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| Should fanfic authors include lines in Elvish? |
| Never. It is annoying and distracting. |
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| It depends, if translations are given right away, it might work. |
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| When the situation requires it, it can be very effective. |
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| The use of Sindarin/Quenya here and there adds a lot of atmosphere and realism to the dialogue. |
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| ALWAYS! The whole dialogue should be written in the Noble Tongue. |
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Thuriniel
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| inglor wrote: | I'm scared of people like Thuri who know Quenya/Sindarin and will call me on proper usage 
And I rarely write out of the 1st Age so it doesn't need to be there, they're all speaking one or the other.
Inglor |
I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but I'm only midly fluent in Sindarin ... I'm Quenya-challenged  . Maybe that will be my summer project  !
| texasgirl wrote: | | on ff.net, there was an author who wrote THE ENTIRE chapter in elvish - with no translation, |
I swear it wasn't me! But I did participate in a Silmarillion translation project  ...
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ellisk
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Thuriniel wrote: | | I must confess that if I had it my way, I would have full dialogues only in Sindarin simply because it is a language I love ... but I control myself as much as I can . |
I am with you there, but then I used to teach languages so what do you expect? I have read some really pretty poetry that folks have written in Sindarin or Quenya. It's nice because something more or less sonnet length is very managable even if you have to look up a few words (and they did have the English to the side). And these people really had a good ear for poetry so when you read the Elvish outloud it was really beautiful. Since poetry is about rhythm, I thought that was a very thoughtful use of pure Elvish. If I can find the link again, I'll edit this and post it here.
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SpaceWeavil
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Thuriniel wrote: | | inglor wrote: | I'm scared of people like Thuri who know Quenya/Sindarin and will call me on proper usage
And I rarely write out of the 1st Age so it doesn't need to be there, they're all speaking one or the other.
Inglor |
I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but I'm only midly fluent in Sindarin ... I'm Quenya-challenged . Maybe that will be my summer project ! |
I can usually spot an error in Sindarin, but Quenya is another thing. I can write in it, with great help from dictionaries and grammar aids, but I wouldn't know if it was wrong or not when I saw it unless it was really weird.
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NancyBrooke
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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As Thuriniel knows - she's proofed some of my translation attempts - I like a little Sindarin now and again for atmosphere and authenticity, even in the world of Men.
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LuthienTinuviel
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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Despite the fact that I am elvish-ignorant, I voted for ALWAYS, the whole dialogue should be in Elvish.
Of course, I am highly grateful of immediate translations, but sometimes I just Use Ctrl + H with my dicthionary of Elvish (combo of several I believe)
Somehow it adds more to the realism, but if it's one of those 100+ paragraph dialogue then...I think English would be better.
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