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A Taste Of Things To Come
Twenty-six years ago, when the hype was building up in anticipation of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies, I first started seriously learning Quenya, and I kept it up for several years after they were all released, but all things pass with time and gradually my interests shifted to other things. Recently, after finally embracing my own neurodivergence and actually getting an autism diagnosis, I started deliberately "unmasking" as they say, and as part of this process I came to realize that I had for many years been unconsciously suppressing my love of all things Tolkien — my biggest and oldest special interest — as a way of avoiding irritating neurotypical people who thought I was weird, so I started reading some of the more recently published books that I had never gotten around to. Then, after tentatively mentioning my interests, I found myself encouraged by my friends, many of whom are also on the autistic spectrum (yes, one of them actually is obsessed with trains!), so I started learning the language again and began making these posts as a way to encourage myself to study a bit every day.
The upshot of this, and the reason that I mention it, is that until now I really haven't had any intentional direction for future posts. Now, having done some reading and studying and gotten exposure to the language again, I am starting to formulate the beginnings of a plan for the future. At the moment, having presented a smattering of nouns, I am going through the colors (which is to say, some adjectives), and after this I will introduce some other basic words and then get around to the first big verb, ná (to be), which I will use to start discussing verb conjugation and the basics of grammar. After that we will be able to form simple sentences using the vocabulary discussed so far and will have a foundation upon which to build further.
Tonight, though, I will leave you with a teaser of things to come, a simple sentence that I gave to some friends in Discord a bit ago as an example of the language. As the days pass and these posts continue, this sentence and it's structure will come to make sense to anyone following along with me.
Yé! Ná lómë ar eleni, Vardo annar, tintillar menelessë pella fanyar!
Lo! It is night and the stars, Varda's gifts, tremble in the heavens beyond the clouds!
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A Taste Of Things To Come
Twenty-six years ago, when the hype was building up in anticipation of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies, I first started seriously learning Quenya, and I kept it up for several years after they were all released, but all things pass with time and gradually my interests shifted to other things. Recently, after finally embracing my own neurodivergence and actually getting an autism diagnosis, I started deliberately "unmasking" as they say, and as part of this process I came to realize that I had for many years been unconsciously suppressing my love of all things Tolkien — my biggest and oldest special interest — as a way of avoiding irritating neurotypical people who thought I was weird, so I started reading some of the more recently published books that I had never gotten around to. Then, after tentatively mentioning my interests, I found myself encouraged by my friends, many of whom are also on the autistic spectrum (yes, one of them actually is obsessed with trains!), so I started learning the language again and began making these posts as a way to encourage myself to study a bit every day.
The upshot of this, and the reason that I mention it, is that until now I really haven't had any intentional direction for future posts. Now, having done some reading and studying and gotten exposure to the language again, I am starting to formulate the beginnings of a plan for the future. At the moment, having presented a smattering of nouns, I am going through the colors (which is to say, some adjectives), and after this I will introduce some other basic words and then get around to the first big verb, ná (to be), which I will use to start discussing verb conjugation and the basics of grammar. After that we will be able to form simple sentences using the vocabulary discussed so far and will have a foundation upon which to build further.
Tonight, though, I will leave you with a teaser of things to come, a simple sentence that I gave to some friends in Discord a bit ago as an example of the language. As the days pass and these posts continue, this sentence and it's structure will come to make sense to anyone following along with me.
Yé! Ná lómë ar eleni, Vardo annar, tintillar menelessë pella fanyar!
Lo! It is night and the stars, Varda's gifts, tremble in the heavens beyond the clouds!
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A Taste Of Things To Come
Twenty-six years ago, when the hype was building up in anticipation of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies, I first started seriously learning Quenya, and I kept it up for several years after they were all released, but all things pass with time and gradually my interests shifted to other things. Recently, after finally embracing my own neurodivergence and actually getting an autism diagnosis, I started deliberately "unmasking" as they say, and as part of this process I came to realize that I had for many years been unconsciously suppressing my love of all things Tolkien — my biggest and oldest special interest — as a way of avoiding irritating neurotypical people who thought I was weird, so I started reading some of the more recently published books that I had never gotten around to. Then, after tentatively mentioning my interests, I found myself encouraged by my friends, many of whom are also on the autistic spectrum (yes, one of them actually is obsessed with trains!), so I started learning the language again and began making these posts as a way to encourage myself to study a bit every day.
