2 posts tagged “tolkien”
So I was supposed to be sketching my next couple of projects but this thing insisted on being drawn too. It's an idea I've been turning around in my brain for a while. Tolkien's description of the ring of Barahir really does sound like a puzzle ring (in part because there's no good way to fit in all those details along a single plane. I've said before, jewelry design was really not Tolkien's forte...). I post this with the stipulation that Fox is NOT allowed to commission these from Norm, because they'd cost an arm and a leg to fabricate if they're even feasible.
I have a tendency to break things by using special characters in my usernames. Hopefully miri-corco is easy to remember as a URL (I will probably use it when I purchase a domain name for a website, too). The name is actually Míri Corco which is Quenya and can be interpreted to mean "treasures of the crow".
For the linguistic geeks, míre (plural: míri) means "jewel" or "precious thing". Harma and harwe are more explicitly glossed as meaning "treasure" in the singular sense. Corco is a possibly (externally) obsoleted word for "crow", later replaced with the word quaco. Corco absorbs the -o ending in the genitive case so it can also mean "of/from the/a crow". The choice on which words to use in neo-renditions of Tolkien's languages comes down to educational guesses and outright personal preference: I chose Míri Corco over Harmar Quaco because I thought it flowed better. I hope the good Professor wouldn't have been offended by my trespasses on his lifelong philology project, but rather take it as a humble tribute to his work which has inspired me so.
