Your Sindarin Textbook
Chapter Seven: Verbs
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I appear to be Lúthien, but I am not. I will not die as I was born. My love is immortal; my lover is mortal. I did not want this fate, yet I have it. I am Arwen. Thion be Lúthien dan uin. Ú-'wannathon sui odulen. Meleth nîn alfirin dan i velethron nîn fíreb. Ú-anírannen i amarth hen dan han gerin. Im Arwen. The difficulty and the fun in studying Tolkien's languages is that every once and a while something gets published that completely overturns everything you thought you knew about it. In most recent memory, that would be Parma Eldalamber #17. This webmiss can't afford to buy it yet, but what she has gleaned from other's articles, it's rewritten much about what we thought we knew about verbs and their conjugation, especially when dealing with the past tense. The information previously in this chapter apparently only applies to Noldorin now. Why are we having this trouble? It appears that Tolkien changed his mind a few times on how verbs should be conjugated, and we aren't entirely certain which systems he kept and which systems he discarded. Even so, there are two scholars whose work analyzing these systems stand above the rest… and even they disagree. As a young Tolkien scholar this can be quite confusing. So, do your own research and come up with your own conclusions. Meanwhile, I'll teach you Thorsten's conjugation system, which at the moment, is the most up-to-date with PE17's information. Who knows… in a year I might be re-writing this lesson again to match someone else's theories. Hopefully, by then, I'll have PE17 and I could do my own analysis, but for now, this'll have to do. These are the leading articles on the Sindarin verb system:
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