Quenya

Proper noun

Meaning

Quenya

A constructed language created by J. R. R. Tolkien modelled on Greek, Latin and Finnish.

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Although the Elvish languages Sindarin and Quenya are the most famous and the most developed of the languages that Tolkien invented for his Secondary World, they are by no means the only ones. Source: Internet

After the publication of The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955), the grammar rules of his major Elvish languages Quenya, Telerin and Sindarin went through very few changes (this is late Elvish 1954–1973). Source: Internet

For the transliteration of this alphabet, meant to be used for more than one language (for Quenya and Sindarin, at least) and needing a bigger set of sounds, Tolkien thought up to a kind of general Middle-earth languages phonetic transcription, here used. Source: Internet

Each point of articulation, and the corresponding tengwa series, has a name in the classical Quenya mode. Source: Internet

Elven philologists are referred to by the Quenya term Lambengolmor. Source: Internet

From a letter to W. R. Matthews, dated 13–15 June 1964, published in Parma Eldalamberon 17, p. 135. Tolkien with his Quenya pursued a double aesthetic goal: "classical and inflected". Source: Internet

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