Nonononono.
Sindarin is the common speech of elves in Middle-Earth. Quenya is
spoken by very few people outside of the West. Most of the 'Elvish' in
LotR is Sindarin. Quenya is to them like Latin would have been a few
hundred years ago to us.
-M
Joe Hill wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pavel Iosad" <pavel_iosad@...>
> To: <CONLANG@...>
> Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 8:06 PM
> Subject: Re: Lord of the Rings movie
>
> > > 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.