24-02-2000, 10:52
Pour compléter mon message précédent, voici la revue de l'ouvrage de David Salo sur le site web du fanzine "Other Hands" (plus généralement dédié aux jeux de roles en Terre du Milieu, pour ceux que cela peut intéresser), <I>http://otherhands.com</I>. Il y a aussi des indications sur la manière de commander le bouquin, mais je n'ai pas encore tout lu.<p>Didier.<p>-----------<p>SILVAN DICTIONARY PUBLISHED!<br>Our new January issue features an extensive grammar and 1000+ word dictionary of Silvan Elvish, the language spoken by the Elves of Mirkwood and Lórien. Its author, noted Tolkienian linguist David Salo, describes it as follows:<p>"The Silvan language described in the following text is a new invention, not to be found in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. It is, however, clearly based upon Tolkien's invented languages, drawing especially upon Tolkien's Ilkorin and Doriathrin languages (which were superseded by Sindarin), upon the few words and names which are said to be in the languages of Ossiriand, Lórien, or Mirkwood, and to a small extent on Tolkien's early "Gnomish" language. It is also intended to fit precisely into Tolkien's overall family tree of Elvish languages. Almost all of its words can be derived from Common Eldarin roots through consistently applied sound changes, and most of the words have cognates in either Quenya or Sindarin. Its grammar is also intended to be derivable from what is known or guessed about the grammar of early Eldarin; in this sense, it is a genuinely Elvish language. However, the precise forms and usages of that grammar are entirely invented; the details of Silvan phonology, and the relationships of the various Silvan dialects, are invented, however plausibly; the great majority of the Silvan words cannot be found in any work of Tolkien's. Since Tolkien did not discuss Silvan in any depth in his published works, this has given the inventor considerable freedom to describe Silvan somewhat more completely than either Quenya or Sindarin have yet been. He hopes that it will be used and enjoyed: as a language in itself, as a tool that will help in imagining the lives of the Silvan Elves, and as a window into the complex but fascinating structures of Tolkien's Elvish languages."