Here's a distraction from your/my homework

[truthsbeholder]

This entry results from my aversion to homework, not from a relevant to life or profound subject. Though, I suppose this is somewhat relevant to my life. I've been wondering about this since someone asked me a question the other day. Scott wanted to know what my profile meant, but was too lazy to read it. This got me thinking. If he's daunted by a

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[bladestogether]

*Sympathy Post*

[wordsofyoureyes]

haha perhaps the lack of posting is due to the nature of your entries. people might read them and then think "holy shit... that's ridiculously profound!" and after pondering the subject for an hour they realize posting is poitless because they are still so startled (in that wonderful intellectual awakening way).
well
that's atleast true for me on occasion hahaha

Yay Blaine! I'm going to agree with what you say and post, because if I don't you'll feel bad and I

[nltl119]

Livejournal is kind of a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't exercise. I used to (and often still do) make the mistake of trying to transcend writing both about the mundane, everyday happenings of daily life and the pseudo-intellectual, metaphysical dissertation I found in other peoples' entries. Every once in a while - and usually a LONG while - I have some idea and take hold of it and giggle to myself, "WTF this is so freakin awesom an deep lol \m/", but upon rereading it a while later I get the horrible feeling that I have committed something grotesquely adolescent

Re: Yay Blaine! I'm going to agree with what you say and post, because if I don't you'll feel bad an

[truthsbeholder]

I don't think you have to worry about Scott reading anything but the end of that one, I think you lost him at transcend. You need to give us an update in you LJ too btw, yours are always the most fun to read.

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[anonymous]

well, i just skimmed over that bad boy :o) it was a weeee bit long. HeHe. Actually blainous my friend, i check your info every day to see if you have a new LJ post. it keeps me occupied, so i don't do other stuff with my internet connection. So keep up your rambling posts about life and existence and anything you feel pertinent. But, if i may make a request, assuming you do decide to change your style can you make entries like the kinda stuff you might read in penthouse forum?

Melmën is love

[anonymous]

Remember you asked if anyone knew what Melmën meant and what language it was in an earlier post? It means "love" in Quenya.

Re: Melmën is love

[wordsofyoureyes]

I'd be interested to see your source on that... The Languages of Tolkien's Middle Earth that I have lists only 'mel' as meaning 'love' and does not specify either Quenya or Sindarin as the lanugage. It also lists 'mel' as the plural of the Sindarin word for gold, 'mal'. Also, it lists 'men' as the Quenya meaning of 'region', 'direction', or 'way'.

Re: Melmën is love

[truthsbeholder]

Damn, I'm really impressed. Who is this? How'd you find out? Or did I tell you in a moment of carelessness?

Justine- Yes, it does mean love, more specifically, it means "love me". Meleme is love, and the suffix "-n" gives it a reflexive property. Actually I made a typo too in the inclusion of the diaeresis over the final "e", which normally only occurs when the last letter is an "e", but i left it over from the infinitive version. As far as conflicting with your book, I doubt your book is the authority on the Tolkein languages, even if it was written by Christoper Tolkein. Much of what he did was just compile and edit his father's notes. There are other linguists who have studied the languages of Quenya and Sindarin much more in depth. His father changed the language of Quenya and Sindarin multiple times as well, your book may have the "Qenya", or older pre-LOTR, word.

But damn, I'm really impressed.

Re: Melmën is love

[truthsbeholder]

Melme* not meleme, my bad