VEDA 208: Learn to Speak Elvish 

I have no shame that I am determined to learn this language

Never be ashamed of your nerdy-ness!!

I hope to learn elvish mainly for 2 reasons 1) so I can talk with my friend without being overheard 2) to me, it's an extremely pretty sounding language This was a well done and useful starting point for that, thank you.

I wanna randomly meet someone and converse in Elvish

"the geek shall inherit the earth"

My bf hates hobbit and lotr. I'm a nerdy person too. Thank you for doing this so I can talk to him and he won't know what I'm saying. I think its beautiful.

you have a nice bassy and deep voice man, and elvish sounds very cool from you!!

you have reach the nerd level: subscribed.

For the record: The pronounciation in the movies isn't that good (but it's ok). The most wrong part about the pronounciation is the stress. They stress all the words on the second last syllable in the movies, that's not right: The stress is on the third last syllable, except if the second last syllable is long or if the word only has 2 syllables. Also, some vocab: - No is not yes, accually there is no word for yes. No means be, and you have to conjugate it into 3rd person singular to say "it is", and that would be ná. - Ú is not no, ú means not. No is baw. - Gi melin is not I love you, well it is, but that would be a litteral translation. In Sindarin, there are 5 cases, and here you have to use the accusative case for the word you (gi), which is gen, so correctly it's: Gen melin. - Also a bit grammar: If you wanna use possessive pronouns, you don't have to use words, or rather: Don't use words. The natural way of using possessive pronouns is through suffixes: E.g. "my name" would be "i enethen" rather than "i eneth nín". The possessive pronoun words are really no possessive pronouns but the genitive declination of the personal pronouns and therefor used isolated like e.g. "this book is mine" "i barf hen nín" (litterally: the book this mine); "this is my book" would be "sen i barfen" (litterally: this the book-my).

It’s 2019 and I just found this video, but I’m so glad I did! We’re all nerds here, even five years later 😂

So many people try to speak elvish... and fail, but you were different and original! I love elvish and I'm learning it. :D PLEASE do more!

i didn't know Elvis had his own language

You look like a young Benedict Cumberbatch

Never be ashamed... I literally have a copy of the elvish language in a little red book that I had for over 27 years that I never learned. That is shame, you're awesome. Love the video six years after you posted it. :)

I know I am late, but the difference between Quenya elvish and Sindarin elvish is that most of the elves that sailed from Valinor to Middle Earth speak Sindarin, while the elves whom stayed in Valinor spoke Quenya, or dialects of it, like Vanyarin. The elves whom left for Middle Earth met the elves who never went to Valinor, The Sindar, and started talking their language. Great video though!

Hi. Today is actually the first day that i'll be learning how to speak Elvish and this video is really helpful, i hope you'd do a series of it. To be honest, i have just watched the hobbit 1-3 just this month bec of a friend and before i was not a fan and stuff. I dont know about lotr (i know. My life... it sucks lmao) so i'll be watching its series maybe next week. I just have to say i really got into this kind of world and i want to be a part of it that's why i want to learn how to speak elvish. Geez, i have never been this nerd but i love it. You did a great job 😁😊

He spoke Elvish and now I low key wanna marry him.Haha

So glad some humans out there are teaching us to speak Elvish! I am just now learning. I adore their language. Thank you for this video!

Nice radio voice man !

You look like the nerdest man on Earth. Would you marry me? Le melin, mellon nin. Update 5 years later: I never contaced this man. Yeah, maybe I sounded a bit desperate but I think I wasnt back then. I became a medical doctor and found a very nerd Dutch man to talk about LOTR and Naruto. Happy ending after all.

You fucking nerd!!!! I love you

When people ask me what I did during quarantine I'm gonna say Im golwen edhelen ( I learned elvish)

Thank you Andrew -sorry - Anuron!! You could make these clips as long as you like.

Andrew my man! I finally decided i wanted to learn Elvish & i'm so glad i came across this video!!! You're a champion man! Keep this stuff up!

3:12 This is a nerd's version of being high. I love it when I am "nerd high" as one might say.

When he said "battle against the orcs!" in elvish in the end was just the cutest!

what a lovely video! I had so much fun watching this! thank you and please just keep doing it :)

My six year old unschooled son Odin has decided to learn Elvish. He says your video is awesome and you are really good at filming and len hannon.

Hi! One little correction on the translation of "Andrew"... -ron isn't attached to adjectives, only verbs or nouns. It's like -er that we stick on verbs, like bake>baker, teach>teacher, and so on. It's actually two different suffixes combined. The -r is the doer part and the -on is means the doer is male. I'd translate Andrew these two ways: Anunir-Manly Man; or Anuon-Manly One (who is male). Novaer!

This is simply fantastic! I love languages, but more so do I love fictional languages because they are so rare in speech or even written. I hope one day we are able to piece together the entire language and simply speak it with anyone who knows Quenya/Sindarin. It is very beautiful~ Keep up the great work!

