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...
That idea, that a special dialect of Quenya was spoken in T.A., is in my opinion false. Tolkien never wrote "Third Age Quenya" in Appendix E (or F). What he...
A reminder to contributors about two stylistic points from the guidelines for this list (<http://www.elvish.org/LambengolmorList/>): 1) Excessive quotation:...
... So subtle even that the IPA does not use different symbols to spell them... though of course you are right. ... As a matter of fact I am quite certain that...
... <snip> ... I read here "originally occurring in Quenya" as meaning "originally occurring in Common Eldarin (?)or/and Primitive Quendian", e.g. *not* in ...
I have recently specified a set of standard Conventions and Abbreviations guide for the web-journal _Tengwestië_, and would like to use the same for this list...
... 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...
... **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....
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...
