Elvish

Blckbeltguitar · 09-30-2005, 04:38 PM

Call me stupid or a freak but what about Elvish. Does anyone know how to speak it? Where can i find a FREE way to learn?

Silent One · 09-30-2005, 04:43 PM

Hi stupid (freak). I just did a search and this site seems fairly instructional.

Index of all the JRR Tolkien languages.
http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/

The most popular Elvish one I suppose.
http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/sindarin.htm

eru_na_melme · 03-20-2006, 12:14 PM

(my login name is in [Tolkein's] elvish... It means "God is love")

Planet Bass · 03-20-2006, 12:32 PM

"Those dang varmits gone dang stepped all over my hot-dang blue swede *uh-huUH* shoes mrble grble"

Oh oops.. did you mean 'Elvis' or 'Elvish'?

(Srry couldnt resist)

+SEAL+ · 10-14-2006, 09:12 PM

Well...Tolkien never actually finished Elvish. I don't even know if he intended to finish it. However, I'm sure that people have managed to reconstruct some of it from languages like Finnish...

Adoken Razahl · 03-19-2007, 05:54 PM

I would go to these links if you are interested in learning the entire LOTR Elven Language.

http://www.grey-company.org/Circle/language/grammar.htm = Grammar Rules

http://www.grey-company.org/Circle/language/phrase.htm = Elven Phrases

http://www.grey-company.org/Circle/language/com2elv.htm = English 2 Elven Dictionary

I strongly believe this is merely a Fan Site. It is very cool though!

Reedolo · 03-20-2007, 01:35 AM

I wouldn't try to actually learn Quenya unless you're really good at linguistics and don't mind putting in the time. I think it's a waste of time because it's not a language that you'll ever use, not to mention the fact that the language is incomplete and there's not enough vocabulary for you to express everything you would want to say.

But one easy, fun thing you can do is learn to write English using the Tengwar (elvish) writing system, which consists of the tengwa (consonant) markings with the simple vowel markings above and below them.

I recommend the Tengwar Textbook which you can download for free here in PDF format.

It's fun writing English using the Tengwar writing system because you can keep a journal that no one else can read, except someone else who can read tengwar. There are several modes for English; I use the Common Mode, but once you know one mode you can learn the others very easily, there's not much difference.