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...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Nov 19, 2003 8:22 pm
... Typologically that would, AFAIK, be unique. Glottogonically speaking the reverse would be more likely. In many languages verbal inflection is basically a...
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Nov 20, 2003 12:43 pm
... [snip] ... I'm not about to question your superior expertise in these matters, but early Quenya was apparently happy to use verbs as nouns; "Quendi and...
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Nov 21, 2003 12:23 pm
... [snip] ... [snip] ... Clarification: I meant superior expertise as regards what is and what is not found in primary-world languages, not Tolkienian ones. ...
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Hans
gentlebeldin
Nov 23, 2003 4:01 am
It will be best to refer to JRRT himself for an answer... even though there will be more than one. Unfortunately, I don't own PE 11, so I have to quote after a...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Nov 23, 2003 4:03 am
... Good point. Yet the question is, in my opinion, how frequent are this kind of derivations ? Of course, from a *synchronic* point of view _vala_ and _valar_...
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Nov 23, 2003 7:45 pm
... I'm not clear why you assume the verbal -r in G to be secondary? The passage you quote does not appear to say either way. ... Well, multiple pl formations...
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Rich Alderson
alderson+quenya@...
Nov 23, 2003 8:19 pm
... Of course, you have cited *three* English formations (-s, umlaut, and zero ending). There is also the -en plural formation (ox-oxen, brother-brethren, ...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Nov 29, 2003 8:01 pm
_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...
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Jan Theodore Galkowski
disneylogic
Nov 30, 2003 4:04 am
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...
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Edouard Kloczko
laurifindil
Nov 30, 2003 1:32 pm
... 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...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Dec 4, 2003 8:00 pm
Today it is my great pleasure to announce _Tengwestië_, a new, online journal of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship: http://www.elvish.org/Tengwestie/ This...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Dec 4, 2003 8:01 pm
A new article has been published on _Tengwestië_, the online journal of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship (<http://www.elvish.org/Tengwestie/>): "The...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Dec 7, 2003 1:20 pm
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...
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jonathan_avidan
Dec 8, 2003 1:06 pm
I have a question concerning the passage from Tolkien's essay on _The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor_ (VT42:27), quoted in Carl Hostetter's article "The...
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Tchitrec@...
tchitrec
Dec 10, 2003 2:42 am
In the second article recently published on Tengwestië, Carl Hostetter gives reasons for seeing two distinct values assigned to the grapheme LL in the ...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Dec 10, 2003 3:51 am
... A further thought on this point: The correct value of _h_ in Quenya and _f_ in Sindarin can be readily discerned by the reader strictly on the basis of...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Dec 10, 2003 9:02 pm
... Useless only as a way of indicating the correct pronunciation of every single word. But isn't it useful to the 'interested lay reader' to know that they...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Dec 10, 2003 9:41 pm
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...
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Hans Georg Lundahl
hglundahl
Dec 10, 2003 10:38 pm
... Also lh in Portuguese, like ll in Castilian, has the value of l mouillé. Hence it is unclear (as indeed any Latin spelling of any non-Latin sound, except...
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cgilson75
Dec 11, 2003 12:52 pm
... PARMA ELDALAMBERON 14 ... EARLY QENYA and The VALMARIC SCRIPT by J. R. R. TOLKIEN ... This forthcoming issue has three sections containing newly published ...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Dec 11, 2003 5:50 pm
... Know the truth. [There are very many facts about his languages that Tolkien could have included in the Appendices had his purpose in writing them been to...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Dec 22, 2003 1:22 pm
I have made a small addition to my article on "The Past-Tense Verb in the Noldorin of the Etymologies" in _Tengwestië_ ...
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Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Dec 25, 2003 5:12 pm
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...
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Lukas Novak
lukas.novak@...
Dec 26, 2003 3:11 am
... [...] I had in my mind something like PIK-ME > PINGWE - but I surmise this pattern is a feature of much later stages of the language...? I think you have...
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Ales Bican
Ales_Bican
Dec 26, 2003 9:04 pm
... **Eh, I am puzzled. I see I have misunderstood the purpose of this mailing list. I have re-read the description on the yahoo site but I am still puzzled....
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Edouard Kloczko
laurifindil
Dec 28, 2003 9:35 pm
... No, not the French, who are quite unaware that "chenille"; is etymologically related to dog, chien in French. It is the Romans of the IV century or so who...
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Helios De Rosario Mar...
helios_drm
Dec 30, 2003 6:01 pm
It is noted in LR:1097 that "[the tengwa] _áre_ was originally _áze_, but when this _z_ became merged with 21 [_óre_], the sign was in Quenya used for the...
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Ales Bican
Ales_Bican
Jan 1, 2004 3:51 pm
... **The Qenya Phonology is not, in my opinion, the best resource for researching the Quenya as conveived by Tolkien when he was writing and after he wrote...
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Jan 1, 2004 7:29 pm
... In Etym, entry-head, MA3-, we see "Eld" *_mahtâ-_ derived from earlier *_ma3- tâ-_, and under WA3 we find *wahtâ and *wahsê. I would tend to interpret...
