The Night's Curse #3 (Waverly Stump and The 7 Realms)

Glossary

Hello reader.

This is not a chapter.

I would call this more of an "idioticon" or a "dictionary" of Elvish kind.

It is a guide and will be updated often to explain as much as is needed.

This is where I will break down some Elvish terms and phrases used in the story (I know that most of you skip over the language and i do not blame you at all) to help you understand and be able to pronounce them because trust me, they are fun.

I was deeply inspired by J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of The Rings trilogy to create my very own dialect. More of the language will be used as the story progresses but not to the point where it will bore you, I promise.

As you already know, there are 7 Realms but only the Elves have been shown to often use their dialect and a peculiar speech pattern, especially very old Elves like our dearest HalfHyde.

This is a clavis to simply teach you how their whole language works and it is quite easy.

Note: (English meanings are placed in bracket and/or highlighted)

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ECLĀRIUM (DICTIONARY)

THE {E} AND {É}

The letter E in any word such as eso which translates as forth is plain and short and is pronounced as you would the E in the word egg.

Whereas the accentuated É in a word such as méti is long and should pronounced as "ee".

Although in certain words such as Elvén (Elvish or Elven) and Orakkèl, the É is pronounced like that of the plain E in eso because both terms are nouns and so the accented É in them are often ignored during pronunciation.

In other words like Veél  which means "coin", there is a presence of both Es (e and é) and so the word is pronounced with a spasm and both sounds are transposed; the plain E takes on the long sound of É and the latter takes on the sound of the former therefore;

Veél = /Vi.el/

In cases where the É comes before an I as in the phrase "skéis arace" (scapegrace) the pronunciation of the long É becomes short because it precedes a letter that already sounds like it. Thus;

skéis = /skis/
séis = /sis/

A slightly different case than the aforementioned example is when the É precedes an I in a name or a title e.g Léi'los (sun). Here, the É would be given the value of Ā. Thus, the end result sounds like lay but because of the presence of a diacritical mark, Léi'los would be pronounced as /lay.ee.los/

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THE {Ñ}

In a word such as apyñniad (happy) a stress lies where the n carries an accent - Ñ
In a few words like Zanaan or Nael the N is plain and without stress. Stressed letter Ns would most likely appear on the first N in words where the letter itself is doubled such as;

Andañnanohel (comrade) 
Pelidañn (emperor)

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