Saturday, September 12, 2009

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

The Quenya word for ancient is yára (ancient, belonging to or descending from former times).

The Sindarin word for ancient is iaur (ancient, old, original).

Earlier I mentioned the Sindarin word (iaur) in my post for old. But as it more precisely translates to ancient, I moved the word here.

3 comments:

Ember said...

Ooh, what a beautiful language!

~Ember

illunse said...

Tolkien did good work indeed with his Elvish languages :)

Kendra Logan said...

Awesome!

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