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Summary: Wildly Inacurate
Review: Again, this book is very inacurate. For a primer, it is much too disordered, and much too small for a definative book. Jim Allen's Introduction to Elvish is a good place to start, if you can find it. Try Nancy Martsch's Basic Quenya. As for Noels book, the chapters on runes and vocab. are decent, but no more than you get in LoTR and the Simarillion.
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Summary: Do not buy, do not buy, and did I mention do not buy?
Review: Do not buy this book. While the effort was commendable, it has serious mistakes and omissions and cannot be relied upon. Far better to visit websites such as Ardalambion, where information is updated as new bits and pieces of Tolkien's languages are unearthed.
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Summary: It's great 'cause you can learn languages nobody knows.
Review: I am learning to speak elvish and so is my friend. I plan to go around talking in that language as much as I can. It's a great book!
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Summary: A Good Tolkien Dictionary
Review: I bought this book before checking it out much. Now that I've got it I've been looking on the internet, and have heard, to my dismay, that this book is incorrect and out-of-date. Therefore, I no longer use it for a guide on Elvish, which was what I was (and still am) looking for. Instead, I use the dictionary to increase my somewhat small vocabulary of words, in Elvish and Tolkien's other languages. The conlusion: I would recommend buying this book with another book, like An Introduction to Elvish (that's not the full name, just type in "An Introduction to Elvish" in the Amazon.com search field and you'll get it)...
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Summary: Not too comprehensive, yet Accessable
Review: I discovered this book back in 1980, when it first came out. At the time it was without a doubt the best source I had ever seen. Unfortunately the tiny book was poorly constructed and eventually deteriorated from over-use. I am thrilled to see it still available here, as most conventional locations return querries with blank stares. The Histories books by Christopher Tolkien may be more comprehensive, but the information is handy in Noel's text. Unless I encounter a high elf, the translations are adequate for most needs and more convenient than lugging around a ten volume hard bound set. Last I would note that Ms. Noel gave us a lexicon for fantasy long before the current craze (i.e. Klingon language resources) and thus was way ahead of her time. An old favorite...
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Summary: For the Elvish Fan, it's Great
Review: I don't think this book is that out-dated and personally, how can a language only designed for a book be "outdated"?! It can't be!! I think this is accurate, and personally, unless you want a full account (which doesn't exist) of Elvish, you'll be pleased. I was and I think we should give credit to the author because it gives an analytical point of view. I personally think that you can't trust Online Sources to give you any kind of accurate information unless it's authorized by Tolkien himself. I even say that for his book, it's not 100% true unless Tolkien writes a book with Elvish rules himself. So for the overall review it's good, it's really well written, and again, there's no "perfect" Elvish guide out there because nothing's ever 100% true.
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Summary: An interesting look at an important part of Tolkien's work.
Review: I have recently read this book. I found that it was very helpful for decoding some of the elvish passages in the Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion. I use it as a reference more than anything else.
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Summary: ~For the Interested Lord of the Rings Fan, it's perfect~
Review: I know, you'll hear it's inaccurate, not up to date, and not "true" to Tolkien's works. I'm sure there are some mistakes in this book, but overall I think it's excellent.
If you care enough that a few Elvish words are wrong, don't buy it, but if you want to learn to speak and write Elvish, if you like challanges, of you love Tolkien, and you want to have fun, by all means; buy this book. By the time I got home from the bookstore, I had conjugated 4 verbs into past, present, future, subjunctive, and imperitive, and was making a vocabulary list to study. I had a wonderful time, and hope that all the buyers of this book will enjoy it to it's fullest!
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Summary: ~For the Interested Lord of the Rings Fan, it's perfect~
Review: I know, you'll hear it's inaccurate, not up to date, and not "true" to Tolkien's works. I'm sure there are some mistakes in this book, but overall I think it's excellent.
If you care enough that a few Elvish words are wrong, don't buy it, but if you want to learn to speak and write Elvish, if you like challanges, of you love Tolkien, and you want to have fun, by all means; buy this book. By the time I got home from the bookstore, I had conjugated 4 verbs into past, present, future, subjunctive, and imperitive, and was making a vocabulary list to study. I had a wonderful time, and hope that all the buyers of this book will enjoy it to it's fullest!
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Summary: Lord Of The Rings Rocks
Review: I think that this book has helped me understand the languages of Middle-Earth it helped me with the elvish the most but I think that it helped me with all the languages of Middle-Earth.
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