What is "elvish"

Usage examples of "elvish".

An enclitic that shows the noun preceding it in an agglutinated Elvish word is the name of the element following the enclitic, as in Corafolamelim, Owl River.

It was sometimes traded through secret channels to humans under the name of boggle, an elvish joke signifying both the bog from which the liquid originally came, and from the state of mind it readily produced in the humans.

When quoting Primitive Elvish forms, I will however use circumflexes to mark long vowels.

Remember that Elvish always indicates pluralization by adding a semi-independent morpheme, and that this semi-independence is reflected in the various syntax-bearing enclitics.

The epesse was given to him because his helm and mail, and his shield overlaid with silver and set with a device of white stars, shone from afar like a star in sunlight or moonlight and could be seen by Elvish eyes at a great distance if he stood upon a height.

Amid the trunks of the trees grew elder shrubs, and snake-berries, and the elvish trifoliate plants of the purple and the painted trillium.

The half-elven ranger and druid, Greenleaf, called Curley by his friends because of the anomaly of being baldpated and having elvish blood, strived to enable the faction he served to gain the second portion of the artifact that would enable the unchaining of the greatest Evil imaginable.

It could buy us out of a Lowtown cheese factory into a nice little office in a shady part of Eastside, maybe, with a Bay view and an elvish secretary with bazoombahs you could ski down.

Berne would get to do Pallas Ril in a day or two this would be a satisfying consolation prize, much more satisfying than that elvish whore.

While Martin had shared elvish lore with the boys before, this was the first time in Pugs memory he had spoken of his relationship to the elves.

The gardens alone are famous throughout the Human Lands, with towering arbours, vast lawns, avenues of trees, banks and beds of flowers, all fed by streams and fountains that were engineered by Afetha-ar-Kyet, the great Elvish garden-maker of a few generations back.

Elvish languages as Tolkien had come to see them in the post-LotR period: This essay dates from ca.

Elvish sounded like a command, and like a well-oiled military unit the remaining nine drew and nocked their bows in one motion.

She had run with all the exuberance and joy of youth, trying to keep up with Sorak, who even then could outsprint her easily with his elvish speed and endurance.

As the enemy approached, the shouts of Tsurani warriors and the cries of those who fell to elvish arrows could be heard through the forest.