The upshot of this, and the reason that I mention it, is that until now I really haven't had any intentional direction for future posts. Now, having done some reading and studying and gotten exposure to the language again, I am starting to formulate the beginnings of a plan for the future. At the moment, having presented a smattering of nouns, I am going through the colors (which is to say, some adjectives), and after this I will introduce some other basic words and then get around to the first big verb, ná (to be), which I will use to start discussing verb conjugation and the basics of grammar. After that we will be able to form simple sentences using the vocabulary discussed so far and will have a foundation upon which to build further.
Tonight, though, I will leave you with a teaser of things to come, a simple sentence that I gave to some friends in Discord a bit ago as an example of the language. As the days pass and these posts continue, this sentence and it's structure will come to make sense to anyone following along with me.
Yé! Ná lómë ar eleni, Vardo annar, tintillar menelessë pella fanyar!
Lo! It is night and the stars, Varda's gifts, tremble in the heavens beyond the clouds!
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A Taste Of Things To Come
Twenty-six years ago, when the hype was building up in anticipation of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies, I first started seriously learning Quenya, and I kept it up for several years after they were all released, but all things pass with time and gradually my interests shifted to other things. Recently, after finally embracing my own neurodivergence and actually getting an autism diagnosis, I started deliberately "unmasking" as they say, and as part of this process I came to realize that I had for many years been unconsciously suppressing my love of all things Tolkien — my biggest and oldest special interest — as a way of avoiding irritating neurotypical people who thought I was weird, so I started reading some of the more recently published books that I had never gotten around to. Then, after tentatively mentioning my interests, I found myself encouraged by my friends, many of whom are also on the autistic spectrum (yes, one of them actually is obsessed with trains!), so I started learning the language again and began making these posts as a way to encourage myself to study a bit every day.
The upshot of this, and the reason that I mention it, is that until now I really haven't had any intentional direction for future posts. Now, having done some reading and studying and gotten exposure to the language again, I am starting to formulate the beginnings of a plan for the future. At the moment, having presented a smattering of nouns, I am going through the colors (which is to say, some adjectives), and after this I will introduce some other basic words and then get around to the first big verb, ná (to be), which I will use to start discussing verb conjugation and the basics of grammar. After that we will be able to form simple sentences using the vocabulary discussed so far and will have a foundation upon which to build further.
Tonight, though, I will leave you with a teaser of things to come, a simple sentence that I gave to some friends in Discord a bit ago as an example of the language. As the days pass and these posts continue, this sentence and it's structure will come to make sense to anyone following along with me.
Yé! Ná lómë ar eleni, Vardo annar, tintillar menelessë pella fanyar!
Lo! It is night and the stars, Varda's gifts, tremble in the heavens beyond the clouds!
-
A Taste Of Things To Come
Twenty-six years ago, when the hype was building up in anticipation of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies, I first started seriously learning Quenya, and I kept it up for several years after they were all released, but all things pass with time and gradually my interests shifted to other things. Recently, after finally embracing my own neurodivergence and actually getting an autism diagnosis, I started deliberately "unmasking" as they say, and as part of this process I came to realize that I had for many years been unconsciously suppressing my love of all things Tolkien — my biggest and oldest special interest — as a way of avoiding irritating neurotypical people who thought I was weird, so I started reading some of the more recently published books that I had never gotten around to. Then, after tentatively mentioning my interests, I found myself encouraged by my friends, many of whom are also on the autistic spectrum (yes, one of them actually is obsessed with trains!), so I started learning the language again and began making these posts as a way to encourage myself to study a bit every day.
The upshot of this, and the reason that I mention it, is that until now I really haven't had any intentional direction for future posts. Now, having done some reading and studying and gotten exposure to the language again, I am starting to formulate the beginnings of a plan for the future. At the moment, having presented a smattering of nouns, I am going through the colors (which is to say, some adjectives), and after this I will introduce some other basic words and then get around to the first big verb, ná (to be), which I will use to start discussing verb conjugation and the basics of grammar. After that we will be able to form simple sentences using the vocabulary discussed so far and will have a foundation upon which to build further.
