Eating Glass in Elvish

[Ceallaigh]

Well hello, I'm very new to this forum, in fact, I just discovered it about fifteen minutes ago, but then registered right away. A few years ago I found the strangest website, called the "I Can Eat Glass Project" website. It has the phrase "I can eat glass, it does not hurt me" in probably three hundred languages. Included in that list are not only real language, but created languages, such as Klingon, Esperanto, and Sindarin (Elvish) (in fact, there is only one language among the hundredts that I haven't been able to find on the website, and that was Navajo). At the time, when I found that, I had heard of Tolkien and all that, but hadn't read any and didn't realise that he had invented an entire language, but I remembered the website and came back to it just again this year and found it still up and running (it was probably four years ago that I found it).

Well I just thought that I would inform everybody on how to say "I can eat glass, it does not hurt me" in Elvish. So here we go, cut and paste from the website:
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Sindarin (Elvish)
Spoken in: the works of J.R.R. Tolkien
In Sindarin: "Bathathon heled, im ú-cirath."
Pronounced: BA-tha-thon HEH-led, eem oo-KEER-ath
Literally: "I will consume glass, it will not hurt me."
Note: The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-Earth by Ruth S. Noel suggests that the future tense can be used to imply ability. "Bath-" is a back-formed verb stem meaning "to consume," derived from Quenya (a related Elvish language) vasa according to patterns established by other words.
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I hope that that has enriched everybody's day. It sure did mine. Now you can simply announce to all your friends after chomping off the end of a coca-cola bottle "Bathathon heled, im ú-cirath." And they will be not only impressed by your ability to eat glass without being injured, but they will also be impressed by your ability to inform them that in Elvish.

In case anybody's wondering, the I Can Eat Glass Project webpage address is: http://hcs.harvard.edu/~igp/glass.html

:-D

[Ms. Took]

let me be the first to say Mae Govannan and welcome to the barrow downs.

[MYyyPreciousSS]

Thats funny. I've always wanted to know how to say "I can eat glass, it does not hurt me" in elvish.. smilies/wink.gif
BTW: Welcome to the Downs!

[Kettle of fish]

I wonder how you say

"Things sound more impressive when said in Elvish"

[Raefindel]

Mae Govannen, Ceallaigh. That was really funny. Welcome to the Downs.

[The Silver-shod Muse]

Rest In Peace, Ceallaigh. And what and interesting contribution to the Downs! I love your sig, by the way, and it might be amusing to put "Bathathon heled, im ú-cirath" in there too.

[Davin]

ROFLMAO! What a funny site! Sounds like something me and my friends would do.

[Raefindel]

What does this ROFLMAO! Mean?

I can guess part- roll on floor...

[Altariel]

Raefindel: It means "Rolling on the floor, laughing my a** off." smilies/biggrin.gif

Ceallaigh: LOL, I must remember that, thank you. smilies/smile.gif And welcome to the Downs.

[The Silver-shod Muse]

It means "Rolling on the floor, laughing my a** off"

Ahhhh... and here I've been thinking, "Roffle-mow? What the heck is that?" smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Arwen Imladris]

Who would want to eat glass any way? well actually glass is a liquid so you could drink it, but it would take a while... smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Ceallaigh]

Well I think that the ability to eat glass would be rather impressive. Or maybe with guys it would be just a proof of "manliness" or something like that. Hehe. I know a guy who used to be in the Marine Corps, and he had a friend who could eat glass. He must've been nuts or something, except I don't think they let nuts become Marines. You know, it's kinda like the whole being able to swallow a sword or eat fire or something like that. Good for freak shows. But until you have that ability, you can just tell people that you do in other languages and instead impress them with your ability to tell them that you can in hundreds of different languages. Hehehe. :-)