It quite intoxicated me.' Regarding the inspiration for Quenya he wrote that: Many years later, he wrote: 'It was like discovering a complete wine-cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. Tolkien took an interest in the Finnish mythology of the Kalevala, then became acquainted with Finnish, which he found to provide an aesthetically pleasing inspiration for his High-elven language. He had invented several cryptographic codes, and two or three constructed languages. He was then already familiar with Latin, Greek, Spanish, and several ancient Germanic languages, such as Gothic, Old Norse, and Old English. 1915), and later changed the spelling to Quenya. 1910вЂ“1911 while he was at the King Edward's School, Birmingham. Tolkien began to construct his first Elven tongue c. This has required conjecture and the need to devise new words, in effect developing a kind of neo-Quenya language. Tolkien never created enough vocabulary to make it possible to converse in Quenya, although fans have been writing poetry and prose in Quenya since the 1970s. At his death, Tolkien left behind a number of unpublished writings on Quenya, and later Tolkien scholars have prepared his notes and unpublished manuscripts for publication in the journals Parma Eldalamberon and Vinyar Tengwar, also publishing scholarly and linguistic analyses of the language. The longest text in Quenya published by Tolkien during his lifetime is the poem ' NamГЎriГ«', and other published texts are generally no longer than a few sentences.

The Quenya language featured prominently in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, as well as in his posthumously published history of Middle-earth The Silmarillion.

As the Noldor remained in Middle-earth, their Noldorin dialect of Quenya also gradually diverged from the Vanyarin dialect spoken in Valinor, undergoing both sound changes and grammatical changes. In the Third Age, the time of the setting of The Lord of the Rings, Quenya was learnt as a second language by all Elves of Noldorin origin, and it continued to be used in spoken and written form, but their mother-tongue was the Sindarin of the Grey-elves. In the Second Age of Middle-earth's chronology the Men of NГєmenor learnt the Quenya tongue. In this way, the Quenya language was symbolic of the high status of the Elves, the firstborn of the races of Middle-earth, because of their close connection to Valinor, and its decreasing use also became symbolic of the slowly declining Elven culture in Middle-earth. The Noldor eventually adopted Sindarin and used Quenya primarily as a ritual or poetic language, whereas the Vanyar who stayed behind in Eldamar retained the use of Quenya. Of these two groups of Elves, most of the Noldor returned to Middle-earth where they met the Sindarin-speaking Grey-elves. After the Elves divided, Quenya originated as the speech of two clans of 'High Elves' or Eldar, the Noldor and the Vanyar, who left Middle-earth to live in Eldamar ('Elvenhome'), in Valinor, the land of the immortal and God-like Valar. Quenya translates as simply 'language' or, in contrast to other tongues that the Elves met later in their long history, 'elf-language'. Within Tolkien's legendarium, Quenya is one of the many Elvish languages spoken by the immortal Elves, called Quendi ('speakers') in Quenya. He felt that his languages changed and developed over time, as with the historical languages which he studied professionally-not in a vacuum, but as a result of the migrations and interactions of the peoples who spoke them. Finnish had been a major source of inspiration, but Tolkien was also familiar with Latin, Greek, Welsh, and ancient Germanic languages when he began constructing Quenya.ДЄnother notable feature of Tolkien's Elvish languages was his development of a complex internal history of characters to speak those tongues in their own fictional universe. The name of the language was successively changed by Tolkien from Elfin and Qenya to the eventual Quenya. The vocabulary remained relatively stable throughout the creation process. Tolkien began devising the language around 1910, and restructured the grammar several times until it reached its final state.

Tolkien for the Elves in his Middle-earth fiction. Quenya ( pronounced ) is a constructed language, one of those devised by J. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Ah! like gold fall the leaves in the wind, long years numberless as the wings of trees! The beginning of the Quenya poem NamГЎriГ« written in tengwar and in Latin script

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