... The question Boris had raised long ago is very interesting. Quenya is a language being the expression of the Quendian-culture and Quendian-mythology in...
656
cgilson75
Apr 14, 2004 11:30 am
... By "redundant" I was referring to a distinctive form or formal feature that the language could theoretically do without because there is no context in...
657
Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Apr 15, 2004 7:54 pm
I've noticed that some messages reported as being posted to the Lambengolmor list via its web interface have nonetheless not shown up for approval by Pat and...
658
Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Apr 16, 2004 3:51 pm
I should probably note that there are currently no messages pending in the approval queue. So if you sent a message that has not been either posted to the list...
659
cgilson75
Apr 17, 2004 5:13 am
The following (edited?) paragraph was included in a post from me ... beings are capable of learning to speak (see Appendix F), it seems reasonable to...
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Florian Dombach
florian_loth...
Apr 18, 2004 2:05 pm
Hello, I just noticed the _Etymologies'_ entry NUT-, where we find: "N _nud-_; _nûd_ bond; _naud_ bound." Isn't this _naud_ clearly another possible case of...
661
lambendil
Apr 18, 2004 2:13 pm
In the post 655 (13/04/2004) Ryzard Derdzinski, replying to Boris Shapiro, questions if the catholic prayers presented in VT 43 and 44 could have been ...
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jonathan_avidan
Apr 18, 2004 2:23 pm
... It is also of importance to indicate that Tolkien did have an opinion on the human ability to learn the Elvish tongues -within- his invented world. A good...
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galadhorn
Apr 20, 2004 11:31 am
Today I have published on-line my essay from the last "Gwaihir" (#7, 2003). The text is entitled: "Consonant Mutations in Conceptual Evolution of...
664
machhezan
Apr 30, 2004 1:16 am
In message #10 of elfling, Benct Philip Jonsson alias 'Melroch' proposes that Quenya stops aren't divided into three categories: voiced (only after /l, r, n/),...
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BertrandBellet75@...
bertrand_bellet
Apr 30, 2004 11:28 pm
Tolkien's own pronunciation of Quenya may be helpful. I will use Laurence J. Krieg's short but insightful article "Tolkien's Pronunciation: Some Observations"...
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lambendil
May 9, 2004 11:10 pm
In VT45:14 (s.v. 3EL-) we read : "*_Helwe_ name of Teler-lord, N _Elwe_, always recorded in Tel. and N form _Elwe_" I think there is a typo here (else the...
667
jonathan_avidan
May 10, 2004 1:10 pm
... It is important to note that at least by the sixties, if we judge by "Notes on _Óre_", for example (VT41), Tolkien had already changed his mind and...
668
kyrmse
May 10, 2004 2:02 pm
My page on tengwar-inspired fonts <www.geocities.com/otsoandor/Fonts.htm> now includes Tengwar Hereno, a joint job with Paulo Otto, who designed the characters...
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laurifindil
May 24, 2004 11:54 pm
Hello, It looks to me that lhampa- on p. 66 in Parma 14 is a typo for _hampa-_, isn't it ? From *E skamp- above on the same page I guess. :-) Cheers, Edouard...
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cgilson75
May 28, 2004 1:21 am
Reprint of PARMA ELDALAMBERON No. 11 I Lam na Ngoldathon The Grammar and Lexicon of the GNOMISH TONGUE. By J. R. R. Tolkien. Edited by Christopher Gilson, Carl...
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cgilson75
May 29, 2004 11:26 am
... catching this! CFH] Actually the real situation is more complicated than this suggestion or the casual agreement with it would imply. The 'l' in the...
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Javier Lorenzo
javi_lorenzo
Jun 5, 2004 9:54 pm
There is a form _neldelume_ on page 50 (footnote #57). Should it read _neldellume_ instead, as it appears on following page 51? [Yes, it should read...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Jun 8, 2004 1:44 am
Per Lindberg has graciously volunteered to compile and maintain a web site listing known, corroborated errata to the two print publications of the E.L.F.,...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Jun 11, 2004 11:45 pm
In Lambengolmor message #653 I argued that Sindarin _nin_ could be interpreted as 1. sg. pronoun in the accusative. Prima facie, an accusative in _-n_ may seem...
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Beregond. Anders Sten...
j_beregond
Jun 12, 2004 12:34 pm
... Can you explicate that? Looking purely at what the phrase means, it does not seem out of bounds to suppose that _est(a)-_ means 'utter a name' or 'use a...
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Beregond. Anders Sten...
j_beregond
Jun 13, 2004 3:20 pm
... Or the interpretation of _i sennui Panthael estathar aen_ might be 'who rather Fullwise they(one)-shall-[use-as-a-name] for-whom', with _aen_ < *_an-i_,...
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Didier Willis
hisweloke
Jun 13, 2004 9:34 pm
Thanks to the publication of the "Addenda and Corrigenda to the _Etymologies_" (VT #45), some later words from Tolkien's manuscript can now find a correct...
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Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Jun 13, 2004 9:57 pm
... (RGEO:72). For the sake of accuracy, note that the page reference given here for _haeron_ is in error; the word actually occurs in XII:273 in _Dor Haeron_,...
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hisweloke
Jun 13, 2004 11:50 pm
... My mistake, of course, and RGEO:72 should also have applied, instead, to _haered_, as readers might have corrected by themselves. Thanks for, pointing this...
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hisweloke
Jun 13, 2004 11:51 pm
... Further to Patrick's correction to my post, it actually seems the slip in my notes was more serious and that all references got switched in my message as...
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad
Jun 14, 2004 11:37 am
Hello, ... Which is not at all surprising, given its outstanding similarity with the Welsh word _glan_ 'clear, bright' (where the vowel, incidentally, is long,...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Jun 14, 2004 11:37 am
... 1) In Indo-European languages (to which Sindarin bears great resemblance syntactically and morphologically) a denominative from 'name' would normally take...
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Beregond. Anders Sten...
j_beregond
Jun 14, 2004 10:05 pm
... Neither do I. In a previous post I suggested *_an-i_ > _aen_, but I now doubt it. More normally *_an-i_ would > *_ain_, and the occurrence of _phain_ in...
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad
Jun 15, 2004 11:30 am
Hello, David Kiltz wrote, on the subject of assuming an indirect ... Well, in real-world languages of course a patient (that which is given, be it name name,...
