ext_343850 ([identity profile] elethian.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] arcanetrivia 2009-06-05 08:47 pm (UTC)

Beautiful language though, based on Finnish I think . . .

Quenya shares some characteristics with Finnish; Sindarin is more like Welsh.

Only thing I can rattle off the top of my head (besides common stuff like "Ai! Laurie lantar lassi surinen...") is Mana nan unyarima na; mai tulle' ni Laisilmenorello ("what I am is unknown, but I come from the green-and-starlight-shining lands") which took me quite some time to learn to construct, what with the noun inflections in Quenya that don't really appear in English and all.

[livejournal.com profile] digitalsidhe is the person I know most into this kind of stuff; he even used to do Tengwar calligraphy by commission.

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