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Lesson 38: Gondorian & Mirkwood Sindarin

Introduction Sindarin is not a monolithic language. By the Third Age, it had spread across many cultures — Elves of different origins, Men who adopted it as a prestige tongue, and communities separated by vast distances and thousands of years of history. In this environment, dialects naturally developed. Two dialects are of particular interest to students of Tolkien's world: Gondorian Sindarin — as spoken by Men of Gondor, shaped by...

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Lesson 39: Doriathrin Sindarin

Introduction If Gondorian Sindarin (Lesson 38) is the Sindarin of Men — learned, preserved, influenced by a different culture — then Doriathrin is the Sindarin of the First Age Elves at the height of their civilization: the language of Thingol's court in Menegroth, of Lúthien dancing in the moonlit forest of Neldoreth, of Daeron inventing the Cirth runes, of the most ancient and noble Elvish culture Middle-earth ever knew. Doriathrin...