Lesson 41: Elision
Introduction This is the final lesson of the core Sindarin course. We close with a topic that touches everything we have learned: elision — the dropping or contraction of vowels when words flow together in speech and poetry. Elision is the "connective tissue" of spoken Sindarin; it is what makes the language sound fluid and musical rather than halting. We also revisit three punctuation marks Tolkien uses in his Sindarin...