Is there a Sindarin word?
No Sindarin word for Sindarin is known, but usually the terms Edhellen ("Elvish") and the neologism Thindren ("Grey Elvish"), a direct cognate of Sindarin, are used in Neo-Sindarin . Sindarin is the language referred to as "the Elven-tongue " in The Lord of the Rings . In a letter, Tolkien referred to Sindarin as Grey Elvish.
What is an active participle in Sindarin?
It is an adjective derived from a verb, describing the condition one is in when carrying out the action denoted by the verb. In Sindarin, the active participle of basic verbs takes the ending -el (however if the stem vowel is i this ending is expanded to - iel) and of derived verbs is formed by means of the ending -ol. II.
Is there a gender difference in Sindarin pronouns?
There is also no gender distinction in the Sindarin pronouns. Number indicates whether one is refer r ing to a single person, animal or object (the singular form) or to more than one person, animal or object (the plural form). The Archaic Sindarin noun had three numbers: singular, plural and dual.
How did Tolkien influence Sindarin?
Tolkien based the phonology and some of the grammar of Sindarin on Literary Welsh, and Sindarin displays some of the consonant mutations that characterize the Celtic languages. The language was also influenced to a lesser degree by Old English and Old Norse.
A Gateway to Sindarin: a grammar of an Elvish language from JRR