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Heledhnen
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Post Just curious
on: March 12, 2005 11:56
One of my friends uses the word navaer, which she says is the sindarin word for farewell. But someone on a different forum said that navaer was not right and was just made up. Did he mean that it is a word that elvish scholars have introduced using sources from Tolkien but it wasn't actually used by him or is it just wrong? Or maybe, it is right?

Sorry if that post just made no sense... I'm rather confused...

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Post RE: Just curious
on: March 12, 2005 02:10
it is a word that elvish scholars have introduced using sources from Tolkien


Yep. If I recall correctly, R. Derdzinski reconstructed it based on the Quenya namárië (which is a word by Tolkien). However, I think a lot of us just use it out of convenience.

[Edited on 13/3/2005 by Fíriel]
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Post RE: Just curious
on: March 12, 2005 02:19
it is a word that elvish scholars have introduced using sources from Tolkien


Yep. If I recall correctly, R. Derdzinski reconstructed it based on the Quenya namárië (which is a word by Tolkien). However, I think a lot of us just use it out of convenience.

[Edited on 13/3/2005 by Fíriel]

Absolutely.

And I had saw a new cognation _*novaer_(cf. Q na + márië), which is a more applausable one for me
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