Tonight, though, I will leave you with a teaser of things to come, a simple sentence that I gave to some friends in Discord a bit ago as an example of the language. As the days pass and these posts continue, this sentence and it's structure will come to make sense to anyone following along with me.
Yé! Ná lómë ar eleni, Vardo annar, tintillar menelessë pella fanyar!
Lo! It is night and the stars, Varda's gifts, tremble in the heavens beyond the clouds!
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Daily Elvish
Today's date
Yavannië 20 (yuqain), 2026 (yuquain enquë yuquain), Anarya
Yavanna-ness [September] 20 (twenty), 2026 (twenty six twenty), Sun-day [Sunday]Word of the day
luinë — adj: blue
anluinë — comparative adj: blue
ariluinë — superlative adj: blue
luini — pl. adj: blue (pl.)
anluini — pl. comparative adj: blue (pl.)
ariluini — pl. superlative adj: blue (pl.)The Tengwar
The twentythird letter of the tengwar is anna which is used for "an absent consonant". The most common way this happens is to represent consonantal Y, in which case it is written with two dots beneath it as shown in today's date as the first letter of Yavannië, and at the end of Anarya. The word anna means "gift". -
Daily Elvish
Today's date
Yavannië 20 (yuqain), 2026 (yuquain enquë yuquain), Anarya
Yavanna-ness [September] 20 (twenty), 2026 (twenty six twenty), Sun-day [Sunday]Word of the day
luinë — adj: blue
anluinë — comparative adj: blue
ariluinë — superlative adj: blue
luini — pl. adj: blue (pl.)
anluini — pl. comparative adj: blue (pl.)
ariluini — pl. superlative adj: blue (pl.)The Tengwar
The twentythird letter of the tengwar is anna which is used for "an absent consonant". The most common way this happens is to represent consonantal Y, in which case it is written with two dots beneath it as shown in today's date as the first letter of Yavannië, and at the end of Anarya. The word anna means "gift". -
Daily Elvish
Today's date
Yavannië 20 (yuqain), 2026 (yuquain enquë yuquain), Anarya
Yavanna-ness [September] 20 (twenty), 2026 (twenty six twenty), Sun-day [Sunday]Word of the day
luinë — adj: blue
anluinë — comparative adj: blue
ariluinë — superlative adj: blue
luini — pl. adj: blue (pl.)
anluini — pl. comparative adj: blue (pl.)
ariluini — pl. superlative adj: blue (pl.)The Tengwar
The twentythird letter of the tengwar is anna which is used for "an absent consonant". The most common way this happens is to represent consonantal Y, in which case it is written with two dots beneath it as shown in today's date as the first letter of Yavannië, and at the end of Anarya. The word anna means "gift". -
Daily Elvish
Today's date
Yavannië 20 (yuqain), 2026 (yuquain enquë yuquain), Anarya
Yavanna-ness [September] 20 (twenty), 2026 (twenty six twenty), Sun-day [Sunday]Word of the day
luinë — adj: blue
anluinë — comparative adj: blue
ariluinë — superlative adj: blue
luini — pl. adj: blue (pl.)
anluini — pl. comparative adj: blue (pl.)
ariluini — pl. superlative adj: blue (pl.)The Tengwar
The twentythird letter of the tengwar is anna which is used for "an absent consonant". The most common way this happens is to represent consonantal Y, in which case it is written with two dots beneath it as shown in today's date as the first letter of Yavannië, and at the end of Anarya. The word anna means "gift". -
Daily Elvish
Today's date
Yavannië 20 (yuqain), 2026 (yuquain enquë yuquain), Anarya
Yavanna-ness [September] 20 (twenty), 2026 (twenty six twenty), Sun-day [Sunday]Word of the day
luinë — adj: blue
anluinë — comparative adj: blue
ariluinë — superlative adj: blue
luini — pl. adj: blue (pl.)
anluini — pl. comparative adj: blue (pl.)
