tolkienlanguages1-1 Exercise 2: Quenya and Sindarin ==================================================== Quenya Sindarin Story role high-elven; lore, song everyday grey-elven speech Inspiration Finnish (also Latin, Greek) Welsh Feel smooth, vowels, endings clipped, consonant mutations Example phrase Elen síla lúmenn' omentielvo Mae govannen Long words with many endings: Quenya. (Finnish, its model, is also a language with endings on its words.)