Why are the elves leaving Rivendell?

so can u teaach me the grey- elven thing plzz! what is Sindrin and Quenya? r they languages? if so hu speaks them? which language do u know the best?

I can try to, yes.

Sindarin and Quenya are the two most important languages of the elves, yep; Sindarin is spoken by most elves and also some of the Men of Gondor and Arnor know how to speak it (like Aragorn) because it was used as language among the royal families. The wood-elves also use some variation of Sindarin.

Quenya is sometimes called "elven latin" which is, as I think, quite a good description; it's more used for writing and "official" things and the grammar is quite complicated.

Who speaks them today? Well, some crazy lotr geeks 😉

I know only a bit Sindarin (doing some course at the moment to refresh everything) and some words + a very little bit grammar of Quenya (also started a course but didnt really work because I always ´mix up everything with the "real" languages I learn)

Though Elvish is much more cooler and easier to pronounce all angelic.

ya sounds cool....but where do u go for courses? i didtn know that ppl actually like teach it...cool

A course? Most probably you'll only find an online one... but these work quite good... there are actually like elven-schools online where you have some virtual book and get tests every week and so on 🙂

People don't actually teach Elvish as a second language, some others post language barrier info online and all that fun stuff about Elvish so but Elvish isn't a official language really.

Ok, SeXyChIcK989, I found out why the site wasn't working. It's hot-elf.com, not hotelf.com. Sorry about the mix-up. If you go to that site, click on "learn elvish", then go to Quenya courses, you can download all you will ever nead. If you have any more problems, just post a reply.

PS: grey-elvish (I think) = Sindurian
High-Elvish = Quenya

Kitoky, Elvish is an official language! It has all sorts of rules for grammer and tenses and everything! But, no, people do not teach it as a second language because no country speaks it as their national language. Wish they did though. It would really help me out. Amin n'rangwa edanea.

Originally posted by Elenelda
grey-elvish (I think) = Sindurian

It's SINDARIN, meaning tongue of-the-sindar...

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:bangs head against the wall: Please people do not believe these websites that give you this absolutely incorrect version of "elvish"... pleeeeease... I'LL FIGHT FOR THE TRUE ELDARIN! GURTH AN'LAMHOTH EN ÚDÎREDHELLEN!

hey Elenelda! thanks a lot for the website! it really helps me! but the fonts still kinda wont helpo me!

Check out Ardalambion and scroll down to The tounges of Arda. There you'll find a list of languages, including descriptions, pronounciations and word-lists of different length. They also have a Quenya course, freely downloadable.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Exa
[B]It's SINDARIN, meaning tongue of-the-sindar...

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yikes! everyone here is soooo touchy! 😒

Originally posted by Elenelda
Kitoky, Elvish is an official language! It has all sorts of rules for grammer and tenses and everything! But, no, people do not teach it as a second language because no country speaks it as their national language. Wish they did though. It would really help me out. Amin n'rangwa edanea.

That's what I meant...Elvish isn't an official language people just have to learn it off of sites and stuff.

hey, i din understand y, if all the elves must leave, y din Legolas leave? (not that i wanted him to)

Legolas DID leave, all the elves left, they just didn't show Legolas because it wasn't really important for them to show Legolas leaving.

oh, 🙁

Originally posted by Kitoky
That's what I meant...Elvish isn't an official language people just have to learn it off of sites and stuff.

Well of course it's fully developped besides, they surely made it work in the LotR movies didn't they?

hey...thanks FreddieFreeload...now can someone help me on where i can learn how to write elvish?! please! thanks

About official and not-official:
Quenya holdes place n° 2 in the list of the most important fictional languages (after, of course, Esperanto)

Originally posted by Bloom4ever
hey, i din understand y, if all the elves must leave, y din Legolas leave? (not that i wanted him to)