RangerWickett
Legend
I'm kind of interested in seeing the process involved, so if you post things in sections, I'll gladly read and possibly give suggestions for alternate translations if you hit a snag. Languages are always rather cool, but I lack the personal proficiency in picking them up. Two and a half years of Japanese and I can't read a newspaper (though I can order plane tickets and complain about people smoking in my presence).
I've got a friend who's rather interested in Sindarin, though she claims it's a bit lacking in the verbs department. I don't know much of the language, so whenever I make up names for Elvish (or other race's) stuff in my world, I wing it. For me, Elvish is vaguely Latin in the way it sounds with lots of syllables, though I've never translated sentences, so I don't worry about grammar.
I had Orcish be simple German one time, when the party traveled into a dungeon that announced the different 'dooms' they would encounter, such as Das Boese des Ashe (The Doom of Ash, horribly mangled through years of misremembering).
If you do this, you get incredible amounts of cool points from me.
I've got a friend who's rather interested in Sindarin, though she claims it's a bit lacking in the verbs department. I don't know much of the language, so whenever I make up names for Elvish (or other race's) stuff in my world, I wing it. For me, Elvish is vaguely Latin in the way it sounds with lots of syllables, though I've never translated sentences, so I don't worry about grammar.
I had Orcish be simple German one time, when the party traveled into a dungeon that announced the different 'dooms' they would encounter, such as Das Boese des Ashe (The Doom of Ash, horribly mangled through years of misremembering).
If you do this, you get incredible amounts of cool points from me.