Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26005323-20190216111940

As the title may suggest, this suggestion thread will be talking about the uses of Elvish in the LotR mod. Of course, I endorse any constructive feedback, and I am not an expert on this stuff.

As you may know, the Third Age has Sindarin become the Lingua Franca of the elvish-speaking world, with Quenya fading into a language of lore. So I'm mainly talking about Sindarin here.

Sindarin has something called mutations. These apply to various different concepts, but one thing I'd like to address is the lack of mutation in some of your Sindarin names for items (or anything else).

One such example would be Edhelmir. As the page suggests, the word consists of two compounds: "edhel " and "mîr ". Since mutation is where the ends and beginnings of words interact, the second compound "mîr " undergoes soft mutation or lenition. So the word should be "edhelvir" or "edhelvír".

Another example would be Durnaur. This word consists of the two compounds "dûr " and "naur". Since the diphthongs "au" reduces into "o" in compounds, and the alveolar nasal (i.e. "n") doesn't undergo lenition, the word should be "Durnor"

There are a lot of reliable Eldarin resources on the internet, but ones I recommend are r/Quenya, r/sindarin , and the Discord server Vinye Lambengolmor (Needs moderator to confirm that you are not a bot to enter, so please be patient). I hope this suggestion gets implemented into the mod (which involves some elvish names, of which I present you this !), and I wish you a good day!

Ióviennil Eruan 