Namárië – to goodness of Tolkien’s Quenya in the Lord of the Ring’s score

This poster is part of my research aiming to answer the question: to what extend is the phonological realisation of Quenya in the score to the Lord of the Ring’s films representative of Tolkien’s original Quenya? Even though music is so interwoven with Tolkien’s works no complete linguistic study has been done yet on arguably the greatest exposure of musical Quenya to the mass public. A major part is my own original research into the topic. This part of the research is completely based on Tolkien’s Quenya developed for and put into the Lord of the Rings books, particularly his poem Namárië. This poster will present a phonetic analysis how Quenya should sound according to Tolkien’s own rules and thus forms the basis of comparison in the greater scope of my project. I will introduce Quenya as language and place it in phonological context then expand on my methodology. Followed by presenting the results from my phonetic analysis as seen on my poster.