Re: POEM in Silindion

In a message dated Sat, 27 Oct 2001 3:48:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Jesse Bangs
<jaspax@...> writes:

> On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 14:15:04 EDT Elliott Lash <AL260@...> writes:
>
>
> > A nolna, nistë onórneavi, nolna i nona tarkilvi.
> > Pantëa emë onórnëavi nolanyë, nolnar niva vaureitma i!
> > Lanta!
> > etc.
>
> This and what follows have reconvinced me that Silindion is one of the
> prettiest conlangs I've ever seen.  The only complaint I have against it
> is that it's too Tolkeinian (could anyone here tell it apart from Quenya
> at a glance?), but that's a pretty heady fault to have.  Way to go,
> Elliot.
>

Thank you muchly! :) And, as for the 'too Tolkeinian' thing, I kind of wanted that,
since the phonology is after all based vaguely after Finnish, like Quenya is.
However, the morphology is very very diiferent, with lots of nice, and
terrifying morphophonological rules, that would probably make it a pain to
learn! :)

Elliott