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BlackFox
Half-elven
Oct 20 2014, 7:17pm
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If you could instantly master any language...
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... then what language would you choose?
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BlackFox
Half-elven
Oct 20 2014, 7:21pm
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I'd love to able to speak it with the fluency and fluidity of a native speaker.
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Darkstone
Immortal
Oct 20 2014, 7:24pm
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It is resisting all attempts.
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I met a Balrog on the stair.
He had some wings that weren't there.
They weren't there again today.
I wish he would just fly away.
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phij2
Rivendell
Oct 20 2014, 8:05pm
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But a world-spoken language i would love to be able to speak somethimg melodic like italian or french
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Cirashala
Valinor
Oct 20 2014, 8:08pm
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duh   
Sindarin as well, and for the purposes of real world application, Spanish 
I'd also like to learn German, Japanese, Norwegian (I am 1/4 Norse, but hardly speak a word of it sadly  ), Danish (I actually am learning- one of my fan fiction penpals is teaching me ), and French.
But mainly Khuzdul, Sindarin, Spanish, and German
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Aunt Dora Baggins
Immortal
Oct 20 2014, 8:52pm
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My brother and his girlfriend lapse into Turkish sometimes when I'm around. It would be fun to join in.
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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"A Chance Meeting at Rivendell" and other stories
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Elizabeth
Half-elven
Oct 20 2014, 10:10pm
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I studied French in college, and again privately (before a business trip), but never reached the point of being able to use it usefully either for reading or speaking, beyond simple survival exchanges.
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Otaku-sempai
Immortal
Oct 20 2014, 10:20pm
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Alternate choices would be German, French, Italian or Sindarin.
'There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.' - Gandalf the Grey, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Ataahua
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Oct 20 2014, 11:22pm
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I'd like to be able to follow everything said during formal welcomes and on marae, and I love the strength and rhythm of the language.
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
Ataahua's stories
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Eye's on Guard
Lorien
Oct 20 2014, 11:51pm
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Dutch! (a language of ancestry for me) //
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"When you think of the great Battle of Pelennor, do not forget the Battle of Dale. Think of what might have been. Dragon-fire and savage swords in Eriador! There might be no Queen in Gondor. We might now only hope to return from the victory here to ruin and ash. But that has been averted -- because I met Thorin Oakenshield one evening on the edge of spring not far from Bree. A chance-meeting, as we say in Middle-earth."
- Gandalf
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dernwyn
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Oct 21 2014, 12:41am
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Besides the Tolkien connection, it's also one of my ancestral languages. I've got learning at least a bit of it on my "bucket list".
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
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CuriousG
Half-elven
Oct 21 2014, 1:59am
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It looks so mysterious. It would be fun to decipher monuments, arcane quotes, etc.
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Dame Ioreth
Tol Eressea
Oct 21 2014, 2:18am
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And given the fact that I'm a Heinz 57, that means a lot of languages. In order of preference? Italian, German, Polish, Ukrainian, Spanish
Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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DanielLB
Immortal
Oct 21 2014, 6:02am
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It's worrying that non-native speakers have mastered the language better than I have!
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BoromirOfWinterfell
Rohan
Oct 21 2014, 6:52am
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Japanese, please. If I could master the Kanji too, that'd be great.
"Eala Earendel engla beorhtast
ofer middangeard monnum sended."
"There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it." - Cicero
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cats16
Half-elven
Oct 21 2014, 7:43am
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Or German. Or all of them at once, I suppose.
Join us every weekend in the Hobbit movie forum for this week's CHOW (Chapter of the Week) discussion!
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Arannir
Valinor
Oct 21 2014, 8:07am
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Would open up so many possibilities...
"I am afraid it is only too likely to be true what you say about the critics and the public. I am dreading the publication for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at." J.R.R. Tolkien
We all have our hearts and minds one way or another invested in these books and movies. So we all mind and should show the necessary respect.
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Dame Ioreth
Tol Eressea
Oct 21 2014, 11:43am
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I had an aquaintance who learned Latin in Catholic School
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in Catholic School as part of the curriculum in the 1960s. After college he used what he could remember, mostly nouns and infinitives, while backpacking across Europe. Most places got what he was trying to say!
Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
(This post was edited by Dame Ioreth on Oct 21 2014, 11:43am)
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Rembrethil
Tol Eressea
Oct 21 2014, 12:42pm
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It's an uphill battle...
Call me Rem, and remember, not all who ramble are lost...Uh...where was I?
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Alassëa Eruvande
Valinor
Oct 21 2014, 1:27pm
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That would be the most useful around here.
But I, too, would like to master the languages of my ancestors: Polish, Welsh, the Gaelic languages, Finnish. I just wouldn't have anyone to talk to.
I am SMAUG! I kill when I wish! I am strong, strong, STRONG!
My armor is like tenfold shields! My teeth like swords! My claws, spears!
The shock of my tail, a thunderbolt! My wings, a hurricane! And my breath, death!
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Otaku-sempai
Immortal
Oct 21 2014, 3:43pm
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Chinese
Mandarin, Cantonese or both?
'There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.' - Gandalf the Grey, The Fellowship of the Ring
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