I'm currently doing an essay on the elven languages of Tolkien, and one thing I'm discussing is the "real world" sources of Quenya; how Quenya relates to other...
It is not entirely obvious, to me, how the various assimilations referred to as the "consonant mutations" evolved, from both an internal and external...
In Etymologies we read : "MAN- holy spirit (one who has not been born or who has passed through death). Q _manu_ departed spirit; N _mân_. Cf. Q _Manwe_ (also...
I argued that long vowels in monosyllables were not reduced, even though the Plotz Letter says that "all long vowels were reduced to short vowels ... **I am...
I am pleased to announce that _Parma Eldalamberon_ issues 11-13 _will_ be reprinted. I can't say just when yet, as we have to work out the reprinting and...
Today marks the first anniversary of the first posting to the Lambengolmor list. Looking back, I am _exceedingly_ pleased and gratified by the course this list...
i Héru aselye (VT43:28) - Dominus Tecum - the Lord is with Thee. A short inquiry into a prepositional complement. Let's look at the English sentence first....
In VT nº43 on p. 29 was published a chart of prepositions and enclitic pronouns. I was wondering how others do interpret the following: ÓNI, ONYE "you...
... Actually, its thematic role is that of coagent, which is not the same thing as agent. At any rate, I can't think of any language that would treat them...
With the very kind permission of the Tolkien Estate, I am pleased to be able to provide for download a PDF version of _Vinyar Tengwar_ issue 43, containing the...
Edouard Kloczko wondered ... In an appended comment Patrick Wynne noted that the phrasing of the question apparently ... To take up this thread, it is worth...
... From my reading of that page, the _ly_ seems to be the only possible reading. There is no cross-bar near it. Edouard Kloczko [Thanks for the information....
Hello, One long-standing problem in Quenya phonology has been the anomal behaviour of the _tyelpetéma_ consonants with regard to syllable weight, which is in...
Aiya! Harri Perälä notes on his study about Finnish and Quenya "Are High Elves Finno-Ugric?" (http://www.sci.fi/%7ealboin/finn_que.htm) that "...Tolkien ...
Aiya! Do you know anything about rare cases of -r derivation in Old Noldorin? I mean cases like N _gador_ "prison" (V:358) and _nadhor_ "pasture" (V:374) which...
In the typescript text "C" of the Epilogue to _The Lord of the Rings_, "the letter of the King ... begins _Aragorn Tarantar_ (at which Sam explains 'that's...
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...
