Re: LoTR in Russia (wasRe: Tolkien's notion of biology)

On Tuesday, December 16, 2003, at 09:07  AM, J Y S Czhang wrote:
>     Yuri Mayakovskii writes:
>>> Fellow Slavs and LINGUAFILO KOMRADS!, we ALL know it is a godless
> Globalist Kapitalist CONsPIRACY! ;)
>
> ::I am being Yuri's messenger-boy, again...
> (Why he doesn't post stuff himself is reaaaally beginnin' ta irk me
> BigTime!!!
> ::jabs elbow hard at Yuri ... & scampers outta reach VERRRY
> quickly::)::
Okay, this doesn't really have to do with the text of the message, but
it does have to do with the subject-line.  Are any of our
Russian-speakers (or speakers of related somewhat-mutually-intelligible
languages) aware of the so-called "Black Silmarillion"?  Anyone want to
translate it into English, too?  :)


-Stephen (Steg)
  "there is darkness all around us;
   but if darkness *is*, and the darkness is of the forest,
   then the darkness must be good."
      ~ song of the BaMbuti in troubled times
  (tii raflep suddadaasht nga'amsh;
   akh ihkh raflep uzoi-tzat, i raflep-a tza'aurdzaasht-a uz,
   raflep-a ngausgaur sudtub.)
      - rokbeigalmki translation
        http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~bh11744/stuff/raflep.mp3 (?)

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