Q: Pour the olive oil into a large saucepan and heat it over medium heat. Add the onions and saute them until they turn soft, about 3 minutes. Peel the garlic first, then mince it as finely as possible. Add it to the saucepan, and cook it for 30 seconds, stirring occasionally. Peel the potatoes, then cut them into small chunks; this will help them cook faster. The potatoes need to be soft and tender, almost falling apart. Depending on how small you cut the potatoes, this should take between 10 and 15 minutes. For a thinner soup, use 3 cups (700 milliliters) of vegetable stock. For a thicker soup, use 2 cups (475 milliliters) of vegetable stock. Don't worry about chopping the spinach just yet. You will be pureeing everything later on. Stir everything together to combine. Try to use fresh lemon juice, if you can, for best taste. Transfer the soup into a blender or food processor, and puree until everything is smooth. If the ingredients are not blending smoothly, use a rubber spatula to push down any unblended soup down towards the bottom. There should be no lumps, clumps, or chunks. Once the soup is smooth, give it a quick taste. If you need to, add some more salt or cayenne pepper, and stir to combine. The soup will taste the best while it is still hot, but you can also serve it chilled as well.
A: Saute the onions with the olive oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Add the garlic and cook for 30 seconds. Pour in the vegetable stock and the potatoes, then simmer until the potatoes become soft and tender. Add the spinach and cook for 2 minutes. Add the lemon juice, cayenne pepper, and salt. Puree until smooth in a blender or food processor. Adjust the seasonings, if necessary. Pour the soup into bowls and serve it. Finished.

Q: Vowels in Quenya are fixed, and their pronunciations do not change based on their location in the word. The diacritic (small mark over a letter) over a vowel indicates that you hold the vowel sound for longer. Memorize the vowel sounds and practice pronouncing them. "Y" is never a vowel in Quenya. It is always a vowel in Sindarin though. The written form of Quenya is Tengwar. You speak Quenya, but you write Tengwar. Most of the consonants in Quenya are pronounced the same way they would sound in English. There are a few unique rules though which are specific to Quenya though. Learn these rules and practice using them to get used to speaking Elvish. There is no difference between "c" and "k" in Quenya. It is always pronounced like the hard c in "cup." This can get confusing because both letters are used in Tengwar even though they're pronounced the same way. Every "r" is rolled (or trilled), like a Spanish speaker saying "correo." The sounds "n," "ny," and "m" are always soft, like an American English speaker pronouncing "nose" or "month." These are called nasal constants, since they're spoken while allowing air to flow through the nose. The letter "y" is always a consonant. Pronounce it with a harder sound, like and American English speaker saying "why." If the word you're reading in Quenya starts with a vowel, stress the first syllable by making it a little louder and pronouncing it more thoroughly. Let the other syllables roll of your tongue more softly. The stress patterns in Quenya are universal, so if the word starts with "a," "e," "i," "o," or "u," stress the first syllable. When there are only two syllables, always stress the first syllable even if there isn't a vowel. So a word like "umin" is pronounced "UHM-en," not "oo-MIN." For words that don't start in a vowel and have more than 2 syllables, always stress the third syllable. This means that elvish words like "hyarmen" would sound like "haram-YN," with the voice inflecting upwards on the end of the word. A lot of Middle Eastern languages have a similar pattern. This may sound kind of like Arabic or Aramaic at first. You may notice that there seems to always be a vowel sound in the third syllable of every word in Quenya. This is a pattern that is near-universal in Elvish, and is the main reason that Elvish languages have such elegant flows. In general, you can kind of sound Elvisheven without following the rules of the languageby applying an Italian accent when pronouncing Quenyan words. Native Italian speakers tend to use speech patterns from their native tongues to interpret English words, which can make your Elvish sound practiced even when it isn't. For example, if you were using an Italian accent, you would automatically dampen the second syllable in the Elvish words "ando" and "vala," which would be correct. In Tolkein's world, Quenya was spoken mainly by the High Elves, academics, and nobles. It is a sort of classical version of Elvish.
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Sound out the Elvish vowels to memorize them. Identify which consonants differ from English and practice them. Stress the beginning of words that start in a vowel. Stress the third syllable in words that don't start with a vowel. Use an Italian accent to pull off Quenya speech patterns.