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

On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 09:54:32 -0800 Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>
writes:
> > 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...
> True.  But in book and film, he tried a lot of other phrases first.
> --
> Anton Sherwood  --  http://www.ogre.nu/
-

The word that finally opened the door was Sindarin.
Btw, see http://www.geocities.com/almacq.geo/sindar/ (the Sindarin
Dictionary Project)


-Stephen (Steg)
 now with a Quenya name, "Arasseríno" (yay!)

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