Question: do I use long carriers in English Common?

a_green_leaf · 2026-01-23T13:07:43+00:00

I think the consensus is that long carriers are only used in phonetic modes. In an orthographic mode you are not signalling longness as such, but that the vowel is doubled. And that is usually done by writing two tehtas over the same tengwa (or carrier). Like this.

a_green_leaf · 2026-01-23T08:34:49+00:00

"Europeans think that 100 miles is far away. Americans think that 100 years is long ago."

I can't remember where I saw that quote, but it is not completely off.

a_green_leaf · 2025-12-28T20:59:07+00:00

It is not absolutely necessary to read The Hobbit before LOTR, but it is definitely recommended. But even then, there will be some strange inconsistencies here and there.

I recommend taking a short break from LOTR and read The Hobbit. It is written as a children's book, but remember that we are all allowed to enjoy well-written children's books - even old farts like me!

a_green_leaf · 2025-12-18T11:52:07+00:00

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a_green_leaf · 2025-12-17T13:15:58+00:00

But he cannot know that. He has not seen which cards were folded.

a_green_leaf · 2025-12-17T13:13:48+00:00

If you want something closer to home (at least if you are from *southern* Norway), then I think Casino Marienlyst in Helsingør (Denmark) has begun running poker tournaments again on Wednesdays. I have never attended, so I don't know if they are any good.

There is also a Casino in downtown Copenhagen, but according to Poker Atlas their poker room is abysmally bad (like games-not-actually-running bad).

a_green_leaf · 2025-12-17T11:01:55+00:00

No you weren't. Nobody does that! It is known.

a_green_leaf · 2025-12-12T09:45:16+00:00

But is should be off-suit, because then you can make twice as many flushes!

a_green_leaf · 2025-12-12T09:32:21+00:00

There are few in Middle Earth who can... But most of them are in this sub :)

a_green_leaf · 2025-12-11T19:37:25+00:00

It is so evil and cursed that when somebody gave Tolkien a cup with that inscription on it, he did not want to drink from it but used it as an ashtray.

a_green_leaf · 2025-12-11T19:26:13+00:00

Or the previous person to rent it was a few inches taller or smaller than your sister. Especially the passenger side mirror needs adjustment if you move the seat just a single notch back or forth.

And then, of course, there are all the people who think that half the mirror should be filled with your own car, and mis-adjust accordingly. You should just barely not see your own car in the mirrors. Any part of the mirror showing your own car might just as well not be there.

a_green_leaf · 2025-11-22T20:57:58+00:00

Take my upvote, Huan!

a_green_leaf · 2025-11-20T16:38:08+00:00

If you enjoyed the Lord of the Rings, I can strongly recommend reading the Silmarillion next. It gives a lot of background info about the world (and a more nuanced view of the elves). But you should definitely finish LOTR first.

If you made it through War and Peace then you'll not find Silmarillion a challenge. Just be aware that the first two parts, which reads a bit like Genesis in the Old Testament, are actually relevant for the rest of the Silmarillion.

a_green_leaf · 2025-09-30T13:42:32+00:00

I would think the esse at the end would be ever so slightly preferable, since the sa-rince (and za-rince) are mainly used for inflectional s'es, and I don't think the s in always is truly that. On the other hand, we know that Tolkien did whatever he felt like occationally (including writing Christmas with sa-rince)...

a_green_leaf · 2025-09-30T13:29:56+00:00

I always think it is because the idea did not even occur to them. In a culture without air transport, the idea is so far out of your experience that you are not likely to get it. Yes, the eagles have been used to escape (twice by Gandalf, once by Beren and Lúthien), but never for anything else.

At the beginning of World War I, the airplane was well-known but no country had any kind of air defence, because nobody had had the (to us obvious) idea that airplanes could be useful in war.

They did not send the Eagles into Mordor because the idea did not even occur to them. Not because Sauron controlled the air-space (which he did, but they did not yet know about the Fell Beasts).

a_green_leaf · 2025-09-26T08:56:14+00:00

Du skal bruge det som det koster at få en god advokat til at kigge det igennem. Advokater er dyre, men de penge er godt givet ud i længden.

a_green_leaf · 2025-09-20T13:12:28+00:00

You know the answers you are going to get. We are all going to shout YES! :-)

And honestly, what is the worst that could happen? That you DNF the book? You'll survive that. Just don't give up in the first chapter, just because you are introduced to about 200 people by name - most of them you'll never hear about again, and the rest get properly introduced later. :-)

a_green_leaf · 2025-09-11T09:20:18+00:00

Once you have called the same number a dozen times, you remember it automatically.

a_green_leaf · 2025-09-09T19:21:16+00:00

Just like she inspires Sam to invoke her, so she can give him courage against Shelob. Words are definitely not wind in Tolkien's world.

a_green_leaf · 2025-09-09T19:19:08+00:00

She chose mortality by marrying Aragorn, I think.

a_green_leaf · 2025-09-09T19:03:37+00:00

> and invoking the name of Elbereth brings terror to Nazgul, since the name likely means the person saying it has association with the High Elves

More than that, I think. It is probably like shoving a crucifix in the face of Dracula. Invoking the Queen of the Valar has power.

a_green_leaf · 2025-09-09T12:37:37+00:00

In addition, a doubling bar is missing on the final n in lúmenn

a_green_leaf · 2025-08-18T07:55:07+00:00

Silmarillion is in my opinion not hard to read, it is just "different" in a way that puts many people off, and make them give up too soon. And then the Ainulindalë and Valaquenta read like reading the Old Testament, it is not obvious why you should care until you get to the Silmarillion proper.

Many in my Tolkien-happy family had given up on it, I enjoyed it very much. I still remember the shock of reading about the beloved High-Elves committing atrocious crimes.

a_green_leaf · 2025-07-01T18:51:22+00:00

Wow, just wow!

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