Beginning Quenya
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
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 Pronunciation01:00:3201:00:32
- Lecture 2: Classes of Nouns and Verbs; Plurals and the Present Tense54:2754:27
- Lecture 3: Pronouns, the Aorist, and the Future; Wishes and Commands51:3951:39
- Lecture 4: The Tengwar01:09:2701:09:27
- Lecture 5: The Declension System01:18:0701:18:07
- Lecture 6: The Past Tense, Prosodic Lengthening42:5542:55
- Lecture 7: Complete Verb Forms, Object Endings01:02:4101:02:41
- Lecture 8: Irregular Verbs, Modals, Particles, Subjunctives50:3550:35
- Lecture 9: Pronouns — Possessive, Reflexive, Relative, Interrogative, Demonstrative38:4238:42
- Lecture 10: Forming Words, Comparatives and Superlatives, Numerals, Time and Calendars01:06:4301:06:43
- Lecture 11: Articles, Conjunctions, Yes and No, Directions, Elision, and the Last Declinable Word Rule01:06:4101:06:41
- Lecture 12: Namarie and other Case Studies01:02:0801:02:08