24 Facts About Quenya

Quenya successively changed the language's name from Elfin and Qenya to the eventual Quenya.

Quenya felt that his languages changed and developed over time, as with the historical languages which he studied professionally—not in a vacuum, but as a result of the migrations and interactions of the peoples who spoke them.

Quenya language featured prominently in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, as well as in his posthumously published history of Middle-earth The Silmarillion.

Quenya was then already familiar with Latin, Greek, Spanish, and several ancient Germanic languages, such as Gothic, Old Norse, and Old English.

Quenya had invented several cryptographic codes, and two or three constructed languages.

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Ingredients in Quenya are various, but worked out into a self-consistent character not precisely like any language that I know.

Tolkien considered Quenya to be "the one language which has been designed to give play to my own most normal phonetic taste".

Quenya usually started with the phonological system of the proto-language and then proceeded by inventing for each daughter language the necessary sequence of sound changes.

Quenya had many grammars with substantial differences between the different stages of its development.

The phonology of Quenya was inspired by certain aspects of Finnish, but this is not easily recognised.

Some linguists have argued that Quenya can be understood as an example of a particular kind of artificial language that helps to create a fictional world.

Attempts by fans to write in Quenya began in the 1970s, when the total corpus of published Elvish comprised only a few hundred words.

The Quenya as used by the Vanyar incorporated several words from Valarin that were not found in the Noldorin dialect, such as tulka, ulban, and nasar .

The documentation about late Quenya phonology is contained in the Appendix E of the Lord of the Rings and the "Outline of Phonology", one of Tolkien's texts, published in Parma Eldalamberon No 19.

Tolkien devised phonotactical rules for late Quenya, governing the way in which the sounds could be combined to form words:.

In early Quenya, adjectives agree with the noun they modify in case and number, but not in later Quenya, where this agreement disappears.

In Quenya, there are many similarities in form between prepositions and adverbs since the grammatical case already determines the relation of verb and object.

In late Quenya, pronouns have both separate or independent forms, and suffix forms.

Quenya allows for a flexible word order because it is an inflectional language like Latin.

Quenya decided that, prior to their Exile, the Noldorin Elves first used the sarati of Rumil to record Ancient Quenya.

In Middle-earth, Quenya appears to have been rarely written using the "Elvish runes" or cirth, named certar in Quenya.

Tolkien's spelling in Latin script of Quenya was largely phonemic, with each letter corresponding to a specific phoneme in the language.

Tolkien's standard orthography for Quenya uses all the letters of the Latin script except j, k, and z, together with the acute and diaeresis marks on vowels; the letters n, þ and z only appear in early Quenya.

Poem "" is the longest piece of Quenya found in The Lord of the Rings, yet the first sentence in Quenya is uttered by a Hobbit; namely Frodo's greeting to the Elves:.