Tread to talk about the Eä, the world. Created by Eru Illuvataur. This tread is open to discuiss all Tolkiens work and that kind of stuff, enyoy :).

Do Balrogs have wings :D

good question... I would say no xP

but in the movies it did... but it never used it xD

No, it would use it when he falled i think... But it maybe is depending...

does everybody speak the same language - plus a few others like the elven language?:confused:

No. there are many forms of language in midle earth. pull out your copy of the return of the king you keep handy with you at all times, and turn to the appendixes...

There was the common tongue, Westron, derivated from the old númenorean language, that was spoken by almost every people in the known world. However, most peoples (even those who spoke Westron) had their own language: the Elves, the Dwarves, the Rohirrim (whose language is very alike the Westron - Tolkien used Old-English to represent this relation, as English represents the Westron -; the Haradrim, Easterlings and Orcs had several tongues (as they were divided in many tribes).

^^ that's what i meant; they all speak one common language and then a few others

i heard something about language and alphabet invented by Tolkien. Tangor, or something like that.. does anyone have any kwonledge about it?

The language based on celtic?

theelvish language? tengwar?

it's in the appendixes of ROTK

ok so i'll just have to buy an english version of the LOtR book cause this part of appendix was probably lost in translation.. thanx for the info anyway

i have alphabet of tengwar it based on high elf language quenya. if find alphabet i'll post here
TENGWAR
http://www.acondia.com/fonts/tengwar/info/index.html
or
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/tengwar.htm
QUENYA
http://www.uib.no/people/hnohf/quenya.htm
OTHER
http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/

thx Sifaus, it looks a little bit complicated but I'll chew on it right away

if you need help i can help you :) i know quenya :D i have poems whc writed with tengwar. if you want i can post them here :)

Wow, tengwar are easy, but Quenya as a language is really hard (as hard as a more "common" language, and harder to found people to practice). Could you do some simple sentences for the Elven leaders diplo?

Editing: I just found a very interesting "compendium" of tolkien sources: http://www.chamber-of-records.com/forum/showthread.php?t=792

ok if you want i can do some sentenses with khuzdul (dwarwen language) i have a dictonary which have hundreds of pages i'll post it here (if i find :P ) :D

www.ambar-eldaron.com/quen-eng.pdfwww.ambar-eldaron.com/eng-quen.pdf (http://www.ambar-eldaron.com/quen-eng.pdfwww.ambar-eldaron.com/eng-quen.pdfME)ME languages which i know Top 5
1- Quenya (Alphabet: Tengwar (Quenya Style))
2- Khuzdul (Alphabet: Runes)
3- Aduanic (Alphabet: ???)
4- Black Speech (Alphabet:Tengwar (Mordor Style))
5- Sindarin (Alphabet:Tengwar (Sindarin Style))

this dictionary looks really awesom Sifaus.. how much time it took you to be able to use tengwar?

Tengwar are simple, just a few hours and you may get some practice on it. The amazing is that he speaks Quenya!:eek:

elda ki,ng right tengwar is simple but quenya hard :D