Re: Jackson's "Elvish"

On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Sally Caves wrote:

> Caves here.
>
> Okay, so now that I'm back for a while on
> CONLANG (sorry for my long absence),
> I have a question that I'm sure has already
> been thrashed on several threads so forgive
> me (too lazy and beleagered by duties to
> check through the archives): but what news
> was anyone able to get about the work that
> went into recreating the Elvish for _Lord of
> the Rings_?   As far as I could tell, there has
> been no attributions given to the linguists, in
> either the credits or in the Official Film Guide,
> or the Making, or anything.
>
> Could any Quenya expert make out the
> chanting?  The words spoken--briefly--by
> Arwen and Aragorn?  Does anyone have
> the score on CD?
>
> Who has seen it multiple times? <G>
Raises hand.

Okay, the elvish translation was done by David Salo, an acquaintance of
mine (wooo, my brush with celebrity).  He's a fairly shy fellow, though,
and doesn't seem to care for acclaim.

I asked him to send something to the conlang list, and he said he would,
but I've not seen it.