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Aiya earendil elenion ancalima1/7/2024 ![]() For instance, Tolkien included stems involving syllabic N and L, such as SŅKŅ and FĻKĻ. These stems provide glimpses of a proto-language that seems somewhat inspired by the proposed reconstructions of Indo-European. ![]() But perhaps significantly, the words ayanûz ‘ainu’, singular form of Ainur, the angelic race of the Valar, and Mâchanumâz ‘Aratar’, the name given to the most powerful among the Valar, have this same ending.Ģ: Primitive Elvish –The ancestor of all the languages of Arda.Īlready in the very first Elvish wordlist, the ‘Qenya Lexicon’ of 1915, the words were derived from ‘primitive roots’ (as in the Etymologies). ![]() Other names do not have this ending, not even the name of the Maia Ossë ( Ošošai, Oššai). The few borrowings can be seen in the names of the Valar, such as Aulë from Avarin A3ûlêz (3 is the spirant equivalent of g, spelt gh in Orkish ghâsh) or Manwë from Avarin Mânawenûz.Īll the known names of various Valar end in -z: Arômêz ‘Oromë’, Tulukastâz ‘Tulkas’, Ulubôz or Ullubôz ‘Ulmo’. “The tongues and voices of the Valar are great and stern,” wrote Rúmil of Tirion, the elven loremaster who invented writing “and yet also swift and subtle in movement, making sounds that we find hard to counterfeit and their words are mostly long and rapid, like the glitter of swords, like the rush of leaves in a great wind or the fall of stones in the mountains.” Valarin employed many sounds that were alien to the Eldarin languages, which inherited very few words from the Valar, who encouraged elves to make words and sounds in their own fair language. “The Valar, having arrayed them in this manner, would inevitably during their long sojourn in Arda have made a lambe for themselves”. Valarin is the first language ever to be spoken on Arda, it is the language of those among the Ainur who chose to become incarnate and enter the world. Oh, and the garbled stuff that gets chanted every time the One Ring shows off its writing, so that’s one, two… got your number straight? Ok, here’s a full list, in order of appearance from the creation of Arda to our days: Then the one Legolas and Aragorn use to exchange dirty jokes or something, which sounds like Quenya but not quite. Tolkien’s many invented languages.īefore you read any further, let’s see if you know the answer to this question: How many languages did Tolkien imagine were spoken in his fictional world? (We shall only count those for which there is at least one clear mention in his books.) There’s the one spoken by Galadriel in her poem, right? That’s Quenya.
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