Introduction

Syllabus

Part I

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Part II

Chapter One

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Questions in Sindarin are pretty easy when you know that they don't play the messy verb game that we do in English. They have Interrogative Adverbs! This lesson will focus on these adverbs and how to use them.

The Interrogative Adverbs

• For asking "Who? What? or Which?" we have man.
• For asking "When?" we have mar).
• For asking "Where?" we have mas).
• For asking "How?" we have mannen).
• For asking "Why?" we have
  • am man theled ("For what purpose?")
  • amman (a contraction of the above, "For what")
  • man i theled ("What is the purpose?")

Of these, only man is attested. The rest are reconstructed.

Syntax with Interrogative Adverbs

The interrogative adverb goes at the beginning of the sentence, just like it does in English. The syntax of the rest of the sentence is not changed.

Answering the Question

This is fairly simple. When answering the question, include part of the question in the answer, except in "Why" and "how" questions, because there is no word for "because" or "by". The key to this is to always answer with complete sentences.

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