This is an awesome video. Elvish language and culture is so fascinating, so thank you for doing this. Feels good to have something to tickle my academic fancy!one point, how did you translate your name? I'm doing an essay on Sindarin now, it would really help to know your method?

You really have a pleasing voice, your Elvish was lovely to listen to

Hey :D Love this vid. I'm a big LOTR and Hobbit fan. Been to New Zealand Hobbiton and I've read hobbit and I've started to read lotr. I really wanted to learn some elvish or Dwarvish and you make it easier to learn C: Please continue making more Elvish language vids please. :D Thanks alot for the lesson

This is amazing dude. Never let anyone put down your amazing nerdiness.

Awesome video! I learned to write elvish but you really helped with pronouncing it! Thanks! Hope to see more videos like this!

You look like the exact right person to teach me this. I am glad there are people nerdier than I that can teach me Conlangs.

I ONLY WANTED THIS TO FEED ONTO MY HUGE OBSESSION OF LORD OF THE RINGS (and legolas XD)

"I eneth nin Eruvadhron"... This can't be more neerd! Love it. =)

how did you learn elvish?

I love your video. It's straight and clear. I hate it when people add other things such as music, or nature souns such as birds. Please keep the good work. I'm also trying to read and write Sindarian and Quenya.

I want to learn Black Speech

You know the world is unfair when a channel with so much content gets so little traction. Hope you’re enjoying your hobbies, Anuron! Also, you have a wonderful broadcaster voice!

wow can you make more videos for this topic? It was amazing!!

For all honesty, I have not watched any of the Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit movies, however I've encountered lots of elves in anime and I'm pretty fascinated with this language

U should definitely make more videos, I wanna lean hot to speak sindarin

I translated my name myself. Peter is a Greek name whick comes from "Petros" meaning "rock". " Rock in Sindarin is "karka",but is usually used to describe a hindrance, or something blocking your path, so I went with "gond" which means "stone". I added the suffix "ron" (sorry, I stole yours :) ) and I got " Gondron" . Awesome video, by the way.

Nerdy peeps! I like them, even though some are bullying them but then I think they're very talented and nice guys to go with because you're goin' to learn many stuffs from them, I suggest that you should elaborate more of sindarin language so that we may decipher it more properly. Thanks mate, Good job. "LEN HANNON" :D

I am nerding OUT! Just Amazon-ed the Sindarin English dictionary! Let the geekiness continue!

Awesome dude!

Whenever people want to learn Elvish, they will look to your series :) I look forward to more.

I'm so happy we have the same name. Now I know how to say my name in elvish lol

I am so subscribing I'm trying to learn Elvish to a good extent before May 3rd, when to new movie Tolkien comes out!!

Name in English: Rose Name in Elvish sindarin: Meril "My name is Rose" "I eneth nin Merilron" Is that correct?

Learning this 1, to add more ✨️flavor text✨️ to my dnd character, and 2, to write an elf character for a series I'm workin' on, and 3, it's just a cool language

My name in english: Astrid My name in elvish: Vanimeldë "My name is Astrid" "I eneth nin Vanimeldëron" Is that right? Idk... It kinda sounds wrong? Please help me :)

Please make more of these they are really helping me learn elvish

October 2019?

As someone who is just starting to really get into the Tolkien universe, this was exactly the "nerdy" video I was looking for! Loved it. You mentioned that you and a dictionary...is it an elvish translation dictionary?

Hannon le, beautiful channel Mellon nin :) I see much division on "thank you" as le Hannon or Hannon le, in the movie by Elvish linguist David Salo they say "Hannon le" and "Hannod" is "thank" which I am assuming why there is great confusion on this...of which word comes first.

I've translated Andrew as "Thalion" or dauntless, which isn't exactly a direct translation, but I'm glad to have another translation of the name!!

Mae g'ovannen! mellon :) "3:15" yes it is realy cool :)

I hope you're still doing these. Right now, I'm part of a D&D campaign and there are two elves (myself & a friend) who are using these to try to sound elven when we roleplay in character. I know there's written resources but this is the first decent video. ^_^

Whats my name in Elvish?Its: Deniz.A turkish name,it means "Ocean". :)

Best video I've seen so far compared to the others your pronunciation is spectacular, especially like the bit where you translated your own name to Sindarin

please make more of these! Really enjoyed this video, it was well-presented and the production quality is basically way above any sindarin video i've found so far on my short-but-amusing video spree.

Thank you for this video! Because of your relaxed, down to earth manner it's even soothing to listen and learn in between work!

Big fan of LOTR and Hobbit, trying to learn the language and it's so fun!

I was browsing through RU-vid on my science channels and thought this would be awesome!!! I love the fact that you are honest and actually try to speak it properly. Cant wait to see some more videos in the future!

I love nerdiness. I love history, languages, especially Conlangs, etc. I just wish I had a better memory. Thank you for making this video. I love it the way when you say something the subtitles in elvish show. It helps.

