X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,be4b297b340b6601 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-16 09:41:50 PST From: Neil Franklin Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: looking for lord of the ring character acsii art Date: 16 Jan 2002 18:41:46 +0100 Organization: My own Private Self Lines: 48 Message-ID: <6ug056nqg5.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> References: <3c432454.22698046@News.CIS.DFN.DE> <59q64u4h66ae73rn80spl54ld3j0g69dph@4ax.com> <7dq84ukru18dp5s9crbcnd2kisjndsf8r9@4ax.com> X-Complaints-To: news@chonsp.franklin.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Jan 2002 17:41:46 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 NNTP-Posting-Host: galapagos.ethz.ch X-Trace: 16 Jan 2002 18:41:42 +0100, galapagos.ethz.ch Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-ge.switch.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!chonsp.franklin.ch!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:13815 drsquare writes: > On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 17:16:38 -0500, in alt.ascii-art, > ("DynoGuru" ) wrote: > > >"drsquare" wrote in message > >news:7dq84ukru18dp5s9crbcnd2kisjndsf8r9@4ax.com... > > > >> >> Go to appendix V of Lord of the Rings, learn the Angerthas, then learn > >> >> Khuzdul. Then you will be able to understand what is said. > >> > > >> >Do u mean that I have to learn a language to understand this? Isn't it > >> >English? > >> > >> I assumed it would be in Khuzdul, as it is on a dwarf's tomb. But then > >> again you'll have a job learning it, as it's a fictional language. You can > >> learn the runes though. > >> > >This stuff is facinating?? Thay have a language developed just for this > >book. > > There are several. Khuzdul, Sindarin, Quenya, The Black Speech. Tolkien > liked his languages. And his alphabets. Addendum: Tolkien was by profession a professor for linguistics, specialising in old languages and scripts. His professional work was about anglo-saxon. > >Is there any online tutorial which help me learn that language? > > For most of the languages, there were only a few actual words, but for > Quenya there is quite a lot of material to learn, so you can get a > reasonable knowledge of it. > > You can find out more here: > http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/9902/langinfo.html If your really want to get into his languages, go to the Ardalambion (languages of the world) site: http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/ -- Neil Franklin, neil@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/ Hacker, Unix Guru, El Eng HTL/BSc, Sysadmin, Archer, Roleplayer - Intellectual Property is Intellectual Robbery