Re: Lord of the Rings movie

Joe Hill <joe@...> wrote:

> > > I believe most elves speak Quenya, whatever their heritage.
> >
> > No. Read the Appendices. They speak Sindarin.
>
>
> I mean, they can at least, I think of Quenya as the Elvish English.
Rather an "Elf-Latin" (which is also what Tolkien called it): an old,
venerable scholarly tongue that is no-one's vernacular any longer,
but still used for certain purposes.  The "lingua franca" of the Elves
at the end of the Third Age is definitely Sindarin.  I haven't seen
the movie yet, but I'm sure that what you hear in it is, for the most
part at least, Sindarin.

Jörg.

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