Exactly the video i wanted to see when i searched for "tolkien elvish language". Thank you for the super nerdiness :)

Hen hannon mellon, your videos are the most helpful I have come across so far! Nice and simple.. Please keep it up so we can continue to learn with you and become some of the few people who attempt to speak Sindarin Elvish! Thanks again for doing this!

It's fitting that you learn the various forms of Goodbye as the last phrases after Gi melin because you won't have to know any more words when you blurt out "I love you" 30 seconds after you met him.

This is not nerdy enough for me! I know more about Quenya than Sindarin but I'm interested in learning about that too.

This is so cool, I'm happy that other people recognize that Tolkien developed his own languages, like Elvish.

I'm so glad I can finally learn some Elvish. I admire your efforts! Great video!

THANK YOU! you need more nerdiness. This needed to be longer. I wish there was an offical dictionary online with pronunction. This will have to do and must I say its awesome. Thank you.

Awesome video! Please post more Sindarin videos!

We enjoyed learning these words, keep 'em coming!

I'm so entertained especially when you geek out! XD Reminds me of myself when I geek out. Thank you for making and uploading this. :))))))))))

I loved this video. I'll take a peek at part 2 in a sec. I'm loving this.

It's very cool and I LOVE ELVISH language already..like hearing someone speak with royalness..LOVE IT..want to learn more!!!

For starters, I've always been a bit passionate about linguistics (and personal a bit of a grammar nazi if you would say so) and I find your videos neither boring nor uneducational. Keep making these thing pal (and don't keep calling yourself a geek: there's nothing to be ashamed of, unless you yourself think so). Have a nice day! Hantanyel, hava sorya!

Dude Please!!!!! Make more of this!!!!! I love it

I am so committed to learning this

There should be courses of learning Tengwar. This was very nice and so simple that even I could learn something :D Thank you :)

Sindarin? ... okay. Thanks much Andrew. Needed the break.... this world's life is taking some wild turns. Galu. "O God, guide me, protect me, make of me a shining lamp and a brilliant star. Thou art the Mighty and the Powerful." -'Abdu'l-Baha

'Sindarin' is actually a Quenya word and should be stressed on the first syllable (like Latin) not the penult (like Welsh). The same rules apply within Sindarin itself. The penult is only accented in words of two syllables or where the penult has a long vowel, diphthong or is followed by two consonants (a 'heavy' syllable).

This is amazing! Ive been looking for a video like this forever!!

Learning a fictional language may be nerdy, but people pride themselves on learning Latin, which also seemingly has no practical useage. It is a way academics can identify one another and is a nerdy clique. It has a place. Tolkien was a linguist and wrote stories around language and so it's in a way keeping his legacy alive. Plus having Benedict Cumberbatch's younger brother teach it helps.

Ooooohhh my goodness... You did VEDA!?! I've been watching Amy's channel for such a long time, but I've always been too intimidated by posting daily. There is just soooo much makeup to do! 😭 Anyways, I wasn't looking to learn Elvish (I was researching video tags on TubeBuddy in order to optimize Friday's "Elf in the Woods" cosplay video... speaking of geeking out!) and came across your VEDA post. Ugh. I did not mean to watch it, but I couldn't help myself! Thanks for the enchanting lesson. ♥ ~Mermaid Phantom

PLZ MAKE THIS A SERIES!

I enjoyed your presentation. Your enthusiasm for the language is obvious. Oh, by the way, I don't find you a geek but rather an evangel for Elvish.

"No" with a very short open "o" ( like you say "knot" without the "t") is "yes" ( also you nod your head while speaking) in some regions of saxony/germany. I bet Tolkien knew.

Just found your channel, please do more of these :)

I love this video! there is literally no one around me that is interested in this as much as me! so thanks a lot for this video, it's great :)

Totally awesome. I'm writing a fantasy book right now and several of the main heroes are elves. I never learned elven though I played elf ranger in every D&D campaign, i'd love to learn it. Right now I just began the process of creating my own elvish language for my book.

Its March 5th 2020 and im determined to learn this language. I wish you guys the best of luck as well

I immediately liked and subscribed after you said 'this video is gonna be very nerdy today' :DDDDD

Andrew, I enjoyed your video. I noticed that some of the sentences you mentioned, as an introduction, are somewhat different from the Sindarin I have studied. An example of this is the word "g'ovannen". It seems to be mispelled. The word should be "govannen". It is the past participle of the verb "govani" = to meet. There is no apostrophy. As a matter of fact there is very little attested usage of apostrophies in Sindarin and they mostly occur with prepositions. I noticed a number of departures from the Sindarin I have learned and I wonder where you based your nomenclature from. My studies were off the book entitled "A Gateway to Sindarin" by David Salo, who consulted in the Sindarin spoken in the LOTR movies.

When he put in a disclaimer of the nerdyness i so got hyped!