I expect to publish _Vinyar Tengwar_ 49 around the end of May. Due to the cyclic nature of the older subscription model, a very large number of subscriptions...
In the last day I had the opportunity to take a more careful look at E1a and E1b on PE16:98-104. In november I started to analyze "Earendel" as we knew it from...
This 60-page issue features the third and final part of Patrick Wynne's presentation of "_Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals_ and Related Writings", which...
Volume 5b of _The Collected Vinyar Tengwar_ collects issues 41–49, and is available for order on the E.L.F. Storefront at Lulu.com <http://www.lulu.com/ELF/>...
The name _Asfaloth_ is one of the most important Elvish names to which no generally agreed etymology has been found to this day. A query for "Asfaloth" on...
In response to several requests, I have issued a new Special Series of _The Collected Vinyar Tengwar_, re-collecting various multi-part works contained in the...
... Another example of -ST + F- > -SF- in a Noldorin compound is cited in the Etymologies s.v. IS-, where Tolkien notes that _Isfin_ (the early name of...
I'd like to use this forum to correct an error I just noticed in my article "Languages Invented by Tolkien", in the recently published _J.R.R. Tolkien...
Thanks for an issue of _VT_ well worth waiting for. According to VT49:15, the element _-la_ in _pella_ 'beyond (the borders of)' (R:66) is identified as _lá_ ...
Over on Elfling, in message 34172 ... David doesn't state on what he bases this definition of the aorist, but if he means it to describe how Tolkien used the...
I too find the similarity in form and meaning between _sanya_ 'regular, law-abiding, normal' (V:388) and _senya_ 'usual' intriguing (see VT49:22), but I wonder...
I am currently reading and enjoying the second volume of the History of the Hobbit. While reading on my patio (on the one day it is not raining in London) I...
... Very intriguing! I wonder whether there is some connection between _Mágo(l)_ and the names we get to know from Michael Ramer (a fictional professor of...
The first volume of _Arda Philology_, containing the proceedings of Omentielva Minya in Stockholm August 2005, is now being printed. More information is at ...
I am hearing rumors (fama volat) that Parma 17 exists and that it contains information on Tolkien's exotic languages in LOTR (including Khuzdul). Any info on...
[I'm approving this for the list, but I ask that any further discussion of the project be conducted off list. I am myself very dubious about the value and...
"Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in 'The Lord of the Rings'." By J. R. R. Tolkien "Parma Eldalamberon," 'The Book of Elven-tongues', is a...
Yesterday, I received my copy of _Arda Philology_ I, constituting the Proceedings of _Omentielva Minya_, the First International Conference on J.R.R. Tolkien's...
In Elfling message 34423 (<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/elfling/message/34423>), in reference to the newly published _Words, Phrases and Passages in Various...
In my previous post to this list (<http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/lambengolmor/message/1019>) I mentioned several times the assumption, underlying what has...
It would seem to me that the most sensible interpretation of Appendix F on Black Speech/Orkish is that the suffix _-hai_ is a group-plural, analagous to S....
In issue #49 of _Vinyar Tengwar_, p. 40, there are some observations on DTS 72[1] "with particular focus on scribal errors and on deviations from the Quenya...
The use of _-hai_ as a group-plural is further evidenced, and the hypothesis that "'_Uruk-hai_' is applicable only to Saruman's hybrids contradicted, by the...
PE17 is a great issue with a large bunch of new words and stems. Here are two small issues I just noted while browsing the Sindarin part of the index in PE17: ...
In PE16:83 the editors have some trouble interpreting the Oilima Markirya line _valka wilwarindon_ (OM2a) or _valkane wilwarindon_ (OM2) 'vague as a...
Dear colleagues, First, I want to congratulate and thank Christopher Gilson for his enormous task editing "Words, Phrases and Passages" in _Parma_ 17. It has...
I've accumulated a fair backlog of reported errata, which I'm consolidating here into a single post. My thanks to all who have spotted these errors and...
I have written a paper on Tolkien's English Runes in _The Hobbit_. See http://www.forodrim.org/daeron/md_teng_primers.html I hope that it will be of interest...
In Noldorin and Sindarin, etymological unvoiced stops generally appear to have been vocalised in implosive positions before other stops or s, forming ...
... [...] ... To which can be added S _luin_ "blue", singular in _Mindolluin_ (LR:600), plural in _Ered Luin_ (LR:map 1). The change to _ui_ left the name of...
