Showing posts with label Tolkien weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tolkien weather. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

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

The Quenya words for sky are ilwë (sky, heavens), menel (sky, the heavens, the firmament; the apparent dome in the sky), and vilya (air, sky).

The Sindarin words for sky is menel (sky, high heaven, firmament, the region of the stars).

Friday, April 23, 2010

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

The Quenya words for cloud are fanya (cloud; white cloud) and lumbo (dark cloud).

The Sindarin words for cloud are faun (cloud) and fân (veil; cloud (applied to clouds floating as veils over the blue sky or the sun or moon or resting on hills)).

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

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

The Quenya words for wind are súrë and vaiwa.

The Sindarin words for wind are gwaew and sûl.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

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

The Quenya words for wet are linquë and mixa.

The Sindarin words for wet are mesg (or mesc) (wet)
and nîn (wet, watery).

Saturday, March 27, 2010

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

The Quenya word for dry is parca.

The Sindarin word for dry is parch.

I think the Sindarin word for dry is almost guessable. Parch is similar to parched, which means dry.

Saturday is supposed to be my day when I take a break from created words, but I had available Tolkien's words for dry. So I'll post something different tomorow. Maybe a Latin proverb.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

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

There doesn't seem to be words in Quenya and Sindarin that mean storm. Although there are words for various aspects of storms.

In Qenya, a forerunner of Quenya, the word for storm is húro.

In Quenya noise of a storm is raumo. The word for dark, lowering cloud is lumbo. The sea in storm is haloisi.

The Sindarin word for storm of wind is alagos.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

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

The Quenya words for snow are lossë (snow or snow-white), niquë (snow), and is (light snow).

The Sindarin word for snow is loss (especially fallen or long-lying snow). The word gloss is an adjective meaning snow-white or dazzling-white.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

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

The Quenya words for rain are rossë (fine rain, dew, spray) and mistë (fine rain).

The Sindarin word for rain is ross.

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

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

The Quenya words for cold are ringa (cold, chill) and helca (ice cold).

The Sindarin words for cold are ring (cold) and helch (bitter cold).

Sunday, July 05, 2009

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

The Quenya words for hot are úrin (blazing hot), saiwa (hot) and úrime (hot month, the month of August).

The Sindarin words for hot are born (hot, red) and urui (hot, the month of August).

Thursday, November 20, 2008

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

The Quenya word for ice is helcë.

The Sindarin word for ice is heleg.

Ice was a surprisingly straightforward word to translate. I'm used to finding multiple words in Quenya and Sindarin, with different shades of meaning, for English words. Maybe I should look at more words to talk about the weather.