Click HERE to see this thread with all of the graphics, features, and links.

Gosh i was actually expecting this


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3532003.stm

hehe cool i want lessons!

hee hee me too

ooh, me too!

possibly me too.

yeah i want lessons.too....

if exa reads this she'll explode with excitement

*raises hand* i would also like lessons

ME... ALSO... WANTS... LESSONS..................................



though I dont wholly agree with the text
"Tolkien, an Oxford academic who was expert in ancient languages, developed two forms of Elvish.

Tolkien (...) only wrote down around 350 words in Sindarin, so Lord of the Rings experts have had to work together to increase the vocabulary for everyday use.

Tolkien never left a word meaning 'to love'."
.... not two forms but two main forms.
.... I dont know the number of words he left but I'm pretty sure they're more than 350 - elsewhere I read about "probably 2500 - 10000 words" invented by Tolkien, of course not all sindarin but more Quenya and also other ones, yet there must be more than 350 words.
But its true that many everydaywords arent known and have to be constructed, like "thanks" or "please".

And as far as I know, there is also a word for loving or liking... mel- (or mela-). Possibly its reconstructed, but I think Tolkien mentions it in the etymologies.

I want lessons! That should be a class at school Forget French I want to learn elvish!

I want lessons

I want lessons on the black speech.....

the should have a class...Languages from LOTR 101...or something like that

No, Elvish for Dummies - Step 1. Call Exa.

that would rule, going to someone and them asking what languages you can speak and saying...Elvish, Black Speach, Orc-ish

i would love to learn to speack elvish and black speech but i suck at learning new languages i'd probably flunk out

Beats german.

yeah i havent even attempted that and i dont think i want to
currently i'm trying to learn a desent amount of spanish but thats not working out to good

it does beat German mah, I take German just now...well actually "forced" is more the term

Discos - seriously can't be bothered learning other languages

Luckily I finished it last year.

i wanna learn Elvish!! that would be awesome! actually i have this book about Tolkien languages that kinda teaches you it's kewl

I knew of a place which taught elvish a while ago, it was on the thread and everything.........

Discos - I know its crazy

i wanna take elvish sounds 1000 times better than spanish, which i am currently doing very badly in ( i got Ds on the pst 4 quizes ) I need a tutor or some help, but my parents dont have the money to pay for one

Elvish would be better and i would actuall WANT to learn it

my guess would be that it would be very difficult, especially to get a decent accent.

Discos - I hate some people in my german class, cant say shit without stuttering or stopping through a word like "wie heis...s...du?"

lol. I HATE spanish. I could prob get an A cept he never teaches and we have no grades cept quizzes. No hw, no classwork, nothing! I HATE senor MACK!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, i will stop now. *takes deep breath * its the weekend ,i dont have to theink abouti t till monday

Yes, about elvish! I wanna take it

OK I didn't read any of the posts on this thread cause I'm lazy haha. That's for telling us, ash! I wish we had an elvish class in my school!

Yah there was a school I think somewhere in America...


... but until someone teaches it here, I will use courses like this one http://home.agh.edu.pl/~evermind/mathom/pedin_edhellen_en.zip

Ey thanks for that Exa.


Hey, where in America are they teaching it? Do you know? That'd be so cool if we had those classes here....Stupid Board of Education doesn't want it. Idiots