I am pleased to announce the publication of a new article on _Tengwestië_: <http://www.elvish.org/Tengwestie/articles/DeRosarioMartinez/earlyilkorin.phtml> ...
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...
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...
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....
Dear all, I am a graduate student in medieval languages & book history and am currently working on Tolkien language scholarship from a reception studies...
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...
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...
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"...
Hello, Is there a linguistic reason why the _hu-_ in _Huorn_ might not be semantically connected to that in _huine_ 'gloom, darkness' (S 358)? Searching the...
I have compiled a partial list of manuscripts referenced in PE 17, mainly as an aid to resolve cross-references. As you know, cross-references in PE 17 are to...
(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...
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...
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,...
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)...
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...
We are pleased to announce the publication of a new article on _Tengwestië_, the online journal of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship: "Rúmilian Numerals", by...
In Noldorin and Sindarin, etymological unvoiced stops generally appear to have been vocalised in implosive positions before other stops or s, forming ...
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...
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...
In PE16:83 the editors have some trouble interpreting the Oilima Markirya line _valka wilwarindon_ (OM2a) or _valkane wilwarindon_ (OM2) 'vague as a...
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: ...
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...
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...
In Elfling message 34423 (<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/elfling/message/34423>), in reference to the newly published _Words, Phrases and Passages in Various...
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...
"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...
[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...
