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Re: Tolkien language(s) question

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 3, 2003, 18:06
Mark J. Reed wroot:
> > Most of the Elvish in the movies is Sindarin. > Sindarin:Quenya :: Italian:Latin. Which is why Frodo got a laugh when > he greeted the Elves in Quenya, like the modern tourist who tries to use > Latin in Rome ("Been a while since your last visit, has it?"). >
Ebbene...ci sono lezzioni di Sindarin?? (are there Sindarin lessons? I didn't see any at the site, though we were going through it rather quickly.) (On my long-ago trip to Europe, I had a fantasy of being marooned in Brpsk or somewhere, and the only communication would be in Latin with the village priest :-)))

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