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EldarExilePrincess
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on: August 16, 2015 12:46
Wondering if someone can help me translate Fallen Starlight into Sindarin? It is meant to be a female name. I have it in Quenya, and now I need it in Sindarin. Thanks.
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on: August 18, 2015 06:11
Well, starlight is either Gilgalad or Elgalad (the former being a rather famous character...). Fallen = Dannen. They're a tad too long to make a nice looking compound from in my opinion...
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on: January 11, 2016 10:04
Hi, I'm very new.
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on: January 11, 2016 10:04
Hi, I'm very new.
I was wondering why when going from the singular "Dunadan" to the plural "Dunedain" the "u" does not change to a "y".

[Edited on 01/12/2016 by Dwarfnovice]
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on: January 11, 2016 06:15
Dwarfnovice said:Hi, I'm very new.
I was wondering why when going from the singular "Dunadan" to the plural "Dunedain" the "u" does not change to a "y".

[Edited on 01/12/2016 by Dwarfnovice]


Hi,

in one of his essays Tolkien explains that in plurals of compound nouns (such as Dún+adan or roch+ben) the original singular form of the first element was often restored by speakers of Sindarin (WJ:376); so the original plural of Dúnadan indeed would have been #Dynedain, however, this later changed back to Dúnedain.
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on: January 13, 2016 02:27
Oh.....
thanks you!
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