Elthir
Hithlum
Feb 14 2019, 8:39pm
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By the way, Hannon le is popular Neo-Sindarin, and not necessarily a phrase Tolkien would have used (as noted above). Especially if you agree with (it's not the full argument here, incidentally, but ends with) . . .
It was John Garth who first noted that the Quenya word han *¡®beyond,¡¯ and its apparent source, the CE root ¡Ìhan- ¡®add to, increase, enhance, honour (espec. by gift),¡¯ published in connection with Tolkien¡¯s Quenya translations of the Lord¡¯s Prayer, likely provided the actual source of Q. *hanta- ¡®thank,¡¯ in the sense ¡®to increase, magnify, honor, glorify¡¯
And so the ¡°Neo-Sindarin¡± reconstruction *hanna- ¡®thank¡¯ and its signature phrase hannon le ¡®I thank you¡¯ disappear in a puff of phonology."
Carl Hostetter, Elvish as She is Spoke
I'm not saying Neo-elvish is bad, just that I like to draw the distinction between it and Tolkien's actual creations.
As I said, pedantic 
Hmm, that copy and paste didn't work as well as I had hoped!
(This post was edited by Elthir on Feb 14 2019, 8:45pm)
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