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Old 12-29-2005, 10:52 PM   #3
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The names Herunumen and Adunakhor do mean "Lord of the West", but no elements of those names are actually put into the genitive case. They're nominative (at least for Herunumen), but are easily understood as ___ of the ___.
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Originally Posted by Legolas
mí Adúnë caita ilyë gaya
Tsk tsk tsk . . . mixing Sindarin and Quenya, are we? D or G cannot stand alone in Quenya. D can appear in ld, nd, or rd, and G only in ng. Try Númessë caitar ilyë nortor. Númen can be used as a name without the article the. You should also know that this translates to In the West lie all horrors; norto is glossed as only a horror, so I just used a plural. I could find to dread in Quenya, but not a noun form. That's the best I can do.

There's a lot of info on Tolkien's languages at Ardalambion.

Last edited by Alcarillo; 12-29-2005 at 10:59 PM. Reason: Lie or lay . . . hmmmm . . .
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