Learning Quenya - Discussion Thread

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Originally Posted by She who was Spawned

Again, I think that the first version is more poetic and I think I even know why. In old Finnish poems and song lyrics the word order is similar to "I parma carnë" - noun comes before an adjective.

Technically, this can be done in English too. To quote the Lay of Leithian:

‘twas sewn with golden lilies fair

And other such instances.

I think I'll simply use whichever seems more aesthetically pleasing at the time. That's what Quenya is all about, after all.

Originally Posted by The Lhunatic

I suppose putting the adjective after the noun tends to emphasize the adjective rather than the noun?

I'd disagree with that actually. I think it was just a feature of the language, rather than having any effect on emphasis; the red book and the book red being interchangable. Looking at the examples given in the exercise, I don't think there's any reason to think that having the adjective after the noun emphasises it, though it may look liek that to native English speakers.

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