I'm wondering about Taliska. I asked Adam Tolkien at the London launch of _Children of Húrin_ about the status of Tolkien's unpublished grammar and he did not...
Roman Rausch has been compiling an extensive index, with commentary and analysis, of all Elvish personal and place names given in _The Return of the Shadow_,...
Volume 1 of _The Collected Vinyar Tengwar_ collects issues 1–10, and is available for order on the E.L.F. Storefront at Lulu.com (<http://www.lulu.com/ELF/>)...
In QL:89 s.v. TAPA, we can read the bracketed phrase _i·rendi tapatenda_ = 'thieves'. This seems to be a metaphorical expression, in which the second term...
Dear Lambengolmor, What is your opinion on the etymology of the Quenya language-names in _-rin_ i.e. Eldarin, Sindarin, Telerin, Valarin etc.? Such names are ...
I am just digesting the extraordinary amount of information provided in the analysis of the three "Secret Vice" poems, i.e. "_Oilima Markirya_", "_Nieninqe_"...
Fellow Tolkien scholars -- Would you like to host Omentielva Nelya? This year's conference (Omentielva Tatya) will be held in Antwerp. One of the last things...
The 16th issue of _Parma Eldalamberon_ is a very welcome Christmas gift indeed. Lots of thanks to the editors for their unfailing work! In the first part of...
[The following post falls outside the usual purview of this list, but is being allowed in the spirit of Christmas. It does not represent any change in list...
Hello All ! First of all I would like to thank you for Parma 16. It looks like "oromandi"; PE16:96 should be 'mountain dwellers', not _dweller_, I guess ? ...
With the _very_ kind permission of the editors and publishers of _The Lord of the Rings 1954–2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder_[1], I am...
In the transcription of the two samples of the first four lines in _sarati_ (R17) is written _luti-er_, which should be _lúti-er_ in both the horizontal and...
I'm still analysing the "Secret Vice Poems" (note that I've discarded some notes found in the working analysis of "_Earendel_" put on-line 15 days ago, I'll...
This 36-page issue features the second part of "_Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals_ and Related Writings", itself a four-part collection of late texts (c....
Hello, In VT48:11, in the "Appendix B: Quenya fractions", a word for '1/4' is _kanasta_, also on page 12; but on page 14, in comparison with the early Qenya...
In _The Etymologies_ we see under stem MIL-IK- some rather strange words which were apparently altered. When the "Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies"...
PARMA ELDALAMBERON 16 Early Elvish Poetry and Pre-Fëanorian Alphabets By J. R. R. TOLKIEN http://www.eldalamberon.com/parma16.html _Parma Eldalamberon_ 'The...
I have been thinking about the name _Dagmor_ of Beren's sword (III:344, 350). This is the part of "The Lay of Leithian Recommenced" which comes from fifties or...
Since I don't own the QL, I was hoping somebody who does (or the eds) could tell me: in the Parma Eldalamberon edition, are the entries from the "earliest...
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_,...
At last we are able to open registration for Omentielva Tatya, that will take place in Antwerp on August 8 - 11, 2007. The conference fee is 165 euro. We do...
My passion for Tolkien languages (especially Q(u)enya) has brought me to the land of the "external-evolution" lovers; even if when I started (6 years ago) to...
... _mundo_ (apparently in Quenya), so that one can identify _mondo_ 'ox' here. _Mundo_ can hardly be anything but Quenya. Its CE etymon could be *_mundô_ or...
Dear Friends, I've worked very hard and I'm proud to announce that I finished some of my font projects. I've improved the font Tengwar Elfica and just...
_I ner eldalluva_ EQG:47 and 79 is translated "The man from the Elves". This translation is not clear for me. Does it mean "That Elvish Man", e.g. the usual...
EQG:74 the accustaive plural of _lama_ is given as LAMIN instead of LAMNIN; cf. EQG:44. [This should indeed read LAMNIN, not **LAMIN. Thanks for catching this!...
Sindacollo is according to Christopher Tolkien one of the names of Elu-thingol in Quenya in his "Silmarillion" (1977). But in HOME the name is always spelled...
In their excellent book _The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion_, Wayne G.Hammond and Christina Scull write: "haywards -- The term _hayward_ originally...
Hello all! In his _Early Quenya Grammar_, Tolkien presents the use of the conjunction _mai_ 'if'. Unfortunately he does not translate one of the example...
