Essay: Without Young, or the Curious Fanon of Pen-Neth

[erunyauve_e]

Summary: The phrase 'pen-neth' has become pervasive in fan fiction. Intended to mean 'young one', it in fact has the opposite meaning. (Complete)
Genre: Linguistic essay

Without Young, or the Curious Fanon of Pen-Neth
This is in the 'General' archive at HASA, which anyone should now be able to view.

Comments

[erestor]

Psssst... one has to log in to read it. :( I'd love to, but I've avoided joining HASA for 4 years, and I won't start anything new for 2007... ;-)

Is there an alternative url? As an occasional "pen-neth" user myself, I'm curious to read your essay. :)

[erunyauve_e]

Is there an alternative url?

How about the right url? Doh! Since I was logged in when I copied the shortcut, it gave me the url for editing the fic. I just fixed it.

[makamu]

Oh no! Guilty as charged *hangs head* Though I mostly used it with a different context but still not having paid attention to all the details rattles Tolkiengeek!me *grumbles* Thanks for pointing it out, though :) Is there an alternative way to express "young one" in Sindarin?

[erunyauve_e]

Oh no! Guilty as charged *hangs head*

See, that's the thing - so many people do it, everyone thinks it's right. Nethben, I think, is correct.

[deathangelgw]

wow...I didn't even know that! thanks! so you say 'nethben' is correct, then? Cool, will be....gah, ok, that's going to take time, but I WILL change all of them! Thankies!

[erunyauve_e]

I didn't even know that! thanks!

I'm glad you found it useful!

::smites lj for eating first reply::

[lhun_dweller]

You just *know* that this is SOOOOO going to haunt you in a future chapter of "Awful Mary-Sue..."

(Right after I go back and clean up my other fics... Thanks for the correction!)

[erunyauve_e]

You just *know* that this is SOOOOO going to haunt you in a future chapter of "Awful Mary-Sue..."

::runs away in fear:: I hope this means that the future chapter is forthcoming!