Aiya! Have you ever thought of creating a linguistic database of Tolkien's languages, at least for Quenya? That would greatly improve scholarly process, and it...
[Another plea for people to please take a little extra time and prettify posts, including text quoted from other posts. In particular, please 1) pay attention...
I've resisted commenting on the discussion of a linguistic database because I haven't the time, I'm afraid, to go into it. However, I think my own attempt at...
I would like to encourage everyone to please sign your posts with your real name. It is disconcerting and strange to reply to the well-reasoned, cogent ...
Greeting :) "With such changes of 'mind-mood' or inwisti their lámatyáver might also change." [Laws & Customs - Of Naming] I can see two hypothesis : 1)...
Hello everyone ! So, I see that Carl has created a new mailing list. And it looks very good. I finally managed to join and I'm looking forwards to being a...
I do not know if this has been discussed before, but having read "Notes on Óre", I encountered the name Ekyanáro, said to be variant form of the Aikanáro....
... Is it not also possible that the _c_ (_k_) is a part of the stem? This kind of formation -- lengthened sundóma and addition of _-a_ -- is typically used...
... Thank you, but I was completely aware of the foreshadowing of Christ in the _Athrabeth_ and the Holy Spirit being the Secret Flame. Yet it is not true,...
There are currently two theories about the etymology of the Quenya word _imíca_ "among" (VT43:28): 1. by Carl Hostetter: _imi_ (VT34:30) + partitive ending...
As stated by Didier Willis in a recent Elfling post, "language and history are intertwined". This brings in the question of the history of the Quenya ...
Aiya! In a message on Elfling Pavel has argued that there could be no general "Namaarie-style Quenya", for that particular phase of Quenya begins and ends with...
With the Elfling list now back under the sole moderation of David Salo (a consequence of the departures, in rapid succession, of John Cowan and Cirk Bejnar...
As I mentioned earlier, the new Sotheby's auction catalogue (L02303: London, Bond Street 11 Jul 02 - 12 Jul 02, Literature and Illustration) features a number...
[I have excised a great deal of extraneous quotation from this post. Please take a little time and thought to pare down quotation to a useful minimum, and...
Students of both linguistics and computer science (and I was both) usually encounter in their undergraduate careers a story (probably apocryphal) that has it...
I am pleased to announce on behalf of my colleagues and myself the publication of _Vinyar Tengwar_ 44. This 40-page issue features the second part (of two) of...
Foreword: My name is Helios De Rosario Martínez, I am from Spain and therefore my citations are from the Spanish editions of Tolkien's works. Please excuse me...
_A Tolkien Compass_, a collection of essays edited by Jared Lobdell, is coming back in print later this year. Most notable for the Tolkienian linguist among...
Greetings, It has been observed multiple times before that the Sindarin vowel _o_ exhibits different behaviour when subject to umlaut, most prominently in noun...
... [...] ... Was the question about nasal vowels in the sense of syllabic nasals (syllabic /m/, /n/, /N/, etc.), or about nasal vowels in the sense of...
The Q. phrase _Anaxartaron Onyalie_ is the title pencilled on an amanuensis typescript of the tale of the creation of the Ents and the Eagles of the Lords of...
Aiya Lambengolmor, Well, here's one to discuss the latest publications. I've already posted ths on TolkLang, but I guess there won't be trouble if I try to...
There's a question connected with ablaut in past tense related to nasal infixion: "gehen" (go) -> "er ging". The other direction would be "denken" (think) ->...
On 11-12 July, 2002, Sotheby's will be auctioning a number of Tolkien rarities. Of particular interest to Tolkienian linguists is item 785, a copy of _The Lord...
In a recent post on the Quenya list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quenya/message/349 Helge Fauskanger notes that he "would expect A-stem verbs to be able to...
Greetings! First I'd like to say, hello. I'm glad to be on this list (an excellent idea Carl)! The Welsh word _annwfn_ does have a controversial etymology as...
This 40-page issue features the second part (of two) of a presentation and analysis of five hitherto unpublished Quenya texts by J.R.R. Tolkien (see _VT_ 43...
