| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Sulriel
Joined: 06 Jan 2004
Posts: 286
Location: Imladris (or maybe Texas ...)
|
 Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:51 pm Post subject: Re: RE: Question for all you Sindarin Specialists |
 |
|
| Lessien wrote: | Hello Peeps and happy Friday to all,
I have a quick question. Does anyone know the Sindarin word for : Duty? If not, could someone point me in the right direction as to where I can find a good translator?
~Lessie |
I'm better with Quenya than with Sinarino and my handy dandy Dragon Flame software doesn't give me a word for duty. I'm not sure what the context is, but, oddly enough, I'm not finding words for 'job' or 'honor'.
'task' is [Hiswelókë's Sindarin dictionary (Edition 1.5, Lexicon 0.99)]
tass (t'ass) (tars) n. labour, task ◇ Ety/391 ◇ MS *tass, *tars, OS *tarsa
(TÁRAS)
hope that helps.
Becky
_________________
"May it be a light to you in dark places." |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
NancyBrooke
Challenge Admin
Joined: 11 May 2003
Posts: 160
Location: In a motel 6 by the airport
|
| Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 5:03 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Building on Sulriel's suggestion, you might try tass baureg, which is a clumsy construction to mean 'needful task.' The adjective baureg (from baur = need) is neo-sindarin, i.e. I made it up.
The resources I use, and I am by no means an expert, are:
Ardalambion, which is an awesome site for all Tolkien languages
the Gwaith-i-Phethdain, which has a treatise on Sindarin Grammar, a Sindarin Course, and a dictionary of what I take to be neo-Sindarin
The Sindarin Dictionary Project, where you can download the aforementioned Dragon Flame program
and the Council of Elrond which has a Elvish forum and dictionary (no entry for 'duty' though).
Go, thee, and geek out!
_________________
NB Duchess of WHY TF Cant'chu Punctuate, First Duchess of F*&(ing &*ll yur comma placement sux!
Nazgul #3 in charge of ducking & sniggering
Garo golf a conu ned i eneth aran an ir ho delitha ad |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Sulriel
Joined: 06 Jan 2004
Posts: 286
Location: Imladris (or maybe Texas ...)
|
| Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 7:51 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| NancyBrooke wrote: | Building on Sulriel's suggestion, you might try tass baureg, which is a clumsy construction to mean 'needful task.' The adjective baureg (from baur = need) is neo-sindarin, i.e. I made it up.
The resources I use, and I am by no means an expert, are:
Ardalambion, which is an awesome site for all Tolkien languages
the Gwaith-i-Phethdain, which has a treatise on Sindarin Grammar, a Sindarin Course, and a dictionary of what I take to be neo-Sindarin
The Sindarin Dictionary Project, where you can download the aforementioned Dragon Flame program
and the Council of Elrond which has a Elvish forum and dictionary (no entry for 'duty' though).
Go, thee, and geek out! |
Needful task is good Nancy, I couldn't think of anything. 
_________________
"May it be a light to you in dark places." |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Lessien
Joined: 23 Jan 2006
Posts: 9
Location: Hitchhiking across Middle Earth
|
| Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 10:43 am Post subject: Duty-translated |
|
|
Many thanks Nancy and Sulriel!
I've been scribbling away at Book Two of my mini-epic and while Book One-Lalaith (Laughter) was a seemingly effortless birth, Book Two-Duty is proving to be a very hard labor.
I do indeed like "needful task". May I use "tass-baureg" or some made-up variation with your permission, Nancy?
~Lessie |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
NancyBrooke
Challenge Admin
Joined: 11 May 2003
Posts: 160
Location: In a motel 6 by the airport
|
| Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:56 pm Post subject: Re: Duty-translated |
|
|
| Lessien wrote: | Many thanks Nancy and Sulriel!
I've been scribbling away at Book Two of my mini-epic and while Book One-Lalaith (Laughter) was a seemingly effortless birth, Book Two-Duty is proving to be a very hard labor. |
O don't I know how that is!!! I've been struggling with a similar situation for quite some time. I started a story ages ago that began effortlessly and that first chapter I still think is some of my best work - if not the best. But the rest has been a word by word struggle - to bring it up to the level of that first bit and to write it at all  . I'm sure the folks here are tired of hearing me whine about it. Oh, well! I do keep struggling and I hope you do too.
| Lessien wrote: | | I do indeed like "needful task". May I use "tass-baureg" or some made-up variation with your permission, Nancy? |
As far as I'm concerned, posting a suggested solution is permission (though not everyone else may feel the same) so go right ahead and don't worry about asking in the future. Credit is always nice, though. 
_________________
NB Duchess of WHY TF Cant'chu Punctuate, First Duchess of F*&(ing &*ll yur comma placement sux!
Nazgul #3 in charge of ducking & sniggering
Garo golf a conu ned i eneth aran an ir ho delitha ad |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Lessien
Joined: 23 Jan 2006
Posts: 9
Location: Hitchhiking across Middle Earth
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 8:18 pm Post subject: Encoraging Words |
|
|
Thanks for the encoragement Nancy. I certainly will stick with it even if I feel like having given birth to a watermelon  at the end of every writing session. Besides, my pesky characters just won't leave me alone. They have this habit of tap-dancing on my brain at the most inconvenient times--usually during a meeting or conference call. 
Sigh
~Lessie |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
Live Journal Feed
