Elvish on the Web

When Salo was young, learning Elvish was a solitary pursuit. But these days you can share your obsession with like-minded fanatics at a variety of Web sites. Salo's favorite sites are followed by an asterisk.

Ardalambion*

Translation: "Of the Tongues of Arda." (Arda is the Elven name for Middle-earth.) The site includes histories, grammars, word lists, and links for Quenya and Sindarin, as well as 14 other languages from Tolkien's world.

www.uib.no/people/hnohf

Tyalie Tyelellieva

Roughly translated: "The Games of the Elves Who Have Come to Perfect Their Music and Poetry." The site hosts an Elvish-language poetry contest that Salo won in 1997.

www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/9902

Elvish Linguistic Fellowship

Read a trial issue of a scholarly journal devoted to the study of Elvish.www.elvish.org

Amanye Tenceli*

Translation: "The Writing Systems of Aman." (Aman is the continent in the West where the Elves lived early in their history and where the writing system Tengwar was invented.)

hem.passagen.se/mansb/at/

Elfling Mailing List*

The place to go if you want to chat about Elvish languages. (Lavina na Engellambe)

groups.yahoo.com/group/elfling

Constructed Languages Site*

A really scary site for people who become language-mad and want to branch out from Elvish to Klingon, Pikachu, and Spokaans.

www.sys.uea.ac.uk/~jrk/conlang.html