Beginning Quenya
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LecturesPatrick Lyon
Beginning Quenya aims to take students with any level (or no level) of previous language experience and introduce them to the quest to learn Quenya, Tolkien's most developed invented language.

The first set of lectures of Beginning Quenya, Lectures 1-4, introduces students to the pronunciation and basic inflections of the language, with a dose of vocabulary and basic sentence translation as well as an introduction to the Tengwar system.

The second set of lectures of Beginning Quenya, Lectures 5–8, guides students through the core of Quenya grammar, including the declension system, past tense formation, and the full range of verb conjugations, both regular and irregular, deepening their ability to read and construct increasingly complex sentences in the language.

The third and final set of lectures, Lectures 9-12, will bring students to a more complete understanding of the language with the aim of eventually diving into "primary source" Quenya and Tolkien's numerous Quenya poems, and even into student compositions in Quenya itself!

Course Instructor: Patrick Lyon
  • Lecture 1: Quenya - History, Problems, and Pronunciation
    01:00:32
    01:00:32
  • Lecture 2: Classes of Nouns and Verbs; Plurals and the Present Tense
    54:27
    54:27
  • Lecture 3: Pronouns, the Aorist, and the Future; Wishes and Commands
    51:39
    51:39
  • Lecture 4: The Tengwar
    01:09:27
    01:09:27
  • Lecture 5: The Declension System
    01:18:07
    01:18:07
  • Lecture 6: The Past Tense, Prosodic Lengthening
    42:55
    42:55
  • Lecture 7: Complete Verb Forms, Object Endings
    01:02:41
    01:02:41
  • Lecture 8: Irregular Verbs, Modals, Particles, Subjunctives
    50:35
    50:35
  • Lecture 9: Pronouns — Possessive, Reflexive, Relative, Interrogative, Demonstrative
    38:42
    38:42
  • Lecture 10: Forming Words, Comparatives and Superlatives, Numerals, Time and Calendars
    01:06:43
    01:06:43
  • Lecture 11: Articles, Conjunctions, Yes and No, Directions, Elision, and the Last Declinable Word Rule
    01:06:41
    01:06:41
  • Lecture 12: Namarie and other Case Studies
    01:02:08
    01:02:08