Calan vain Ennor!
Sí abgen edregol an i Laer ‚ovol. Lim naur ui urui di ‚Obel-i-Pheriain a menel luin. I ast vaer a thirad i Drann. Thiar bain i ndýr ah ast vaer am randirath. O Girithron na Nínui natha ovras a chared a chened.
No alwed i Laer lîn!
Source: YouTube
Check out the first ever Middle-earth weather report — for real! And see the updated transcript of the Sindarin text!
Hear the extraordinary Elvish language of Sindarin come to life in a summer forecast for the ‚Home of Middle-earth’, New Zealand. Our guest Elvish weather reporter says the sun will shine across the lands — especially over Hobbiton! Sindarin is a language that’s usually kept between Elves and friends of Elves, deciphered from the writings of Professor J.R.R. Tolkien. It is one of several languages created for the peoples of Middle-earth. Come on down! www.newzealand.com
This is our attempt to transcribe the text of the forecast. We ask you to help us to correct it and to find its proper form (the obscure words are printed in grey):
Calan vain Ennor! ‘Good morning Middle-earth’
Sí abgen edregol an i Laer ‘ovol. ‘Here is a special forecast for the summer ahead’.
Lim naur ui urui di ‘Obel-i-Pheriain a menel luin. ‘In Hobbiton it will be mostly hot with blue sky’
I ast vaer a thirad i Drann. ‘the ideal time to visit the Shire’
Thiar bain i ndýr ‘The lands are looking good’
ah ast vaer am randirath. ‘And it’s a great time for travellers’
O Girithron na Nínui ‘From December to February’
natha ovras a chared a chened. ‘there will be plenty to do and see’
No alwed i Laer lîn! ‘Have a fantastic summer!’
G-i-P stands for Gwaith-i-Phethain, ‘The Fellowship of the Word-smiths’ or the linguistic website devoted to post-Tolkienian constructions in the “reconstructed” languages of Middle-earth [link].
Source: Dwarven Word of the Day gallery (The Hobbit on Facebook)
And here they are! New Khuzdûl words (most of them are actually Neo-Khuzûl). And new examples of the Angerthas runes usage. We hope The Hobbit movie will be the opportunity to study Dwarvish language (which most complete analysis can be found on Ardalambion and on Mellonath Daeron websites) and to develop its coined, reconstructed New Dwarvish form. How do you think will we be able to speak Neo-Khuzûl one day? Will David Salo create full grammar and more complete vocabulary of the Dwarvish used in the movie?
So far we know these „Dwarven Words of the Day” (Neo-Khuzûl is marked with asterisk *):
*aznâg ‚courage’; stem ?
*aznân ‚darkness’; stem Z-N (HoMe IX 466)
*azrâd ‚magic’; stem ?
*banô ‚treasure’; stem ?
*bark ‘axe’; cf. baruk, ‚axes of’ (HoMe VII 20), Baruk Khazâd! ‚Axes of the Dwarves!’ (Appendix F); stem ?
*belgond ‘pledge’; stem ? [analysis]
*belkîn ‚fortress’; stem ?
*gund ‚cave’; cf. gundu, ‚underground hall’ (from stem gunud) (HoMe XII 352).
*urd ‚mountain’; cf. Sindarin orod; stem ?
*sigin-aimu ‘journey’; stem ?
*zul ‚beer’; stem ?
For the other Neo-Khuzûl forms from The Hobbit movie see here.
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Let us see the IMAX posters for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey midnight screenings. We have here an unexpected linguistic addition – the title of the movie written with the Tengwar letters as they are described in Appendix E of the LotR. Tolkien explained there was no official mode for using Tengwar with the English language, but on the title of the same book gave and example of an English phrase written with Tengwar. The rules there were the same as for Sindarin, with the Tehtar (representing vowels) placed above the next consecutive Tengwar letter. The creators of the IMAX posters used another mode which is similar to the mode for Quenya. The Tehtar are place above the proceeding consonantal Tengwar letter.
The inscriptions on the posters read:
the hobbit an unexpected journey
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This illustration comes from Jude Fisher’s book The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Visual Companion (chapter „The Elves”). It is a manuscript (prepared for the movies by the artist Daniel Reeve) with the Tengwar lettering, but the text is in English (Tengwar mode for English close to the one on the title page of The Lord of the Rings). Our analysis proves it’s a part of The Silmarillion (p. 193-4) [which is very similar to the paragraph in The Children of Húrin, Chapter „The Battle of Unnumbered Tears”] starting with the words
Last of all the eastern force to stand firm were the Dwarves of Belegost…
and ending with
There as the sun westered…
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Source: TORn
Today we’ve received a big gift of 60-seconds pieces of the tracks from The Hobbit soundtrack (listen to them here). The music is terrific! And we can hear some fragments of the lyrics in the languages of Middle-earth. We’ve tried to find out which languages we can soon able analyze (let us only wait for December and see the lyrics from the CD booklet!).
Here you can see which languages we could find in the soundtrack:
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Today the Neo-Khuzdûl word of the day is aznâg ‚courage’ (the word coined by David Salo?). The information comes from The Hobbit movie profile on Facebook. The Hollywood Reporter in their „The Hard Road to ‚The Hobbit’ present new pictures from the movie set. On of them is a page of a runic book of the Dwarves (made by Daniel Reeve?). It has a nice inscription in English with Anglo-Saxon futhark runes (like these in The Hobbit book):
They read:
Supplies of pipeweed are running desperately low. If we do not find some very soon one of our few remaining pleasures will be a thing of the past.
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The German fan site Herr-der-Ringe-Film has posted new pictures from The Hobbit movies that are currently on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The most mysterious one is the picture above. It contains a „wheel of fortune” (?) machine with the signs (numbers?) which are similar to the undeciphered writing system of the Easterling (see here – and the Easterling letters below) in the LotR movies. Can it be the decoration connected with Necromancer, Dol Guldur and the tribes of the East? It is not Tolkienian one (though it may resemble Rúmilian letters sarati).
But we suppose the picture in fact doesn’t show the item from The Hobbit movies. And what do you think?
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Source: LEGO
It is very strange (and stupid?). Last summer LEGO has announced the set „Battle the Cave Troll in The Mines of Moria!”. One of the panels in the Mines of Moria set is decorated with text written with the runes. They are in fact the same Futhark we know from The Hobbit (so they are not the Cirth from The Lord of the Rings). And they read:
Diordie [or Djordje] was here
Djordje is reportedly one of the designers that was working on the LotR LEGO theme…
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Source: private correspondence with Earl Carvalho (TORn)
Rivendell or „Imladris” as well as being „the last Homely House” and one of the last bastions of the Elvish presence in Middle-earth, was also the repository of its historical artefacts and manuscripts. Its interior halls were replete with banners, other heraldic devices and works of art and science…
Their walls were also covered with beautiful murals. Some of them contained the tengwar (‚Elvish letters’) inscriptions. Today we want to revisit Rivendell and read all these letters. As far as we can see on the movie pictures in the LotR trilogy and in the Hobbit trailer there are six paintings (their authors were in fact Alan Lee and Daniel Reeve), and three of them with the „Elvish letters”. Here they are. We provide our Readers with transliteration of the tengwar inscriptions: