That's the really hard part, isn't it? :D

If I recall correctly, the HTML code for that particular letter is ð . Though in Old English it had a name I can't recall at the moment, it's considered the lowercase Icelandic eth in HTML code (in hex code, it would be &#xF0. Maybe).

Ibrîniðilpathânezel

ib-ren-idh-il-path-ah-nez-il

I think. It Looks easy!







Not...Anyways happy birthday

It think it is the old English charachter "eth". Like ash, thorn, yogh, wynn and ethel they have usually disappeared from English. the only one that you might see is Thorn in what looks like Ye olde englishe tea shoppe and the like.... others are latent like the name Menzies being pronounced Mingies - z represents yogh not Z...

Happy Birthday Ibri!




See, I got round all of the hard-to-pronounce-name discussion there. :p

Actually, speaking of which, I remember on one of the Barrow-Downs Skype calls we each tried to pronounce various things that were hard to say, and your name was one of them. :D

Yes, it is lucky (for us), Tolkien was consistent in his use of thorns and eths, because in Old English they were used interchangeably (though usually a thorn would begin a word, e.g. "þæt" while an eth would be used in the middle of words, e.g. "æðel"). Here we always know that an 'ð' will signify the 'th' in 'that', while 'þ' is the 'th' sound in 'thank'.

However, now just looking at that and reading the Ardalambion page on Valarin, I've realised that all this time I've probably been pronouncing it wrong, and it should probably in fact be pronouced: "pat-hân" instead of "pathan" (or "paþan") as I have been saying it until now.

Well, I suppose you should ignore the second line of my post then... :rolleyes:

It seems I have missed Ibri's birthday.

Well, a happy belated birthday to you! I hope it was grand!

Happy birthday, Legate! Eat lots of cake. :D

Oops! I missed Ibrin's birthday! Happy Belated Birthday, and Happy Not-So Belated Birthday to Legate! :D

Happy birthday to Legate and Ibri!(belated ones but alas no net line in cottage :p)

Happy Birthday, Legate!

Happy Birthday Legate!!!

Happy birthday Saucie, Cailín, Lottie, Mith, Brinn, Pitchbadillo, Lauri, the Barrow-Wight, Gwath, Glirdan, Dury, wilwa, Ibrîniðilpathânezel (whose name I just typed myself :p), Old Man Legate, and everybody else I missed!

Happy Birthday Legate! Hope your day was a great one!

Exactly!

Five weeks on a trip makes one easily forget to check out things like this... :(

Hey Legate! Feeling old?

And Ibrin, you'll probably not count years anymore - like I don't - why think of those things anyway? Unless it is a cause for having a party... :)

When was Ibrin's birthday and how did I miss it? Hope you had a lovely celebration and burnt some candles at both ends--it doesn't matter how many! :D

And I missed my fellow compatriots, Wilwa and Glirdy! I have to do a better job keeping track of this thread. I hope you had a great celebration together guys. Come south and I'll make up for the belated greetings.

And Legate ages today. I hope you've had a good party and blew out all your candles. It helps to keep the lungs in good working order. (I should know. :rolleyes:) ;)

Lommy is back and hasn't congratulated several people...
 

So belated congrats to

Saucie, Cailín, Lottie, Pitch, Eorl, BW, Tevildo, Dury, Ibrin and everybody else whose birthday I missed!

And why is everybody making jokes about Legate being old? :eek: When I was small, I always thought 24 was the coolest age of all, all the cool characters I made up (for RPGs or playing) were always 24... ;)


PS. Just checked the bottom of the front page - HAPPY BIRTHDAY THE MIGHT! :)

Happy day and good birthday and all of that fun stuff to The Might, because it's his birthday!

Happy Birthday Miggy!

Belated best wishes Legate, and happy birthday TM!

Happy Birthday to Miggy!

Thank you all for your kind wishes and also belated wishes to you, Legate!

Haven't checked the BDs in some time now and so totally missed it. :(

Happy Birthday Lush!

Happy Birthday, O Great Lush! :D

Happy belated Birthday to 2 giants of the past (and present in one case), Lush and Finwe!

Thanks very much to everybody for the wishes, even though I was not here to receive it in time, it definitely made me happy now! :)

And belated happy birthday to dear Miggy and Ibri and, well, all others whose birthday I have missed, being long and far away from civilisation...

A very Happy Birthday to skip spence!

Seconded! Happy Birthday, skip!

Happy Birthday, O Skipish One!

Happy birthday, skip!

A very happy birthday, skip!

Thank you for the kind birthday wishes! :)

Belated congrats to Skip and Lush. :)

A very Happy Birthday to Rune!

Happy birthday, birthday buddy!

Happy birthday to Rune!

Happy beefy birthday, Rune!

Til hamingju með afmælið, Danski vinur...

Happy Birthday Rune and Fea!

Happy Birthday Rune and Fea! *<:-)

A Happy Birthday to Valier and also goldwine!

Happy birthday to goldwine and Valier, belated happy birthday to Legate, skip, Rune, Lush and Fea! (Maybe it would have been quicker to say, "everyone since Ibrin?)