Quenya - Conlang Profile	Advanced
Language Name Quenya Language Author J.R.R. Tolkien Year Began 1917 Site Quenya - site 1 Quenya - site 2 Quenya - site 3 Quenya - site 4 Broken Link No Site Language English Site Author Helge Kåre Fauskanger; Harold Ensle Language Type professional fictional language Editorial Descended from Primitive Elvish, Quenya is the chief of Tolkien's Elvish languages, used mainly in The Lord of The Rings and The Silmarillion. The beauty of Quenya has inspired many to take up the hobby of model languages. Unfortunately, it was never a primary goal of Tolkien's to finish the design of Quenya, and his death left the vocabulary and grammar incomplete. This incompleteness has dampened the fires of enthusiasm for many who would have liked to have learned the language. At present there exists no single authoritative reference to the meta-history (the history of the creation of the fictional history) of Quenya. This gap will be filled eventually, when some unknown among us rises to the challenge of analyzing the editorial efforts of Tolkien's son, who has prepared a series of volumes relating the history of Tolkien's invention of Middle Earth. [Since I first wrote that in 1995, Helge Kåre Fauskanger has come close to achieving this.] Uniqueness Considered one of the most beautiful-sounding constructed languages in the world, as Tolkien opted for beauty in words. Here's a separate site where you can find common names in Quenya. Language Sources Phonology inspired by Finnish. Interest Of Others The Lord of the Rings movies, with their extensive Sindarin dialogue, have inspired fresh interest in Quenya as well. Dictionary Yes Etymologies Yes Grammar Yes Sample Texts Yes Unique Script Yes Primer Yes Babel Text Yes Lexicon Size 2,241 Submitted By NA Updated By Cáno Tolto [Poland] Date Edited Saturday, September 04, 2004 Description Of Update I updated number of words online. It isn't final number of words of course (there may be 5000 words in all). Date To Headline Tuesday, September 14, 2004 < Quebh  Quenya  Quya >
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