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...
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...
