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Old 09-27-2002, 01:20 AM   #17
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Well, there is this very obscure and hard to get source called Appendix E to The Lord of the Rings... let's see what that has to say!

"STRESS
The position of the 'accent' or stress is not marked, since in the Eldarin languages concerned its place is determined by the form of the word. In words of two syllables it falls in practically all cases on the first syllable. In longer words it falls on the last syllable but one, where that contains a long vowel, a diphthong, or a vowel followed by two (or more) consonants. Where the last syllable but one contains (as often) a short vowel followed by only one (or no) consonant, the stress falls on the syllable before it, the third from the end. Words of the last form are favoured in the Eldarin languages, especially Quenya.
In the following examples the stressed vowel is marked by a capital letter: isIldur, Orome, erEssėa, fĖanor, ancAlima, elentĮri; dEnethor, periAnnath, ecthElion, pelArgir, silIvren. Words of the type elentĮri 'star-queen' seldom occur in Quenya where the vowel is é, į, ó, unless (as in this case) they are compounds; they are commoner with the vowels ķ, ś, as andŚne 'sunset, west'. They do not occur in Sindarin except in compounds. Note that Sindarin dh, th, ch are single consonants and represent single letters in the original scripts."
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