As you may see under this post itself I have replaced the old comment plugin with an external comment system Commentics which provides more features (direct reply, email notification etc.) Please notify me if something's not working as it should. more...
This is another rescued translation of mine from the previous Aglardh installation. I came across Allama Iqbal's poem Two Planets the other day and thought I might give it a try. I rearranged the rhyme structure a little bit in the first half out of necessity. The original was written in Urdu, w... more...
Christmas is long gone (or maybe not that long, we just dismantled our tree a week ago!), but I have rescued this translation of mine from old Aglardh. Tár Wenseslas ehtenne Estefanwa résse Ette losse keante Kéva, lára, ninque Nixe náne naikea Mal Rána síle silma Íre penno ne... more...
In IRL European languages we see two ways of expressing things like "it is cold", "it was windy." etc. (what is the proper name for these expressions in grammarian talk?). In English, German etc. one uses a dummy subject: it is cold; es is kalt; in others, like Polish or Hungarian, no subject is u... more...
It has been several years since I released Atanquesta, and I feel it's very much due an update. I can't put an exact timeline on it, because of life, work etc., but I certainly aim to publish it in 2023. I plan the update to consist of revised/extended Quenya texts rework the grammar secti... more...
Although the new Aglardh is starting to shape up nicely, there are still works ongoing in the background; you may still see placeholder texts appear here or there where features are waiting to be added, I am working on adding a forum section, and improve the commenting feature, but core functionalit... more...
Sindarin Stress — A Muta cum Liquida Rule? In Appendix E Tolkien described Sindarin (and Quenya) stress as follows: 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 di... more...
With the hacking of the previous incarnation of Aglardh sadly its database has been largely lost. Nevertheless, I will try to recover whatever I can and repost at least some of the articles and translations that had been posted over the years. If you had an article/post published that you would li... more...