ariluini — pl. superlative adj: blue (pl.)The Tengwar
The twentythird letter of the tengwar is anna which is used for "an absent consonant". The most common way this happens is to represent consonantal Y, in which case it is written with two dots beneath it as shown in today's date as the first letter of Yavannië, and at the end of Anarya. The word anna means "gift". -
Daily Elvish
Today's date
Yavannië 19 (neterquë), 2026 (yuquain enquë yuquain), Elenya
Yavanna-ness [September] 19 (nineteen), 2026 (twenty six twenty), Star-day [Saturday]Word of the day
carnë — adj: red
ancarnë — comparative adj: reder
aricarnë — superlative adj: redest
carni — pl. adj: red
ancarni — pl. comparative adj: reder
aricarni — pl. superlative adj: redestThe Tengwar
The twentysecond letter of the tengwar is vala which is used for the letter V. The word vala means "(angelic/demonic) power". It is seen in the term Valar, the name of the angels who took up the task of shaping and ruling the world, and also in valarauko ("power demon"), the Quenya word equivalent to the more well known Sindarin word balrog. -
Daily Elvish
Today's date
Yavannië 19 (neterquë), 2026 (yuquain enquë yuquain), Elenya
Yavanna-ness [September] 19 (nineteen), 2026 (twenty six twenty), Star-day [Saturday]Word of the day
carnë — adj: red
ancarnë — comparative adj: reder
aricarnë — superlative adj: redest
carni — pl. adj: red
ancarni — pl. comparative adj: reder
aricarni — pl. superlative adj: redestThe Tengwar
The twentysecond letter of the tengwar is vala which is used for the letter V. The word vala means "(angelic/demonic) power". It is seen in the term Valar, the name of the angels who took up the task of shaping and ruling the world, and also in valarauko ("power demon"), the Quenya word equivalent to the more well known Sindarin word balrog. -
Daily Elvish
Today's date
Yavannië 19 (neterquë), 2026 (yuquain enquë yuquain), Elenya
Yavanna-ness [September] 19 (nineteen), 2026 (twenty six twenty), Star-day [Saturday]Word of the day
carnë — adj: red
ancarnë — comparative adj: reder
aricarnë — superlative adj: redest
carni — pl. adj: red
ancarni — pl. comparative adj: reder
aricarni — pl. superlative adj: redestThe Tengwar
The twentysecond letter of the tengwar is vala which is used for the letter V. The word vala means "(angelic/demonic) power". It is seen in the term Valar, the name of the angels who took up the task of shaping and ruling the world, and also in valarauko ("power demon"), the Quenya word equivalent to the more well known Sindarin word balrog. -
Daily Elvish
Today's date
Yavannië 19 (neterquë), 2026 (yuquain enquë yuquain), Elenya
Yavanna-ness [September] 19 (nineteen), 2026 (twenty six twenty), Star-day [Saturday]Word of the day
carnë — adj: red
ancarnë — comparative adj: reder
aricarnë — superlative adj: redest
carni — pl. adj: red
ancarni — pl. comparative adj: reder
aricarni — pl. superlative adj: redestThe Tengwar
The twentysecond letter of the tengwar is vala which is used for the letter V. The word vala means "(angelic/demonic) power". It is seen in the term Valar, the name of the angels who took up the task of shaping and ruling the world, and also in valarauko ("power demon"), the Quenya word equivalent to the more well known Sindarin word balrog. -
Daily Elvish
Today's date
Yavannië 19 (neterquë), 2026 (yuquain enquë yuquain), Elenya
Yavanna-ness [September] 19 (nineteen), 2026 (twenty six twenty), Star-day [Saturday]Word of the day
carnë — adj: red
ancarnë — comparative adj: reder
aricarnë — superlative adj: redest
carni — pl. adj: red
ancarni — pl. comparative adj: reder
aricarni — pl. superlative adj: redestThe Tengwar
The twentysecond letter of the tengwar is vala which is used for the letter V. The word vala means "(angelic/demonic) power". It is seen in the term Valar, the name of the angels who took up the task of shaping and ruling the world, and also in valarauko ("power demon"), the Quenya word equivalent to the more well known Sindarin word balrog. -
Daily Elvish
Today's date
Yavannië 18 (tolquë), 2026 (yuquain enquë yuquain), Valanya
Yavanna-ness [September] 18 (eighteen), 2026 (twenty six twenty), Vala-day [Friday]Word of the day
morna — adj: black
ammorna — comparative adj: blacker
arimorna — superlative adj: blackest
mornë — pl. adj: black
ammornë — pl. comparative adj: blacker
arimornë — pl. superlative adj: blackest
mornavë — adv: blacklyNote that here I have included the plural adjectives and the adverbial form as well. Adjectives in Quenya must agree in number with the nouns they describe.
