>>Also, was the Alfheimian benediction in some Form of Tolkien Elvish?
>
>Yeah, Phil came up with that. I don't recall offhand if it's Sindarin
>or Quenya. In the UF universe, the various modern Alven languages are
>descended from the ones recorded by Tolkien.

The original root of the benediction was actually a line uttered by Faramir in "The Two Towers" when he finds Sam and Frodo on the outskirts of Gondor/Mordor - it sums up his reason for why he still fights, to defend his homeland. The elvish translation is in Sindarin, extracted from searching various and sundry Tolkien language sites (often in other human languages!) for something that had the right "Fit."

It also appears in a chorus in the film version score in "Fellowship of the Rings", during the Departure of Boromir, which probably served as the inspiration for finding the rest of the quote. Things are a bit vague from that time, it was like a fire in my brain making Reunion and its additional side stories. ^_^;

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