Announcements for Quenya Course

25th October 2006: Lesson 0 has been finished,

and it's now available for learners.

A course of the Department of Tolkien languages.

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Course Contents and Goals [ edit | edit source ]

This course will provide you with a complete knowledge of Quenya, the best-known of the languages invented by Tolkien, as it was conceived in the last years of Tolkien's life. This language is more or less the version devised in the Lord of the Rings (see the problem of the canon).

The aims of the course are to:

Learn Phonology, Grammar and Syntax of the (last) Quenya as we can infer from the Corpus. Knowledge of this aspect will also seek to make learners understand how we arrived at this form of Quenya and which "rules" are explicitly provided by Tolkien himself, or have been inferred. Provide learners with introductory notions of "Non-Fictional" development of Quenya (from the Qenya of 1915 to the Quenya of 1973) "Fictional" development of Quenya (from w:Primitive Quendian) Quenya Corpus



The following are principal learning devices used in this course, to which every lesson refers. Other materials may be required from time-to-time and their links will be provided in each lesson.

Before starting the regular lesson, it is required for learners to acquire some concepts that will frequently appear throughout this course along with instructions on how to read and write a Quenya text. Lesson 0 is a must for every learner, while in the Advanced Level section, materials are present that we suggest learners to read, but are not essential to Quenya acquisition and understanding. Especially, we suggest reading the section on how the concept of canon can be applied to Tolkien's Legendarium and Languages.

Lesson 0: Sundocarmi and Lambelë. Theory of Sundocarmi - Phonology - Phonetics - Stress.





Pre-Course: Advanced Level In addition we suggest learners read (and possibly apprend) the following documents before starting the regular lessons. For any questions, please refer to Lesson 0 talk The concept of literary canon applied to Middle-earth

applied to Middle-earth Fauskanger's Introduction to Quenya studies (Q#F:Introduction). Why study Quenya? - The question of copyright - What is Quenya like? - The sources - A word of warning regarding parts of the corpus - Spelling conventions.

Translation assignment 1 Translate 3 well known kids songs ( eg. Old mc donald, Mary had a little lamb) into quenya.

Additional helpful readings include:

Quenya - a Wikibook on Quenya, covering grammar extensively.

Wikijunior Quenya - a Wikijunior page on Quenya.

Resources on the web:

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