Re: CHAT: Tolkienian conlangs in the movie [was Re: CHAT: Best/Worst/Missing Scenes in LotR]

>All characters who spoke in Elvish Tongues did so in Sindarin...except
>for Saruman, Galadriel, Gandalf..and supposedly Elrond.
>
>Saruman's spell to 'bring down the mountain' was in (a slightly weird
>form of) Quenya, and it can be found on the web here:
>
>http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/movie_news.htm#spectator
>
>Galadriel merely said 'Namarie' 'Farewell'
Didn't hear that!

>Gandalf said a barely audible phrase in Quenya when he was trying to open
>the doors of Moria, see above link.
Well, from what I've heard from all of you Tolkien experts (or at least
more so thatn me), the fact that he spoke Quenya to open the door, that he
would say something in Quenya... I think he said the word for friend... I
have no idea what language that was, but from what I remember the same
word that opens the door in the book is the same one that opens it in the
movie... and that word wasn't unclear in the movie...

>Supposedly Elrond said farewell to the Fellowship in Quenya, but I must
>have missed that, see above link.
So did I....

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