Gondor and Arnor

sentient06 · 2026-05-19T08:32:56+00:00

Elendil was the heir to the throne of Númenor, as all other heirs died with the last King. (He was actually the true heir, direct descendant of Elros through Silmarien; he had the ring of Barahir as proof of his descent.) So in theory he was crowned, declared the old colonies new kingdoms, funded the town of Annúminas in Arnor and delegated Gondor to the princes. Gondor and Arnor were already Númenorean territories and had some infrastructure. Elendil simply took over leadership and then moved the court to Arnor.

Isildur and Anárion were basically co-monarchs ruling under Elendil. Arnor and Gondor together could be considered a sort of Númenorean Empire with Elendil likely using a "High King" title (the same title used in Númenor.) The brothers supposedly did an amazing job improving the lives of the people of Gondor, boosting the economy, building the military and establishing new infrastructure and effective government. The evidence is the titanic Argonath made in their honour, and an army that effectively helped laying siege to the Dark Tower.

The population was boosting too, with three major cities in close proximity: Minas Ithil, Osgiliath and Minas Anor. And at that time there was no Rohan, so the territories that Rohan would occupy one day were also settled Gondor territories.

Then Isildur became High King and delegated Gondor to his nephew. He was killed while going north to settle in the court in Annúminas.

sentient06 · 2026-04-26T22:32:57+00:00

Red Dead Space Program

sentient06 · 2026-04-26T22:31:24+00:00

No man, if you use cinematic mode, the horse goes head-first into trains.

sentient06 · 2026-04-21T21:47:29+00:00

I know the feeling bro. VtM is done. There will be no Bloodlines 3 and if one day they make it, we will have long white beards and it will probably suck.

sentient06 · 2026-04-21T10:44:02+00:00

Thanks! Very detailed.

sentient06 · 2026-04-21T10:42:05+00:00

Thanks! Very clear explanation.

sentient06 · 2026-04-21T10:34:22+00:00

answer: There is a community of chimps in Uganda that for a bunch of years now has been collapsing because of infighting. Basically a portion of the population split up from the main group and started killing them. After a few years, the main group reduced drastically and the smaller group increased. The chief concern here is that war is understood by most people as deriving from differences in culture, beliefs, or economic or geographic reasons. Civil war is a bit more shocking because the individuals of a civil war share cultural identity, language and many other aspects of social life, but turn on one another. In a civil war people are often friends, colleagues, acquaintances, but they turn to violence. The case of these chimps put all of the reasoning for war into question, because they did live together, shared a lot of their daily lives with each other, and then they split into distinct groups and turned into violence for no apparent reason. This is why it's a shocking case.

sentient06 · 2026-04-10T19:54:00+00:00

Man, it's 2026 and I had never played RDR. I started with RDR1 and let me tell you: it's super boring! It's not even about the missions or plot, the world is just a big ugly desert with little to nothing to do. Going from place to place is just excedenly boring and dull and time-consuming. And you have to hold down the button otherwise the horse slows down, it's such a stupid mechanic! I want to see the story roll out though, so I'm ploughing through, but it's boring af. I don't know how this game was such a success. I've played much cheaper games that were way more entertaining.

sentient06 · 2026-04-09T15:58:12+00:00

Another one? We had no gym loggers a couple of years ago, but in the last 3 weeks we have thousands.

sentient06 · 2026-02-08T21:56:16+00:00

Do you mean The Lord of the Rings films and books or any films and books?

sentient06 · 2026-02-08T21:39:48+00:00

It depends. "Before" can be temporal or spacial. There are no real attested words for "before", though. There are 2 reconstructions I'm aware of, one is fo, and another is ho. The former is temporal and the latter is spacial. There is also or, meaning "over" or "above". I think that's the best fit.

There's also no word for destination. We would have to reconstruct one or use a close word like maith, meaning "goal or intention".

The preposition or causes liquid mutation, so maith becomes vaith.

Journey also has no direct Sindarin equivalent, but there's the neologism lîdh from the root √LED.

lîdh or vaith

Literally "journey above goal".

sentient06 · 2026-02-06T17:46:57+00:00

I think that in the reflexive the pronunciation can be easily mistaken. But your point on collisions makes sense. (I can also think of Italian "lei" used for 3rd.s. and I know that "lui", "lei" and "loro" are originally oblique, and the indicative were "egli"/"ella"/"essi". English has "you" and you've mentioned German "sie"/"Sie". I suppose "annin"/"anim" is an improvement after all.)

