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Saraneth

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Audio Examples of Sindarin and Quenya
on: October 03, 2004 05:25

Does this website, or any others that someone might know of, include audio examples of Sindarin or Quenya? I want to know what each one sounds like before I choose one to study and I don't trust my pronunciation skills to read it myself.

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Naneth

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RE: Audio Examples of Sindarin and Quenya
on: October 03, 2004 07:15

For Sindarin, probably the best site is Lothenon's at: http://dombach.florian.bei.t-online.de/corpus.htm

For Quenya, I suggest you ask in that forum ...

Malinornë

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RE: Audio Examples of Sindarin and Quenya
on: October 12, 2004 09:58

Lothenon has some Quenya too on his site.

If you look at the very end of the first lesson of the Quenya workbook, you'll find a link to a sound file of Tolkien himself reading in Quenya. There are more links to more sites in the "Quenya News and Resources" thread, in the Quenya forum.

Gildor-Inglorion

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RE: Audio Examples of Sindarin and Quenya
on: October 12, 2004 11:50

Not sure how much I can divulge but...

suffice it to say that there will be some interesting new material to access soon enough - quite a bit of which is linguistic (and more specifically, phonetic) in nature.

(NOTE: This is not in reference to any new material by Tolkien himself.)

Uialdil_i_degilbor

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RE: Audio Examples of Sindarin and Quenya
on: October 14, 2004 12:15

For Sindarin, probably the best site is Lothenon's at: http://dombach.florian.bei.t-online.de/corpus.htm

I agree that it is the best such site, but take some of it with a grain of salt. Some of the examples of sounds that Florian lists contradict what Tolkien tells us, most notably the explanations of the letters l, long í and medial ng.

PhantomElf

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RE: Audio Examples of Sindarin and Quenya
on: October 15, 2004 03:16

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Not sure how much I can divulge but...

suffice it to say that there will be some interesting new material to access soon enough - quite a bit of which is linguistic (and more specifically, phonetic) in nature.

(NOTE: This is not in reference to any new material by Tolkien himself.)
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Hi Gildor

Great please don't keep us in suspense too long.

Btw here are links to most ofl the sites that I currently know of where you can here sung and/or spoken Quenya and/or
Sindarin

http://www.scene24.net/projects/namarie/

Text for and sound file of Tolkien reciting Namárië

http://members.cox.net/tarabard/Tolkien-Elbereth.wav

Tolkien reciting "A Elbereth"

http://www.phy.duke.edu/~trenk/elvish/

Sung Quenya and Sindarin + spoken Quenya

http://www.lambion-ardava.de/

A sound file and Quenya text of "I Elessar" a short story in Quenya

http://members.cox.net/taramiluiel/song_wandering_elves.htm

"The Song of the Wandering Elves" Sindarin Translation and sound file sung by Taramaíluíel also "The Song of the Steward"
sound file and translation sung in Sindarin can be found on this site.

Happy listening

[Edited on 15/10/2004 by PhantomElf]

Gildor-Inglorion

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RE: Audio Examples of Sindarin and Quenya
on: October 15, 2004 02:56