You are making history again - using Quenya in context 😍 and giving us a taste of Nor(dor)wegian humor, landscape and neighbours.,We have been reading, we are watching now 😜
@coreyander2865 ай бұрын
How disrespectful, both to the victims of the Kinslaying in Alqualondë and to the language of Quenya itself, to speak Quenya in full sentences on the lands of Middle-earth, after Thingol decreed it forbidden. Did Thingol ever retract his ban? I think not. Have some respect for the unforgotten dead, cease profaning the tongue of Valinor, and speak Sindarin for all purposes excepting sincere prayer.
@Cenindo4 ай бұрын
Since both Thingol and the victims of the Kinslaying are dead, not to mention a tad fictional to begin with, Thingol's First-Age edict against the use of Quenya does not seem to worry me very much. Even in-universe, Tolkien noted that what he calls "low Quenya" was sometimes spoken in Middle-earth, apparently outside purely ritual contexts.
@johnhannibalsmith34564 ай бұрын
He was the lord of but Heculbar from the days he was called Thingol, never the sovereign of Endore.
@DrGordonS7 ай бұрын
I found your website when I was 16 years old, 23 years ago, and I’ve popped in throughout the years to see what you’ve added. Your explanations of grammar in the Quenya course (which I printed secretly in school) awoke a lifelong passion for language that is still with me to this day, to say nothing of you making Quenya comprehensible and my love of Tolkien’s languages seem valid and worthy of pursuit. I’m ecstatic to see these videos. Thank you.
@DonZooman6 ай бұрын
Same here🥳
@FridSunblade4 ай бұрын
What's his website?
@Cenindo2 ай бұрын
@@FridSunblade Ardalambion.net
@inglescomrique11 ай бұрын
This is fantastic! Thank you so much. I'm one of the fortunate readers of your Quenya course book, as it was published here in Brazil. This video presents itself to me like an unexpected gift. Looking forward to the next episodes. Quenya is surely a worthwhile passion - after all, samilvë Mairë lá qualien Nanwiénen. Cheers!
@mikael574311 ай бұрын
Please keep up with the series. Thank you
@annavaletta993810 ай бұрын
This is absolutely fantastic! Subscribed!
@mazoCarlo11 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for this class.
@dirk_math679411 ай бұрын
So funny! Thank you very much!
@LMinem7 ай бұрын
I have read your grammars for Sindarin and for Quenya and quite enjoyed them. I also like your work with The Fellowship.
@oliphant284810 ай бұрын
Since I already *am* the strange person my neighbors are whispering about behind my back, I might as well, when my writing of absurdly bad young adult fantasy novels leaves me some time. BTW, I was already a fan of your Ardalambion website and downloaded everything twenty years ago. I still have it filed somewhere. Great to see the master in action. In the words of one immortal wizard: "You haven't aged a day!"
@ajronmejden10 ай бұрын
Wow, I haven't expected this! I've read your course all these years ago. So happy to see you in person and I'm really excited for this course! 👏👏👏🥳
@joshuabell5580Ай бұрын
I put this in a playlist as I was drawing and not quite paying attention and for the first moments I thought you were speaking Welsh with an odd accent. This is a fascinating video as I've been studying Brythonic and Geodelic for the last few months.
@justforfun583719 күн бұрын
Please add quenya subtitle as well
@chadbornholdt92577 ай бұрын
Excellent series!
@Cenindo3 ай бұрын
Thank you very much!
@jose2807147 ай бұрын
Me imagino que para los Nórdicos, Tolkien debe de significar alguien muy especial, por que los cuentos están basados en toda la cultura Nórdica.... que risa cuando lanza el libro: Nature of Middle-earth por la espalda, jajaja.
@thesparkypilot3 ай бұрын
I loved this. I’m a new learner and am happy to have found your work!
@Cenindo3 ай бұрын
You're welcome!
@charlotted42443 ай бұрын
You’re amazing, thank you so much for this video- very entertaining!
@Cenindo3 ай бұрын
Thank you! I'm about to upload the 9th episode right now.