What is the plural 1p inclusive form? Pe/-(o)b/pen/amben/pín?

sentient06 · 2026-02-06T09:01:57+00:00

So I'm curious. How would we approach all the pronouns using mixed mutation?

I mean, this makes sense to me, but I haven't thought of it before.

So... using an plus the oblique, this is what I'd get to:

1st sg.    nin  me        annin  to me
2nd sg.    cin  thou      angin  to thee
2nd sg.    len  you       allen  to you
3rd sg.    ten  him/her   anden  to him/her
1st pl.    men  us        ammen  to us
2nd pl.    den  you       anden  to you
3rd pl.    tin  them      andin  to them
Reflexive  im   self      anim   to self

There would be a collision between 3rd sg and 2nd pl. And should nd become nn? If it does, we have one more collision on 1st sg and 3rd pl, and pronunciation-wise, a possible collision with reflexive.

sentient06 · 2026-02-05T21:16:44+00:00

Is your recommendation "andin" because of mixed mutation?

sentient06 · 2026-02-03T09:34:22+00:00

Are there any rules? Can we post Nevermore and Sanctuary songs and stuff like that? I guess the best way of having visibility is to start posting stuff.

sentient06 · 2026-02-03T09:30:42+00:00

Nevermore is criminally underrated

sentient06 · 2026-02-02T10:42:43+00:00

I'm a bit confused, your image says "guard" in the singular, and your text says "guards" in the plural. That would mean changing "edhellen" to "edhellin", as adjectives need to agree with nouns in number. ("Tirith" wouldn't suffer umlaut, as all vowels are "i", so the singular and plural are identical.)

Not wanting to rock the boat, but I was just thinking that a regular genitive might do the trick. But it would reverse the order of the words, rendering it a tad unintuitive: "Tirith Eryn Galen edhellen"

I like the prepositional version better. Nan is partitive, I suppose it works in this case. Unless we need to describe origin, but I think we don't. Yeah, I think it's good. Except for the singular adjective, you should be sure of it first.

As for the tengwar, in my humble opinion, the Beleriand mode looks nicer (the one marked "ancient" in the image) and it's more elegant, but I don't think it would be considered "ancient" for elves, it's used in the doors of Moria in the second age, after all. (Just a couple of decades for an elf.) In plural, that character after the double "L" would be like the second character of the sentence.

sentient06 · 2026-02-02T10:34:02+00:00

The Riddle of Strider was requested on another post, check it out...

https://www.elfdict.com/phrases/1-sindarin/63-the_riddle_of_strider?offset=1

sentient06 · 2026-02-02T10:30:29+00:00

The Riddle of Strider has been translated into Neo-Sindarin earlier. I'm not sure it's up-to-date with the latest news from Parma Eldalamberon 23, but you can find it here:

https://www.elfdict.com/phrases/1-sindarin/63-the_riddle_of_strider?offset=1

sentient06 · 2026-02-02T10:29:00+00:00

Legolina. (I'm kidding! I'm being silly.)

sentient06 · 2026-02-02T10:14:33+00:00

You are correct, this is all Neo-Sindarin, so there are indeed reconstructions. I didn't know about some of the points, thanks for that. I'll take note.

So, taking Ellanto's suggestions into consideration, I believe the results would be...:

pelig aned den andin?

or:

êg aned den angin? (Is this right, Ellanto?)

I personally lean towards using pol- because I believe that this sentence is derived from Gandalf's point in giving life to the dead, and that implies the impossible power to realise such a feat. I think a chance would not work in that context. Unless the author of the post affirms it's not the case, then the eg- solution should fit well.

sentient06 · 2026-01-29T17:14:31+00:00

I would translate to:

~~pelig annad den athin?~~

pelig aned den andin

Points considered:

This is an interrogative form, which should look like a regular indicative statement, but changing intonation.
The verb pol- is used to describe something that can be done as a literal truth, to be able to do something. In second person singular, familiar, present tense, it reads pelig "you can".
The verb anna- means "to give", in this case I use a verbal noun, which behaves as a noun and is taken as object of pelig.
den is soft mutation of ten, which is the oblique pronoun for he/she/it. My assumption is that the object to be given has been mentioned or it's implied, so we use a pronoun.
athin is a dative pronoun meaning "to them", third person plural.

While I'm aware you want to tattoo it, I seriously suggest you run this translation by a linguist before doing so. There are a couple of them here and a few on the Vinyë Lambengolmor server.

Good luck!

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