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Re: Lord of the Rings movie

From:Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg.rhiemeier@...>
Date:Saturday, December 15, 2001, 22:52
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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