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(sorry, I have no Sindarin course to go with the Quenya course above!)

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(Sindarin or Grey-elven, the Celtic-style language of Tolkien's mythos, was very often revised by the Professor: In the pre-LotR period, it wasn't even called Sindarin, but "Noldorin"! The articles below discuss various inconsistencies haunting the primary sources and suggest how the material can be edited to achieve a LotR-compatible "standard" form of the language: Writers should not mix various conceptual stages of Noldorin/Sindarin into a hybrid language that would not properly reflect Tolkien's intentions at any stage. WARNING: by necessity, these articles are often highly technical!)

(This treatise, available as a PDF file, attempts to list the sound-changes that occurred as High-Elven was evolving from the earliest forms of Elvish. This is a revised, updated and expanded version, edited by Vicente Velasco and incorporating his extensive annotation on my original treatise (still available as an RTF file).

Post-Tolkien Quenya Compositions:

Elsewhere I have presented my thoughts about a possible prequel to the Peter Jackson trilogy, The Optimal LotR Prequel Movie. Comments on that particular project (strictly speaking unconnected with this Tolkien-linguistic site) should go in the special guestbook dedicated to that subject.

Ardalambion translations: After I made this web site, I started receiving mails from people wanting to translate my articles into other languages. This was quite unexpected (and very flattering). I have invariably granted permission for such translations to be made, as long as I am recognized as the author. I would also like the translators to inform me of any errors they may find as they go along; the Spanish translators in particular have been of considerable help in weeding out certain wrong references and other mistakes. (The general public is likewise encouraged to tell me of any errors in these articles; if you can point out omissions or genuine mistakes of any kind, I will not be offended, but grateful.) Anyway, here are some translations that have been made: Quenya course in Chinese - translated by Aslinn Zha and team.

Spanish - translated by various translators; the most complete and up-to-date non-English version. As for my Quenya course, I understand there now exist several Spanish translations; here is one by Antonio Palomino.

Polish - all the original Ardalambion articles translated by Gwidon S. Naskrent; this reflects how my site appeared in the beginning. My Quenya course has since been translated into Polish by Vendis and Elanor from the Elendili Forum; their Polish version can be found here.

Hebrew - various translators. (Notice the nice graphics on the title page; somehow Tengwar and Hebrew characters go well together!)

Norwegian - various translators have finally rendered much of my material into my native tongue (I have to write for an international audience myself!)

French - some articles translated by Sebastien Bertho and others; aims to be complete (one day!) Moreover, the Ambar Eldaron site features a French translation of my Quenya course.

Croatian - Valarin, Khuzdul, Black Speech/Orkish articles, translated by Miroslav Èagalj; the site also has other Tolkien-linguistic material

Italian - some articles translated by Gianluca Comastri, more to follow

Dutch - summaries of my Quenya lessons, translated by Annemieke Copal

Japanese - Quenya article only (who was the translator?)

Finnish - the Kontu page now features the Adûnaic, Westron and Sindarin articles, translated by Vesa Piittinen. (They may later have been revised so that they no longer correspond exactly to my original articles.)

Czech - selected articles translated by Frantisek Spoutil. Lucie Holá's Czech translation of my main Sindarin article is found here.

Korean - Quenya article only, translated by Aaram Yun

Russian - Adûnaic, Westron, Khuzdul, Black Speech, Entish, Avarin, Nandorin, Valarin and Various Mannish Tongues; translated by Drauger

German - a few articles translated by Sebastian Basten and others. Also see the German Quenya course, translated by Brigitte Rassbach. Yet another German translation of the course, made by Neniel Tindómerel, may be found at the Lindiénen page (this page features recorded sound samples). A German rendering of the Khuzdul article, by Jandrim, is also available.

(Brazilian) Portuguese - various articles as well as my Quenya course, which the Brazilians have also published as a book (concerning that publication, see this site). An independent translation of parts of the course is found here. Translations of the articles about Nevbosh, Animalic and Naffarin are found here. If you are not afraid of pop-up advertisements, it can also be reached by typing:

http://move.to/ardalambion

Only the masochists would use the original URL:

http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/



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