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

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Monday, December 24, 2001, 18:13
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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