Citations:Tolkiendil

English citations of Tolkiendil

Noun: "(fandom slang) a fan of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, especially one interested in his constructed languages"

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• 1994 August 14, Ivan A Derzhanski, “Re: Russian texts available by ftp/gopher/www”, in sci.lang‎^[1] (Usenet):

  My enjoyment was slashed by the enormous number of typos in the Quenya and Sindarin sentences and poems, I dare say one in each two words.To be sure, this doesn't interfere with the use of the text as a Russian language corpus, but those of us who are Tolkiendili as well as Russiandili tend to be bothered by such things. So that's a pity.

• 1994 October 25, Ivan A Derzhanski, “A competition (Re: Don't need poem ...)”, in rec.arts.books.tolkien‎^[2] (Usenet):

  Here's a competition for all German-speaking Tolkiendili who agree with me that this is a flaw of the translation (given that the English scans and rhymes perfectly): Come up with a better translation of the second stanza. (Or the whole poem, if you feel like it.)

• 1995 March 1, Edmund Grimley-Evans (quoting unknown), “Re: Sounding natural (Re: Languages in the EC)”, in sci.lang‎^[3] (Usenet):

  However, when posting on sci.lang, I'm able to lay aside the claims to which I, as a Tolkiendil, subscribe in some other contexts.

• 1998 August 4, E. J. Kloczko, “M.E.R.P. Don't buy it!”, in alt.games.tolkien.rpg‎^[4] (Usenet):

  ICE intends these claims to reassure the inexperienced reader; the real Tolkien enthusiast (or "tolkiendil") will speedily see through them.

• 1998 August 5, E. J. Kloczko, “Re: How many fingers did the Elves have, anyway?”, in alt.fan.tolkien‎^[5] (Usenet):

  There ere several "unofficial" papers privatly^[sic] circulating amongst the Tolkiendili and written by CJ Tolkien about the Feanorian counting system(s).

• 1998 August 20, johan.winge, “Result of the poll: Age and Sex”, in rec.arts.books.tolkien‎^[6] (Usenet):

  Hello again Tolkiendili! (And everyone else for that matter... :-) )

• 1999 August 30, Gordon Nash, “Literalists VS Nonliteralists”, in rec.arts.books.tolkien‎^[7] (Usenet):

  The whole Balrog wings and Wheel of fire discussions are really about reading things literally or not. Those who think the ring is speaking and that Balrogs have wings take the literal word as gospel. They are the Fundamentalist Tolkiendili so to speak.

• 2002 August 4, discouraged. [username], “Re: MERP & Tolkien”, in alt.fan.tolkien‎^[8] (Usenet):

  Role Paying^[sic] is something, a book like LOTR is something else. Tolkien never wrote a GAME, he wrote a book(s). These are two different worlds. So, beware of the MERP if you are a real Tolkiendil.