quenya_grammar1-4 Exercise 3: The Faithful's Fidelity ====================================================== Elendil voronda "Elendil the faithful": nominative; voronda has no case ending Elendil vorondo voronwe "Elendil the faithful's fidelity": the genitive ending -o is on the adjective (vorondo), not on the noun Elendil, so it marks the owner Three ways of showing possession: 1. the genitive (-o), e.g. Sinda Eldo "a Grey Elf's" 2. the adjectival case (-va), e.g. ciryava, which is also used for possession 3. possessive endings on the noun (-(i)nya "my", -(e)mma "our", -nta "their"), e.g. atarinya "my father"