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PARMA ELDALAMBERON 14
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EARLY QENYA and The VALMARIC SCRIPT by J. R. R. TOLKIEN
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This forthcoming issue has three sections containing newly published
writings by J. R. R. Tolkien: "Early Qenya Fragments", edited by
Patrick Wynne and Christopher Gilson; "Early Qenya Grammar", edited by
Carl F. Hostetter and Bill Welden; and "The Valmaric Script", edited
by Arden R. Smith. Each of these has been prepared with the guidance
of Christopher Tolkien and with the permission of the Tolkien Estate.

"Early Qenya Fragments" is a collection of Tolkien's tables and
name-lists associated with _The Book of Lost Tales_, including early
names of the Days of the Elvish Week and the Valinorian Fortnight, and
names of the Valar and various Creatures of the Earth, as Tolkien
conceived of them in his earliest mythology. Also included are
paradigms of the Regular Qenya Verb conjugation associated with the
_Qenya Lexicon_.

"Early Qenya Grammar" includes early writings on Qenya Phonology,
together with the earliest complete Qenya Grammar, describing the
forms and inflections of the Article, Nouns, Adjectives, Adverbs,
Numbers, Pronouns, and Verbs. Both of these texts date from the
1920s. Annotations and commentary are provided for all of the Early
Qenya texts, detailing their interconnections and the evolution of the
linguistic conceptions contained within them.

"The Valmaric Script" is an edition of various documents relating to
an Elvish writing system devised by Tolkien in the 1920s. One example
of the script has been published already in a drawing for the story
_Roverandom_. This edition incudes various charts of the sounds
represented by the letters, tracing Tolkien's experimentation with
their forms and applications. There are also examples of the Valmaric
script used for writing both Qenya and English, including an excerpt
from the Old English poem _Beowulf_. Transcriptions of these texts
and commentary on the chronology of the documents and their conceptual
evolution are included in this edition.

Parma Eldalamberon Issue Number 14 is Currently at the Printer.

The expected publication date is December 23, 2003.

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