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signal boost (question re. Elvish)
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arethinn: (You can reply there, too.) I quote:
"Eldarin, that is (at least I think so).
"I was just skimming through my copy of The Fellowship of the Ring and found an odd pencilled notation in the break between two paragraphs in "The Mirror of Galadriel": initha calenin. (Actually it's written ínitha calenín. A personal habit of mine is to use acute accents as a way of notating a stressed syllable and that's probably what's going on here, although I can't be 100% sure.)
"I can't for the life of me figure out what it could translate to and Googling for it as a phrase gets no results (so it's not some other attested phrase I just happened to scribble down here for some reason). "cal-" is a Quenya element signifying "light" or "shine", but I can't make sense of "calenin" and "initha" looks like it would have to belong to Sindarin if anything (since it shows "th" where Quenya would favour "s", as Isil and Ithil, the Moon).
"Is stumped. Any geek can send halp (including to say "that can't be Elvish, it must just be your brain being weird, and please stop scribbling in your books")?
arethinn: (You can reply there, too.) I quote: "Eldarin, that is (at least I think so).
"I was just skimming through my copy of The Fellowship of the Ring and found an odd pencilled notation in the break between two paragraphs in "The Mirror of Galadriel": initha calenin. (Actually it's written ínitha calenín. A personal habit of mine is to use acute accents as a way of notating a stressed syllable and that's probably what's going on here, although I can't be 100% sure.)
"I can't for the life of me figure out what it could translate to and Googling for it as a phrase gets no results (so it's not some other attested phrase I just happened to scribble down here for some reason). "cal-" is a Quenya element signifying "light" or "shine", but I can't make sense of "calenin" and "initha" looks like it would have to belong to Sindarin if anything (since it shows "th" where Quenya would favour "s", as Isil and Ithil, the Moon).
"Is stumped. Any geek can send halp (including to say "that can't be Elvish, it must just be your brain being weird, and please stop scribbling in your books")?
