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Tolkien's standard orthography for Quenya uses all the letters of the Latin script except j, k, and z, together with the acute and diaeresis marks on vowels; the letters ñ, þ and z only appear in early Quenya. Occasionally, Tolkien wrote Quenya with a "Finnish-style" orthography (rather than the standard Latin-Romance version), in which c is ...
Nelson Goering's analysis of Tolkien's claim that Sindarin is to Quenya as Welsh is to Latin [13] Elvish language Features Resemblances European language Quenya "snake", a name leuka, Makalaure: High language, "Elven-Latin" 1) "Used for ceremony, and for high matters of lore and song" 2) Spelling system is Latin-like Cultural parallels of ...
Here is presented a resume of the grammar of late Quenya as established from Tolkien's writings c. 1951–1973. It is almost impossible to extrapolate the morphological rules of the Quenya tongue from published data because Quenya is a fictional and irregular language that was heavily influenced by natural languages, such as Finnish [ 1 ] and ...
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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 ...
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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.
The main Quenya article is in fact organised rather better in this regard, though like Quenya grammar it currently sees "Quenya" as a single language-stage (is that "late Quenya" or what?), while acknowledging a) that Tolkien developed Quenya gradually and b) that there is an internal progression from Primitive Quendian to other languages or ...