I put a ridiculous amount of work into this place. It is my passion. I love being able to provide you guys with free, up-to-date translations; I find working on the databases actually kinda soothing and fun. But, I also need to eat food. Funny how the human body works,
As I promised the 15% off deal on Lulu books goes on until the end of July! Also, for this week only, I’m putting up a personalized, signed copy of “A Fan’s Guide to Neo-Sindarin” onto Ebay. This is something that usually you can only get when you meet me
So, lately I’ve been getting a lot of tattoo requests, more than I’ve been getting requests for character names or fanfic dialogue. I want to be able to serve you guys more efficiently, so I need to bug you guys for information. I’m also interested in talking to tattoo artists
I’m so excited guys! I did the first count up in a while of all the copies of A Fan’s Guide to Neo-Sindarin that I’ve sold, and discovered that I’d just sold the 400th book! This is something to celebrate, so for the rest of May and June, the Lulu
Here’s a link to my Miscon appearances, and here’s the descriptions of them: Sat 1:00 – 1:50 PM, Dialogue and Non-Narrative Languages, Yellowstone Panelists: Fiona Jallings (dreamingfifi) In this panel, linguist Fiona Jailings will talk about how to include non-narrative languages in your stories. Whether it’s Middle Earth or Tokyo,
These are names that are designed for Exiled Noldorin Elves in Middle-earth and Númenórean/Gondorian royalty. For the Númenóreans, if the language of the Sindar was considered a “High” language, then Quenya was even higher. They reserved it for only the highest proclamations and the names of their rulers. No naming
This is not by any stretch of the imagination any sort of completeness, but it’s progress! Finally, when you use the Random Name Generator, it will spit out names that start with letters other than A, B, or C, and the other sections look a little less empty. I still
I know that ads suck, and they are no fun. But, I have to put them on my website. I’m trying to turn this into a viable business, and I’m not currently making enough money through my website to make minimum wage, so I’ve gotta do it somehow. This will
RustyCon is a scifi/fantasy convention that has been running 35 years in the Seattle, Washington area. It from January 12th to the 14th, at the Seattle Airport Marriott hotel and convention center. It looks like it’ll be a lot of fun, so if you’re in the area, stop by and
I was on the wait-list for Orycon, and seeing as it’s at the end of this week, I didn’t think that I’d get to go. But, late last night I got a call asking me if I’d like to go in place of a vendor who dropped out, and I