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Subject: Re: Elen Sila Lumenn Omentielvo

Author:
Michel

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Date Posted: 19:00:43 10/20/03 Mon
In reply to: Ivan 's message, "Re: Elen Sila Lumenn Omentielvo" on 09:46:28 09/19/03 Fri

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>See the following, from The Quenya Corpus:
>Elen s�la l�menn' omentielvo, "a star shines upon the
>hour of our meeting", an Elvish greeting given in
>LotR1/I ch. 3. (The first edition of LotR had
>omentielmo, probably the reading of Frodo's original
>text, translated into English by Tolkien. But
>Gondorian commentators had pointed out that omentielvo
>is the correct form in this context, and Tolkien used
>the correct form when a revised version of LotR was
>published in 1966. See Letters:447. Note that
>"omentilmo" in certain American editions is a typo.)
>This greeting is also given in WJ:367, there in the
>form Elen s�la l�menna omentielvo, with no elision of
>the final a in l�menna. (Letters:424 gives a part of
>the greeting, omitting elen, but once again with no
>elision of the final a.) An earlier form of the
>greeting is found in RS:324: Eleni silir l�mess�
>omentiemman "the stars shine on the hour of our
>meeting", changed to Elen sil�... "A star shines..."
>Omentiemman with genitive in -n is "Qenya", but the
>verb forms are interesting (a good example of the
>aorist, both sg. and pl.).

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