Saturday, September 26, 2009

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

The Quenya words for fifteen are lepenquë (which may be the preferred word) and quailepen.

I could not find any Sindarin words for numbers in the teens.

The Quenya words for fifteen look similar to Quenya word for five, lempë. These numbers appear to be base ten, not base twelve.

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