Mae govannen ✦ well met
137,101 words of Sindarin, Quenya, Telerin and the tongues around them — each one carrying the book, the page and the hand it came from.
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The first chapter
Tolkien revised his languages for fifty years and never felt he had finished them. Parf Edhellen gives you an unopinionated view into the words as they were recorded, including where and how they evolved throughout Tolkien's lifetime.
Source, publication, page, editor and the full history of revisions — down to the question marks the editors left standing.
mútha-
verb. to depart, go, leave; (c. gen.) to leave the place of or time of speaker; to go forward
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Hiro hyn hîdh ab 'wanath
Legolas’s exclamation of grief at the apparent passing of Merry and Pippin beside Fangorn forest. This phrase is from the movies and was not composed by Tolkien. Please read attached commentary.
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