Ales Bican suggests in his study of the "Atalante Fragments" that _nahamna_ "to hýþe" (V:47) might be analyzed as _na-_ "to" prefixed preposition (V:374) +...
I wrote that the Gnomish (PE11) and Qenya (PE12) Lexicons are out of print (PE13 is now out of stock, too) and Carl Hostetter ... **These two questions were...
... But Tolkien wrote "prefix _vó, vo-_" not "_vó_, prefix _vo-_". So far there isn't any Telerin text published with _vó_ used as a preposition. Edouard...
In a letter written to Peter Alford in the 50's and published on Internet on the site of Sotheby as 34NDL_L01321-550.jpg (letter already published ; cf....
Edouard Kloczko wrote about a letter from Tolkien to Peter Alford in 1958, in which the form _ómentie_ can be read on the picture published in the catalogue...
A careless mouse-click and I just accidentally approved a message (#360) from David Kiltz that requires some reformatting and has an incomplete paragraph. I've...
Clarification: As I mentioned in my first post on the subject (_nahamna_) the hypothesis outlined by me was done as a heuristic means. To see whether it could...
In XII:363, Tolkien mentions a Telerin adjective _gâialâ_ (the source has macrons) equivalent in sense to the Quenya _aika_ "fell, terrible, dire" (XII:347...
There seem to be two main objections to accepting the phrase "_to hýþe_" (OE 'to (the) haven') in the parallel Old English translation as indicating...
... Cf. "RH represents a voiceless _r_ (usually dervied from older initial _sr-_). It was written _hr_ in Quenya." (LR:1088). I know of no examples, but...
Greetings, I am submitting for peer review my essay about the lebethron tree. The list moderators have made it available in the "Files" area of the list: ...
Greetings, I have long wondered what kind of tree could be the _lebethron_ mentioned twice in LotR: "but take these staves. ... The men of the White Mountains...
... Thanks to a friend, I was pointed that Quercus digitata is also annotated as Quercus falcata and Quercus rubra in various taxonomy lists, thus apparently...
[This letter is being sent to elfling, lambengolmor and tolklang, because some people may be members of one list but are not (do not want to be) members of...
I would like to draw attention to Ales Bican's substantial and thoughtful linguistic analysis of "The _Atalante_ Fragments", just published on his web site: ...
... When you say "conjugated (person, time)", do you mean that the auxiliary is in the future tense (so that _olen oleva_ more literally means "I will be...
To get the ball rolling, I thought I might share some notes towards an article that I've been kicking around for years now, and solicit some feedback. A...
There's a formation in Finnish to express future time: a conjugated (person, time) form of the verb _olla_ 'to be' and the present participle of a verb, e.g....
Hi, Has anybody ever figured out how to analyse the word _miqilis_ 'kisses' from the poem _Nieninque_ (A Secret Vice). The full sentence is _yar i vilya anta...
Just my two cents: I wrote Helge once on when he was going to revise his online wordlist; he replied to me that he hasn't found the time to update it. Make...
Reading Tolkien's poem "Ent and the Ent-wife" in LR:466, I discovered a very interesting matter. Treebeard had said before he started singing to Merry and...
Greetings ! This post is an attempt to track back the origins of mixed mutation in Sindarin, partly with what we can deduce from the internal evolution of the...
[Suilad o Galadhorn am mellyn în phain! This is my first post to Lambengolmor list.] The evolution of the pronominal forms in the papers of J.R.R. Tolkien is...
I have found a Finnish influence on Quenya that has not been noted before. Quenya has an allative case ending _-nna_ (VT6:14), which signifies movement towards...
In VT43:33, it was proposed that the noun _yaime_ 'wailing' (MC:223) is a derivative of the base YAMA 'call' (PE12:105) with intrusion of _i_ into the stem. ...
There are several known Quenya words for 'song' in the published corpus. All of them begin with the voiced dental approximant written with _l_ in Latin...
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...
