Sunday, October 25, 2009

Twenty, in J.R.R. Tolkien's words

Tolkien's elves must not of needed to count to twenty. I couldn't find words in my reference dictionaries for twenty in Quenya or twenty in Sindarin.

Various sources list the Quenya and Sindarin numbers from one to twelve. Although there are numbers in the teens for Quenya, but not for Sindarin, these numbers seem less solidly defined. The next number I found defined was for a thousand.

Fantasy languages may not need higher numbers, but as I've mixed the Old English and the Latin words for a few more numbers, I'll be posting them.

1 comment:

Kendra Logan said...

Huh, that's really interesting!

~Kendra