Lesson 6: Plurals Part 1
What Is I-Affection? The Sindarin plural system is one of the most linguistically fascinating features of Tolkien's construction — and one of the most practically important things to master, because plurals are used constantly. Rather than adding a suffix (as English does with -s ), Sindarin forms plurals by changing the vowels inside the word . This internal vowel-change process is called i-affection or i-umlaut . Here is the historical...