On Oct 27, 2006, at 11:06 AM, Carl F. Hostetter wrote:
> The final note, in black, reads:
>
> "NB the vowel signs i, e, a, o, u <corresponding _tehta_ above each
> vowel> are placed _after_ the consonant which they follow in speech."
That should read "placed _above_ the consonant", of course; sorry for
the typo.
Mellyn! In Christie's sale November 15 (catalogue named _Valuable Printed Books and Manuscripts_), lot 152 is an inscribed set of _The Lord of the Rings_,...
Thanks to Anders for passing along notice of this very interesting letter! I can add one bit of information not mentioned in the exhibit catalogue, which is...
... I read the first line and a half in this way: "Here {or "Above"?} are some specimens. A is a transliteration of English. But this happens " [Aha! I think...
... The catalogue has arrived, and everything is legible. The words above the second line of tengwar are: "In Elvish language & script" The note in green...
Beregond/Anders Stenström wrote: ... ... May I ask for the last sign of the second tengwar transcription of 'Mondósaresse'? On the scan available at...
... Very interesting! I cannot resist analyzing this right away: _mondósaresse_ 'in Oxford' In Letter no.342 Tolkien gives "the elvish word for 'bull'" as...
... What about connecting _-(a)sta-r_ with Tulkas's title: _Astaldo_ 'The Valiant'? In my humble opinion the second element in the name _Mondósar(e)_ 'Oxford'...
... I believe that _Astaldo_ should be rather related to STÁLAG- with primitive _stalga_ 'stalwart, steady, firm', N _thalion_ 'hero, dauntless man' (V:388)...
... In Note 24 to Quendi and Eldar, we learn that "[m]edial z < s had became r in the Ńoldorin dialect of Q except when an adjacent syllable, or (as here) the...
Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Nov 1, 2006 7:01 pm
... Hm. I thought the stress in _Mondósaresse_ would lie on the _e_ preceding the double consonant _ss_ (according to the pronunciation rules as for example...
Hello, ... This is the realm of guesswork: the rule, as given, does imply that we could have _s_/_r_ alternations in the paradigm relative to stress (witness...
... My original objection was mainly to Roman's statement that in _Mondósaresse_ the _s_ is followed by the stressed vowel, which is patently false (if one...
On reflection, I think that I should relay the following thought to the list. As I had shown Beregond's [Anders Stenström's] initial post and Christie's lot...
... An example for an ancient compound with rhotacism carried out seems to exist, namely: Q _Tindómerel_ *'daughter/child of twilight' (V:385) with the...
... The wild thought has occurred to me to read it as *_ar-cas+ta-r_: an agent noun in _-r_ to a verb *_casta-_ (in turn formed by adding causative _-ta_ to...
Jerome Colburn
jcolburn@...
Nov 1, 2006 6:59 pm
Just a minor correction: For me the first word of the Elvish greeting (inscribed by Tolkien in the copy of _The Fellowship of the Ring_ being auctioned) reads...
It has long appeared to me that as printed in _The Peoples of Middle-earth_ (XII:295-320), the essay 'Of Dwarves and Men' is strangely circular in disposition....
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