Grammar
Here are presented the grammatical rules of late Quenya known for sure, established from Tolkien's writings c.1954–1973. It is almost impossible to extrapolate the morphological rules of the Quenya tongue from published data because Quenya is a fictional irregular language (heavily influenced by natural languages, like Finnish, and Latin) and not an international auxiliary language with a regular morphology. Tolkien wrote several synchronic grammars of Quenya, only one has been published: The Early Qenya Grammar, and also several diachronic studies of Quenya, three have been published: The Qenyaqetsa (dealing with early Quenya or Eldarissa), Outline of Phonetic Development, and the Outline of Phonology.
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