Read the popular quotes (film or book) and names again and again, they have a nice melody so you can easily remember them if you try seriously... then you somehow get a feeling for the language, as unlike real foreign languages you cant really listen to songs or well-known names ... by doing that, you automatically remember some of the most basic words and structures
After a while, "elvish" begins to sound familiar, and without really learning it, you know some basic words, from now on it's the same as in "real" foreign languages - try to translate things based on the words you already know... like, if you know the word for "star", look up the other words and the grammar and try to translate "the star shines in heaven" or stuff like that... or "I see a star"... whatever
Or - use some elvish quote you like and where you know what it means, and see if you could translate it
of course the result is a lot of nonsense in the beginning 😛 but that helps
Just - dont concentrate on learning words in the beginning, rather understand the structure, then learning the words will work automatically after a while 🙂
There are some good elvish courses online, try one of them - but I dont think its the best thing to start with them, better first get a sense for the character of the language and listen, then learn and say things yourself.
That takes a while, but in my opinion it works quite well 🙂
And for memorizing single words - speak them again and again, write them down (!) while thinking of the meaning, many of Tolkien's words are concepted to somehow sound like the thing they represent - I mean, Môr just cant mean anything else than "dark"... 🙂 or "ech" - such a sharp word... means "spear" 🙂 ... "hathol", like hissing air and then a sudden dark stop -> means "axe" 🙂
one question...when will you use elvish in your everyday lives? Planning a summer vacation to the undying lands? c'mon, ppl. why don’t you learn Arabic and make some money in the middle east , or something. if you're gonna take the time to learn another language, at least let it be worth something. be productive. bilinguals make alot of cash...learn a real language people. no elvish, please. its for your own good.
Originally posted by Morgoths_Wrath
one question...when will you use elvish in your everyday lives? Planning a summer vacation to the undying lands? c'mon, ppl. why don’t you learn Arabic and make some money in the middle east , or something. if you're gonna take the time to learn another language, at least let it be worth something. be productive. bilinguals make alot of cash...learn a real language people. no elvish, please. its for your own good.
Originally posted by Hiriledain
Amin mela lle melamin...
Originally posted by Morgoths_Wrath
one question...when will you use elvish in your everyday lives? Planning a summer vacation to the undying lands? c'mon, ppl. why don’t you learn Arabic and make some money in the middle east , or something. if you're gonna take the time to learn another language, at least let it be worth something. be productive. bilinguals make alot of cash...learn a real language people. no elvish, please. its for your own good.
Maybe they simply have a philological taste similar to Tolkien's?
Or maybe all of that together?
You know, I bet all of those geeks who learned Elfish in highschool by themselves got laughed at...And then, they got to help make LoTR and made lots of money...look who's laughing now!! I've tried multible times (though not recently) to try to learn Elfish from the back of RoTK (the appendix) but it's always been too complicated for me. I can write dwarfish!
Re: Memorizing elvish
Originally posted by Demonslayer1000
How do you say Legolas in elvish
Written like this (first Tengwar, then Runes/Cirth)