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...
997
Harm J. Schelhaas
mithrennaith
Mar 22, 2007 1:15 am
... In Dutch, a relatively common way of referring to thieves as a group, an (under)class of humanity in a manner of speaking, is "het dievengilde", meaning...
998
Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Mar 30, 2007 10:32 pm
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/>)...
999
Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Apr 3, 2007 1:16 pm
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_,...
1000
Andrew Higgins
asthiggins
Apr 21, 2007 3:31 pm
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 I asked Adam Tolkien at the London launch of _Children of Húrin_ about the status of Tolkien's unpublished grammar and he did not...
1001
Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
May 6, 2007 11:26 pm
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...
1002
Ugo Truffelli
elistir
May 20, 2007 1:00 pm
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...
1003
Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Jun 11, 2007 4:46 am
This 60-page issue features the third and final part of Patrick Wynne's presentation of "_Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals_ and Related Writings", which...
1004
Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Jun 20, 2007 3:41 pm
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/>...
1005
BertrandBellet75@...
bertrand_bellet
Jun 20, 2007 11:08 pm
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...
1006
Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Jun 21, 2007 3:46 pm
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...
1007
Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Jun 22, 2007 1:47 pm
... 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...
1008
Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Jun 26, 2007 6:24 pm
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...
1009
F.S.
frestro
Jul 1, 2007 1:33 pm
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_ ...
1010
Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Jul 3, 2007 10:06 pm
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...
1011
F.S.
frestro
Jul 13, 2007 1:12 pm
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...
1012
Andrew Higgins
asthiggins
Jul 15, 2007 12:28 pm
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...
1013
Roman Rausch
rausch_roman
Jul 21, 2007 1:09 pm
... 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...
1014
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 ...
1015
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...
1016
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...
1018
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...
1019
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...
1020
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...
1021
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....
1022
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...
1023
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...
1024
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: ...
1025
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...
