Helge Fauskanger has suggested (<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/elfling/message/30262>) that the somewhat problematic N pa.t. †_eglant_ (VT45:27 s.v. LED-)...
After reviewing the second part of "Addenda and and Corrigenda to _The Etymologies_" (VT46), and comparing the information there provided with the version of...
I am not sure of the correct reading of the corrigendum to the word _Torthingol_, in VT46:18, s.v. THIN-. I guess that it is _Tor-thingol_, but as "Tor-" is at...
In http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lambengolmor/message/723 ... I have realized that calling _s_ > _h_ a "dental to velar" shift is unnacurate. Phonetically, [s]...
The "Addenda & Corrigenda to the EEtymologies_" (VT45 &46) reveal an (at least for me) unexpected pattern of Noldorin soft mutation, though it wasapparently...
A discussion has come up between myself and a friend regarding the correct meaning of the word _peredhil_. Most of what I find seems to say it means...
Hello, As far as I know there was never a clear translation of the name of _Thranduil_ (in fact none at all?), so I wonder what the actual meaning might be. My...
I'm very happy (and not a little relieved!) to report that not only did I mail off the previously-announced _Vinyar Tengwar_ 46 this morning, but that I also...
Reading the recent discussion about lenition / soft mutation originated by the presence of _calad_ or _galad_ in compounds, I get the impression that the...
In Etym. we can find two Noldorin etymologically related words glossed 'light': _calad_ (s.v. KAL-) and _galad_ (s.v. GAL-, in A&C:13). _Calad_ does not occur...
I'd like to expand on Pat's comments regarding the distinction in our "Addenda and Corrigenda to the _Etymologies_" between an erratum, proper, and the...
... Well, Q _esta_ 'name' should be the correponding word. I quite agree it's not to be understood as 'to call' but related to _esse_ name. This makes it...
Didier Willis' diligent effort has given us the 'Hisweloke's Sindarin dictionary' (chapeau). As the editor invites comments, I'd like to sound off on the entry...
This 36-page issue features the conclusion of the two-part "Addenda and Corrigenda to the _Etymologies_ by Carl F. Hostetter and Patrick H. Wynne, detailing...
[Initial note: In this message I will represent long vowels, marked with macron in the printed texts, with a tilde (~) after the vowel, in order to distinguish...
Since the following assertion cannot be yet proved (at least, by myself) using linguistic epicheirema as it is solely based on "The History of Middle-earth",...
In version 'III' of the Sindarin "King's Letter" (IX:129, 131), we find the following phrase: "_nelchaenen ned Echuir_" which apparently translates the English...
The University of Utah Press announced in its fall catalogue that it will publish _A Gateway to Sindarin: A Grammar of an Elvish Language from J.R.R. Tolkien's...
Lambengolmor members with an eye for detail will note that message #687 has been deleted -- nothing sinister going on, David Kiltz just sent two versions of...
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...
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...
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.,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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/),...
... Thanks for the note. I'm aware of _enni_ and commented on it both on Tolklang (http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/misc/local/TolkLang/Vol38/38.26) and Elfling ...
