... That very paragraph actually contains a clear explanation of the name: 'They still have voices, and can speak with the Ents – that is why they are called...
Dear all, I am a graduate student in medieval languages & book history and am currently working on Tolkien language scholarship from a reception studies...
I have received an email from someone who has said my university email address wasn't behaving. If you are considering responding, directing an email to...
Since (at least) the publication of _Unfinished Tales_, we know that the Telerin branch of Eldarin (which includes Sindarin and the Telerin of Aman) shifted...
A recent discussion on the "sindict" mailing list* raised the question of whether the reading _mistrad_ given in _The Etymologies_ at V:373 s.v. MIS- might be...
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Thorsten Renk
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Aug 12, 2008 1:20 pm
In PE17:68 I find the description of the formation of participles: "Simple past participle passive _kari-nwa_, adj. _-ina_, after vowel stems _-nwa, sinwa,...
I took another look at the photocopy of the manuscript, and the arrangement of the text does suggest that the "This" in the third sentence of the passage...
I have another kind of clue, Thorsten. Tolkien was a fan of Nordic languages, he may well have made a calque of the procedure where past participles like...
Hey there. I and some friends wondered if any of you could help us with the etymology and the meaning of the following names: _Amillo_ and _Ómar_ (cf....
Hello, Probably someone here can help me with this: The runes in Thrór's map have 'wh' for 'hw' in 'when', Tolkien following a regular usage in writing...
Is _ává_ a misprint for _áva_ on PE 17:143? "The longer form _avá, ává_ was only used..." Thank you, Edouard Kloczko [Having checked my photocopies, I...
With the release of the Gentium Basic font family: <http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium_basic> which adds a bold face to...
I am pleased to announce the publication of a new article on _Tengwestië_: <http://www.elvish.org/Tengwestie/articles/DeRosarioMartinez/earlyilkorin.phtml> ...
I thank Roman for his valuable commentaries on the article of "Early Ilkorin Phonology". I have modified it to reflect some of his ideas, which improve my...
Christopher Gilson wrote in Lambengolmor mesage #1039 : "† Q _tenya_, arrive (_not_ at speaker's[?] place)." But in VT 49:24 we read : "† _tenya_ arrive...
In PE:17 page 141 we learn that (some) Sindar called the Exiled Noldor _eglon_ from the etymon _etlô_. Just one line over that statement we have the plurial...
Hello, On p. 91 we read : "... and survived only in this construction. 6)" But I do not find a note 6. On p. 93 the last note is numbered 5. Did I miss...
In all my editions of _The Lord of the Rings_, in App. F S. _Fimbrethil_ is translated "slender-*beech*". But in the Index to the Second Edition _Fimbrethil_...
Here is another collection of errata in _Parma Eldalamberon_ reported to me over the past months. I have also added them to the omnibus lists of _PE_ errata...
Happy new year to all the Lambengolmor! I am trying to find out what Tolkien meant in one of the paragraphs of the Gnomish Grammar, where the historical...
... I think that's exactly the intended meaning, the correspondence of _th_ and _tt_ probably being so trivial for Tolkien that he doesn't explicitly mention...
In Ety, in "The Shibboleth of Feanor" and D59 we find the root RIG- meaning "'twine, wreath". In Ety as printed the word meaning "crown, garland" in Q. is rie ...
The Third International Conference on J.R.R. Tolkien's Invented Languages 'Omentielva Nelya' 6 - 9 August, 2009 * Change of venue Omentielva Nelya was...
For Omentielva Nelya we call for scholarly papers on all aspects of any or all of Tolkien's invented languages, in any or all of their conceptual stages. The...
Mellyn! The production of _Arda Philology_ 2, the proceedings of the second Omentielva conference, held in Antwerp in 2007, has been interrupted by other...
C. S. Lewis, unlike Tolkien, was not an inveterate language maker. Also unlike Tolkien, he features children from 20th century England as protagonists. Which...
