makes it easy to learn to read a language, especially one like Japanese or
It’s finally time to beta-test the new phrasebook database! Phrasebook Database Interface Please let me know any problems or errors that you find, and any suggestions you have for making it easier to use are welcome. One little note: the “all of them” option for the phrasebook sections won’t be
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
Hail! I need to apologize to everyone for being so scarce about the website. I’ve been in solitary confinement, or house-sitting for my grandmother. She has a very slow dial-up connection and a computer out of the dark ages. I just about went crazy. Then my boyfriend’s grandfather died while