The Fourth International Conference on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Invented Languages, Omentielva Cantea, takes place in Valencia, Spain, on 11 - 14 August 2011. For...
Hi, I am a studio director for Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic in Upland, California. We are recording The Shaping of Middle-Earth and The Book of Lost...
I'd like to know if anyone still has the Gondilinic Runes font by Ronald Kyrmse (or, if Mr Kyrmse is reading this, is it possible that you upload the font...
PARMA ELDALAMBERON 14 Early Qenya Fragments, Early Qenya Grammar and The Valmaric Script By J. R. R. TOLKIEN <http://www.eldalamberon.com/parma14.html> A new...
Perhaps another detail to corroborate the dating of Tolkien's TQ1 manuscript is seen in the Quendian term for the third grade of consonants, representing...
I've heard many different reports on how Tolkien wrote his manuscripts. Mainly I've heard that he wrote with a fountain pen. Others say he wrote with a...
Mellyn! The second volume of _Arda Philology_, comprising the proceedings of Omentielva Tatya in 2007, was published just in time for Omentielva Nelya, and...
Mellyn! Omentielva Nelya, 6-9 August in Whitehaven, England, is drawing nigh. All information is found at <www.omentielva.com>. For practical reasons, we will...
Mellyn! In six weeks, it will be time to pack the suitcase for a trip to Britain and Whitehaven. Omentielva Nelya will be held there on 6-9 August. If you have...
C. S. Lewis, unlike Tolkien, was not an inveterate language maker. Also unlike Tolkien, he features children from 20th century England as protagonists. Which...
Mellyn! The production of _Arda Philology_ 2, the proceedings of the second Omentielva conference, held in Antwerp in 2007, has been interrupted by other...
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...
The Third International Conference on J.R.R. Tolkien's Invented Languages 'Omentielva Nelya' 6 - 9 August, 2009 * Change of venue Omentielva Nelya was...
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 ...
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...
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...
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_...
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 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...
Christopher Gilson wrote in Lambengolmor mesage #1039 : "† Q _tenya_, arrive (_not_ at speaker's[?] place)." But in VT 49:24 we read : "† _tenya_ arrive...
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...
