Podfic in Quenya!

[luzula]

The geekiest thing I have done in my life? Possibly.

Title: Nyarë Yondo Atacárala
Author and reader: luzula
Fandom: due South/Silmarillion gen
Language: Quenya
Rating: G
Length: 2 m 29 s
Author's summary: The due South pilot told in the style of Tolkien's Silmarillion.
Notes: I'm sure a real elf would wince at my accent, but I did my best--the sounds and the accent patterns are correct as far as I could make them. I probably have an advantage over most native English speakers in that my native language has rolling r:s. *g*

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Comments

[akamine_chan]

It's beautiful, Luz. Also, I was sure you'd already made this into a podfic, so the other day I was looking for a link to this for sylvaine... :D

[luzula]

Thanks! And sylvaine seems to have found it at amplificathon. : )

[dragonfly]

Oh, wow. How very cool!

[luzula]

Thank you! I had fun recording it.

[cantarina]

I don't understand a word of it, but it is very pretty to listen to!

[luzula]

Thanks! And to be honest, I can't understand spoken Quenya, either. I can only read/write it slowly, with a dictionary and sometimes a grammar cheatsheet. : )

[cantarina]

Neat. So a lot of practice runs went into this podfic?

[luzula]

Well, I organized the fic by sentences, with the translation below each sentence. And then I read it through a few times without recording. Even with that, it's probably the highest ratio of raw file to finished podfic of anything I've recorded...

[seascribble]

Obviously, I cannot understand this, but I am still in love with the whole idea. I'm glad you recorded it! It's really soothing and pleasant to listen to.

[luzula]

Thanks! As I said above, I can't understand it at this speed, either (reading Quenya involves a lot of dictionary look-ups for me). But I'm glad you enjoyed listening to it!

[calvinahobbes]

I lost all my open tabs and almost forgot about this! But then I didn't! Yay!

Yaaay, I loved this! I am not lying when I say I have been looking forward to it since you posted the fic. It was so cool to finally get the pronunciation to go with it. *listens again*

[luzula]

Oh, cool, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Just so you know, I have discovered one pronunciation error: it should be ILL-um-ë rather than ill-UM-ë. Ah well. The stress in pronunciation is actually similar to Latin--it's on the penultimate syllable unless that syllable has a short vowel followed by a single consonant, and then it's the antepenultimate.

[calvinahobbes]

Hee, okay! You could have fooled me ;oD