NOTE: I had originally intended to post the following comments on Elfling, but as of this morning I have been banned from that forum by David Salo, without...
In the second article recently published on Tengwestië, Carl Hostetter gives reasons for seeing two distinct values assigned to the grapheme LL in the ...
... PARMA ELDALAMBERON 14 ... EARLY QENYA and The VALMARIC SCRIPT by J. R. R. TOLKIEN ... This forthcoming issue has three sections containing newly published ...
I'd like to say a little more here about the purpose of _Tengwestië_, and the reason for its creation. For years now, it's been clear that what space I have...
A new article has been published in _Tengwestië_ (<http://www.elvish.org/Tengwestie/>): The Two Phonetic Values of _ll_ in Elvish Sindarin in _The Lord of the...
A new article has been published on _Tengwestië_, the online journal of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship (<http://www.elvish.org/Tengwestie/>): "The...
Today it is my great pleasure to announce _Tengwestië_, a new, online journal of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship: http://www.elvish.org/Tengwestie/ This...
... Pinker has been at the "Chomsky¹s School", so to speak. ;-) Here is what he said on his web page : "My research includes both empirical studies of...
There is a lecture by Dr Steven Pinker available online for free at http://mitworld.mit.edu/play/141/ which may be of interest to members of these groups. It's...
_Vinyar Tengwar_ 45 has been published. This 40-page issue features the first part (of two) of a complete "Addenda and Corrigenda to the _Etymologies_" by Carl...
... 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...
I'm sending this message to let the readers of and subscribers to _Vinyar Tengwar_ know of some changes that are being made effective immediately. With the...
Andreas Johansson wrote: "This would seem to suggest that it is better thought of as a cliticized pronoun than a person agreement marker." Yes I quite agree....
... 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...
... Not that I know of, if you mean something like +"I, Narvi has made them" but cf. below for a possible explanation. To me it seems that as the primary...
Yesterday night I was thinking of the Noldorin word _nad_ 'thing' (Etym. s.v. NÂ2-) and it came to me that it could be a gerund form of a verb *_na-_ 'to be':...
Helge Fauskanger has incorporated rejoinders to various posts I have made on this list (and others) into revisions to his article, "Reconstructing the Sindarin...
In #3 of Hiswelóke (http://move.to/hisweloke) Didier Willis published an analysis of a Noldorin sentence found on an early sketch of Thror's Map. The phrase...
I'm coming back to a question already discussed earlier. ... I cannot find this attested, as the entry in The Etymologies [V:360] sub 3AR- simply translates...
[cross-posted to elfling, lambengolmor and tolklang] I would like to inform you that I have revised my analysis of the so-called _Atalante_ fragments. There...
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'...
I would like to discuss a phonetic problem raised by the well-known Sindarin word _certh_ "rune". Its presumed etymology is given in XI/396 : "The Sindarin ...
In Elvish theology, it is well known that the current state of Arda, resulting from its corruption by Melkor is "Arda Marred", _Arda Sahta_ in one source...
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...
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...
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...
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...
