Quenya and Sindrain - The Languages of the Elves

Liv Tyler, Orlando Bloom, Hugo Weaving, Roisin Carty (Dialect Coach), Peter Jackson, Elijah Wood, Andrew Jack (Dialect Coach), Viggo Mortensen, Jane Johnson (Harper Collins Ltd), talk about the the langues of the elves. Source(www.lordoftheings.net)

Year 2002.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• FOTR
• TTT
• ROTK
• lotr trilogy
• Liv Tyler
• Orlando Bloom
• Hugo Weaving
• Roisin Carty
• Peter Jackson
• Elijah Wood
• Andrew Jack
• Viggo Mortensen
• Jane Johnson
• Quenya
• Sindrain
• Elves

[sasukevsorochimaru]

Elvish is so pretty! :D

[sixpointneuf]

and now the Dwarves are learning Dwarfish

[666BrotherofMetal]

@sixpointneuf Genius.

[darrenw1996]

i didn't knew that orlando did his hair like that,still cool though

[justinajax1]

little peeple talk dwarves now in this time

[ZemplinTemplar]

@sixpointneuf Too bad Tolkien never really covered Khuzdul (Dwarfish) in more detail. There is some vocabulary and grammar rules for it, sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if the screenwriters had to resort to making up neologisms for it based on existing words. Though maybe there won't be much spoken Khuzdul in the Hobbit movies, so this won't be a necessary at all.

[uruson]

@Faramirel Indeed, they are hard to understand at times.

Makes me wonder if that's a common thing in the world, not being able to understand certain dialects of your own language.

I mean, it's not that they use different words or expressions, it's just the way they say things, the pronunciation.

There are many different dialects of mandarin, but to my knowledge they use different words and expressions, almost like their own languages, which isn't exactly like the Swedish counterpart.

[Faramirel]

@uruson Yes, it depends on what norvegian it is. The english names I have no idea about but I'll use yours. Bokmal is very close to Swedish but Nynorsk is the old norwegian recoverred from the days before they were invaded by Denmark and Sweden, centuries ago. And understanding of danish would depend on the dialekt, like the swedish they speak in Skane that are completely incomprehensible for a lot of Sweds.

[uruson]

@Faramirel Well, as a "swede" I can understand Norwegian and Danish to some extent (50-80% depending), but finish is a whole different language, one that I feel doesn't have much in common with us apart from a few names for things such as "sugar" or "lamp".

[Faramirel]

@Northernmight Finally someone else who has really got what blasphemy means! I'm totally with you on this!

[Faramirel]

The tounge of Rohan sounds a little like Danish, and then they have Mortensen speak it in the films. He must have felt so at home in that. "No one else has a clue what I'm saying, but I actually do!" Most scandinavian languages are rather close to it, actually. Finding that out, I'm nerdy enough to do, but Tolkien actually lerned finish - the man must had a concussion or been drunk when he made that decision!

[OldSnoopHoop]

Learn Welsh, it is similar and is a living tongue