A series of con-linguistic based meetings, collaborative language learning and activism centred around the minority Finnic-Ugric language of Quenya created by J.R.R. Tolkien in the early 20th century.
The meetings aim to look towards the constructed language of Quenya, the language of the High Elves in the Tolkien mythos, as an alternative to dominant language forms in use in Finland. Tolkien based Quenya grammatically and aesthetically on the Finnish language, it was the first literary based constructed language and shares many features derived from Finnish.
The E.L.V/H.V.R./E.L.F. aims to lobby on behalf of Quenyarin rights in Finland as a parallel to the rights of "real" marginalised language forms both national and international, to approach these concerns from the perspective of Elvish speakers in order to approach the issue from a distinct yet familiar position.
The idea is to bring into question the concept of linguistic indigeneity as well as dominant language forms through the proxy of a constructed language both regionally derived yet alien, to create a dialogue about the interrelation between culture and language in Finland.
The experiment will break up into 3 components, each taking 45 minutes up to an hour:
1) Collaborative Language Learning
2) Group discussion
3) Group activity
There has been no activity towards this experiment during the past over 7 years. The experiment is assumed to be completed or abandoned.
Discussion:
IMPORTANT UPDATE - Quenya being our primary language in the E.L.V. it seems that our translation department didn't realise the Suomi name for E.L.V. was in fact Gnome and not Elf. Please note Quenya is not a Gnomish language, I don't even know what Gnomes would speak. Hence forth our Finnish name will now be Haltia Vapautusrintama H.V.R.,(Which is also probably wrong) there may be an issue with immediately updating the link on the temporary.fi webpage, so use your internal non-me spell check. Now to figure out what to do with all this gnome merchandise I made.
It's changed but the old URL won't work and the QR codes on the posters won't either, but I doubt anyone uses those anyway. Please be more careful next time.
We at the E.L.V. have given the Quendi name for Temporary, our beloved meeting place.
Látanka roughly translates as not(Lá) fixed/firm(tanka).