I am looking for people to review a Tengwar mode for Irish. If you're interested, please write to me privately. I'd prefer it if reviewers really knew...
In _The Lord of the Rings_, the "Huorns" are sentient, shadowy trees, who lurk in the less savory corners of Fangorn Forest and, thanks to an abiding hatred of...
... Not quite, not quite. ;-) ;-) ;-) Several years ago, I came to the same conclusion as you, cf. my book "Le dictionnaire des langues des Hobbits, des Nains,...
Patrick Wynne wrote: "Here phonology provides the probable answer; for on analogy with the cognate pair Q _róma_ 'loud sound, trumpet-sound' = N _rhû_ (in...
I would like to extend Pat's comments with two of my own: First, a chart of the phonological developments from Primitive Eldarin to Noldorin or to Sindarin,...
Patrick H. Wynne wrote ... No, all the US publishing houses I have approached have declined it because of the usual copyright problem. ... No I haven't gone...
I bought last week a new book in German by W. Krege, the translator of LOTR into German; he has done a new translation of the book. His book, or should I shay...
In an etymological note on the Quenya name _Itaril(lë)_ (S _Idril_) in the late (c. 1968-69, see XII:331) essay _The Shibboleth of Fëanor_, we find the...
... While I'm not aware of any language having a 'tense' stem dichotomy, forming participles from aorist stems *instead* of from present stems, Old Greek and...
Hello, ... A somewhat similar situation obtains in Russian. Even though Russian does not possess the necessary distinction, still a correlation between the...
Wrote CHF in Pavel Iosad's post: "What I'm trying to get at is some indication of how likely it is that a language that has a clear present participle vs. past...
Occasional discussion here of the nature of the influence of Finnish on Qenya eventually led me to my university library to reconsult their copy of the first...
... Which it does not. The use of both _w_ and _v_ to represent the same sound is only from cofusion of orthographies. Old Finnish spelling (before the...
Hello, Christopher Gilson wrote an fascinating essay on Kalevala influence in Tolkien's early Qenya. Among other things, he noted the apparent relationship...
... Actually, in books printed in Gothic (Blackletter) style, 'w' was the norm in Swedish, like it still is in German and Polish. In books printed in Antiqua...
Pavel Iosad wrote: "A further twist is added by the fact that the Finnish word [_kulta_ 'gold'] is one of the numerous loans into Finnish from very early...
... Indeed it is. Relating to this issue, I think it would be interesting to find out all possible Finnish lexical influences on Qenya from the _Qenya...
... In full knowledge that such 'irregularities' derive from earlier regularities (a point not in dispute, I know), which only reinforces the point made on...
Once again, I'd like to set out and give a few comments on Arden R. Smith's excellent and interesting column in VT, "Transitions in Translations". In numbers...
... In 1938 some German censors were asking Tolkien if he were _Arisch_ and Tolkien ridiculed the idea of asking it by _regretting_ to admit he had no Jewish...
Petri Tikka wrote the following, to which I would like to add some further notes on the occurrence of these forms in the Kalevala excerpts in C. N. E. Eliot's...
On Mittwoch, September 24, 2003, at 07:10 Uhr, Hans Georg Lundahl ... I don't think German editors are asking that *now*. Indeed, I don't think this has...
... What about the Shires of the Carolingian Empire encompassing both France and Germany (contemporary to the Shires in KIng Alfred's England)? That would be a...
Naffarin Thinking about the conceptual stages of Tolkien's private languages that preceded QL led me to take another look at Naffarin. All that remains of...
... It seems to me possible that _-far-_ is inspired by the Latin defective verb _fari_ 'speak'. If the preceding element reflects Latin _novus_ and English...
... But _bosh_ (in English at any rate) means 'nonsense' rather than 'speech'. In light of that, I wonder whether _Naffarin_ might not be derived from the...
In a letter to VT (published in #36) Anthony Appleyard looks, inter alia, at the QL entry _velike_ 'great' [VT36:34]. He notes the obvious resemblance to...
An authorial note to the c. 1959-60 essay "Quendi and Eldar" describes what Tolkien calls "a primitive past tense" formation, "marked as such by the 'augment'...
Hello, ... With this, one has to compare Welsh _cathl_ 'hymn, lay, song'. Together wth [Old] Irish _cétal_ it points to an earlier *_knt-l-_ (syllabic nasals...
... I think it's possible to interpret _onen_ (LR:1036) as < *_a-ân-en_ suggesting that _-e_ was at least at home in the 1sg. Perhaps we even have to posit an...
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