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Altaira
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Jan 2 2008, 6:25pm
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Denver area Tolkien Toast
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From the Home Page:
The Misty Mountains Smial Tolkien Society group is gathering Thursday evening, January 3rd, for our annual Tolkien Toast. We'll be meeting at The Celtic Tavern, 1801 Blake St. in downtown Dever at 6:30 p.m. As always, we'll be reading our favorite Tolkien passages and drawing for prizes. We also sing "Happy Birthday" in elvish, and toast "The Professor!" both in English and in Mandarin Chinese to honor our 'sister smial,' Tol Eressea, in Taiwan. $3.00 per adult (over 18) will help pay for the room. Food and drink can be ordered from the menu. Children are welcome! See you there!
I seem to remember a few new members from the Denver area joining recently. We'd love to have you join us! 
Koru: Maori symbol representing a fern frond as it opens. The koru reaches towards the light, striving for perfection, encouraging new, positive beginnings.
"Life can't be all work and no TORn" -- jflower
"I take a moment to fervently hope that the camaradarie and just plain old fun I found at TORn will never end" -- LOTR_nutcase
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labingi_maura
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Jan 3 2008, 4:58pm
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Wonderful idea for the Toast...
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...that your smial is singing "Happy Birthday" to the Professor in Elvish!!
I LOVE it!
Would you be willing to share the elvish lyrics with our smial?
I'm a member of "Tolkien_Forever" and we're an official smial of the Tolkien Society, and I know our members would enjoy learning to sing the birthday song in elvish very much. That would be very cool.
Thanks,
Maura,
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Debbie/primmy
"I am in fact a hobbit in all but size." - J.R.R.Tolkien
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Altaira
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Jan 3 2008, 7:03pm
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Although, I should provide the disclaimer that it came from my own research. I emailed Carl Hostetter of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship for advice, because I remember he arranged a rendition of Happy Birthday in Elvish at the Beyond Bree dinner during the conference, "The Lord of the Rings, 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder," at Marquette University. However, I never got an answer. So armed with google and various sites dedicated to translating Elvish, I put the following rendition together:
Happy Birthday (Quenya) Alassėa Merendė Alassėa Merendė Alassėa, Oh Ingolmo Alassėa Merendė! Pronunciation: Ah-LAH-say-ah / Meh-REN-day / een-GOL-mo Translation: Happy Feast Day/Festival, Loremaster
I don't have time right now to look up the exact translations, and besides, many of them differ. So, doing this from a rather poor memory, Alassea is a pretty well accepted word for joy &/or happiness. There is no word that I could find for 'birthday,' so I figured "Feast Day" was close enough (considering feasting on things like cake is what most of us do on our birthdays  ). I also couldn't find a word for "professor." I looked and looked for something that would do, and when I found Ingolmo, or lore master, I quit! Lol. 
Technically, to match how us English-speakers usually sing Happy Birthdy, the third line should be: Alassea Merende Ingolmo. But, just try to fit all of that into the third line of the tune to Happy Birthday! While we had a lot of laughs trying to do so the first year we did it, I decided it was too painful, and cut it down. As is, it's a bit nonsensical, but it's one heck of a lot easier to sing!
I print it on a handout that I do each year. One side has Happy Birthday and our toast in Mandarin Chinese (also a riot to have 25-30 English-speaking people try to do all at once) and the other side has the lyrics to "Into the West," which we also like to sing.
Anyway, thats probably three paragraphs more than you wanted to know, lol! So, good luck and have fun (and let me know how it goes if you use it).
Koru: Maori symbol representing a fern frond as it opens. The koru reaches towards the light, striving for perfection, encouraging new, positive beginnings.
"Life can't be all work and no TORn" -- jflower
"I take a moment to fervently hope that the camaradarie and just plain old fun I found at TORn will never end" -- LOTR_nutcase
TORn Calendar
(This post was edited by Altaira on Jan 3 2008, 8:45pm)
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labingi_maura
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Jan 3 2008, 8:30pm
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And thanks for the timely response! I can now print out multiple copies
and take it to our dinner/toast/moot thing tonight!! This is going to be
so much fun! Hee hee!
Hantanyel, herunya,
-ML
aka
-Debbie/primmy
"I am in fact a hobbit in all but size." - J.R.R.Tolkien
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