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

Aquamarine Demon <aquamarine_demon@...> writes:

> >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!
It's right after she says 'here's the light from Earendil, our most famous star..'
Or some such thing.

> >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...
Well no..He does say 'mellon' "friend" (In Sindarin) but before hand, when he first
reads the inscription he does say something in what sounded to me like Quenya,
then he says "Oh, it's no use"...at which point Frodo figures out the riddle
for him.

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