Re: Tolkien & front rounded vowels (was: RE: [CONLANG] Fave Conlangs WAS: Silindion

And Rosta wrote:
>Elliott Lash:
> >  Christian Thalmann <cinga@...> writes:
> > <SNIP>
> >
> > > > Neither does he seem to've liked /G/, which swiftly disappears
> > > > everytime it turns up in the Elvish languages, but persists in Black
> > > > Speech.
> > >
> > > This, on the other hand, is a clear case.
> > >
> > > Also, I do think he disliked /2/, since it would have occurred in
> > > Sindarin's umlauting system, but got merged into /y/ and /e/.
> >
> > Or, he was just doing with Sindarin exactly what Old English did:
> >
> > fo:t "foot"     > fo:t  > fo:t   > fo:t > fo:t > fUt
> > fo:tiz "feet"   > fo:ti > f2:ti > f2:t > fe:t > fi:t
>
>I understtod Christian's point to be that Sindarin did what OE did
>(as surely it did do) because Tolkien disliked [2].
>
>It's striking too how Quenya has the consonants of Finnish but
>the vowels of Latin, not Finnish. So I guess Christian is correct.
>
Except the Cw and Cy series, which are definitely unfinnish!

                                                Andreas

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