In VT44:8 a suffix _-nde_ that forms nouns from verbs or verbal stems is mentioned. _arcande_ 'petition' < _arca-_ 'pray' (VT44:8), _ulunde_ 'flood' < ULU-...
Aiya! A line in VT43:14 puzzles me: "_na_ also has a subjunctive or imperative sense when preceding a verb". Could you explain what you mean by "subjunctive"...
We read in the last lines of VT 43, page 22: "_sahtienna_ (At. V) is explained in the etymological notes on the verso of At. V, which give the root THAG-...
... Until we have actual examples of numbers as adjectives (a real text with _neldë coa/coar_ inside, for example), we can't provide a fruitful theory about...
Greetings, Recently I was sorting some references to Tolkien's works when it came to me the following: in _Namaarie_ the adjectival case seems to be invariable...
... No, there is actually evidence against that in _Emyn Arnen_ (LR:734), which is of unknown meaning, but presumably *'Hills of Royal Water'. _Arnen_ has a...
In Germanic languages numerals that are plural in sense pluralize the noun they describe, e.g. _one book_ and _two books_. In Finnish numerals that are plural...
Aiya! What do you think is the exact meaning of the term "apposition" in that quote about the last declinable word ("...in the case of two declinable names in...
In response to a vehement objection to the rejection of a post to this list (a post which both Pat and I felt was neither pursuant to the scholarly purposes of...
Aiya! Do you have any ideas for a Quenya verbal intensive prefix? There used to be _a-_ in QL, but I do not remember whether it occurs in later sources....
I thought about it today: are sounds _i_ (as in _Quendi_) and _y_ (as in _Yavanna_) two phonemes or variants of one phoneme in Quenya? As far as I can see they...
... Just as they have e.g. in English... "the world of those who will be after us still lies before us". "To judge afterwards what was before". _Before_ here...
Greetings ! This post is about the way some consonants were turned to vowels or diphthong elements during the evolution from Common Eldarin to Noldorin/ ...
But what if the stages overlap? For example: Tolkien wrote Elessar's Coronation Oath (LR:946) in the late 40s. It was publised in the mid- 50s. In the mid-60s...
In "Appendix E" of LR Tolkien informs us that V "has the sound of English v" in Quenya and Sindarin. Now, as is well known, the V of English is a voiced ...
... Perhaps the phrase _i úcarer emmen_ *'those who did ill to us' contains the past tense, not the aorist. The editorial notes point out that "_úcarer_ here...
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[Javier Lorenzo writes: ] I write to inform you about a possible typo in the last issue of _Vinyar Tengwar_ #44. It's stated in the last paragraph on page 35: ...
Aiya! I was much delighted to learn from the last VT issue about a useful Quenya preposition: _apa_ "touching, against", from the root *(A)PA "touch (not with ...
... This makes me think of Tolkien's statement about the pronunciation of /l/ in Elvish languages in the Appendices E of LotR : « [The /l/] was, however, to...
In message 14958 of the Elfling list Helge K. Fauskanger tells us of a a signature by Tolkien below which reads the words _nai elen siluva lyenna_. To this...
... This was discussed in the Mellonath Daeron a few months ago. Here follows an attempt to summarize our findings. We are not aware of any authorial use of...
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... I agree that Eldarin _l_ was not as strongly palatalized as Italian _gl(i)_ or Castillian _ll_. As Tolkien wrote « [The /l/] was, however, to some degree...
It seems to me that there is considerable confusion in the discussion of past/perfect tenses of Eldarin verbs. That's often caused by lack of appropriate...
... **This is a good point. Actually, it is possible that _únótime_ is not sufficient enough to validate *_úcárer_. Words _úvane_ "withough beauty" and...
... "Faint pencilled markings over the _e_ suggest that Tolkien intended to emend _úcarer_ > _úcarir_ (though the form remains _úcarer_ in At. VI)." ...
In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910's there is a word called _lómë_ (I:255). This is the first occurrence of such a word that I am aware of. There the word is...
