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...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
May 29, 2003 7:52 pm
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...
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Hans
gentlebeldin
Jun 4, 2003 11:04 pm
... The latter possibility occurred to me after I sent my post, too. ... No need for reminders, here, it's just that time is limited, and I can't return to it...
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Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Jun 5, 2003 12:30 am
... The reconstructed etymology of S. _im_ in Didier's Sindarin dictionary is actually the work of David Salo. As Didier writes on pg. 8: "The etymological...
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laurifindil
Jun 18, 2003 12:56 pm
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...
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Hans Georg Lundahl
hglundahl
Jun 18, 2003 5:44 pm
laurifindil <ejk@...> wrote, re Q _manu_ 'departed spirit' ... Departed spirit: a spirit that has departed from its body (intransitive verbs of movement...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Jun 18, 2003 6:59 pm
... I must mention also the latin word 'Manes' that refers to the spirits of the dead... It seems that Tolkien had this word in mind... [Pat has asked me to...
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Edward J. Kloczko
laurifindil
Jun 18, 2003 10:14 pm
... My question was addressed to someone speaking English as a mother-tongue not about the meaning of "departed";. To my knowledge the _usual_ English...
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Aaron Shaw
maethorgalad
Jul 4, 2003 12:33 pm
It is not entirely obvious, to me, how the various assimilations referred to as the "consonant mutations" evolved, from both an internal and external...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Jul 4, 2003 11:17 pm
... Patrick H. Wynne already answered your question. Mutations are of phonological origin. They are due to 'sentence sandhi'. That means if, e.g., a voiceless...
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad
Jul 5, 2003 1:32 am
Hello, The Sindarin/Noldorin mutation system is commonly assumed to have arisen in full parallel with the sound changes that had taken place before the ...
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vendea_ancalime
Jul 8, 2003 11:39 am
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...
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lord_bergen
Jul 9, 2003 11:13 am
Well I don't know much about the language, but Tolkien used the language from Karelia (at the border between Finland and Russia) as a source of inspiration. ...
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Aaron Shaw
maethorgalad
Jul 10, 2003 12:14 am
My many thanks to everyone. Your responses have been most enlightening. I do have some follow up questions though that I would like to present for discussion...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Jul 10, 2003 12:00 pm
... The grammar mutations evolved the same time with the internal mutations. So the correct process would be *atele *kalrondo -> Adel@ gallond@ -> Adel gallon ...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Jul 12, 2003 3:41 am
... Since at least the publication of _The Lost Road_ in 1987, it has been widely recognized that the Eldarin tongues, at least as exhibited from the latter...
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Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Jul 12, 2003 4:15 pm
Carl F. Hostetter wrote, regarding Helge Fauskanger's statement that the Noldorin pa.t. _mudas_ (< _mudo_ 'labour, toil', < MÔ-) is "totally abnormal" and...
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cgilson75
Jul 14, 2003 12:02 am
I am pleased to announce that copies of _Parma Eldalamberon_ no. 12 are once again available for purchase. This issue contains the "Qenyaqetsa" by J.R.R....
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minas_tsulis
Jul 16, 2003 1:27 pm
I have a question concerning the entry SEL-D- in _Etymologies_: We there have the word _selde_. After the change of the etymology from "daughter"; to "child" we...
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Hans
gentlebeldin
Jul 20, 2003 12:57 pm
... Certainly not, especially since there is some evidence that a Noldorin word with suffix _-s_ actually may be the cognate of a Quenya word with suffix...
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Michael Everson
evertype
Aug 4, 2003 9:29 pm
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...
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Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Aug 8, 2003 12:16 am
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...
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Edward J. Kloczko
laurifindil
Aug 8, 2003 10:08 pm
... 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,...
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Hans Georg Lundahl
hglundahl
Aug 10, 2003 12:59 pm
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...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Aug 10, 2003 10:43 pm
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,...
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Edward J. Kloczko
laurifindil
Aug 12, 2003 5:34 pm
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...
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Edward J. Kloczko
laurifindil
Aug 12, 2003 7:01 pm
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...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Aug 27, 2003 5:37 pm
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...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Aug 28, 2003 1:33 pm
... 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...
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad
Aug 29, 2003 12:40 pm
Hello, ... A somewhat similar situation obtains in Russian. Even though Russian does not possess the necessary distinction, still a correlation between the...
