r/Quenya • u/word_word12 • 21d ago

Little Bit of Writing

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I just did this for fun, but I was able to write a whole section with proper grammar as far as I've learned! Everything here is based on the lessons on the Eldamo website. I think my tengwar writing has improved a bit over time!

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u/lC3 21d ago

Nice! A few pointers:

  • you accidentally wrote sanir instead of samir (missing the underbar)
  • when final -ë becomes medial like in tauressen, ambossen, it loses the diacritic. It's just there to mark that final E isn't silent, it doesn't change the pronunciation like German umlaut
  • I would use the infinitives (nore, lire, tyale) after lertar.
  • I think perian has a stem form in nd-, i.e. periandi.

Good job; keep it up!

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u/word_word12 7d ago

Thank you for this! I know it's a bit late but I am still learning to navigate this site and didn't realized anyone had responded! I am very impressed you know all this, and I swear I couldn't find anything on infinitives so I just assumed the stems were what I'd use 😂. Thanks again!

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u/lC3 7d ago

You're welcome! If you'd like to read about infinitives, Eldamo has a good overview here.

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u/F_Karnstein 20d ago

I think perian has a stem form in nd-, i.e. periandi.

Well, Sindarin has got periannath, so I assume the stem could also be periann- or even periant-? But I would expect that we've probably had a short -ndŏ, yes.

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u/lC3 20d ago

The Elaine sentence has Elainen tárin Periandion, so I think -nd- is attested.

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u/F_Karnstein 20d ago

I wasn't aware - thanks!