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Re: CHAT: Hello

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 27, 2001, 19:43
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:31:19 -0500 Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
writes:
> Tim Judge wrote: > >PS: "Erion Telepalda" is Quenya and if you can translate it then > you should > >probably know that I was deppressed when I came up with it. He was > the > >speaker in an attempt and a poem in Quenya, but I liked the sound > of it and > >used it as a character name in an RPG so I added it to my name.
> Hm ... Is _Erion_ "alone-son"? I can't seem to figure out any other > reasonable meaning. _Telepalda_ is clearly "Silvertree", any > connection to > _Celeborn_? If so, did you know that JRRT changed the meaning of > that to > "silver-tall", which'd be *_T(y)eleporno_ in Quenya. > > Andreas
- Teleporno? Weren't we discussing those and video stores a few weeks or months ago? I'm sorry, couldn't resist. ;-) -Stephen (Steg) "Thank goodness they didn't speak English in Middle-Earth, or Celeborn would've been so teased as a kid..."