*beams*

[sinjun]

I got roses. A dozen red roses.

Colour me charmed.

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[arwen77.livejournal.com]

The quote is Sindarin elven, by the way. Translates badly, but approximately: "Met by night, I found my laughter, my love".

*snugs* :)

[wibbble]

I'd like to just say how much of a bastard working with Sindarin is...

...and now that I've said that, I'm getting worried because I don't know where my notepad is... and it has the inscription in Sindarin I spent days working on in it...

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[arwen77.livejournal.com]

The inscription is most likely in Tengwar, no? ;)

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[wibbble]

No... it's Sindarin, I'm pretty sure.

I think.

Guh. See if you can figure it out:

Kalawen: beriant an penio hîn lheito

('Kalawen' is the name that elance uses for this... I think the translation is 'lightbonded'. She worked out my name, but won't tell me, yet.)

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[arwen77.livejournal.com]

Well, elven is written with Tengwar, be it Sindarin or Quenya elven. So the inscription would be Tengwar runes, unless you wrote it with english characters? :)

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[wibbble]

Ahh.

I have no idea... the Elvish inscriptions were E's idea...

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[arwen77.livejournal.com]

Oh. And it reads, directly translated:

"Protects set down these marks"

(Beriant and penio are verbs, but I suspect Beriant in this case is a name)

beria- "protect", inf. berio, pr.t. beria, pa.t. berianne- (3 sg beriant), fut. beriatha, imp. berio, part. beriol (perfective bóriel), pp. beriannen (pl. beriennin), ger. beriad

penia- "fix, set", inf. penio, pr.t. penia, pa.t. penianne- (3 sg peniant), fut. peniatha, imp. penio, part. peniol (perfective póniel), pp. peniannen (pl. peniennin), ger. peniad

However, the corret way of writing it would be
" teithant i thiw hin" (Not hain echant, as I said in my deleted post..)

Then again, I could be completely off my rocker, and it could mean something else entirely. :)

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[wibbble]

It was /supposed/ to be 'protected to set her free'. We had to mangle stuff to try and figure out how to do 'her', for example...

What reference were you using there?

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[damara.livejournal.com]

Sindarin Elven ... Okay, I can see I might just have to work on learning that. :)

Thank you.

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[insaint.livejournal.com]

What ever happened to normal human languages??

Geeks, all of you. Geeks. :P

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[damara.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

I protest. I didn't understand it any more than you did!

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[arwen77.livejournal.com]

It got boring. :)

So boring, in fact, that people have written language courses in Quenya and Sindarin.