... The question is whether the 1. sg. of S. _agor_ could have been _*agoren_. [I don't think that was the question, really; the question was whether S _ónen_...
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 ...
... Tolkien's remark is quite relevant to my scheme. It was written a few years after "Quendi and Eldar", that much is true, but it does not contradict the...
... In XII:357 (n.18) Tolkien gives the meaning in Valarin of _aman, man_ as :"The Valarin element _aman, man_ 'blessed, holy' learned from Oromė". ...
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On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 16:00:16 -0000 "Patrick H. Wynne" <pwynne@...> ... I have noted this resemblance, and several others between Khuzdul and Valarin: ...
Didier has proposed that Valarin _Amanaiāl_ in _Ažāraphelūn Amanaiāl_ 'Arda Unmarred' actually means *'blessed' rather than 'unmarred', and that V....
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...
... I think it's possible to interpret _onen_ (LR:1036) as < *_a-ān-en_ suggesting that _-e_ was at least at home in the 1sg. Perhaps we even have to posit an...
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...
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'...
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...
... 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...
... 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...
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...
... 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...
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...
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...
... 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...
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 full knowledge that such 'irregularities' derive from earlier regularities (a point not in dispute, I know), which only reinforces the point made on...
... 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...
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...
... 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...
Hello, Christopher Gilson wrote an fascinating essay on Kalevala influence in Tolkien's early Qenya. Among other things, he noted the apparent relationship...
... 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...
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...
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...
Hello, ... A somewhat similar situation obtains in Russian. Even though Russian does not possess the necessary distinction, still a correlation between 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...
