23 Facts About Sindarin

Sindarin is one of the fictional languages devised by JR R Tolkien for use in his fantasy stories set in Arda, primarily in Middle-earth.

Sindarin is the language usually referred to as the Elf-Tongue or Elven-Tongue in The Lord of the Rings.

Sindarin is said to be more changeful than Quenya, and there were during the First Age a number of regional dialects.

Sindarin was first written using the Cirth, an Elvish runic alphabet.

Sindarin wrote a substantial dictionary of Gnomish and a grammar.

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Sindarin abandoned the words Goldogrin and lam Goldrin in favour of Noldorin.

Sindarin used much of Noldorin and blended it with "Ilkorin Doriathrin" and added in some new features.

Sindarin made an effort to give to his Elvish languages the feel and taste of natural languages.

Sindarin wanted to infuse in them a kind of life, while fitting them to a very personal aesthetic taste.

Sindarin wanted to build languages primarily to satisfy his personal urge and not because he had some universal design in mind.

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

Sindarin is loosely applied to the related languages of the Elves of the same origin as the Grey Elves of Beleriand, who lived in Eriador and further East.

Sindarin developed from Old Sindarin, itself from Common Telerin under the "shadow" of Middle-earth and not in the holy light of the Two Trees of Valinor.

Divergence of Sindarin begun first into a Northern or group and a Southern group.

Sindarin was thus akin to Elwe, Olwe's elder brother, acknowledged as high-king of all the Teleri in Beleriand, even after he withdrew to the guarded realm of Doriath.

North Sindarin was spoken by the, the northernmost group of the Grey-elves.

Later Noldorin Sindarin changed, much owing to the adoption of Quenya features, and partially because of to the love of the Noldor for making linguistic changes.

In Gondor at the end of the Third Age, Sindarin was still spoken daily by a few noble Men in the city Minas Tirith.

In Old Sindarin, there was a vowel similar to German o, which Tolkien mostly transcribed as œ.

Unlike the largely agglutinative Quenya, Sindarin is mainly a fusional language with some analytic tendencies.

Early Sindarin formed plurals by the addition of -i, which vanished but affected the preceding vowels : S, pl.

Sindarin has a series of consonant mutations, varying between dialects as follows.

David Salo's A Gateway to Sindarin proposes a more complex set of mutations, based on extrapolation from the Sindarin corpus, as follows :.