@Gilruin10 ай бұрын
Ta arya nin! Mal masse Arcastar tence i ilye Eldar ista quete Quenya? Mana Eldaron i hehtaner i Lendon ar uir oménie Etyangoldi tenta? Pá hya - Omentielva Nerteasse equétien ó Chistopher Gilson pá tulurya Parma Eldalamberon ar uilte ehehtie rihtalta, san amatire picila ter sinyastance loar estel tauva nin.
@justforfun583719 күн бұрын
You speak quenya?
@ForDeathandGlory4 ай бұрын
epic video, samin alasse 😀 paruvanye!
@Cenindo3 ай бұрын
Hantale!
@juanignacioarriagadawurth85274 ай бұрын
It sounds like a native american, ancient latin and nordic all together, so weird but beautiful
@yesildur2 ай бұрын
Me acabo de suscribir a este canal, yo también aprendí algo de quenya en el 2005, y fue un torrente de conocimiento invaluable que me llevó a conocer la obra del profesor Tolkien. Creé para mi algunos nombres en quenya que aun conservo y que me gustaria compartirlos: el primero fue Ammanalion (quenya ) y Yesildur( es una mezcla de varias cosas ), a mi esposa la nombré Atanvardë y a uno mis hijos lo nombré Faelarphen, obviamente cada uno tiene su nombre verdadero que aparece en su ID. Aunque tengo un amigo que llamó a su primogénito " Legolas David" y así los registró en la registraduría nacional, no esta demás decir que es fan de las peliculas de P Jackson. Ahora estoy en desarrollo de un conlang propio inspirado en la tierra media, a quien le interese podemos hablar al respecto. Namárië!
@hatakehina36452 ай бұрын
here we go quenya grammar
@eugene84989 ай бұрын
Fantastic work, Sir! One question, I hear you pronouce the geminate tt as if it's /ht/, I believe I've seen you explain this a long time ago, but I do not call there was a reference given, and I cannot find that post any more. Would you mind commenting about it here? Or if you prefer e-mail, please let me know. Hara máriesse!
@Cenindo9 ай бұрын
I wonder if it is not somewhere in Parma Eldalamberon #17 it is said that TT, PP, KK are pronounced as aspirates, but I can''t readily find the page reference. I will update if I locate the page.
@Nemo_Anom5 ай бұрын
@@Cenindo Fascinating. If this is the case, then these geminates in Quenya were evolving into ejective consonants. I wonder if they are a feature of fourth age Quenya?
@Saelondo7 ай бұрын
If memory serves me right, Hostetter once reported that there is even a comprehensive Adûnaic grammar in existence, not even to mention all the Quenya and Sindarin material! Why do you think they withhold all this information for decades? Seems kind of unreasonable.
@Cenindo7 ай бұрын
I fully agree. They haven't published anything for almost ten years now, except that Hostetter included a few new scraps of new material in "The History of Middle-earth", which only touches on linguistics incidentally. I don't think there is an ADÛNAIC grammar still waiting to be published, but there is apparently one for a language called "Taliska", an early form of Mannish that in-universe may be an ancestor of Adûnaic. It was first announced in the early 1990s; by the mid-2020s we have heard nothing more!
@coreyander2865 ай бұрын
Clearly the information is too dangerous not to withhold. Speaking Adûnaic or Taliska carelessly, one might inadvertently utter some incantation which hasn't been heard since the Fourth Age, and wake barrow-wights from the earth or who knows what.
@hglundahl3 ай бұрын
"in Germany" = Micalindan?
@Cenindo3 ай бұрын
I say "mi Calimban" (or in unregularized spelling, "Kalimban"). The whole word is something of an injoke. It occurs in Tolkien's very early "Qenya [sic] Lexicon", written during World War I. "Kalimban" has the double meaning of "barbary" and "Germany"! Young Tolkien did fight in WWI and apparently did not think very highly of the enemy.
@hglundahl3 ай бұрын
@@Cenindo I think he sometimes did, but noted the common attitude among his men. In WW-I, I suppose the real guy to reflect on the motives of the fallen enemy would have been Frodo, not Sam. That said, it is possible he was somewhat Prussophobe, like Chesterton. I suppose it was a joke on his part, he liked South German things, like Switzerland.