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Let's carry on a Drow conversation...
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 11:20 pm
by rklenseth
From this point on only Drow will be spoken here...
Lu'oh zhah riluss? Vel'uss zhal'la udos telanth bauth rathrea ninta rath?
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 11:55 pm
by trage
Usstan talinth udos zhal'la telanth bauth Linoin rathrea ukt rath. Linoin zhah translated wun ghil ji uk orn neitar lgor ol doeb. Uk zhah folt natha prick.
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 11:59 pm
by rklenseth
Linoin shlu'ta transilit Ilythiiri ji uk orn ragar doeb jala i'dollen. Drill Linoin zhah jal ditronw. Nin nindel Jos lu' Thomas lodias...Dos inbal ulu kyorl mina.
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 12:08 am
by trage
Jugare, Usstan zhahus ezual Linoin p'wal d' ukta lu' ukt Quenya. Uk zhah ezual myar klezn bauth l' Ilythiiri lu' zhah ezual nindel Quenya zhah alur. Vel'bol natha wael uk zhah!
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 12:17 am
by Pirog
Sorry to interfere, but is this Drow as advanced as "real" languages?
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 12:21 am
by rklenseth
trage wrote:Jugare, Usstan zhahus ezual Linoin p'wal d' ukta lu' ukt Quenya. Uk zhah ezual myar klezn bauth l' Ilythiiri lu' zhah ezual nindel Quenya zhah alur. Vel'bol natha wael uk zhah!
Uk z'klaen tlu biu darthirii d'lil ssussun ussen. Udos zhal'la elgg ukta lu' zirn pholor ukt vlos.
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 12:22 am
by rklenseth
Pirog wrote:Sorry to interfere, but is this Drow as advanced as "real" languages?
AH! L' ILSTAR! L' ILSTAR! Nau English ghil. Telanth Ilythiiri xor dos orn naut telanth. Udos harventh ooble' doeb.
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 12:24 am
by rklenseth
Vel'bol bauth Pirog? Udos telanth bauth ukta? Udos inbal natha yentil ulu telanth bauth ukta...
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 12:26 am
by Pirog
Are you bad mouthing me in foreign languages now? How rude!
Jag kan väl kontra på svenska då, din hjärntvättade tölp
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 12:32 am
by trage
Jayne (rklenseth) wrote:trage wrote:Jugare, Usstan zhahus ezual Linoin p'wal d' ukta lu' ukt Quenya. Uk zhah ezual myar klezn bauth l' Ilythiiri lu' zhah ezual nindel Quenya zhah alur. Vel'bol natha wael uk zhah!
Uk z'klaen tlu biu darthirii d'lil ssussun ussen. Udos zhal'la elgg ukta lu' zirn pholor ukt vlos.
Siyo l' vlos. Udos ssrig'luin l' vlos. Udos z'klaen zirn ukta lu' sacrafice ukt quortek ulu l' orbb valsharess!
"AH! L' ILSTAR! L' ILSTAR! Nau English ghil. Telanth Ilythiiri xor dos orn naut telanth. Udos harventh ooble' doeb."
iyo nau English ghil, wael!. Udos orn harventh dosst ooble' doeb lu' belbau ol ulu l' vil'klviss.
"Vel'bol bauth Pirog? Udos telanth bauth ukta? Udos inbal natha yentil ulu telanth bauth ukta... "
Siyo bwael mon'tu. Uk 'udtila naut zhaun l' xanalress d'lil Ilythiiri lu' udos shlu'ta telanth rathrea ukt rath. Nindol orn tlu mzilt jivvin.
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 2:09 am
by Sho
Quenya ná i lambion anmára.
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 2:09 am
by rklenseth
Pirog wrote:Are you bad mouthing me in foreign languages now? How rude!
Jag kan väl kontra på svenska då, din hjärntvättade tölp
Siyo! Dos xun toha.
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 6:28 am
by west
Equë Sho:
Quenya ná i lambion anmára.
Lambë Quendion ná lambë vardana.
/Drow:
Ussta Quenya zhah ves myar, drill a mzulst Usstan xunus l' xund usstan. Ori'gato l' haren d' Trage lu' RKL tlu pierced a l' ssin d' Quenya..
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 6:49 am
by west
Usstan tlun taudl whol plynnithus draa draevalen. Nindol zhah natha poem wun Sindarin, lu' uss wun Quenya. . Shlu'ta dos llaar z'reninth nindel Ilythiiri zhah alur ulu trantz Elvish?
A Elbereth Gilthoniel (sindarin)
A Elbereth Gilthoniel,
silivren penna míriel
o menel aglar elenath!
Na-chaered palan-díriel
o galadhremmin ennorath,
Fanuilos, le linnathon
nef aear, si nef aearon!
A Elbereth Gilthoniel!
o menel palan-díriel
le nallon sí di'nguruthos!
A tiro nin, Fanuilos!
--screw Drow.
Here's a quote (Quenya) from the Silmarillion. You'll recognize the name of a char in the KDS region.
A Túrin Turambar turún' ambartanen!
in Drow, that beautiful phrase is bastardized as follows:
gi Turin jabbuk d' haruk a haruk veldrukev!
Drow seems more akin to the Black Speech than Elvish...probably because the Dark Elves of the AD&D world are supposed to be dark and sinister and so forth. Interesting bit of trivia: dark elves are derived from the Norse Svartalfen--dark elves who lived underground, also known as gnomes or dwarves.
They didn't shoot purple lightning or have portable spheres of darkness, but they did forge things really well.
In closing, a Black Speech quote and translated into Drow:
Ash nazg durbatulúk, ash nazg gimbatul,
ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul
and in Drow
Uss anth ulu ilstar mina jal, uss anth ulu ragar mina. Uss anth ulu sila mina jal lu' wun l' oloth valbyl mina
Which reminds me: Drow as it's spoken on the forums has no etymology to speak of. does it have different grammatical structure from English, as Sindarin and Quenya and even the Black Speech do?
No?
EHMTRUD!
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 9:09 am
by Thomas Pickert
Jayne (rklenseth) wrote:Nin nindel Jos lu' Thomas lodias...Dos inbal ulu kyorl mina.
Kyorl dal vel'bol?