... 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...
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beregond@...
endorendil
Aug 1, 2007 3:41 pm
The first volume of _Arda Philology_, containing the proceedings of Omentielva Minya in Stockholm August 2005, is now being printed. More information is at ...
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Andrew Higgins
asthiggins
Aug 19, 2007 9:17 pm
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...
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Travis Henry
traversetravis
Aug 19, 2007 9:38 pm
[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...
1017
cgilson75
Aug 27, 2007 12:16 am
"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...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Sep 9, 2007 9:33 pm
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...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Sep 12, 2007 5:23 pm
In Elfling message 34423 (<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/elfling/message/34423>), in reference to the newly published _Words, Phrases and Passages in Various...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Sep 14, 2007 10:26 pm
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...
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William Cloud Hicklin
icelofangeln
Sep 18, 2007 2:09 am
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....
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j_mach_wust
Sep 18, 2007 8:51 pm
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...
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Jerome Colburn
jscolbur
Sep 19, 2007 6:27 pm
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...
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hisweloke
Sep 27, 2007 11:58 am
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: ...
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Roman Rausch
rausch_roman
Sep 28, 2007 9:53 pm
In PE16:83 the editors have some trouble interpreting the Oilima Markirya line _valka wilwarindon_ (OM2a) or _valkane wilwarindon_ (OM2) 'vague as a...
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Helios De Rosario Mar...
helios_drm
Sep 30, 2007 9:01 pm
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...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Sep 30, 2007 9:11 pm
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...
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gildir_2
Sep 30, 2007 10:38 pm
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...
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BertrandBellet75@...
bertrand_bellet
Oct 3, 2007 11:55 pm
In Noldorin and Sindarin, etymological unvoiced stops generally appear to have been vocalised in implosive positions before other stops or s, forming ...
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Jerome Colburn
jscolbur
Oct 6, 2007 1:36 pm
... [...] ... 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...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Oct 6, 2007 7:42 pm
We are pleased to announce the publication of a new article on _Tengwestië_, the online journal of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship: "Rúmilian Numerals", by...
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cgilson75
Oct 6, 2007 11:50 pm
There is nothing significant that I can add here. Helios is certainly correct that the reading at PE 17, p. 35 should be _Dornhabar_. And what is visible of...
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Helios De Rosario Mar...
helios_drm
Oct 18, 2007 5:57 pm
Dear colleagues, I am interested in the analysis of the differences between some grammatical features described in the "Early Qenya Grammar" (EQG, PE14:37-86)...
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Jason Fisher
visualweasel
Oct 19, 2007 2:16 am
Helios, ... Well, one point I would make is that both languages, Esperanto and Qenya, are artificial. Obvious, of course, but not inconsequential in this case....
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Helios De Rosario Mar...
helios_drm
Oct 19, 2007 6:49 pm
... In opposition to Qenya, in Esperanto _estas veninta_ ('has come') it is the active participle _veninta_ that is in singular form, not _estas_. Excuse me...
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William Cloud Hicklin
icelofangeln
Nov 3, 2007 3:43 am
In Volume II of _The History of the Hobbit_, John Rateliff addresses the derivation of _Esgaroth_. There is of course no doubt about the first element,...
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Fredrik
frestro
Dec 22, 2007 1:08 pm
1) PE17:140 - For 'The last for lines' read 'The last four lines'. 2) On PE17:138 we read: "This original association with 'speaking' would however help to...
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Fredrik
frestro
Dec 30, 2007 12:23 am
Some questions and observations on PE17: 1) According to the editor's note on page 148 s.v. *AWA, WA*, there is a root TEN in the "Definitive Linguistic notes"...
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cgilson75
Dec 31, 2007 12:52 pm
... This entry for root TEN was inadvertantly left out of PE 17. It was fairly hastily written in pencil in the top margin of that page of DLN, above the...
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Fredrik
frestro
Dec 31, 2007 12:56 pm
On page 112 in PE17 there are two texts on Idril. The editor notes for the first one that "This note is on a page in NN ["Notes on Names"] with notes on...
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Fredrik
frestro
Dec 31, 2007 10:16 pm
Christopher Gilson replied to my question #7 (for which see our previous ... Yes, of course. In this case, I thought that the choice of an example (to raise...
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thaliorne
Jan 3, 2008 12:54 pm
(Sorry for my clumsy English) We all know that "Eru" is translated "the One". But the English word "one" has different meanings. Which one is the meaning of...