The Tengwar
The twentyfirst letter of the tengwar is órë which was originally used for weak (untrilled), medial R, but by the third age had been replaced by rómen representing a trilled R. In one important example of tengwar writing, Tolkien used órë to represent R before a consonant, and at the ends of words, though this may have been an aesthetic choice rather than a phonetic indication. The word órë means "heart (inner mind)". -
Daily Elvish
Today's date
Yavannië 18 (tolquë), 2026 (yuquain enquë yuquain), Valanya
Yavanna-ness [September] 18 (eighteen), 2026 (twenty six twenty), Vala-day [Friday]Word of the day
morna — adj: black
ammorna — comparative adj: blacker
arimorna — superlative adj: blackest
mornë — pl. adj: black
ammornë — pl. comparative adj: blacker
arimornë — pl. superlative adj: blackest
mornavë — adv: blacklyNote that here I have included the plural adjectives and the adverbial form as well. Adjectives in Quenya must agree in number with the nouns they describe.
The Tengwar
The twentyfirst letter of the tengwar is órë which was originally used for weak (untrilled), medial R, but by the third age had been replaced by rómen representing a trilled R. In one important example of tengwar writing, Tolkien used órë to represent R before a consonant, and at the ends of words, though this may have been an aesthetic choice rather than a phonetic indication. The word órë means "heart (inner mind)". -
Daily Elvish
Today's date
Yavannië 18 (tolquë), 2026 (yuquain enquë yuquain), Valanya
Yavanna-ness [September] 18 (eighteen), 2026 (twenty six twenty), Vala-day [Friday]Word of the day
morna — adj: black
ammorna — comparative adj: blacker
arimorna — superlative adj: blackest
mornë — pl. adj: black
ammornë — pl. comparative adj: blacker
arimornë — pl. superlative adj: blackest
mornavë — adv: blacklyNote that here I have included the plural adjectives and the adverbial form as well. Adjectives in Quenya must agree in number with the nouns they describe.
The Tengwar
The twentyfirst letter of the tengwar is órë which was originally used for weak (untrilled), medial R, but by the third age had been replaced by rómen representing a trilled R. In one important example of tengwar writing, Tolkien used órë to represent R before a consonant, and at the ends of words, though this may have been an aesthetic choice rather than a phonetic indication. The word órë means "heart (inner mind)". -
Daily Elvish
Today's date
Yavannië 18 (tolquë), 2026 (yuquain enquë yuquain), Valanya
Yavanna-ness [September] 18 (eighteen), 2026 (twenty six twenty), Vala-day [Friday]Word of the day
morna — adj: black
ammorna — comparative adj: blacker
arimorna — superlative adj: blackest
mornë — pl. adj: black
ammornë — pl. comparative adj: blacker
arimornë — pl. superlative adj: blackest
mornavë — adv: blacklyNote that here I have included the plural adjectives and the adverbial form as well. Adjectives in Quenya must agree in number with the nouns they describe.
The Tengwar
The twentyfirst letter of the tengwar is órë which was originally used for weak (untrilled), medial R, but by the third age had been replaced by rómen representing a trilled R. In one important example of tengwar writing, Tolkien used órë to represent R before a consonant, and at the ends of words, though this may have been an aesthetic choice rather than a phonetic indication. The word órë means "heart (inner mind)". -
Daily Elvish
Today's date
Yavannië 18 (tolquë), 2026 (yuquain enquë yuquain), Valanya
Yavanna-ness [September] 18 (eighteen), 2026 (twenty six twenty), Vala-day [Friday]Word of the day
morna — adj: black
ammorna — comparative adj: blacker
arimorna — superlative adj: blackest
mornë — pl. adj: black
ammornë — pl. comparative adj: blacker
arimornë — pl. superlative adj: blackest
mornavë — adv: blacklyNote that here I have included the plural adjectives and the adverbial form as well. Adjectives in Quenya must agree in number with the nouns they describe.
The Tengwar
The twentyfirst letter of the tengwar is órë which was originally used for weak (untrilled), medial R, but by the third age had been replaced by rómen representing a trilled R. In one important example of tengwar writing, Tolkien used órë to represent R before a consonant, and at the ends of words, though this may have been an aesthetic choice rather than a phonetic indication. The word órë means "heart (inner mind)".