Message-ID: <3805DA3A.22D815AF@mediaone.net> From: Cian X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-MOENE (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.tolkien Subject: Elvish lang. models (was Re: Tolkien is a thief) References: <7u0o4t$kh4$1@ash.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <19991012230855.16802.00000327@ng-bh1.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 15 Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:27:22 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.128.99.214 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mediaone.net X-Trace: wbnws01.ne.mediaone.net 939907821 24.128.99.214 (Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:30:21 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:30:21 EDT Organization: Road Runner Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!netnews.com!chnws02.mediaone.net!24.128.1.101!chnws05.ne.mediaone.net!24.128.44.7!wbnws01.ne.mediaone.net.POSTED!not-for-mail "Bryan J. Maloney" wrote: > We all know that the Professor modeled Elvish on Welsh to some extent. Tolkien writes that Sindarin is derived from an origin common to it and Quenya, 'but the changes were deliberately devised to give it linguistic character very like (though not identical with) Brirish-Welsh.' (Letters) Of mature Quenya, Tolkien says that it was composed 'of a Latin base with two other (main) ingredients that gave [him] phonaesthetic pleasure, Finnish and Greek, however less consonantal'. (Letters) Mar Aurė! Kian ###### Message-ID: <3805DB1B.739B7F9E@mediaone.net> From: Cian X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-MOENE (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.tolkien Subject: Re: Elvish lang. models (was Re: Tolkien is a thief) References: <7u0o4t$kh4$1@ash.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <19991012230855.16802.00000327@ng-bh1.aol.com> <3805DA3A.22D815AF@mediaone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 21 Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:31:07 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.128.99.214 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mediaone.net X-Trace: wbnws01.ne.mediaone.net 939908046 24.128.99.214 (Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:34:06 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:34:06 EDT Organization: Road Runner Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!isdnet!netnews.com!chnws02.mediaone.net!24.128.1.101!chnws05.ne.mediaone.net!24.128.44.7!wbnws01.ne.mediaone.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Cian wrote: > "Bryan J. Maloney" wrote: > > > We all know that the Professor modeled Elvish on Welsh to some extent. > > Tolkien writes that Sindarin is derived from an origin common to it and Quenya, > 'but the changes were deliberately devised to give it linguistic character very > like (though not identical with) Brirish-Welsh.' (Letters) > > Of mature Quenya, Tolkien says that it was composed 'of a Latin base with two > other (main) ingredients that gave [him] phonaesthetic pleasure, Finnish and > Greek, however less consonantal'. (Letters) > > Mar Aurė! > Kian Amend typo to 'British' of course. Dang spell check >-(