On the Spring 2000 Quenya Course

The spring of 2000, Mellonath Daeron held a Quenya course at the premises of the Tolkien Society Forodrim in Stockholm. As textbook we used Nancy Martsch's Basic Quenya, supplemented with errata lists, and with our own papers on points where the book proved outdated. Three members of the Guild served as teachers during nine three-hour sessions, when the students had the opportunity to discuss the lessons and analyze authorial samples of Quenya.

Of the ten people starting the course, six wrote and passed the final exam, and subsequently received diplomas at the Forodrim Spring Banquet. Teachers and students alike agree that the undertaking was both instructive and fun.

For the benefit of our fellow Tolkien societies and interest-groups we now publish the syllabus followed during the course. It is our hope that it may serve as inspiration or guideline for others that wish to learn or teach the High Elven language.

Syllabus for the Mellonath Daeron Quenya course spring 2000
Session	Day		Chapters	Teacher
1	Sun 23/1		Lesson 1: How to Recognize Quenya Lesson 2: Pronunciation Lesson 3: Simple Nouns and Verbs Lesson 4: Adjectives	Elros
2	Sun 6/2		Lesson 5: Noun Case Lesson 6: Verbs and Pronouns Lesson 7: More Nouns and Pronouns	Gildir
3	Sun 20/2	First test	Lesson 8: Genitive Noun and Impersonal Pronoun Lesson 9: The Cases of Location: Allative, Locative, Ablative	Elros
4	Sun 5/3		Lesson 10: More Pronouns Lesson 11: Verb Forms	Beregond
5	Sun 19/3		Lesson 12: The Last Three Noun Cases Lesson 13: The Infinitive, Verbal Noun, and Present Participle	Gildir
6	Sun 2/4	Second test	Lesson 14: Past Participle and Verbal Adjective Lesson 15: Adverb, Adjective Comparison, Numbers	Beregond
7	Sun 16/4		Lesson 16: The Past Tense Lesson 17: The Frequentive. The Verb "To Be"	Elros
8	Thurs 27/4		Lesson 22: The Tengwar	Gildir
9	Sun 14/5		Lesson 18: Names and Other Things Lesson 19: Forming Compound Words Lesson 20: Etymology: Phonetics Lesson 21: Etymology: Word Formation	Beregond
10	Sun 28/5	Final exam