Re: Tolkien language(s) question
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 3, 2003, 18:06 |
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Mark J. Reed wroot:
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> 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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