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Has anyone here actually learned Elvish?

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Antoneo

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Seriously, I know some people speak Klingon and have read that article about a person who had amnesia (?) only spoke Klingon. Anyone here speak Elvish? 😕
 
Originally posted by: lowfatbaconboy
is there one universal form of it?
or is there diff forms from different books and rpgs and such?
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Hmm, good question. I know there was something in the appendix of The Return of the King (well my copy at least) that seemed to describe the Elvish alphabet and possibly sentence structure but I wasn't aware of different forms or "dialects". I'm not much of a fantasy reader so perhaps someone of higher authority 😉 could elaborate.
 
Tolkien actullay made a langauge called elvish, so i assume that is the dialect or version that the original poster is talking about,
 
There's only a handful of people in the world who can speak it fluently, and Peter Jackson hired them all (or at least quite a few) to advise on the films.
 
I found a sight with a translation guide and .wav files so I'm guessing that yes, people are out there who speak elvish.
 
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: amnesiac
I found a sight with a translation guide and .wav files so I'm guessing that yes, people are out there who speak elvish.
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Wow.

Someone has TMTOTH.
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It's always fun trying to figure out the different acronyms here...that one took a second. 🙂

As for speaking Elvish...I wouldn't be too surprised if someone on here did. Pretty cool...you could be useful in a war, since only like 10 other people would understand you...it's like a fantasy-Windtalkers. ^_^
 
Why the hell should I learn Elvish? If I went to their country I would learn their language. They come here, they can learn English.
 
Quenya is "high" elvish and spoekn in Valinor or in rituals.
Sindarian is the "common" tongue spoken in middle earth.
 
Basically:


Olórin - Quenya

Mithrandir - Sindarian

Tharkûn - Khuzdul (Dwarvish)

Gandalf - "common" human tongue
 
There is a inverse relationship between one's Elvish speaking skills and one's chances of getting laid by the opposite sex.
 
Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
Why the hell should I learn Elvish? If I went to their country I would learn their language. They come here, they can learn English.
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Too funny! 😀
 
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