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Quenya (pronounced [ˈkʷwɛɲja]) [T 1] is a constructed language, one of those devised by J. R. R. Tolkien for the Elves in his Middle-earth fiction.. Tolkien began devising the language around 1910, and restructured its grammar several times until it reached its final state.
He created a large family of Elvish languages, the best-known and most developed being Quenya and Sindarin. In addition, he sketched in the Mannish languages of Adûnaic and Rohirric; the Dwarvish language of Khuzdul ; the Entish language; and the Black Speech , in the fiction a constructed language enforced on the Orcs by the Dark Lord Sauron .
A tradition of philological study of Elvish languages exists within the fiction; Tolkien mentions that "The older stages of Quenya were, and doubtless still are, known to the loremasters of the Eldar. It appears from these notices that besides certain ancient songs and compilations of lore that were orally preserved, there existed also some ...
The first stanza of Tolkien's Quenya poem "Namárië", written in his Tengwar script. The Elvish languages of Middle-earth, constructed by J. R. R. Tolkien, include Quenya and Sindarin. These were the various languages spoken by the Elves of Middle-earth as they developed as a society throughout the Ages. In his pursuit for realism and in his ...
There are apparently two main types of verbs in late Quenya: weak transitive verbs, which are usually 'root' verbs, such as car-"make; do" from the Elvish base or root KAR-, and derivative intransitive verbs with a strong conjugation, whose stems end mainly in -ta, -na, -ya, formed by putting a verbal suffix to a base or root, like henta-"to ...
Tolkien wrote that "my 'own language' [Quenya] – or series of invented languages – became heavily Finnicized in phonetic pattern and structure." [T 1] On the inspiration for Quenya, he wrote that: The ingredients in Quenya are various, but worked out into a self-consistent character not precisely like any language that I know.
Appleyard wrote about Tolkien's frame story character Aelfwine of England, with analysis of Tolkien's use of Old English. [8] Appleyard is recorded as observing that the word nazg ("ring") in the explicitly constructed language Black Speech – in the fiction, constructed by the Dark Lord Sauron, in reality by Tolkien – appeared to have been borrowed from the phrase chanana kad, meaning ...
Quenya is a fictional language devised by J. R. R. Tolkien. Various parts of the Bible have been translated into Neo-Quenya, an attempt at editing a unified Quenya from Tolkien's evolving and sometimes contradictory ideas about the language. Helge Fauskanger has translated the New Testament and is currently translating the Old Testament. [1]